A tech-savvy artist unearthed video footage of people working hard to capture the perfect shot for Instagram. It is a lesson in the artifice of social media and the ubiquity of surveillance.
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(BPRW) Announcing the Inaugural Black Tech Gala Fundraising and Awards Ceremony
(Black PR Wire) ATLANTA, GEORGIA The Power of Technology Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, is pleased to introduce the Inaugural Black Tech Gala taking place on Saturday, October 15, 2022, at 8:00 pm EST at the Hyatt Regency Villa Christina – At
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Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door
Battling far-right extremism, Germany has gone further than any other Western democracy to prosecute individuals for what they say online, testing the limits of free speech on the internet.
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The Midterm Election’s Most Dominant Toxic Narratives
Misleading and divisive posts about the Nov. 8 midterm vote have flooded social media. Here are three prevalent themes.
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Apple to Sponsor the Super Bowl Halftime Show
Apple’s pursuit of an N.F.L. media package has broadened to include a sponsorship of one of TV’s most-watched events.
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How 3 hours of inaction from Amazon cost cryptocurrency holders $235,000
Enlarge Amazon recently lost control of IP addresses it uses to host cloud services and took more than three hours to regain control, a lapse that allowed hackers to steal $235,000 in cryptocurrency from users of one of the affected customers, an analysis shows. The hackers seized control of roughly 256 IP addresses through BGP...
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Starlink is getting a lot slower as more people use it, speed tests show
Enlarge (credit: Starlink) Starlink’s median download speeds in the US dropped from 90.6Mbps to 62.5Mbps between the first and second quarters of 2022, according to Ookla speed tests. Starlink’s median upload speeds in the US dropped from 9.3Mbps to 7.2Mbps in the same timeframe. Median latency also got a little worse for Starlink’s US customers,...
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Is the Hyperloop Doomed?
Though some efforts continue, the once-promising technology has run up against significant challenges — most notably creating an entirely new transit infrastructure.
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Artist receives first known US copyright registration for generative AI art
Enlarge / An excerpt from the AI-assisted comic book Zarya of the Dawn, which received a US copyright registration. (credit: Kris Kashtanova) In what might be a first, a New York-based artist named Kris Kashtanova has received US copyright registration on their graphic novel that features AI-generated artwork, according to their Instagram feed and confirmed...
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AI model from OpenAI automatically recognizes speech and translates it to English
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) On Wednesday, OpenAI released a new open source AI model called Whisper that recognizes and translates audio at a level that approaches human recognition ability. It can transcribe interviews, podcasts, conversations, and more. OpenAI trained Whisper on 680,000 hours of audio data and matching transcripts in 98 languages...