Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Just Eat Takeaway lays off 1,700 UK couriers and returns to a gig economy model, which CEO Jitse Groen had said “comes at the expense of society and workers” — Group previously sought to set itself apart in UK by moving away from gig economy — Just Eat Takeaway …
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Read MoreChris Metinko / Crunchbase News: Artera, formerly Well Health, which uses AI for cancer testing and personalized care, raised $90M from Coatue, J&J Innovation, Marc Benioff, and others — Artera, which uses artificial intelligence for cancer testing and personalized care, raised a $90 million round to support …
Read MoreTom Ivan / Video Games Chronicle: Microsoft tells the UK CMA that 10 years is long enough for Sony to develop Call of Duty alternatives and “there is no basis” to offer Sony a longer agreement — Microsoft has said it believes 10 years is long enough for Sony to develop rival offerings to the
Read MoreAlex Barinka / Bloomberg: The US House Committee on Energy and Commerce posts TikTok CEO Shou Chew’s prepared testimony, where he outlines a ~$1.5B plan to protect US users and more — TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Chew plans to tell Congress his app does more to protect young users than rival social media platforms
Read MoreThe Quickshot II was released by Spectravideo in 1983 for the Commodore 64 and compatible systems, with the Quickshot II Plus following the next year. After decades of regular use, it’s quite understandable that these old-timers may be having some functional issues, but as long as the plastic parts are still good, [Stephan Eckweiler]’s replacement
Read MoreSilicon Canals: Paris-based XXII, an AI-powered computer vision SaaS provider for the deployment and configuration of video stream analysis algorithms, raised a €22M Series A — Paris-based XXII, an AI-powered computer vision company, announced on Tuesday that it has secured €22M in a Series …
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Microsoft has announced the Bing Image Creator. It uses OpenAI’s DALL.E neural network to create images from text prompts. The AI image generator is now available to try out on any browser and the new Bing preview. Just when Google opened up public access to its conversational AI “Bard,”
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Read MoreReuters: Nvidia has developed the H800 chip, a version of the H100, for export to China; Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, and other Chinese companies are already using the chip — Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O), the U.S. semiconductor designer that dominates the market for artificial intelligence (AI) chips …
Read MoreBloomberg: The US proposes barring CHIPS Act beneficiaries from expanding manufacturing output, 5% for advanced chips and 10% for legacy chips, in “countries of concern” — The Biden administration unveiled tight restrictions on new operations in China by chipmakers that get federal funds …
Read MoreJonathan Greig / The Record: Data leak site BreachForums says it plans to shut down following the arrest of alleged operator “Pompompurin” due to fear law enforcement has backdoor access — In an abrupt about-face, the new administrator of popular cybercriminal platform BreachForums said they plan to shut …
Read MoreJamie Crawley / CoinDesk: tomi, a DAO aiming to build an “alternative internet” to promote free speech and access to uncensored information, raised $40M led by DWF Labs — Tomi’s aim is to “kick off a clean slate for the internet,” using its DAO governance model to promote freedom of speech and access to uncensored
Read MoreIn the old days of the Internet, FTP was sufficient for downloading the occasional file. But with the widespread use of computer audio and video, it was easy to swamp an FTP server so — eventually — BitTorrent was born. The idea was you would download bits and pieces of a file from different places
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Imaging swapping out a hot pink Apple Watch band for an earth-tone green one, and having your watchface automatically change to a matching color, cutting out the (more annoying than it should be) manual customization process. According to a patent filing spotted by Patently Apple, we may
Read MoreMark Bergen / Bloomberg: GP Bullhound: European tech startups raised €30.5B in debt in 2022, up from €15.9B in 2021, as the global tech slump made raising new equity more difficult — European technology startups nearly doubled the amount of debt they took on last year, exposing them to the turmoil …
Read MoreWe’ve covered a number of projects that assist makers who need to fill orders for their small businesses, or kitting. [Helmke] has sorted thousands of pieces of hardware that they include with 3D printed parts sold online. They have been developing an alternative, a modular system for sorting and packaging specific quantities of parts. After
Read MoreDoctored images of the former US president went viral on Twitter. These are the telltale signs that they aren’t what they seem.
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta’s Horizon Worlds VR social network is getting quests. No, not Quest headsets, but in-game missions with rewards that might make its experiences more entertaining to visit and more interesting to return to. With the new quests, which are now in testing, you can complete certain tasks
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge More ads are coming to Instagram, and this time, they’re invading the platform’s search results. In a post on its blog, Instagram says it has started letting companies slip ads into the feed that appears when you tap into a post in Instagram’s search results. The change is
Read MoreAisha Malik / TechCrunch: Instagram is testing ads in search results, with plans for a global rollout in the coming months, and launches Reminder Ads, for opt-in reminders about events — Meta is introducing two new tools on Instagram designed to open up additional avenues for advertising as the company grapples with weak advertising demand.
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Imaging swapping out a hot pink Apple Watch band for an earth-tone green one, and having your watchface automatically change to a matching color, cutting out the (more annoying than it should be) manual customization process. According to a patent filing spotted by Patently Apple, we may
Read MoreRyan Smith / AnandTech: Nvidia introduces six new Ada Lovelace RTX GPUs: five for laptops and one for desktops, the RTX 4000 Small Form Factor, available later in March 2023 for $1,250 — Along with their server part announcements today, NVIDIA is also using the backdrop of GTC to do a wholesale update of their
Read MoreSearch giant Baidu’s Ernie Bot met online jeers and also faces the challenge of operating on a firewalled internet ruled by government censorship.
Read MoreAI Snake Oil: OpenAI may have tested GPT-4 on its training data, violating the cardinal rule of ML, and GPT-4’s exam performance says little about its real-world usefulness — OpenAI may have tested on the training data. Besides, human benchmarks are meaningless for bots.
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