Author: Tech Support

    • Sources: Will.i.am's AI startup i.am+ hasn't paid staff in 7 weeks, is late on tax payments, and its smart home platform Wink stopped working with many devices (Sean O'Kane/The Verge)

    Sean O’Kane / The Verge: Sources: Will.i.am’s AI startup i.am+ hasn’t paid staff in 7 weeks, is late on tax payments, and its smart home platform Wink stopped working with many devices  —  A stalled deal in Dubai has created problems for i.am+  —  Will.i.am’s technology company i.am+ is running out of money … Sources:

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    • MrBeast partners with more than 600 YouTubers, including PewDiePie and MKBHD, to plant 20 million trees

    MrBeast/YouTube More than 600 YouTubers are teaming up to take on one of the biggest fundraising challenges the platform has ever seen: raising $20 million by the end of the year to plant 20 million trees. The fundraising effort is being organized by YouTube’s favorite stunt philanthropist, Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, who’s known for giving away

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    • Sprout Social, a social media monitoring, marketing, and analytics startup, which has raised $115M and was valued at ~$800M in Dec. 2018, files for an IPO (Jason D. Rowley/Crunchbase News)

    Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News: Sprout Social, a social media monitoring, marketing, and analytics startup, which has raised $115M and was valued at ~$800M in Dec. 2018, files for an IPO  —  Chicago-based social media management company Sprout Social has filed to go public, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Sprout Social, a

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    Build Your Own Plasma Ball

    The simple plasma ball – it graces science museums and classrooms all around the world. It shares a place with the Van de Graaf generator, with the convenient addition of spectacular plasma rays that grace its spherical surface. High voltage, aesthetically pleasing, mad science tropes – what would make a better DIY project? For some

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    • At an event with News Corp's Robert Thomson, Mark Zuckerberg says every internet platform has a responsibility to fund and form partnerships for news (Todd Spangler/Variety)

    Todd Spangler / Variety: At an event with News Corp’s Robert Thomson, Mark Zuckerberg says every internet platform has a responsibility to fund and form partnerships for news  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — aiming to counter skeptics who believe the social network is a chief culprit in promulgating a flood of misinformation … At

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    Google Search will soon understand normal questions, not just keywords

    {$inline_image}Ever had to search for something on Google, but you’re not exactly sure what it is, so you just use some language that vaguely implies it? Google’s about to make that a whole lot easier. Google announced today it’s rolling out a new machine learning-based language understanding technique called Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, or BERT.

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    • The Grammys organizer is giving artists a metadata gold mine to credit unrecognized music workers

    Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Recording Academy, the professional association that puts on the Grammy Awards, launched a new campaign today that it’s calling Behind the Record. It’s dedicated to helping spread awareness to various musicians, engineers, and other artists who contribute to popular music but often go unrecognized by the broader

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