Monthly Archives: May 2024

The Witcher 3’s official REDkit mod platform launches later this month

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which launched in 2015, is approaching its 9-year anniversary this month, and fans can celebrate by modding the game into oblivion with official tools from CD Projekt RED. The aptly named REDkit mod editor was … Continue reading

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Inside the Climate Protests Hell-Bent on Stopping Tesla

Tesla’s gigafactory in Germany has temporarily paused production as protests ramp up.

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Reddit shares soar 14% after company reports revenue pop in debut earnings report

Reddit reported a big increase in sales for the first quarter and said second-quarter revenue will jump by more than 30%, based on the midpoint of the range.

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Rivian loses $1.45 billion as cost-cutting measures continue

Rivian lost $1.45 billion in the first quarter, showing that its recent company-wide cost-cutting measures have a ways to go before it can approach profitability. The EV-maker brought in $1.2 billion in revenue in the period, coming in just under … Continue reading

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Meta’s AI tools for advertisers can now create full new images, not just new backgrounds

Meta claims that it has strong guardrails in place to prevent its system from generating inappropriate ad content or low-quality images. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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OpenAI Offers an Olive Branch to Artists Wary of Feeding AI Algorithms

ChatGPT developer OpenAI says that artists and other content owners will be able to request that their work be excluded from use in AI development. Many details of the scheme remain unclear.

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Biden signs bill to protect children from online sexual abuse and exploitation

On April 29, Senators Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Marsha Blackburn (R-SC) proposed a bipartisan bill to protect children from online sexual exploitation. President Biden officially signed the REPORT Act into law on Tuesday. This marks the first time that websites … Continue reading

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Bloom is reinventing how e-bikes are made in the US

The pandemic ushered in an e-bike boom. But like so many other pandemic trends, that boom didn’t last. The last year has seen e-bike startups VanMoof and Cake file for bankruptcy amid a backdrop of micromobility doom and gloom. Tier … Continue reading

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How Apple’s 2024 iPads Will Benefit Working Professionals

At Apple’s “Let Loose” event, the company unveiled major upgrades for the iPad Pro and iPad Air, with a new Apple Pencil as icing on the cake.

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Crypto? AI? Internet co-creator Robert Kahn already did it… decades ago

Robert Kahn has been a consistent presence on the Internet since its creation — obviously, since he was its co-creator. But like many tech pioneers his resumé is longer than that and in fact his work prefigured such ostensibly modern … Continue reading

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