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Meta plans to reinstate Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks with “new guardrails to deter repeat offenses”, after a two-year ban — - “We've always believed that Americans should be able to hear from the people who want to lead the country,” Clegg told Axios.
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| Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company: |
Q&A with DoNotPay's Joshua Browder on pivoting from legal issues to refocus on consumer support after getting “distracted”, ChatGPT, future plans, and more — When British-American entrepreneur Joshua Browder first launched his legal services chatbot DoNotPay in 2015 …
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Hands-on with DoNotPay, a service claiming to be the first robot lawyer: slow, drafted a terrible defamation demand letter, missed legal issues, and more — Note: This post is an adaptation of what started initially as a Twitter thread. — I've been going pretty hard on DoNotPay … | IDC: |
Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 18.3% YoY to 300.3M in Q4 2022, the largest ever drop in a quarter; Apple dropped 14.9%, Samsung 15.6%, and Xiaomi 26.3% — Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 18.3% year over year to 300.3 million units in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22) …
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New York AG Letitia James asks Madison Square Garden Entertainment for information on the alleged use of facial recognition to deny access to ticket holders — Probe related to company's alleged use of the technology to bar certain ticket holders from its venues
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IBM plans to cut ~1.5% of its global workforce, or a “ballpark” of 3,900 jobs, focusing on workers who stayed after IBM spun off Kyndryl and Watson Health — International Business Machines Corp. delivered an upbeat annual sales forecast while announcing it would eliminate …
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Sources: Meta pays BuzzFeed to generate creator content for Facebook and Instagram and to train online creators to grow, as part of a ~$10M deal reached in 2022 — Partnership marks latest iteration of yearslong relationship between digital publisher and social-media giant
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Sources: Elon Musk's team has been exploring selling up to $3B in potential new Twitter shares to help repay some of the $13B in debt tacked on for the buyout — Elon Musk's team has held talks with investors about raising up to $3 billion to repay some of the $13 billion in debt tacked onto Twitter Inc …
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A brief history of VR/AR/MR devices and why hardware challenges have limited mainstream adoption, which could likely slow the metaverse's emergence and growth — Modern efforts to build extended reality (XR) devices—i.e., dedicated virtual reality (VR), dedicated augmented reality (AR) …
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Sources: Accel and Tiger Global are in talks to sell their remaining Flipkart stakes, around 1% and 4%, respectively, to parent company Walmart for ~$1.5B — Happy 74th Republic Day! — Two early backers of Flipkart - venture fund Accel Partners and New York-based investment firm Tiger Global …
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| Connie Guglielmo / CNET: |
CNET's EIC reflects on the outlet's AI use and lessons learned, like ensuring that bylines and disclosures are visible and plagiarism checks are done properly — New tools are accelerating change in the publishing industry. We're going to help shape that change.
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| Aggi Cantrill / Bloomberg: |
German software maker SAP plans to cut ~3,000 jobs in 2023, or 2.5% of its staff, and explore selling its remaining Qualtrics stake; SAP stock is down 12% YTD — SAP SE is planning to cut about 3,000 jobs this year while exploring a sale of its remaining stake in Qualtrics International Inc … | Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Google's evolving legal strategy to combat the DOJ's antitrust claims; sources say Google believed an ad unit spinoff could help end multiple cases — The latest U.S. lawsuit against Google compounds the legal issues the company faces worldwide while broadening the scope …
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The University of Texas at Austin plans to launch a large-scale, low-cost online MSc program in AI, the first of its kind among elite computing schools — Amid a boom in new tools like ChatGPT, the Austin campus plans to train thousands of students in sought-after skills in artificial intelligence.| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Lam Research, one of the three biggest US chip manufacturing equipment makers, plans to cut ~7% of its workforce, or ~1,300 jobs worldwide, to reduce expenses — Lam Research Corp., one of the three biggest providers of chip-manufacturing equipment in the US, is cutting about 7% of its workforce …
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Filing: crypto exchange Mango Markets sues alleged exploiter Avraham Eisenberg for $47M in damages, saying he returned only $67M of the roughly $114M he netted — Mango Markets wants its money back after losing $114 million in October. — Decentralized crypto exchange Mango Markets sued …
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After an uproar, Twitter suspends US white nationalist Nick Fuentes' verified account, one day after lifting the Holocaust denier's ban that began in July 2021 — ‘FUN WHILE IT LASTED’ — Twitter's decision to reinstate the account of unabashed neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes worked out about exactly …
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