144 posts tagged ‘technology internet’
The New York Times Asks Court to Destroy ChatGPT
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The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, asking that ChatGPT be destroyed, along with any other large language models and training sets that have used The Times’ work without payment. Read more...
Apple's 12 Most Embarrassing Product Failures
Apple is one of the most globally respected technology companies, having built its reputation on creating reliable, high-end products with innovative features. The Cupertino tech giant has such an impressive track record that its next project—whether that be an AR headset or something else entirely —is already assumed… Read more...
Jony Ive Poaches Lead iPhone Designer to Work on OpenAI Hardware Device
Tang Tan, Apple’s lead designer for the iPhone and Apple Watch, is stepping down to join Jony Ive’s hardware firm LoveFrom, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman on Wednesday. Tan is the latest Apple designer to join Ive, which is assembling an Avengers-like team with Sam Altman to create the next era of hardware… Read more...
AI Might Finally Make Windows 11 Usable
The lonely “Windows” button on most modern keyboards is an old joke turned into a bore. The key is a lonely, barren island sitting between “alt” and “ctrl” that’s long proved more of a nuisance for a wayward finger that strays a little too far southwest than it is a usable function. While some might find the key good… Read more...
Ads are coming to Prime Video in January
AV Club,
Fresh off of what has most likely been another ungodly lucrative holiday season (there are other places where you can buy things, folks), Amazon has apparently decided that it’s sick of all of this “peace” and “goodwill” shit that everyone has been talking about for a month and will instead be embracing greed and… Read more...
Amazon Will Inject Ads Into Prime Video Starting Jan. 29th
The last major ad-free streaming service is going away. Starting Jan. 29th, Amazon users will start seeing advertisements appear on movies and TV shows for Prime Video, according to an email sent to subscribers on Tuesday. To keep Prime Video ad-free, you’ll need to pay an additional $3 a month, on top of the $139 a… Read more...
GTA 5 Leak Reveals Includes Eight Unreleased DLC Expansions
On Christmas Day, a big GTA 5 leak revealed that Rockstar Games had some single-player DLC planned for the open-world crime sim. Though none of them were released, what was uncovered by online sleuths is interesting all the same. Read more...
Physicists Designed an Experiment to Turn Light Into Matter
Plasma could be wrangled to collide photons and yield matter, according to physicists who ran simulations to explore the practical applications of a world-famous equation. Read more...