Month: August 2024

Meta closes Ready at Dawn, the studio behind Echo VR

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Image: Oculus Studios Meta is closing Ready at Dawn, the first-party studio behind VR games like Echo VR and Lone Echo, Android Central reported on Wednesday. The shutdown is effective immediately. Meta acquired the studio in 2020. As for why Meta is shutting down the studio, here’s what Android Central said: One report in mid-July … Read more

OpenAI adds a Carnegie Mellon professor to its board of directors

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OpenAI has announced a new appointment to its board of directors: Zico Kolter. Kolter, a professor and director of the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon, predominantly focuses his research on AI safety. This makes him an “invaluable technical director for [OpenAI’s] governance,” OpenAI writes in a post on its official blog. AI safety has … Read more

Spotify and Epic Games call Apple’s revised DMA compliance plan ‘confusing,’ ‘illegal’ and ‘unacceptable’

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Count Spotify and Epic Games among the Apple critics who are not happy with the iPhone maker’s newly revised compliance plan for the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Shortly after Apple announced the updated version on Tuesday, including loosened restrictions along with the addition of two more fees, Spotify shared a statement with TechCrunch … Read more

Thursday, the dating app that you can use only on Thursdays, expands to San Francisco

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Thursday seeks to shake up conventional online dating in a crowded market. The app, which recently expanded to San Francisco, fosters intentional dating by restricting user access to Thursdays. At midnight, all matches disappear. The idea is that by restricting usage to one day a week, potential matches will be encouraged to set up real-life meetings … Read more

Palantir partners with Microsoft to sell AI to the government

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One of the classic problems of looking into a palantir was correctly interpreting what the viewer saw… | Image: The Verge Palantir, the company named for the dangerous seeing-stones that tended to mislead their users, has announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver services for classified networks in US defense and intelligence agencies. “This is … Read more

Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst thinks everyone needs to be more realistic on what AI can and cannot do

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AI companies are gobbling up investor money and securing sky-high valuations early in their life cycle. This dynamic has many calling the AI industry a bubble. Nick Frosst, a co-founder of Cohere, which builds custom AI models for enterprise customers, recently said on TechCrunch’s Found podcast that he doesn’t think the AI industry is in … Read more

ADT admits security breach after hackers advertise stolen data on the dark web

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Image: ADT Security company ADT disclosed in an SEC filing that hackers obtained “some limited customer information, including email addresses, phone numbers and postal addresses.” TechCrunch reports that ADT’s disclosure follows a seller on a cybercrime forum claiming last week that they had obtained more than 30,000 stolen ADT customer records. The hackers obtained the … Read more

Leveraging Social Media and Macroeconomic Factors in Startup Evaluations

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:::info Authors: (1) Mark Potanin, a Corresponding (authorpotanin.m.st@gmail.com); (2) Andrey Chertok, (a.v.chertok@gmail.com); (3) Konstantin Zorin, (berzqwer@gmail.com); (4) Cyril Shtabtsovsky, (cyril@aloniq.com). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2 Related works 3 Dataset Overview, Preprocessing, and Features 3.1 Successful Companies Dataset and 3.2 Unsuccessful Companies Dataset 3.3 Features 4 Model Training, Evaluation, and Portfolio Simulation … Read more

Instagram is embracing the ‘photo dump’

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Instagram is rolling out the ability for users to add up to 20 photos or videos to their feed carousels, as the platform embraces the trend of “photo dumps.” Back in 2017, Instagram added the ability to post up to 10 photos or videos in one swipeable carousel post. Now, you can post double the … Read more

Discover insights from Box with the Amazon Q Box connector

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Seamless access to content and insights is crucial for delivering exceptional customer experiences and driving successful business outcomes. Box, a leading cloud content management platform, serves as a central repository for diverse digital assets and documents in many organizations. An enterprise Box account typically contains a wealth of materials, including documents, presentations, knowledge articles, and … Read more