Monthly Archives: February 2023

Twitter’s restrictive API may leave researchers out in the cold

Earlier this month, Twitter announced that it is going to curtail free access to its API — the programming interface that lets third-party developers interact with Twitter. While the move certainly affects independent developers and startups building tools to make the … Continue reading

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Audiobook Narrators Fear Spotify Used Their Voices to Train AI

After a backlash, Spotify has removed a clause that allowed Apple to train machine learning models on some audiobook files.

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Watchdog cracks down on crypto ATM operators around Leeds

The Financial Conduct Authority enters sites suspected of hosting illegally operated crypto cash machines.

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How to manage cross-device syncing in Chrome

If you shift between mobile and desktop versions of Chrome, make your life easier by syncing history and recent tabs between devices. Here’s how. The post How to manage cross-device syncing in Chrome appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Instagram is killing live shopping in March, will focus on ads instead

As Meta gears up for its “year of efficiency,” the company announced today it’s exiting the livestream shopping business on Instagram, following a similar shutdown on Facebook. Starting on March 16, 2023, Instagram users will no longer be able to … Continue reading

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How one Brazilian startup’s pivot to corporate cards has paid off

Portão 3 was founded as a corporate travel startup in 2020 and had released its product just as COVID hit Latin America and “all airports closed,” recalls co-founder Bianca Pereira. Although the timing was “terrible,” she said, the company didn’t … Continue reading

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BuzzFeed launches Infinity Quizzes, creating personalized stories powered by OpenAI

BuzzFeed — the media site that made its name (literally) spinning out viral content — landed in the middle of the buzz itself last month when news leaked out that it would partner with the AI startup of the moment, … Continue reading

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Tesla board member says Musk doesn’t mind bankruptcy if a rival builds a better car: ‘That’s his philosophy’

Elon Musk remarked that he wouldn’t mind Tesla going bankrupt, if it means a rival company builds a better car, according to a company board member.

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Tesla employees launch New York union campaign

Tesla employees in New York have launched a campaign to organize a union with Workers United Upstate New York.

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Father of internet warns: Don’t rush investments into A.I. just because ChatGPT ‘is really cool’

Father of the Internet and Google internet evangelist Vint Cerf warned entrepreneurs not to rush into making money from conversational AI.

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