Meta’s new Threads app ‘murderous’ for phone batteries
Users of Meta’s new “Twitter killer” Threads gripe that the app — which has amassed more than 100 million users in less than a week since it went online —...
Sun Valley ‘summer camp for billionaires’ on tap after tough year
Fourth of July has come and gone — and that means the swanky Sun Valley ski resort in Idaho is set to host A-list moguls from across tech, media and...
3 Questions: Honing robot perception and mapping
Walking to a friend’s house or browsing the aisles of a grocery store might feel like simple tasks, but they in fact require sophisticated capabilities. That’s because humans are able...
Google at ACL 2023
Posted by Malaya Jules, Program Manager, Google This week, the 61st annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), a premier conference covering a broad spectrum of research areas...
Elizabeth Holmes gets prison term shortened by 2 years
Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes’s prison sentence has been slashed by two years, according to updated Bureau of Prisons records According to Holmes’ inmate information on the Bureau of Prisons’...
Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement
Stand-up comic Sarah Silverman has failed separate lawsuits against OpenAI and Meta, claiming copyright infringement after their AI models allegedly used her content for training without her permission. Silverman, along...
How AI Can Make Gaming Better for All Players
When Google revealed Project Gameface, the company was proud to show off a hands-free, AI-powered gaming mouse that, according to its announcement, “enables people to control a computer’s cursor using...
Meta’s Threads surpasses 100 million users in 5 days
Threads, the new “Twitter killer” app rolled out by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has surpassed 100 million users in less than a week while Elon Musk’s micro-blogging site has seen...
Meta Ran a Giant Experiment in Governance. Now It’s Turning to AI
Late last month, Meta quietly announced the results of an ambitious, near-global deliberative “democratic” process to inform decisions around the company’s responsibility for the metaverse it is creating. This was...
