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#BFLY Token Now Live on Exchange: A New Era Begins
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Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:
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Your Roadmap to Tokens: Zotto Airdrop Guide
Introduction: Excited to grab your Zotto Airdrop with DappRadar? If so, you’ve come to the right place. With the increasing popularity…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Will Meta Really Have to Sell Instagram and WhatsApp?
On this episode of "Uncanny Valley," we unpack the trial between Meta and the FTC.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Spotify running again after users around world report problems
Audio streaming app confirms service restored following more than five hours of disruptionTens of thousands of Spotify users around the world reported being unable to stream music on the app, which was hit by several hours of technical problems on Wednesday.Downdetector, which tracks platforms, showed more than 48,000 outage reports for Spotify worldwide on Wednesday afternoon. Continue reading...
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Meet The AI Agent With Multiple Personalities
A new AI agent from the startup Simular switches between different AI models depending on the task at hand.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Google sued for £5bn in UK over allegations of shutting out rivals
Class action argues US tech firm charged more for advertising on its preinstalled apps than it could in fair marketGoogle is being sued in the UK for up to 5bn in damages over allegations it shut out rivals in the internet search market and abused this dominance to overcharge businesses for advertisements. A class action filed at the competition appeal tribunal on Wednesday argues that the US company has taken actions...
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:US office that counters foreign disinformation is being eliminated
The only office within the US State Department that monitors foreign disinformation is to be eliminated, according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, confirming reporting by MIT Technology Review. The Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) Hub is a small office in the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy that tracks and counters…
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:The best espresso machines to unleash your inner barista at home, tested
We’ve rounded up espresso machines for every budget and skill level, from the cheapest manual models to high-end assisted marvels• The best coffee machines for your home: your morning brew made easyMore espresso, less depresso. To be clear, these weren’t the words of Angelo Moriondo, the Italian inventor who patented the first espresso machine in 1884, but it’s nice to imagine that he shared the sentiment. Without him,...
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Adapting for AI’s reasoning era
Anyone who crammed for exams in college knows that an impressive ability to regurgitate information is not synonymous with critical thinking. The large language models (LLMs) first publicly released in 2022 were impressive but limited—like talented students who excel at multiple-choice exams but stumble when asked to defend their logic. Today’s advanced reasoning models are…
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:‘One minute it’s “would you like to listen to Galaxie 500?”, the next humanity’s enslaved’: can anyone escape Spotify?
As a new book skewers Spotify’s effect on music, two Guardian music writers spent a week assessing the limits of living with and without itLaura Snapes, deputy music editor I was set the task of not listening to Spotify for a week, but Alexis, your task was much worse: only listening to Spotify-created playlists, and the songs it suggested to you based on your listening history. How did that go?Alexis Petridis, chief...
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:The Download: how AI is changing music, and a US city’s AI experiment
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI is coming for music, too While large language models that generate text have exploded in the last three years, a different type of AI, based on what are called diffusion models, is…
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Jurassic Patent: How Colossal Biosciences is attempting to own the “woolly mammoth”
Colossal Biosciences not only wants to bring back the woolly mammoth—it wants to patent it, too. MIT Technology Review has learned the Texas startup is seeking a patent that would give it exclusive legal rights to create and sell gene-edited elephants containing ancient mammoth DNA. Colossal, which calls itself “the de-extinction company,” hopes to use…
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:‘It’s allowed me to see through his eyes’: Super Mario, my dad and me
When his mum found their old family NES covered in dust and rust, Thomas Hobbs cleaned it up, got it working and reconnected with his childhood and late fatherOne of my earliest memories is watching my mum and dad play the opening level of Super Mario Bros in cooperative mode on the Nintendo Entertainment System. This was the early 1990s, and they were joined at the hip on the sofa, laughing at the idea of two portly...
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:What is vibe coding, exactly?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. When OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy excitedly took to X back in February to post about his new hobby, he probably had no idea he was about…
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:AI is coming for music, too
The end of this story includes samples of AI-generated music. Artificial intelligence was barely a term in 1956, when top scientists from the field of computing arrived at Dartmouth College for a summer conference. The computer scientist John McCarthy had coined the phrase in the funding proposal for the event, a gathering to work through…
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Nvidia expects to take $5.5bn hit as US tightens AI chip export rules to China
Shares plunge as firm says H20 chip, designed for Chinese market to comply with controls, now needs special licenceNvidia has said it expects a $5.5bn (4.1bn) hit after Donald Trump’s administration barred the chip designer from selling crucial artificial intelligence chips in China, sending shares in one of the US’s most valuable companies plunging in after-hours trading.The company said in an official filing late on...
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:What IT Jobs Will Be in Demand in the Next Decade?
The future is looking super exciting, and the demand for certain IT roles is about to skyrocket Continue reading on Front-end World »
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:Apple’s Sneaky Move: iOS 18.4 and macOS 15.4 Secretly Turn Automatic Updates Back On
Apple just dropped iOS 18.4 and macOS 15.4, and while you were busy admiring the shiny new emojis (because, priorities), the company…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:Zuckerberg feared monopoly scrutiny and mulled Instagram split, files show
Testimony that Instagram was ‘better’ seems to bolster allegations Meta used ‘buy or bury’ tactic to snap up rivalsMeta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 in anticipation of a potential antitrust suit, documents unveiled at a trial in Washington showed on Tuesday.“While most companies resist break-ups, the corporate history is that most companies actually perform better after...
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:Apple airlifted iPhones worth $2bn from India in March as Trump tariffs loomed
Tech giant stepped up production and chartered cargo flights with at least six jets to ensure sufficient inventoryApple’s main Indian suppliers Foxconn and Tata shipped nearly $2bn worth of iPhones to the United States in March, an all-time high, as the US company airlifted devices to bypass Donald Trump’s impending tariffs, customs data shows.The smartphone maker stepped up production in India and chartered cargo...
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:A small US city experiments with AI to find out what residents want
Bowling Green, Kentucky, is home to 75,000 residents who recently wrapped up an experiment in using AI for democracy: Can an online polling platform, powered by machine learning, capture what residents want to see happen in their city? When Doug Gorman, elected leader of the county that includes Bowling Green, took office in 2023, it…
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:A small US city is experimenting with AI to find out what residents want
Bowling Green, Kentucky, is home to 75,000 residents who recently wrapped up an experiment in using AI for democracy: Can an online polling platform, powered by machine learning, capture what residents want to see happen in their city? When Doug Gorman, elected leader of the county that includes Bowling Green, took office in 2023, it…
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:X’s UK profits collapsed the year after Elon Musk’s takeover
Social media platform formerly known as Twitter says 66.3% revenue drop was down to fall in advertising incomeX’s revenues and profits collapsed in the UK in the year after Elon Musk took over the social media platform, the company has admitted.A decline in advertising spending amid concerns about “brand safety and/or content moderation” were cited as the reason for the fall, according to accounts filed this week to...
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:‘I sent AI to art school!’ The postmodern master who taught a machine to beef up his old work
Warhol for colour, Hopper for volume … American art world star David Salle is using AI on old paintings of his that had a mixed reception – with wild, sprawling results. Why isn’t he afraid of being replaced?By the time you read this article, there’s a good chance it will have already been scanned by an artificially intelligent machine. If asked about the artist David Salle, large language models such as ChatGPT or...
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:The Download: tracking the evolution of street drugs, and the next wave of military AI
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How the federal government is tracking changes in the supply of street drugs In 2021, the Maryland Department of Health and the state police were confronting a crisis: Fatal drug overdoses in the…
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:A New Mexico Man Faces Federal Charges for Allegedly Setting Fire to a Tesla Showroom
Jamison Wagner was also charged with an alleged arson attack on the New Mexico Republican Party’s office.
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:This architect wants to build cities out of lava
Arnhildur Pálmadóttir was around three years old when she saw a red sky from her living room window. A volcano was erupting about 25 miles away from where she lived on the northeastern coast of Iceland. Though it posed no immediate threat, its ominous presence seeped into her subconscious, populating her dreams with streaks of…
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:Revealed: Chinese researchers can access half a million UK GP records
Medical information will be available from UK Biobank, despite western intelligence agencies’ security fearsResearchers from China are to be allowed access to half a million UK GP records despite western intelligence agencies’ fears about the authoritarian regime amassing health data, the Guardian can reveal.Preparations are under way to transfer the records to UK Biobank, a research hub that holds detailed medical...
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:Nvidia says it will build up to $500bn of US AI infrastructure as chip tariff looms
Plan comes after Donald Trump reiterated import threats and chipmaker’s CEO dined at US president’s resortThe chip designer Nvidia has said it will build up to $500bn (378bn) worth of artificial intelligence infrastructure in the US over the next four years, in a sign of manufacturers investing in operations on American soil amid Donald Trump’s tariffs.The announcement comes after Trump reiterated threats on Sunday to...
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:Phase two of military AI has arrived
Last week, I spoke with two US Marines who spent much of last year deployed in the Pacific, conducting training exercises from South Korea to the Philippines. Both were responsible for analyzing surveillance to warn their superiors about possible threats to the unit. But this deployment was unique: For the first time, they were using…
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:How the federal government is tracking changes in the supply of street drugs
In 2021, the Maryland Department of Health and the state police were confronting a crisis: Fatal drug overdoses in the state were at an all-time high, and authorities didn’t know why. There was a general sense that it had something to do with changes in the supply of illicit drugs—and specifically of the synthetic opioid…
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:Pixel 9a review: Google’s cut-price Android winner
Class-leading camera, top-tier chip, very long battery life, AI and quality software dominate mid-range rivalsGoogle’s latest cut-price Pixel offers the best bang for your buck in Android phones and is arguably better in many areas than some models costing twice the price.The Pixel 9a starts at the same 499 (549/$499/A$849) as last year’s equally good value model. That makes it 300 or so less than Google’s regular...
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:‘She helps cheer me up’: the people forming relationships with AI chatbots
From virtual ‘wives’ to mental health support, more than 100m people are using personified chatbotsMen who have virtual “wives” and neurodiverse people using chatbots to help them navigate relationships are among a growing range of ways in which artificial intelligence is transforming human connection and intimacy.Dozens of readers shared their experiences of using personified AI chatbot apps, engineered to simulate...
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:The Ultimate Guide to Claiming Wrapped Viplus Coin (WVPC) Tokens: Step-by-Step Instructions
The Ultimate Guide to Claiming Wrapped Viplus Coin (WVPC) Airdrops: Step-by-Step InstructionsContinue reading on Medium »
Published on: April 14, 2025 | Source:The 20/80 Dilemma: How AI Is Erasing White-Collar Jobs Without Creating New Ones
Introduction: The 20/80 Rule in the AI AgeContinue reading on Medium »
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