Month: February 2022
11 Great TV and Soundbar Deals for Super Bowl Weekend
It’s the perfect time to upgrade your home theater before the big game. Source
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Two members of Google’s Ethical AI group leave to join Timnit Gebru’s nonprofit
Two members of Google’s Ethical AI group have announced their departures from the company, according to a report from Bloomberg. Senior researcher Alex Hanna, and software engineer Dylan Baker, will join Timnit Gebru’s nonprofit research institute, Distributed AI Research (DAIR). In a post announcing her resignation on Medium, Hanna criticizes…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s bet on the metaverse is off to an expensive start
Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse pivot is off to slow start. The company now known as Meta lost just over $10 billion on its Reality Labs division in 2021, according to its fourth-quarter earnings report. “This fully realized vision is still a ways off,” Zuckerberg said of Meta’s metaverse investments. “And although…
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The FBI reportedly confirms it tested NSO’s spyware
The FBI has confirmed to The Washington Post that the agency had a license to use NSO’s Pegasus spyware and that it tested out the software’s capabilities. The bureau insists that the software, which is capable of silently infecting phones and accessing camera and microphone feeds, contacts, texts, and more,…
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Spotify says it’s a creator company now
Spotify released its quarterly earnings today during a particularly fraught time for the company. Its star podcaster, Joe Rogan, spurred multiple musicians to pull their discographies from the platform over his show’s spreading of misinformation; Spotify-employed podcasters themselves spoke out, and even the White House responded. CEO Daniel Ek fielded…
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Facebook lost daily users for the first time ever last quarter
Since its inception, Facebook’s user growth has essentially been up and to the right. But on Wednesday, it reported its first-ever quarterly decline of daily users globally, along with lower-than-expected ad growth that sent its stock plunging roughly 20 percent. The massive stock drop, which instantly wiped out roughly $200…
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