Meta has fixed the bug that caused people to believe the company had adjusted their selections in a political content settings tool without their consent. The issue had impacted users on both Instagram and Threads, seemingly resetting users’ content settings back to the default, which limits the amount of political content users see from people … Read more
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into … Read more
While startup valuations have plummeted since the bull run of 2021-2022, a factor that’s hit the European startup ecosystem particularly hard, there’s one region of Europe where the correction has slightly worked in its favor: the South. Evidence for this was apparent during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year, as time and time … Read more
Google said today that it is adding support for 110 languages to its translation service. The company has used its PaLM 2 AI model to power translations. These languages include Afar, Cantonese, Manx, Nko, Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Tamazight (Amazigh) and Tok Pisin. The company said the newly added languages represent over 614 million speakers or roughly … Read more
What is AI good for? Automating repetitive tasks for the very busy people running small businesses, reckons Berlin-based startup Synthflow, which is announcing a $7.4 million seed round for its SME-focused no code platform for AI voice assistance. Since being founded, around spring last year, the startup has banked a total of $9.1 million (including … Read more
Jerry Pratt and Figure quietly parted ways last month. The MIT research scientist spent just under two years with the Bay Area-based robotics firm. In 2022, he left Boardwalk Robotics, a humanoid start he founded and led, and joined Figure’s well-funded ranks as CTO months before it exited stealth. It was only last week, however, … Read more
A hacker claims to be selling an extensive database associated with an Indian government portal meant for blue-collar workforce emigrating from the country. Launched by India’s ministry of external affairs, the eMigrate portal helps Indian labor legally emigrate overseas. The portal also provides emigration clearance tracking and insurance services to migrant workers. According to a … Read more
It wasn’t long ago that Apple products routinely raised the ire among repairability advocates. The iPhone maker has more fully embraced user repairability in recent years, owing, in part, to both sustainability concerns and the growing right to repair movement. Actions like parts pairing continue to rankle critics, including iFixit, which retroactively dropped the iPhone … Read more
Last week, the U.S. government announced an unprecedented ban on selling any software made by the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky in the United States. Just days after the ban’s announcement, some American companies who are official Kaspersky resellers — or managed service provider (MSP) partners — say they have been left confused, angry, and worried … Read more
When Napster emerged in the late 1990s, it made it easy for people to grab music files without compensating the content owners.The iPod and the iTunes music store changed that by allowing artists or publishers to get paid for reusing their content in a digital context. Fast forward to today, and there are companies scraping … Read more
