Twitter has stopped paying rent on offices and is considering not paying severance packages to former employees, among other measures.
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How to Use Parental Controls on Your Child’s New Phone
Apple and Google have upgraded their built-in software for managing the mobile experience, but you have many options for digital supervision.
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Are Mushrooms the Future of Alternative Leather?
MycoWorks uses mycelium, the substance in the root structure of mushrooms, to make Reishi, which has the look and feel of leather. Big-name companies are very interested.
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Prosecutors charge 6 people for allegedly waging massive DDoS attacks
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged six people for allegedly operating websites that launched millions of powerful distributed denial-of-service attacks on a wide array of victims on behalf of millions of paying customers. The sites promoted themselves as booter or stressor services designed to test the bandwidth and performance of customers’ networks....
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Meet Ghostwriter, a haunted AI-powered typewriter that talks to you
Enlarge / Ghostwriter understands what you type and can automatically write responses using OpenAI’s GPT-3. (credit: Arvind Sanjeev / Ars Technica) On Wednesday, a designer and engineer named Arvind Sanjeev revealed his process for creating Ghostwriter, a one-of-a-kind repurposed Brother typewriter that uses AI to chat with a person typing on the keyboard. The “ghost”...
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(BPRW) Kingmakers of Oakland Receives $4.8 million from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Transform Learning Environments
(Black PR Wire) Kingmakers of Oakland is on a mission to improve the lives of Black boys and build a stronger education system for all students. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is committing $4.8 million to bring their comprehensive, research-backed school
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Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested in the Bahamas After US Prosecutors File Charges
A statement by the government of the Bahamas said Mr. Bankman-Fried was arrested after prosecutors in the United States filed criminal charges.
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Parents Under Scrutiny in FTX Collapse
The FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s mother and father, who teach at Stanford Law School, are under scrutiny for their connections to their son’s crypto business.
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Scientists Achieve Nuclear Fusion Energy Breakthrough in the US
The advancement by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers will be built on to further develop fusion energy research.
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Lensa AI app causes a stir with sexy “Magic Avatar” images no one wanted
Enlarge / A selection of male and female “Magic Avatars” generated by the Lensa AI app, including a beard cannot be contained. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) Over the past week, the smartphone app Lensa AI has become a popular topic on social media because it can generate stylized AI avatars based on selfie...