Month: September 2024

This life-size Lego McLaren P1 can hit almost 40mph

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Lego’s McLaren P1 isn’t quite as fast as the real deal. | Image: Lego After releasing a 24-inch-long scale replica of the McLaren P1 earlier this year, Lego has now debuted a full-size drivable version of the hypercar built from over 342,817 Technic pieces and powered by hundreds of Lego electric motors. That eclipses the … Read more

Australian plan for misinformation law riles Elon Musk

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The Australian government wants to introduce powers to fine social media platforms up to 5% of their global revenue if they fail to stop the spread of misinformation under a revised legislative plan introduced Thursday, Reuters reports.  The planned law, which looks similar to the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), drew swift condemnation from … Read more

The Noonification: How HeyFood Grew From a Small Campus Tool to 100k Users in 5 Cities (9/12/2024)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐What’s happening in tech this week: The Noonification by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our top 5 stories of the day, every day at noon your local time! Set email preference here. ## #blockchain-API Writing Contest Deadline Extended: Check Out dRPC’s Tips for Writing a Strong Entry … Read more

Amazon and Flipkart violated competition laws in India, report says

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An Indian antitrust regulator has found that Amazon and Flipkart, owned by Walmart, violated local competition laws, according to a report from Reuters. The finding presents a new challenge for the e-commerce giants in a market where online retail growth remains modest at under 15% and quick-commerce is increasingly snatching business from Amazon India and … Read more

Google Chrome makes it easier to opt out of annoying notifications on Android

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On mobile, you get a one-tap unsubscribe under annoying website notifications from Chrome. | Image: Google Google is expanding a Chrome safety feature to help you cancel pesky website notifications with a single tap. It’s already available on Pixels and is coming to more Android devices; adding a simple unsubscribe button in the notification so … Read more

Scaling Thomson Reuters’ language model research with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

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Thomson Reuters, a global content and technology-driven company, has been using artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in its professional information products for decades. The introduction of generative AI provides another opportunity for Thomson Reuters to work with customers and advance how they do their work, helping professionals draw insights and automate workflows, enabling them … Read more

Google Wallet to test a feature that turns your US passport into a digital ID

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Google announced on Thursday that it’s introducing new Wallet updates for travelers and commuters. Most notably, Google Wallet will soon start beta testing the ability to create a Digital ID from your U.S. passport. The ID pass will work at select TSA checkpoints when traveling domestically. In addition to TSA checkpoints, Google says it’s working … Read more

White House extracts voluntary commitments from AI vendors to combat deepfake nudes

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The White House says several major AI vendors have committed to taking steps to combat nonconsensual deepfakes and child sexual abuse material. Adobe, Cohere, Microsoft, Anthropic OpenAI, and data provider Common Crawl said that they’ll “responsibly” source and safeguard the datasets they create and use to train AI from image-based sexual abuse. These organizations — … Read more

#blockchain-API Writing Contest Deadline Extended: Check Out dRPC’s Tips for Writing a Strong Entry

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Hey Hackers, Great news—the submission deadline for the #blockchain-api writing contest has been extended to September 27, 2024, giving you 15 extra days to submit your #blockchain-api stories and compete for up to $1,000 in prizes. If you’ve already submitted an entry, you now have more time to draw attention to it or work on … Read more