Month: July 2023
Elon Musk sues four unknown individuals for scraping Twitter’s data
The Elon Musk-owned X Corp. is suing four unnamed individuals over allegations they illegally scraped user data from Twitter, as first reported by CNBC. The lawsuit was filed in a Dallas County, Texas, court on July 6th and seeks over $1 million in damages. According to the complaint, the four…
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Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever
In a statement about the strike, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) said that its proposal included “a groundbreaking AI proposal that protects actors’ digital likenesses for SAG-AFTRA members.” When asked about the proposal during the press conference, Crabtree-Ireland said that “This ‘groundbreaking’ AI proposal that they…
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Twitter says it will start paying creators this week
Months after Elon Musk announced that some Twitter users will be eligible to earn money via ads on the platform, popular creators are finally getting an update: the money is coming “within the next 72 hours.” The revenue sharing program is only available to users who pay for a Twitter…
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Hyundai enhances Ioniq 5 with new performance N variant
Electric vehicles aren’t often thought of as fun to drive machines compared to gear-shifting gas vehicles, but Hyundai is doing its part to bridge the gap with the new Ioniq 5 N performance variant. As the name suggests, the automaker handed its popular crossover EV off to the teams at…
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Microsoft’s next big update to its Office apps: a new font
If you've used Microsoft productivity suites this millennium, you're in for a big change… visually, at least. After 15 years, Microsoft is replacing the default font in 365 and Office apps, Calibri, with something new: Aptos. It may look like a simple sans-serif font (and it is in default form),…
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Google Bard can now speak loud and clear as update introduces speech feature
Google Bard is saying its first words thanks to a recent update that gives the AI the ability to read out generated responses in over 40 different languages. The newfound language support includes Arabic, Chinese, German, and Spanish. According to Google, being able to hear text out loud can be…
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