Tag: Tech
Teachers Are Absolutely Loving The Student Who Made A Tool That Shows If Your Essay Was Written By AI
GPTZero works by analyzing a piece of text and determining if there is a high or low indication that a bot wrote it. It looks for two hallmarks: “perplexity” and “burstiness.” “Perplexity” is how likely each word is to be suggested by a bot; a human would be more random.…
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Sam Bankman-Fried, Founder Of The Crypto Exchange FTX, Has Pleaded Not Guilty To Fraud And Other Charges
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, appeared in a federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon and pleaded not guilty to eight counts of defrauding customers, laundering money, and violating campaign finance laws. Bankman-Fried’s trial was set for Oct. 2; if convicted of all…
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2022 Was The Year Tech Did A 180
Then, everything changed — drastically. The spring brought “crypto winter,” in which the value of cryptocurrency plummeted. Bitcoin started the year valued at around $47,000 and has now dropped to around $17,000. Many NFT projects were abandoned or shuffled along. The floor price for Bored Apes now hovers around $88,000,…
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TikTok Owner ByteDance Said Employees Improperly Obtained Journalists’ User Data
TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance said on Thursday that a small group of employees inappropriately obtained personal data of US TikTok users and are no longer employed at ByteDance. The New York Times reported that some of the users whose data was accessed included two journalists, one at BuzzFeed News…
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Sam Bankman-Fried Has Been Freed On $250 Million Bail
Sam Bankman-Fried, the 30-year-old founder and former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, was released on a $250 million bail package after appearing in a Manhattan federal courtroom this afternoon. Under the terms of the package, he will be confined to his parents’ home in Palo Alto, California, while he…
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The NASA Mars Lander InSight Has Died And People Have A Lot Of Feelings About It
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California was in charge of the mission, and its scientists also expressed their sorrow at InSight’s end while praising the scientific discoveries the robot was able to make. “InSight has more than lived up to its name. As a scientist who’s spent a career studying…
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