After a fairly big scare yesterday, I felt the need to go to the office today.
One of my coworkers has also asked me if I would help her start trading 😆
Article (long form post) in the works already, but the rest will be done once I'm back home.
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But Apple Intelligence will be free. So the company needs to convince hundreds of millions of iPhone customers that it's time for an upgrade.
That's what Wall Street is watching for when the latest iPhones go on sale this month. Will Apple Intelligence move more iPhones? Or will the post-pandemic sales slump continue?
A new date, Saturday, September 7th, from 12:38 AM – 4:09 AM PDT, has been named for the Polaris Dawn mission sending astronauts who will attempt the first spacewalk of private astronauts, using spacesuit technology developed by SpaceX from LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. They will also test laser-based communications with Starlink a satellite broadband provider.
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Google, Samsung and Qualcomm's smart glasses would be a different approach from Apple's Vision Pro.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told CNBC the chip designer is working with Samsung and Google to explore a mixed-reality set of glasses linked to a smartphone — taking a different approach from Apple, which launched a larger headset.
Last year, Google, Samsung and Qualcomm struck a partnership to develop mixed-reality technology. That refers to the combination of augmented and virtual reality, often involving digital images that are imposed over the real world in front of you.
Yes the Meta 2 and 3 as well as the Meta RayBan smart glasses. I was doing audits for Meta on how those products were being sold. You can keep the VR and AR headsets but the smartglasses were pretty cool. It helps they were the Wayfarer model I used to wear as sunglasses.
Amon's comments are among the first to shed light on the project.
"It's going to be a new product, it's going to be new experiences," Amon said, discussing what will come out the mixed reality partnership.
"But what I really expect to come out of this partnership, I want everyone that has a phone to go buy companion glasses to go along with it," Amon added.
Samsung and Google were not immediately available for comment when contacted by CNBC.
The CEO referenced Facebook-parent Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, which look like regular shades but are wirelessly linked to a smartphone and have an in-built camera. On top of that, they have a voice assistant powered by Meta's Llama artificial intelligence model.
Qualcomm has also made mixed reality a key target area, as it diversifies its business beyond smartphones. The company has a chip called the Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1, designed for smart glasses.
Qualcomm has been touting the fact that its various chips across smartphones and PCs allow AI applications to run on the device, rather than being processed in the cloud via the internet.
Google searches are now being routinely used to surface online ads with malicious purposes, in a hacking approach known as 'malvertising.'
Hackers are increasingly using online ads for malicious purposes. Often, it's happening through routine Google searches.
These schemes are dubbed malvertising, and cyber criminals are striking more often and with increased sophistication. In fall 2023, cybersecurity software firm Malwarebytes tracked a 42% increase month-over-month in malvertising incidents in the U.S. All types of brands are being targeted, whether it's for phishing purposes or for actual malware, said Jérôme Segura, senior director of research at Malwarebytes. "What I'm seeing is just the tip of the iceberg," he said.
Many of these rogue ads appear as sponsored content during a search engine query on a desktop or mobile device. But malicious code can also be hidden in ads that appear on mainstream websites consumers routinely visit. Some of these ads will only ensnare consumers who click on them, but in some cases, people can be vulnerable in a more passive way — sometimes just by visiting an infected site, said Erich Kron, security awareness advocate for KnowBe4, a security awareness and training company.
As Meta tries to rekindle the flame between Facebook and socially anxious youths, the company released a blog post Wednesday titled, "Navigating your 20s with Facebook."
Back in my day, Facebook was cool. Gaggles of middle schoolers trolled the local mall, where we would stop into the Apple Store, find an early MacBook Pro, and take dozens of pictures with gaudy Photo Booth filters to post on Facebook. Sometimes, other teens would forget to log out of their accounts, and we would post something like “i just pooped” before signing into our own accounts.
This isn’t the case anymore. In 2014, the Pew Research Center estimated that 71% of U.S. teens used Facebook; as of 2022, that percentage dropped to 32%, then slightly increased to 33% last year. Other studies from Edison Research have shown the same trend. Though Meta is reticent to share much demographic information about its user base, the app’s head, Tom Alison, said that there are 40 million daily active users in the U.S. and Canada between the ages of 18 and 29.
Facebook remained central to my social experiences in high school and college. If you weren’t on Facebook, you wouldn’t get invited to parties, and you wouldn’t know when any student clubs were holding meetings. In the 2010s, deleting Facebook would have been a disaster for my social life. Now if I woke up one day to find that my Facebook account had been deleted, it would be a minor inconvenience.
My experience isn’t unique. So, as Meta tries to rekindle the flame between Facebook and socially anxious youths, the company released a blog post Wednesday titled, “Navigating your 20s with Facebook.”
“Your twenties are a decade full of transitions, from graduating college, moving to new cities, starting new jobs and living on your own for the first time. It can be a hectic (and fun) decade, and Facebook is here to help,” the post says.
Do twentysomethings read the Facebook blog? (Does anyone other than journalists read the Facebook blog?) If they do, they’ll learn that you can meet new friends in groups like “NYC Brunch Squad” or “People We Meet in Book Club,” a virtual book club with almost 20,000 members. (It’s not necessarily a group for meeting fellow readers, but rather, the title is probably referencing a novel by best-selling romance writer Emily Henry.)
Over a year ago, former Session M exec Eben Pingree received the news that his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Over a year ago, former Session M exec Eben Pingree received the news that his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Two days later, his father-in-law was given the same diagnosis.
To create lasting memories and help his three young children bond with their grandparents, Pingree — along with his co-founders Mike Gerbush, Ashley Hawking, and Brianne Baker — developed Kinsome, a communication platform designed for kids and grandparents to share daily updates and preserve cherished memories.
The app has been in public beta since last year and officially launched to the public on Thursday, just ahead of Grandparents Day.
Alongside the launch announcement, the company revealed to TechCrunch that it secured $1.2 million in pre-seed funding. It’s backed by an impressive roster of investors, such as Wattpad co-founder Ivan Yuen and angels with backgrounds at CashApp, Doordash, Draftkings, GitHub, HubSpot and FitBit, among others.
Numerous family-oriented private messaging apps, such as Honeycomb, Kinnect, Kinzoo and Stars are aimed at recording memories and saving conversations. Engaging young children in phone conversations with their older relatives can be challenging due to their short attention spans. Furthermore, it can be difficult for younger children to connect with grandparents whom they don’t see frequently.
However, Kinsome believes its main differentiator and selling point is “Kinzey,” an audio-first AI companion (powered by OpenAI’s GPT API, OpenAI’s Whisper and ElevenLabs Speech Synthesis) that aims to support kids and grandparents with expressing themselves, which could be helpful for younger kids and grandparents who find it difficult to keep the conversation going due to the generational gap.
Kinzey can suggest conversation starters, provide questions, as well as provide real-time explainers for terms the grandparent might not know. For instance, if a grandchild talks about Taylor Swift, Kinzey can explain who that is. The company claims its AI also remembers previous conversations, so it can use the information to expand on topics and help form stronger connections.
For Apple Intelligence to succeed, the iPhone maker has to convince its customers to pay up for AI-ready devices.
Within months, some of the biggest tech companies in the world, including Microsoft, Meta and Google, joined the party, launching their own AI chatbots and generative AI tools. By the end of 2023, Nvidia proved it was the only company in the world positioned to make huge amounts of money by powering those services.
Fast-forward to 2024, and a big theme in AI involves our consumer favorite gadgets, with tech companies trying to bring AI to phones and laptops.
Earlier this year, Samsung launched its AI-powered Galaxy S24 smartphone. Microsoft, partnering with companies like Dell, HP and Qualcomm, started selling a new crop of AI computers over the summer called Copilot+ PCs. A few weeks ago, Google launched its Pixel 9 series of AI phones.
So far, these new devices have underwhelmed. Rather than creating whole new experiences, they've introduced features for making it easier to edit photos, talk to a chatbot or provide live captions for videos. Then there's Humane's AI pin, a clip-on gizmo that launched in April and was immediately panned in reviews. By August, reports surfaced that daily returns were outpacing sales.
On Monday, the company is expected to show off its new family of iPhones, packed with the AI capabilities announced in June. The system is called Apple Intelligence, and it'll be rolling out over the coming months. Current Apple devices like the iPhone 15 Pro and some newer iPads and Macs will also have access to it.
Some major consolidation is afoot in the world of internet communications — and it will have implications for competition and consumer internet access in
Some major consolidation is afoot in the world of internet communications — and it will have implications for competition and consumer internet access in U.S. On Thursday, Verizon announced that it would gobble up Frontier Communications for $20 billion — more than double Frontier’s market cap at the close of trading the night before.
Frontier offers internet, phone and TV services — it has also partnered with companies like Google and Amazon over the years to bundle other digital services or find new distribution channels. But Verizon’s big interest in the company is its fiber business and the fact that it extends to places that Verizon does not currently cover as well.
Originally based in Tampa, Frontier currently has 2.2 million customers across 25 states, including the lucrative market of Washington, DC. It’s building out its network and plans to touch 10 million homes by 2026, up from 7 million today. Verizon, digging in deep on its telecoms roots under CEO Hans Vestberg, has been working on expanding its own Fios fiber network.
This is a somewhat karmic turn of events. In 2009, Frontier acquired some of Verizon’s legacy local exchange business for $8.5 billion. Adjusted for inflation, that’s around $12.5 billion 2024 dollars.
“The acquisition of Frontier is a strategic fit,” said Vestberg in a statement. “It will build on Verizon’s two decades of leadership at the forefront of fiber and is an opportunity to become more competitive in more markets throughout the United States, enhancing our ability to deliver premium offerings to millions more customers across a combined fiber network.”
Verizon reiterated its guidance for the year at the same time it announced the acquisition, and that points to another reason for the acquisition. Wireless revenues are due to grow between just 2% and 3.5% (as a point of comparison, they grew more than 8% in 2014), and EBITDA is expected to grow between 1% and 3%. Adding more customers and reach is a bet on fiber’s staying power and promise to offset those figures.
Tesla says it will launch its "Full Self Driving" driver assistance product in Europe and China early next year.
Tesla said it will launch its "Full Self Driving" driver assistance product in Europe and China early next year.
In a post on the X social media platform, Elon Musk's electric vehicle company on Thursday said that the service — which comes as a paid add-on feature for Tesla customers — is slated for launch in the two regions in the first quarter of 2025, "pending regulatory approval."
Tesla is yet to receive regulatory permission to launch its FSD product in Europe and China, but Musk in July said that he expects to get this clearance by the end of 2024.
So-called Full Self Driving, or FSD, has been a key pillar of Musk's strategy to make Tesla a more AI-centric company and push toward self-driving technology.
Despite the label on its product, FSD is not actually capable of making its vehicles fully autonomous. Drivers are still required to sit behind the wheel and keep their eyes on the roads, as well as take over when needed.
FSD is an upgrade to Tesla's Autopilot driver assistant, which is already available in Europe and China. Tesla has also already offered a limited version of its FSD technology for years in the Asian country.
Sedric has raised around $20 million for its platform that monitors worker communications at financial institutions for compliance.
For financial institutions, complying with regulations is becoming a costlier proposition. According to a recent poll, 76% of financial services firms increased their compliance expenditure from 2022 to 2023, with most blaming new laws.
With the cost of compliance averaging out to around $10,000 per employee these days, many firms are searching for ways to reduce spending without running afoul of regulators. Entrepreneurs Nir Laznik and Eyal Peleg say that they’ve created a solution — powered by generative AI, as is the trend.
Laznik and Peleg co-founded Sedric, an AI-powered platform designed to help financial institutions implement compliance rules and flag possible issues. Prior to Sedric, Laznik spearheaded several startups, including a photo kiosk software firm, while Peleg spent close to eight years at Intel’s AI and machine learning org.
“We realized there was disproportionate pressure on mid-size organizations, combined with a new set of challenges for banks,” Laznik said. “We knew the rapid advancements in AI could address these problems in an entirely new way. This convergence of factors led us to create Sedric.”
"We have inquired with the U.S. Department of Justice and have not been subpoenaed," an Nvidia representative said.
Nvidia on Wednesday denied reports it received a subpoena from the Department of Justice over antitrust concerns.
"We have inquired with the U.S. Department of Justice and have not been subpoenaed," an Nvidia representative told CNBC. "Nonetheless, we are happy to answer any questions regulators may have about our business."
Bloomberg reported Tuesday that Nvidia had received a subpoena, causing the stock to slip in after-hours trading. The chipmaker's shares had already given up nearly 10% during regular trading Tuesday.
While the report did not specify a reason for regulators to be interested in Nvidia, the company's recent rise has been directly tied to its dominance in artificial intelligence chips for data centers years before competitors AMD and Intel started taking the category seriously.
Nvidia has more than 80% of the data center AI chip market, according to industry estimates.
Nvidia "wins on merit, as reflected in our benchmark results and value to customers, and customers can choose whatever solution is best for them," Nvidia told CNBC.
Andreessen Horowitz has closed its satellite office in Miami just two years after opening it, according to a report from Bloomberg.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has closed a satellite office in Miami Beach just two years into a five-year lease it signed for an 8,300-square-foot space. The reason? Disuse, reports Bloomberg.
Miami — once a hotspot for crypto, an area of interest for a16z — has struggled to retain venture cash and entrepreneurial talent in recent years, Bloomberg notes, with venture investments dwindling to $400 million in Q2 2024 from $5.5 billion in all of 2022, per Pitchbook.
For a16z, the closure deals a blow to plans it outlined in 2022 to ditch a central HQ for “global outposts” in cities including NYC and Santa Monica. Pitched as an antidote to the remote working arrangements that became commonplace during the pandemic (which a16z co-founders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen once derided as “not a good life“), the outposts were meant to “build relationships” amid founders and help “develop [a16z’s]” culture.
Evidently, things didn’t go quite as planned in Miami.
Cowboy has closed funding of around $5.5 million. With this recent funding round, Cowboy is now valued at €40 million on a pre-money basis.
Cowboy, the Brussels-based company that has been designing and selling electric bikes that you can see in major cities across Europe, has closed a small, strategic funding round of €5 million (around $5.5 million at current exchange rates). That includes €1 million in debt facilities.
While the amount isn’t as impressive as some of Cowboy’s previous fundraises, the company has been looking for an investor outside of the traditional European VC firms that have already invested in the startup — an investor that could potentially open new doors. As a result, Cypress Capital is leading the round. The Hong Kong-based investment firm has strong ties with Taiwan, which is a key hub for the global bicycle industry.
“A lot of our Asian-based suppliers are Taiwanese for historical reasons. We are growing the portion of our European suppliers continuously as we have about half of our parts that come from European suppliers. But the other half comes from Asia and mostly from Taiwanese suppliers,” Cowboy co-founder and CEO Adrien Roose (pictured above right) told TechCrunch.
Existing investors Index Ventures, Hardware Club, Future Positive Capital, Isomer and Exor are also participating once again in Wednesday’s funding round. Cowboy will also launch an equity crowdfunding campaign to give an opportunity to its customers to invest in the company.
“We’ve been raising somewhere between €10 [million] and €20 million a year over the last few years,” Roose said. “And yeah, the amount has gone down. Last year we raised €8 million in equity and €5 million of debt. And now we’re just announcing a €5 million raise, which is a fairly small raise for a company of our size.”
The Asus Vivobook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14 now start at just $899 each.
Qualcomm launched its first big wave of Windows laptops this summer for $999 and up, but a new, somewhat weaker chip could soon shave off at least $100. Today, the company is announcing its first eight-core Snapdragon X Plus chips, which will feature in a new Asus Vivobook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14 that’ll retail for $899 each. The Asus is already available at Best Buy.
Acer, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung should also have new Snapdragon X Plus laptops coming soon, like the $999 Acer Swift Go 14 AI. A new 15-inch model of the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge is coming in October.
While the new Qualcomm chips have all the same features as the 10-core and 12-core models, they’re decidedly weaker in some ways, especially graphics. On average, they’ve got less than half the GPU power for games and other graphical apps. And while they all feature the same 45 TOPS of AI performance from their NPU, they’ve also got 12MB less CPU cache.
According to Qualcomm’s own internal benchmarks for the new eight-core chips (take that with a grain of salt), all that means they’re roughly 80 percent as capable as the company’s 12-core chips in the CPU realm and on par with the 10-core chips for productivity. But with the eight-core, those graphic scores are predictably cut in half.
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A federal appeals court sided with publishers in the copyright fight over whether the Internet Archive can lend out digitized books.
The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in a fight to lend out scanned ebooks without the approval of publishers. In a decision on Wednesday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that permitting the Internet Archive’s digital library would “allow for widescale copying that deprives creators of compensation and diminishes the incentive to produce new works.”
The decision is another blow to the nonprofit in the Hachette v. Internet Archive case. In 2020, four major publishers — Hachette, Penguin Random House, Wiley, and HarperCollins — sued the Internet Archive over claims its digital library constitutes “willful digital piracy on an industrial scale.”
The Internet Archive has long offered a system called the Open Library, where users can “check out” digital scans of physical books. The library was based on a principle called controlled digital lending, where each loan corresponds to a physically purchased book held in a library — avoiding, in theory, a piracy claim. It’s a fundamentally different system from programs like OverDrive, where publishers sell limited-time licenses to ebooks on their own terms.
However, the Internet Archive expanded its library project during the covid-19 pandemic. It launched the National Emergency Library, allowing an unlimited number of people to access the same copies of ebooks. That’s when the publishers banded together to file the lawsuit, targeting both online libraries.
Microsoft is holding a special Copilot event later this month that will be focused on “the next phase of Copilot innovation.” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and vice president of AI at work Jared Spataro will host the “Wave 2” Copilot event on September 16th.
The event will be hosted on LinkedIn and focus on the business side of Microsoft’s Copilot offerings. I revealed in my Notepad newsletter last month that Microsoft is about to rebrand Copilot in the most Microsoft way possible. This means that instead of “Copilot in Word,” it will become “Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word,” alongside a rebranding of “Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365” to “Microsoft 365 Copilot.”
Microsoft’s event won’t be all about the rebranding, though. I’m expecting to see a bunch of new Copilot features for Microsoft 365 that will try and tempt more businesses to sign up for the $30 per user per month pricing. Microsoft unlocked its Copilot AI features inside Office apps and more earlier this year, but there’s still a debate among businesses over whether it’s worth the steep monthly price.
We may even see more features announced for Copilot Pro, Microsoft’s consumer subscription for its AI offerings. The $20 monthly subscription provides Copilot features in Word, much like the business-focused subscription, but it hasn’t seen many new features added since it launched earlier this year. Microsoft even removed a GPT Builder feature from Copilot Pro in June.
In the context of artificial intelligence (AI), a token is a fundamental unit of representation in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning. It's a small, meaningful piece of text, such as a word, phrase, or character, that can be used to build more complex representations of language.
Break down text into smaller parts: Tokens help to split text into individual words, phrases, or characters, making it easier to analyze and process.
Represent language: Tokens can be used to create a vocabulary of unique symbols, each representing a specific word, phrase, or concept. This vocabulary is then used to build more complex representations of language.
Build language models: Tokens are used to train language models, such as recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and transformers, which learn to predict the next token in a sequence based on the context.
Generate text: Tokens can be used to generate text, such as chatbots, language translation, and text summarization.
Classify and analyze text: Tokens can be used to classify text, such as sentiment analysis, spam detection, and topic modeling.
In AI, tokens are often used in combination with other techniques, such as:
Tokenization: The process of breaking down text into individual tokens.
Token embedding: The process of converting tokens into numerical vectors that can be used by machine learning models.
Tokenization algorithms: algorithms that can be used to tokenize text, such as wordpiece tokenization or character-level tokenization.
In summary, tokens are a fundamental unit of representation in AI, used to break down text into smaller parts, represent language, build language models, generate text, and classify and analyze text.
The size of a token in AI models can vary depending on the specific model, algorithm, and application. However, I can provide some general insights and examples:
Word-level tokens: In many NLP models, a token is equivalent to a single word. For example, in a language model, a token might be a single word like "hello", "AI", or "machine".
Subword-level tokens: Some models use subword-level tokens, which are smaller units of words. For example, in a wordpiece tokenization algorithm, a token might be a subword like "hel-" from the word "hello" or "arti-" from the word "artificial".
Character-level tokens: In some cases, a token can be a single character, such as a letter or punctuation mark. This is often used in character-level language models or in applications like text classification.
Variable-length tokens: Some models use variable-length tokens, which can be a combination of words, subwords, or characters. For example, a token might be a phrase like "hello world" or a sentence like "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".
The number of words that a token equates to can also vary. Here are some examples:
Word-level tokens: 1 word per token
Subword-level tokens: 1-5 words per token (depending on the subword size)
Character-level tokens: 1 character per token
Variable-length tokens: 1-10 words per token (depending on the token size)
To give you a better idea, here are some examples of token sizes in popular AI models:
BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers): BERT uses subword-level tokens, with an average token size of around 2-3 words.
RoBERTa (Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach): RoBERTa also uses subword-level tokens, with an average token size of around 2-3 words.
Word2Vec: Word2Vec uses word-level tokens, with each token being a single word.
Character-level language models: These models use character-level tokens, with each token being a single character.
Keep in mind that the size of a token can vary depending on the specific model and application. If you're working with a specific AI model, it's best to consult the documentation or research papers to understand the token size and structure used in that model.
J2 Ventures and SOSV invested in Mesa Quantum, a startup working on GPS alternatives.
Flight delays in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Truckers led down unsafe routes in Richmond, Vermont. And power grid disruptions throughout Ukraine. These troubles stem from a global communication system highly reliant on GPS satellites and the signals they transmit for essential functions.
To ensure that U.S. infrastructure won't fall apart — even if the nation's GPS satellites are disrupted by weather, warfare or age — a startup in Boulder, Colorado called Mesa Quantum is developing chip-sized alternative technology.
Specifically, Mesa Quantum is building "chip-scale atomic clocks" and other miniaturized quantum sensors, which can measure and detect changes in the environment around a device to signal where it is in the world, where it needs to go and to keep it in sync with other systems.
These sensors can ensure clear and steady video calls regardless of the users' location, or enable robots, underwater drones and autonomous vehicles to maneuver deftly in dense populations or around obstacles where GPS signals are weak or unavailable.
Cofounded by Mesa Quantum CEO Sristy Agrawal and CTO Wale Lawal in 2023, the company has won a $1.9 million Space Force grant to demonstrate its alternative to GPS technology in military and civilian applications.
The company has also raised about $3.7 million in a seed stage round of funding led by J2 Ventures, the Boston-based health and defense tech fund, alongside hardware investors SOSV.
J2 Ventures cofounder and managing partner, Alex Harstrick, told CNBC his fund backed Mesa Quantum in part because of the founders' extraordinary technical background.
Agrawal recently attained a doctorate from the University of Colorado, in an elite program affiliated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Her research has focused on quantum information, computing and gravity.
After analyzing the prices of hundreds of commodities, goods, and services spanning two centuries, Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley found that resources became more abundant as the population grew. That was especially true when they looked at “time prices,” which represent the length of time that people must work to buy something.
Investing in humanoid robotics could revolutionize economies, boosting productivity and prosperity exponentially. Find out why countries should prioritize this game-changing technology.
What if it were possible for a country to increase the per-capita productivity of its economy by a factor of 2, 3, 5 or even 10 in the span of just a decade? What level of investment would that kind of result justify?
Committing just a single-digit percentage of GDP to the deployment of humanoid robotics would quickly yield a superabundance of goods and services, resulting in a staggering level of overall prosperity.
Investing in robot labor could be one the greatest uses of capital in human history, outperforming similar investments in electricity, running water and education.
More than 1,000 autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents were given free rein to build Minecraft worlds together.
Run by California-based startup Altera, the project had AI agents collaborating to create virtual societies complete with their own governmental institutions, economy, culture, and religion.
Altera said it ran simulations on a Minecraft server entirely populated by autonomous AI agents “every day” and the results were “always different.”
In one simulation, AI agents banded together to set up a market, where they agreed to use gems as a common currency to trade supplies – building an economy.
Curiously, according to the company, it was not the merchants who traded the most but a corrupt priest who started bribing townsfolk to convert to his religion.
In another simulation, an AI agent named Olivia worked as a farmer, providing food for an entire civilization until the tales of the village explorer Nora inspired her to go on her own trip.
However, Olivia gave up on the idea after other villagers pleaded with her to stay and focus on the harvest, prioritizing the common good rather than her “dream.”
“Because our agents are social and grow over time, they’re impacted by group dynamics, but also use their individual power to change the system,” Altera said.
This was tested in yet another simulation where parallel civilizations – one led by former President Donald Trump and the other by Vice President Kamala Harris – were given the same constitution they could vote to amend.
The AI agents opted to vote in both scenarios but chose different paths. The Trump-led society voted to increase the number of police in their world. Under Harris, agents focused on criminal justice reform and removing the death penalty.
I'm happy to help! However, I need to correct you - there is no ChatGPT 4. The current version of ChatGPT is ChatGPT 3.5, which was released in November 2022.
“When the next wave of artificial intelligence arrives, autonomous bots will be able to complete nearly any task humans carry out on their devices.
These AI ‘agents,’ as they are known, won’t need to interact much with people to get things done. The bots will be able to figure out how to accomplish tasks on their own—booking a flight, ordering groceries online or even playing Cupid—all without you lifting a finger.
The technology is being hailed by techies as the next evolution of ChatGPT because it is capable of revolutionizing so many aspects of our daily lives.”
The National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) confirmed to the Federal Supreme Court (STF) that Starlink, businessman Elon Musk's satellite internet provider, complied with the decision to remove X from the air. Last Tuesday, the 3rd, the company retreated from its previous decision and announced that it would comply with Minister Alexandre de Moraes' order.
Anatel reported that Starlink blocked its 224,458 accesses in the country, which correspond to 0.5% of total computer accesses in Brazil. The blockade was carried out from 6:06 pm this Wednesday, 3rd.
Last Sunday, the 1st, Starlink announced that it would not take down the X until Moraes released the company's accounts. The minister blocked the amounts because he understood that Starlink participates in the same economic group as X, and therefore could be held responsible for the company's debts to the courts. The network did not pay fines it received for failing to comply with court orders to take down profiles, the value of which exceeds R$18 million.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is about to radically transform the healthcare industry, and a project Google is working on is an example of this.
According to Bloomberg, Google developed an AI model capable of detecting early signs of diseases just by “listening” to audio. The company trained this AI with more than 300 million recordings of coughs, sniffles and irregular breathing to identify potential health problems.
This innovation has the potential to bring practical results soon. Google has started a collaboration with Indian startup Salcit Technologies to integrate this technology into mobile devices. The goal of the partnership is to improve access to preventive healthcare through smartphones.
The popular short video app TikTok must face a lawsuit in the United States due to a type of challenge that circulated on the platform, according to the website The Verge. This is the "blackout challenge", which invited young people to basically hang themselves until they lost consciousness.
As a result of the challenge, several parents are blaming TikTok for the deaths of their children. The idea is to make the social network responsible for offering this type of video to more people within the application.
In general, technology platforms are usually protected by the so-called section 230, a legal mechanism that prevents them from being held responsible for their users' publications. It was on this basis that a court had dismissed the case.
However, the high court later ruled that the speech in question was TikTok's own, sending the case back to the lower court for reconsideration. Now, it will be up to her to determine whether TikTok can be held responsible in this specific case. The accusations also involve APP's alleged negligence.
It is worth pointing out that section 230 only protects these sites and applications from being held responsible for how they handle third-party speech, such as their users' posts. In this way, TikTok's actions themselves, such as the recommendations that the app makes to those who use it, could be outside the scope of its protection.
The case is paradigmatic because it may represent, in a certain way, a chink in the armor of digital platforms.
One of the incidents that resulted in death was that of Nylah Anderson, who accidentally hanged herself after watching videos of the blackout challenge. According to the opinion of the court responsible for judging the case, if Anderson had sought the challenge within TikTok instead of having the content suggested to her, then the platform could be seen more as a mere repository of third-party publications.
In this specific case, the judges stated that the algorithm that chooses what appears on a user's account decides what will be presented and what will not. Therefore, the algorithm, responsible for recommending the blackout challenge to Nylah Anderson, is covered within TikTok's own activity, and does not fall under section 230.
Tesla will launch the Full-Self Driving (FSD) driving system in Europe and China in the first quarter of 2025, according to information published by the company itself on the X platform. The software still needs regulatory approval in both places.
For the months of September and October, Elon Musk's automaker plans other launches, such as the Cybertruck model incorporated with the FSD system. At around 8:15 am, Tesla shares rose 2.38% in the New York pre-market.
Mercado Livre has just announced a revolutionary innovation in its logistics operations in Brazil: the implementation of an exclusive robot system.
These robots, designed to increase efficiency and speed up order processing times by up to 20%, will be integrated into the company's main distribution center, located in Cajamar (SP).
With more than 500,000 packages processed daily, this technology promises to transform Mercado Livre's logistics, ensuring faster deliveries and raising the level of service offered to customers across the country. Discover how this new development can impact the Brazilian e-commerce market.
Being similar to a vacuum cleaner, the robots that will be used in the operation look like the well-known robot vacuum cleaners and are from the Quickton brand. They are one meter in diameter, weigh 145 kilos and are yellow.
Mercado Livre's robots are also strong and fast and, according to the company itself, each robot reaches a speed of two meters per second, being able to suspend and transport up to 600 kilos of goods. Mercado Livre robots have an autonomy of eight hours and recharge in two hours.
They move around the distribution center alone and return to charging stations without relying on humans. It is important to remember that more than 100 robots will be integrated in the first stage. The technology is known as “shelves to person”.
Autonomous Mercado Livre robots will be responsible for the distribution and movement of products, with a capacity of up to 20 thousand items per day. Combined with human work, order processing time will drop by up to 20%.
Mercado Livre robots are part of billion-dollar investment
According to Mercado Livre itself, the robots will take on the heaviest tasks, such as lifting and moving shelves, around 2,500 per day. Employees will be able to focus on less mechanical and more valuable activities.
According to the Senior VP and leader of Mercado Livre in Brazil, Fernando Yunes, by integrating robots into the company's operations, it was possible to speed up processes and improve storage capacity, especially during periods of greater demand, such as commemorative dates and Black Friday.
The adoption of these robots is part of the total investment of R$23 billion that the company plans to invest in Brazil throughout 2024. The amount also includes the hiring of 11 thousand new employees.
It is worth noting that the company has already stated that, by the end of the year, more than 234 robots will be integrated into the operation in Cajamar. The expectation is to reach 80 thousand orders per day. Following the results of this implementation in Brazil, there is the possibility of the technology being expanded to other countries.
Leaving aside Mercado Livre robots, the advance of robotaxis in China is generating revolt among workers in the transport sector, who accuse these machines of “stealing jobs” and threatening the livelihoods of thousands of families.
The fear that robotaxis will put an end to their jobs is becoming an increasingly palpable reality, leading to protests and formal complaints.
These technological innovations, which operate without the need for a human driver, are being seen as a direct threat to traditional jobs.
Last Tuesday, the 27th, the Chinese government took an essential step, issuing 16 thousand test licenses for autonomous vehicles and opening 32 thousand kilometers of public roads so that these machines can circulate.
Although robotaxis represent just 1% of the transportation market in Wuhan, their presence is enough to generate great discomfort among local drivers. The difference in cost between traveling in a robotaxi and a traditional ride is one of the main points of tension.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them, because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius! #freecompliments #cent #dailydook
Ireland is somewhat surprising, considering ethnic/racial strife not very different from Britain. But, then again, Ireland wasn't called Celtic Tiger for nothing, and even if it is not anymore, enough wealth was accumulated.
This is the #selfie & #memory #threadcast. You are your brand, your face is your brand. Post a selfie of yourself, or yourself with friends, pets, food, or just what ever you are doing. Or just a memory. Or a Leo Short.
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Good morning! Here is a #selfie from when sister and I were at the Gettysburg Farm campground here in PA last year. The fellow sitting at the picnic table looking at me is my brother-in-law Steve.
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Ha, ha, ha. 10 minutes in and I'm already frustrated. I thought I'd sent a reply to your reply but it seems it didn't publish. Or maybe there's a lag. Let's see what happens with this one . . .
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Ha, ha, ha. Well I'm glad it's not just me. But this is why I've given up with threads so many times before. Always so much hassle. 😂 I still can't see my replies so am back to responding via Peakd.
I just might do that but not sure I'll post about it on threads. It's so frustrating. I've been a way a while and was hoping it might have changed for the better but that's not the case this morning. Can't see replies. Have to look on Peakd
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A daily #threadcast for fitness and physical health, where the goal is to motivate and inspire each other to get/stay active in our daily routines.
In this threadcast you can discuss and share anything relating physical health. Tell us about your training program, your goals and your progress. Learn from what others are doing, and share your own knowledge. Use the blockchain to hold yourself accountable and get rewarded for your efforts!
Yes, it's true, I have an extra worry when my children fall or injure themselves near their knees.
Once my 9 year old son was on the top bunk and he forgot he was on the top (the bunk had just been added).
He fell and complained a lot about his leg and my fear was his knee. Thank God he didn't have any fractures. But the wound was only purple. Ice helped ease the pain.
Falling from the top bunk can be pretty scary, so good thing he got lucky. But in general, yep I know what you mean 😅 My brother has three kids and they get into all sorts of things
I have yet to follow @khantaimur's recommendation, but I will! Past week has been pretty crazy. Anyways, here's a repost in case others are interested:
Omega-6 fatty acids, particularly when oxidized, can lead to increased inflammation, while omega-3 fatty acids help reduce inflammation.
The discussion highlights the importance of balancing these fatty acids through diet and supplementation.
They review inflammation test results for the podcast hosts, noting improvements in most cases after implementing dietary changes and omega-3 supplementation.
Dr. Cabral recommends eating fish 3-4 times a week and/or supplementing with 2-3 grams of omega-3s daily for most people.
The conversation touches on the benefits of omega-3s for muscle building, metabolism, and overall health.
They discuss the importance of getting omega-3s from animal sources (like fish) rather than plant sources, as the latter are not as easily converted by the body.
The quality of meat (grass-fed vs. grain-fed) and fish (wild-caught vs. farmed) is discussed, with emphasis on how the diet of animals affects their fatty acid profile.
Dr. Cabral offers a free inflammation test to 100 listeners per month through his website.
Choose grass-fed and finished meats and wild-caught fish when possible.
Be consistent with omega-3 supplementation, even when consuming fish regularly.
The overall message emphasizes the importance of managing inflammation through diet and supplementation for overall health, performance, and longevity.
Intermittent fasting has gained popularity as a weight loss strategy, but according to fitness experts, it may not be the miracle solution many believe it to be. In fact, there are several reasons why intermittent fasting can potentially lead to weight gain and other health issues.
Misguided Motivation
The first mistake people make is approaching intermittent fasting solely for aesthetic reasons. Historically, fasting was practiced for spiritual growth and detachment, not weight loss. When used primarily for changing one's appearance, it can lead to an unhealthy relationship with food and ultimately fail as a long-term strategy.
Intermittent fasting often makes it challenging to meet daily protein requirements. Experts recommend consuming about 1 gram of protein per pound of target body weight, which becomes difficult when limiting eating to a short window. Adequate protein intake is crucial for preserving muscle mass, boosting metabolism, and promoting fat loss.
Binge Eating Behavior
Restricting food intake to a small window can encourage binge eating when it's time to eat. This behavior can lead to consuming more calories overall and potentially gaining weight. The quality of food choices may also suffer as people try to fit all their daily calories into a shorter period.
Fasting can be a form of stress on the body, particularly for individuals who are already dealing with high levels of stress in their lives. It can lead to increased cortisol production and other stress hormones, which may contribute to weight gain, especially around the midsection. For people exhibiting signs of HPA axis dysfunction (formerly known as adrenal fatigue), fasting can exacerbate their symptoms.
Poor Food Choices
When the eating window arrives, there's a tendency to consume less nutritious, highly palatable foods. This behavior can lead to nutrient deficiencies and, over time, an increase in calorie intake as the body adapts to consuming large amounts of processed foods in a short period.
The experts argue that the initial weight loss often seen with intermittent fasting is primarily due to overall calorie restriction, not any magical properties of fasting itself. Moreover, this approach can be harder to sustain long-term compared to other, more balanced eating strategies.
They also criticize the fitness industry for promoting intermittent fasting as an easy solution, often paired with the idea that you can eat whatever you want within the eating window. This oversimplification can lead to poor food choices and ultimately, weight gain.
In conclusion, while intermittent fasting may work for some individuals, it's not a one-size-fits-all solution for weight loss. The potential risks, including nutrient deficiencies, disordered eating patterns, and increased stress on the body, should be carefully considered. Instead, focusing on a balanced diet with adequate protein intake, spread throughout the day, may be a more sustainable and healthier approach to weight management and overall wellness.
i have not experienced it but i will try to find out why I was downvoted , if the reason sounds logical or sensible , I will learn from it and move on. , but if the downvote was done just out of hate. ,then I will get mad
I get small ones that are irrelevant. I see some trending posts get bigger ones, but they may not even lose 10% of their rewards. They are a fact of life on Hive and it's best to avoid getting into fights with bigger accounts. If you try to cheat the system then all bets are off.
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Greetings to you @lucidlucrecia, how is your day going 😌😌😌😌. We miss your activities on the entertainment threadcast ❣️❣️❣️... We are always happy to see you around 😊😊😊... Much love and respect to you....
It is your choice to re-thread some music, here are some artist tag. Double click on any artists of your choice, copy link of any of their songs and post it under the entertainment threadcast.
Thanks to @lucidlucrecia for your constant participation on the threadcast. You just received 5 Leo as a week surprise...
Keep on your good job, it's all about entertainment 😃😀😀.
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We woke up to the quarrelsome loud shout of the woman who owns a small shop close to us, accusing us of stealing her wires
#threadstorm #outreach #shortstory
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I can always tell if someone is lying just by looking at them. I can also tell if they’re standing. Credit: reddit @pele23, I sent you an $LOLZ on behalf of pepetoken
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Accepting that life is spiritual does not hinder one from believing in science.
But I get you, different strokes for different folks.
#freecompliments #cent #dailydook
Water, salt, sugar, bay leaf, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, mustard, coriander, hot red pepper, allspice, ground black pepper, cinnamon... what's missing from this list of ingredients for pickling herring or mackerel? 😃
"You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step." —Martin Luther King
The days of free, unconditional (lottery based) booms are over.
Wanna boom?
Become an owner, contributor.
You mean on Hive or generally
That's the right way to have any.
Sounds good. Instead of giving bOOms to boom hunters you can look to incentives people here long term!
In other words , work for it and show that you deserve the boom
Fair enough, I would say.
Inleo & HIVE
Yes we still want booms. lol :)
Artificial me (small part)
This is definitely not a hearing aid :) !BEER
View or trade
BEER.Hey @onealfa, here is a little bit of
BEERfrom @barski for you. Enjoy it!If you like BEER and want to support us please consider voting @louis.witness on HIVE and on HIVE Engine.
Books
The gray zone does not read books? !PIZZA
what kind of books is this
My guess - any books. Illustration of reading habits.
Two vanity #carplates my eyes have catched today in the streets of #Vilnius
They are eye catching.
oh my goodness? Looks pretty expensive
This is definitely not a hearing aid :) !BEER
View or trade
BEER.Hey @onealfa, here is a little bit of
BEERfrom @barski for you. Enjoy it!Do you want to win SOME BEER together with your friends and draw the
BEERKING.Gues what was it just a minute ago
#photographers
!RemindMe in 40 minutes
A plum?
Yes. bOOm !
Got there in the end! 😁
More like a Plum. Eaten very cleanly.
A Mango fruit?
Pumpkin seeds
No
A mango?
No
This is a reminder @onealfa
Apparently the peach was not quite ripe since the pit is not yet separated from the pulp :) !LOLZ
lolztoken.com
It wasn’t mint to be.
Credit: reddit
@onealfa, I sent you an $LOLZ on behalf of barski
(4/10)
After a fairly big scare yesterday, I felt the need to go to the office today.
One of my coworkers has also asked me if I would help her start trading 😆
Article (long form post) in the works already, but the rest will be done once I'm back home.
#pob #cent
I bought Bitcoin and it went down...
#meme #leo #cent #bitcoin #btc
Letuce buy moar cheaper #bitcoin man. #lolz !BBH !DOOK
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6892
This is my follower count on Hive.
How many of them are here on INLEO?
How many left since year 2017-2018?
How many do you engage with?
Dozens, not hundreds. And sure thousands are "dead"
6892 is a great number ..
Holy cow... I have 351 follower.
And how many of them are bots? :) !BEER
Closing in to 6969 😅
Haaaaa!
Who knows...
NOSTR
Is it good or bad?
Are you involved?
Shall I waste my time learning how good/bad it is?
#nostr
I learned about its existence from you, is it only usable on a smartphone, or is it possible to run it on a laptop?
:) !VSC
I'm using Nostr but you can't compare it with Hive. It's different on so many levels.
Purple Pill:
Here is the daily technology #threadcast for 9/5/24. We aim to educate people about this crucial area along with providing information of what is taking place.
Drop all question, comments, and articles relating to #technology and the future. The goal is make it a technology center.
But Apple Intelligence will be free. So the company needs to convince hundreds of millions of iPhone customers that it's time for an upgrade.
That's what Wall Street is watching for when the latest iPhones go on sale this month. Will Apple Intelligence move more iPhones? Or will the post-pandemic sales slump continue?
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Reuters: Australia plans AI rules on human oversight, transparency
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/australia-plans-ai-rules-human-oversight-transparency-2024-09-05/
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A new date, Saturday, September 7th, from 12:38 AM – 4:09 AM PDT, has been named for the Polaris Dawn mission sending astronauts who will attempt the first spacewalk of private astronauts, using spacesuit technology developed by SpaceX from LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. They will also test laser-based communications with Starlink a satellite broadband provider.
Would you like to walk in space? Do you want to go into space?
Yes, I want to be one of the first settlers to Mars.
A risk taker.
That is a rough life, being a trailblazer like that.
Well, same thing I am trying to do by building on Hive ;)
Elevating Humanity Through Technology | Deep Interview with Mikey Siegel
#ai #technology #love
I created it from the last paragraph of your recent article. Excellent knowledge shared.
https://inleo.io/threads/view/lucidlucrecia/re-smpdkxgxnf?referral=lucidlucrecia
What are you using to generate these?
Here is a short I did in the morning encouraging everyone to view AI as a tool and not a competition
https://inleo.io/threads/view/sabrinah/re-reddwgptgm?referral=sabrinah
Nice short.
Thanks, ma'am ❤️
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Qualcomm says it's working on mixed reality smart glasses with Samsung and Google
Google, Samsung and Qualcomm's smart glasses would be a different approach from Apple's Vision Pro.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told CNBC the chip designer is working with Samsung and Google to explore a mixed-reality set of glasses linked to a smartphone — taking a different approach from Apple, which launched a larger headset.
Last year, Google, Samsung and Qualcomm struck a partnership to develop mixed-reality technology. That refers to the combination of augmented and virtual reality, often involving digital images that are imposed over the real world in front of you.
#qualcomm #technology #google #mixedreality
I like the RayBan ones from Meta
Have you tried them?
Yes the Meta 2 and 3 as well as the Meta RayBan smart glasses. I was doing audits for Meta on how those products were being sold. You can keep the VR and AR headsets but the smartglasses were pretty cool. It helps they were the Wayfarer model I used to wear as sunglasses.
Yeah I think the headsets still need a lot of work before they are ready for mass adoption.
Yes they really are , they are not very comfortable, not really in fashion here anymore.
Amon's comments are among the first to shed light on the project.
"It's going to be a new product, it's going to be new experiences," Amon said, discussing what will come out the mixed reality partnership.
"But what I really expect to come out of this partnership, I want everyone that has a phone to go buy companion glasses to go along with it," Amon added.
Samsung and Google were not immediately available for comment when contacted by CNBC.
The CEO referenced Facebook-parent Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, which look like regular shades but are wirelessly linked to a smartphone and have an in-built camera. On top of that, they have a voice assistant powered by Meta's Llama artificial intelligence model.
Qualcomm has also made mixed reality a key target area, as it diversifies its business beyond smartphones. The company has a chip called the Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1, designed for smart glasses.
Qualcomm has been touting the fact that its various chips across smartphones and PCs allow AI applications to run on the device, rather than being processed in the cloud via the internet.
Google searches are becoming a bigger target of cybercriminals with the rise of 'malvertising'
Google searches are now being routinely used to surface online ads with malicious purposes, in a hacking approach known as 'malvertising.'
Hackers are increasingly using online ads for malicious purposes. Often, it's happening through routine Google searches.
These schemes are dubbed malvertising, and cyber criminals are striking more often and with increased sophistication. In fall 2023, cybersecurity software firm Malwarebytes tracked a 42% increase month-over-month in malvertising incidents in the U.S. All types of brands are being targeted, whether it's for phishing purposes or for actual malware, said Jérôme Segura, senior director of research at Malwarebytes. "What I'm seeing is just the tip of the iceberg," he said.
#google #hack #search
Many of these rogue ads appear as sponsored content during a search engine query on a desktop or mobile device. But malicious code can also be hidden in ads that appear on mainstream websites consumers routinely visit. Some of these ads will only ensnare consumers who click on them, but in some cases, people can be vulnerable in a more passive way — sometimes just by visiting an infected site, said Erich Kron, security awareness advocate for KnowBe4, a security awareness and training company.
GPT5 is going to be 100x GPT4.
#ai #technology
Social media is no longer a thing. It is simply part of a circular loop for #al.
It seems I'm just in time today :))
The Guardian: Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/05/racism-misogyny-lies-how-did-x-become-so-full-of-hatred-and-is-it-ethical-to-keep-using-it
The Guardian: YouTube to restrict teenagers’ exposure to videos about weight and fitness
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/05/youtube-to-restrict-teenagers-exposure-to-videos-about-weight-and-fitness
The Guardian: Meta’s moderation board backs decision to allow ‘from the river to the sea’ in posts
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/04/metas-moderation-board-backs-decision-to-allow-from-the-river-to-the-sea-in-posts
BBC: AI's solution to the 'cocktail party problem' used in court
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yk5mdj9gxo
BBC: Baseless claim about Harris crash spread by mysterious website
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4ye15le8xo
Facebook says, 'How do you do, fellow kids?'
As Meta tries to rekindle the flame between Facebook and socially anxious youths, the company released a blog post Wednesday titled, "Navigating your 20s with Facebook."
Back in my day, Facebook was cool. Gaggles of middle schoolers trolled the local mall, where we would stop into the Apple Store, find an early MacBook Pro, and take dozens of pictures with gaudy Photo Booth filters to post on Facebook. Sometimes, other teens would forget to log out of their accounts, and we would post something like “i just pooped” before signing into our own accounts.
#socialmedia #facebook #technology
This isn’t the case anymore. In 2014, the Pew Research Center estimated that 71% of U.S. teens used Facebook; as of 2022, that percentage dropped to 32%, then slightly increased to 33% last year. Other studies from Edison Research have shown the same trend. Though Meta is reticent to share much demographic information about its user base, the app’s head, Tom Alison, said that there are 40 million daily active users in the U.S. and Canada between the ages of 18 and 29.
Facebook remained central to my social experiences in high school and college. If you weren’t on Facebook, you wouldn’t get invited to parties, and you wouldn’t know when any student clubs were holding meetings. In the 2010s, deleting Facebook would have been a disaster for my social life. Now if I woke up one day to find that my Facebook account had been deleted, it would be a minor inconvenience.
My experience isn’t unique. So, as Meta tries to rekindle the flame between Facebook and socially anxious youths, the company released a blog post Wednesday titled, “Navigating your 20s with Facebook.”
“Your twenties are a decade full of transitions, from graduating college, moving to new cities, starting new jobs and living on your own for the first time. It can be a hectic (and fun) decade, and Facebook is here to help,” the post says.
Do twentysomethings read the Facebook blog? (Does anyone other than journalists read the Facebook blog?) If they do, they’ll learn that you can meet new friends in groups like “NYC Brunch Squad” or “People We Meet in Book Club,” a virtual book club with almost 20,000 members. (It’s not necessarily a group for meeting fellow readers, but rather, the title is probably referencing a novel by best-selling romance writer Emily Henry.)
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BBC: Volvo gives up plan to sell only EVs by 2030
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ejye39434o
Wired: The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case
https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-loses-hachette-books-case-appeal/
CNN: Nvidia has more than just billions of dollars in value to lose if its stock keeps falling
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/05/tech/nvidia-stock-falling-nightcap/index.html
CNN: How Elon Musk has turned X into a pro-Trump machine
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/13/tech/elon-musk-donald-trump-x/index.html
Reuters: Google limits on Android Auto access may breach EU rules, court adviser says
https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-limits-access-android-auto-may-breach-eu-rules-court-adviser-says-2024-09-05/
Reuters: Gen AI boosting productivity of Indian IT industry's fastest-growing niche, TCS exec says
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/gen-ai-boosting-productivity-indian-it-industrys-fastest-growing-niche-tcs-exec-2024-09-05/
Reuters: C3.ai slumps 20% on weak quarterly subscription revenue
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/c3ai-slumps-20-weak-quarterly-subscription-revenue-2024-09-05/
Reuters: US, Britain, EU to sign first international AI treaty
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/us-britain-eu-sign-agreement-ai-standards-ft-reports-2024-09-05/
Reuters: Ilya Sutskever on how AI will change and his new startup Safe Superintelligence
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Kinsome aims to bridge the generation gap with its new app for kids and grandparents
Over a year ago, former Session M exec Eben Pingree received the news that his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Over a year ago, former Session M exec Eben Pingree received the news that his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Two days later, his father-in-law was given the same diagnosis.
To create lasting memories and help his three young children bond with their grandparents, Pingree — along with his co-founders Mike Gerbush, Ashley Hawking, and Brianne Baker — developed Kinsome, a communication platform designed for kids and grandparents to share daily updates and preserve cherished memories.
#newsonleo #kinsome #technology
The app has been in public beta since last year and officially launched to the public on Thursday, just ahead of Grandparents Day.
Alongside the launch announcement, the company revealed to TechCrunch that it secured $1.2 million in pre-seed funding. It’s backed by an impressive roster of investors, such as Wattpad co-founder Ivan Yuen and angels with backgrounds at CashApp, Doordash, Draftkings, GitHub, HubSpot and FitBit, among others.
Numerous family-oriented private messaging apps, such as Honeycomb, Kinnect, Kinzoo and Stars are aimed at recording memories and saving conversations. Engaging young children in phone conversations with their older relatives can be challenging due to their short attention spans. Furthermore, it can be difficult for younger children to connect with grandparents whom they don’t see frequently.
However, Kinsome believes its main differentiator and selling point is “Kinzey,” an audio-first AI companion (powered by OpenAI’s GPT API, OpenAI’s Whisper and ElevenLabs Speech Synthesis) that aims to support kids and grandparents with expressing themselves, which could be helpful for younger kids and grandparents who find it difficult to keep the conversation going due to the generational gap.
Kinzey can suggest conversation starters, provide questions, as well as provide real-time explainers for terms the grandparent might not know. For instance, if a grandchild talks about Taylor Swift, Kinzey can explain who that is. The company claims its AI also remembers previous conversations, so it can use the information to expand on topics and help form stronger connections.
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AI gadgets have been a bust so far. Apple aims to change that
For Apple Intelligence to succeed, the iPhone maker has to convince its customers to pay up for AI-ready devices.
Within months, some of the biggest tech companies in the world, including Microsoft, Meta and Google, joined the party, launching their own AI chatbots and generative AI tools. By the end of 2023, Nvidia proved it was the only company in the world positioned to make huge amounts of money by powering those services.
Fast-forward to 2024, and a big theme in AI involves our consumer favorite gadgets, with tech companies trying to bring AI to phones and laptops.
#apple #ai #technology #iphone
Earlier this year, Samsung launched its AI-powered Galaxy S24 smartphone. Microsoft, partnering with companies like Dell, HP and Qualcomm, started selling a new crop of AI computers over the summer called Copilot+ PCs. A few weeks ago, Google launched its Pixel 9 series of AI phones.
So far, these new devices have underwhelmed. Rather than creating whole new experiences, they've introduced features for making it easier to edit photos, talk to a chatbot or provide live captions for videos. Then there's Humane's AI pin, a clip-on gizmo that launched in April and was immediately panned in reviews. By August, reports surfaced that daily returns were outpacing sales.
Apple will try to change the narrative.
On Monday, the company is expected to show off its new family of iPhones, packed with the AI capabilities announced in June. The system is called Apple Intelligence, and it'll be rolling out over the coming months. Current Apple devices like the iPhone 15 Pro and some newer iPads and Macs will also have access to it.
Verizon bets on fiber's staying power as it acquires Frontier for $20B
Some major consolidation is afoot in the world of internet communications — and it will have implications for competition and consumer internet access in
Some major consolidation is afoot in the world of internet communications — and it will have implications for competition and consumer internet access in U.S. On Thursday, Verizon announced that it would gobble up Frontier Communications for $20 billion — more than double Frontier’s market cap at the close of trading the night before.
#newsonleo #verizon #frontier #technology
Frontier offers internet, phone and TV services — it has also partnered with companies like Google and Amazon over the years to bundle other digital services or find new distribution channels. But Verizon’s big interest in the company is its fiber business and the fact that it extends to places that Verizon does not currently cover as well.
Originally based in Tampa, Frontier currently has 2.2 million customers across 25 states, including the lucrative market of Washington, DC. It’s building out its network and plans to touch 10 million homes by 2026, up from 7 million today. Verizon, digging in deep on its telecoms roots under CEO Hans Vestberg, has been working on expanding its own Fios fiber network.
Combined, the pair cover 25 million homes.
This is a somewhat karmic turn of events. In 2009, Frontier acquired some of Verizon’s legacy local exchange business for $8.5 billion. Adjusted for inflation, that’s around $12.5 billion 2024 dollars.
“The acquisition of Frontier is a strategic fit,” said Vestberg in a statement. “It will build on Verizon’s two decades of leadership at the forefront of fiber and is an opportunity to become more competitive in more markets throughout the United States, enhancing our ability to deliver premium offerings to millions more customers across a combined fiber network.”
Verizon reiterated its guidance for the year at the same time it announced the acquisition, and that points to another reason for the acquisition. Wireless revenues are due to grow between just 2% and 3.5% (as a point of comparison, they grew more than 8% in 2014), and EBITDA is expected to grow between 1% and 3%. Adding more customers and reach is a bet on fiber’s staying power and promise to offset those figures.
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Tesla says it will launch Full Self Driving product in Europe and China early next year
Tesla says it will launch its "Full Self Driving" driver assistance product in Europe and China early next year.
Tesla said it will launch its "Full Self Driving" driver assistance product in Europe and China early next year.
In a post on the X social media platform, Elon Musk's electric vehicle company on Thursday said that the service — which comes as a paid add-on feature for Tesla customers — is slated for launch in the two regions in the first quarter of 2025, "pending regulatory approval."
#tesla #technology #ai #europe #newsonleo
Tesla is yet to receive regulatory permission to launch its FSD product in Europe and China, but Musk in July said that he expects to get this clearance by the end of 2024.
So-called Full Self Driving, or FSD, has been a key pillar of Musk's strategy to make Tesla a more AI-centric company and push toward self-driving technology.
Despite the label on its product, FSD is not actually capable of making its vehicles fully autonomous. Drivers are still required to sit behind the wheel and keep their eyes on the roads, as well as take over when needed.
FSD is an upgrade to Tesla's Autopilot driver assistant, which is already available in Europe and China. Tesla has also already offered a limited version of its FSD technology for years in the Asian country.
Sedric monitors the communications of employees at financial institutions to ensure compliance
Sedric has raised around $20 million for its platform that monitors worker communications at financial institutions for compliance.
For financial institutions, complying with regulations is becoming a costlier proposition. According to a recent poll, 76% of financial services firms increased their compliance expenditure from 2022 to 2023, with most blaming new laws.
With the cost of compliance averaging out to around $10,000 per employee these days, many firms are searching for ways to reduce spending without running afoul of regulators. Entrepreneurs Nir Laznik and Eyal Peleg say that they’ve created a solution — powered by generative AI, as is the trend.
#technology #ai #newsonleo #sedric
Laznik and Peleg co-founded Sedric, an AI-powered platform designed to help financial institutions implement compliance rules and flag possible issues. Prior to Sedric, Laznik spearheaded several startups, including a photo kiosk software firm, while Peleg spent close to eight years at Intel’s AI and machine learning org.
“We realized there was disproportionate pressure on mid-size organizations, combined with a new set of challenges for banks,” Laznik said. “We knew the rapid advancements in AI could address these problems in an entirely new way. This convergence of factors led us to create Sedric.”
Nvidia says it didn't receive antitrust subpoena from DOJ
"We have inquired with the U.S. Department of Justice and have not been subpoenaed," an Nvidia representative said.
Nvidia on Wednesday denied reports it received a subpoena from the Department of Justice over antitrust concerns.
"We have inquired with the U.S. Department of Justice and have not been subpoenaed," an Nvidia representative told CNBC. "Nonetheless, we are happy to answer any questions regulators may have about our business."
#newsonleo #nvidia #doj #antitrust #technology
Bloomberg reported Tuesday that Nvidia had received a subpoena, causing the stock to slip in after-hours trading. The chipmaker's shares had already given up nearly 10% during regular trading Tuesday.
While the report did not specify a reason for regulators to be interested in Nvidia, the company's recent rise has been directly tied to its dominance in artificial intelligence chips for data centers years before competitors AMD and Intel started taking the category seriously.
Nvidia has more than 80% of the data center AI chip market, according to industry estimates.
Nvidia "wins on merit, as reflected in our benchmark results and value to customers, and customers can choose whatever solution is best for them," Nvidia told CNBC.
Andreessen Horowitz shutters its Miami office after two years
Andreessen Horowitz has closed its satellite office in Miami just two years after opening it, according to a report from Bloomberg.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has closed a satellite office in Miami Beach just two years into a five-year lease it signed for an 8,300-square-foot space. The reason? Disuse, reports Bloomberg.
Miami — once a hotspot for crypto, an area of interest for a16z — has struggled to retain venture cash and entrepreneurial talent in recent years, Bloomberg notes, with venture investments dwindling to $400 million in Q2 2024 from $5.5 billion in all of 2022, per Pitchbook.
#technology #newsonleo
For a16z, the closure deals a blow to plans it outlined in 2022 to ditch a central HQ for “global outposts” in cities including NYC and Santa Monica. Pitched as an antidote to the remote working arrangements that became commonplace during the pandemic (which a16z co-founders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen once derided as “not a good life“), the outposts were meant to “build relationships” amid founders and help “develop [a16z’s]” culture.
Evidently, things didn’t go quite as planned in Miami.
E-bike maker Cowboy raises a small funding round as it targets profitability next year
Cowboy has closed funding of around $5.5 million. With this recent funding round, Cowboy is now valued at €40 million on a pre-money basis.
Cowboy, the Brussels-based company that has been designing and selling electric bikes that you can see in major cities across Europe, has closed a small, strategic funding round of €5 million (around $5.5 million at current exchange rates). That includes €1 million in debt facilities.
#cowboy #ebike #technology #newsonleo
While the amount isn’t as impressive as some of Cowboy’s previous fundraises, the company has been looking for an investor outside of the traditional European VC firms that have already invested in the startup — an investor that could potentially open new doors. As a result, Cypress Capital is leading the round. The Hong Kong-based investment firm has strong ties with Taiwan, which is a key hub for the global bicycle industry.
“A lot of our Asian-based suppliers are Taiwanese for historical reasons. We are growing the portion of our European suppliers continuously as we have about half of our parts that come from European suppliers. But the other half comes from Asia and mostly from Taiwanese suppliers,” Cowboy co-founder and CEO Adrien Roose (pictured above right) told TechCrunch.
Existing investors Index Ventures, Hardware Club, Future Positive Capital, Isomer and Exor are also participating once again in Wednesday’s funding round. Cowboy will also launch an equity crowdfunding campaign to give an opportunity to its customers to invest in the company.
“We’ve been raising somewhere between €10 [million] and €20 million a year over the last few years,” Roose said. “And yeah, the amount has gone down. Last year we raised €8 million in equity and €5 million of debt. And now we’re just announcing a €5 million raise, which is a fairly small raise for a company of our size.”
Qualcomm’s new eight-core Snapdragon X Plus makes these Windows laptops cheaper
The Asus Vivobook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14 now start at just $899 each.
Qualcomm launched its first big wave of Windows laptops this summer for $999 and up, but a new, somewhat weaker chip could soon shave off at least $100. Today, the company is announcing its first eight-core Snapdragon X Plus chips, which will feature in a new Asus Vivobook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14 that’ll retail for $899 each. The Asus is already available at Best Buy.
#qualcomm #chips #snapdragon
Acer, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung should also have new Snapdragon X Plus laptops coming soon, like the $999 Acer Swift Go 14 AI. A new 15-inch model of the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge is coming in October.
While the new Qualcomm chips have all the same features as the 10-core and 12-core models, they’re decidedly weaker in some ways, especially graphics. On average, they’ve got less than half the GPU power for games and other graphical apps. And while they all feature the same 45 TOPS of AI performance from their NPU, they’ve also got 12MB less CPU cache.
According to Qualcomm’s own internal benchmarks for the new eight-core chips (take that with a grain of salt), all that means they’re roughly 80 percent as capable as the company’s 12-core chips in the CPU realm and on par with the 10-core chips for productivity. But with the eight-core, those graphic scores are predictably cut in half.
The #tesla smart summon is going to go viral on YouTube. When videos start spreading of the cars driving through parking lots without a driver is going to get attention.
#technology
The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
A federal appeals court sided with publishers in the copyright fight over whether the Internet Archive can lend out digitized books.
The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in a fight to lend out scanned ebooks without the approval of publishers. In a decision on Wednesday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that permitting the Internet Archive’s digital library would “allow for widescale copying that deprives creators of compensation and diminishes the incentive to produce new works.”
#newsonleo #internetarchive #ebooks #technology
The decision is another blow to the nonprofit in the Hachette v. Internet Archive case. In 2020, four major publishers — Hachette, Penguin Random House, Wiley, and HarperCollins — sued the Internet Archive over claims its digital library constitutes “willful digital piracy on an industrial scale.”
The Internet Archive has long offered a system called the Open Library, where users can “check out” digital scans of physical books. The library was based on a principle called controlled digital lending, where each loan corresponds to a physically purchased book held in a library — avoiding, in theory, a piracy claim. It’s a fundamentally different system from programs like OverDrive, where publishers sell limited-time licenses to ebooks on their own terms.
However, the Internet Archive expanded its library project during the covid-19 pandemic. It launched the National Emergency Library, allowing an unlimited number of people to access the same copies of ebooks. That’s when the publishers banded together to file the lawsuit, targeting both online libraries.
Microsoft to announce ‘next phase of Copilot’ on September 16th
Get ready for a Copilot rebranding and much more.
Microsoft is holding a special Copilot event later this month that will be focused on “the next phase of Copilot innovation.” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and vice president of AI at work Jared Spataro will host the “Wave 2” Copilot event on September 16th.
The event will be hosted on LinkedIn and focus on the business side of Microsoft’s Copilot offerings. I revealed in my Notepad newsletter last month that Microsoft is about to rebrand Copilot in the most Microsoft way possible. This means that instead of “Copilot in Word,” it will become “Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word,” alongside a rebranding of “Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365” to “Microsoft 365 Copilot.”
#microsoft #copiilot #ai #technology
Microsoft’s event won’t be all about the rebranding, though. I’m expecting to see a bunch of new Copilot features for Microsoft 365 that will try and tempt more businesses to sign up for the $30 per user per month pricing. Microsoft unlocked its Copilot AI features inside Office apps and more earlier this year, but there’s still a debate among businesses over whether it’s worth the steep monthly price.
We may even see more features announced for Copilot Pro, Microsoft’s consumer subscription for its AI offerings. The $20 monthly subscription provides Copilot features in Word, much like the business-focused subscription, but it hasn’t seen many new features added since it launched earlier this year. Microsoft even removed a GPT Builder feature from Copilot Pro in June.
According to groq:
What is a token and how does it apply to AI?
In the context of artificial intelligence (AI), a token is a fundamental unit of representation in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning. It's a small, meaningful piece of text, such as a word, phrase, or character, that can be used to build more complex representations of language.
In AI, tokens are used to:
Types of tokens:
In AI, tokens are often used in combination with other techniques, such as:
In summary, tokens are a fundamental unit of representation in AI, used to break down text into smaller parts, represent language, build language models, generate text, and classify and analyze text.
The size of a token in AI models can vary depending on the specific model, algorithm, and application. However, I can provide some general insights and examples:
The number of words that a token equates to can also vary. Here are some examples:
To give you a better idea, here are some examples of token sizes in popular AI models:
Keep in mind that the size of a token can vary depending on the specific model and application. If you're working with a specific AI model, it's best to consult the documentation or research papers to understand the token size and structure used in that model.
BREAKING!! OpenAI JUST Announced GPT-5 [100X BIGGER]
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If GPS goes dark, Mesa Quantum has a backup plan
J2 Ventures and SOSV invested in Mesa Quantum, a startup working on GPS alternatives.
Flight delays in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Truckers led down unsafe routes in Richmond, Vermont. And power grid disruptions throughout Ukraine. These troubles stem from a global communication system highly reliant on GPS satellites and the signals they transmit for essential functions.
To ensure that U.S. infrastructure won't fall apart — even if the nation's GPS satellites are disrupted by weather, warfare or age — a startup in Boulder, Colorado called Mesa Quantum is developing chip-sized alternative technology.
#gps #technology #mesaquantum
Specifically, Mesa Quantum is building "chip-scale atomic clocks" and other miniaturized quantum sensors, which can measure and detect changes in the environment around a device to signal where it is in the world, where it needs to go and to keep it in sync with other systems.
These sensors can ensure clear and steady video calls regardless of the users' location, or enable robots, underwater drones and autonomous vehicles to maneuver deftly in dense populations or around obstacles where GPS signals are weak or unavailable.
Cofounded by Mesa Quantum CEO Sristy Agrawal and CTO Wale Lawal in 2023, the company has won a $1.9 million Space Force grant to demonstrate its alternative to GPS technology in military and civilian applications.
The company has also raised about $3.7 million in a seed stage round of funding led by J2 Ventures, the Boston-based health and defense tech fund, alongside hardware investors SOSV.
J2 Ventures cofounder and managing partner, Alex Harstrick, told CNBC his fund backed Mesa Quantum in part because of the founders' extraordinary technical background.
Agrawal recently attained a doctorate from the University of Colorado, in an elite program affiliated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Her research has focused on quantum information, computing and gravity.
After analyzing the prices of hundreds of commodities, goods, and services spanning two centuries, Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley found that resources became more abundant as the population grew. That was especially true when they looked at “time prices,” which represent the length of time that people must work to buy something.
Technology, as it becomes more powerful, has to be distributed. This is something vital to the future.
US Will LOSE If We Don’t Go ALL IN on Bots!
How much should we invest in humanoid robotics?
Investing in humanoid robotics could revolutionize economies, boosting productivity and prosperity exponentially. Find out why countries should prioritize this game-changing technology.
What if it were possible for a country to increase the per-capita productivity of its economy by a factor of 2, 3, 5 or even 10 in the span of just a decade? What level of investment would that kind of result justify?
#robotics #technology #ai
Committing just a single-digit percentage of GDP to the deployment of humanoid robotics would quickly yield a superabundance of goods and services, resulting in a staggering level of overall prosperity.
Investing in robot labor could be one the greatest uses of capital in human history, outperforming similar investments in electricity, running water and education.
OpenAI GPT-Next Shocked The Internet with 100x More Power Than GPT-4!
#ai #openai
These AI agents are building ‘civilizations’ on Minecraft
More than 1,000 autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents were given free rein to build Minecraft worlds together.
Run by California-based startup Altera, the project had AI agents collaborating to create virtual societies complete with their own governmental institutions, economy, culture, and religion.
Altera said it ran simulations on a Minecraft server entirely populated by autonomous AI agents “every day” and the results were “always different.”
#newsonleo #ai #minecraft #aiagents
In one simulation, AI agents banded together to set up a market, where they agreed to use gems as a common currency to trade supplies – building an economy.
Curiously, according to the company, it was not the merchants who traded the most but a corrupt priest who started bribing townsfolk to convert to his religion.
In another simulation, an AI agent named Olivia worked as a farmer, providing food for an entire civilization until the tales of the village explorer Nora inspired her to go on her own trip.
However, Olivia gave up on the idea after other villagers pleaded with her to stay and focus on the harvest, prioritizing the common good rather than her “dream.”
“Because our agents are social and grow over time, they’re impacted by group dynamics, but also use their individual power to change the system,” Altera said.
This was tested in yet another simulation where parallel civilizations – one led by former President Donald Trump and the other by Vice President Kamala Harris – were given the same constitution they could vote to amend.
The AI agents opted to vote in both scenarios but chose different paths. The Trump-led society voted to increase the number of police in their world. Under Harris, agents focused on criminal justice reform and removing the death penalty.
Multi-agent collaboration is going to be a major advancement for humanity. This is something to watch.
Seems Groq isnt up to date.
When was ChatGPT 4 released?
I'm happy to help! However, I need to correct you - there is no ChatGPT 4. The current version of ChatGPT is ChatGPT 3.5, which was released in November 2022.
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¡Hola! ChatGPT 4 was launched on March 14, 2023.
These New AI Bots Will Do Just about Anything for You
“When the next wave of artificial intelligence arrives, autonomous bots will be able to complete nearly any task humans carry out on their devices.
These AI ‘agents,’ as they are known, won’t need to interact much with people to get things done. The bots will be able to figure out how to accomplish tasks on their own—booking a flight, ordering groceries online or even playing Cupid—all without you lifting a finger.
The technology is being hailed by techies as the next evolution of ChatGPT because it is capable of revolutionizing so many aspects of our daily lives.”
#aiagents #Technology #ai
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X
Anatel confirms to the STF that Starlink complied with the X block
The National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) confirmed to the Federal Supreme Court (STF) that Starlink, businessman Elon Musk's satellite internet provider, complied with the decision to remove X from the air. Last Tuesday, the 3rd, the company retreated from its previous decision and announced that it would comply with Minister Alexandre de Moraes' order.
Anatel reported that Starlink blocked its 224,458 accesses in the country, which correspond to 0.5% of total computer accesses in Brazil. The blockade was carried out from 6:06 pm this Wednesday, 3rd.
#newsonleo #technology #x
Last Sunday, the 1st, Starlink announced that it would not take down the X until Moraes released the company's accounts. The minister blocked the amounts because he understood that Starlink participates in the same economic group as X, and therefore could be held responsible for the company's debts to the courts. The network did not pay fines it received for failing to comply with court orders to take down profiles, the value of which exceeds R$18 million.
Google
Google's artificial intelligence can 'hear' signs of disease
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is about to radically transform the healthcare industry, and a project Google is working on is an example of this.
According to Bloomberg, Google developed an AI model capable of detecting early signs of diseases just by “listening” to audio. The company trained this AI with more than 300 million recordings of coughs, sniffles and irregular breathing to identify potential health problems.
#newsonleo #technology #ai #google
This innovation has the potential to bring practical results soon. Google has started a collaboration with Indian startup Salcit Technologies to integrate this technology into mobile devices. The goal of the partnership is to improve access to preventive healthcare through smartphones.
Tik Tok
TikTok must face lawsuit for sharing 'challenge' that killed young man in the US
The popular short video app TikTok must face a lawsuit in the United States due to a type of challenge that circulated on the platform, according to the website The Verge. This is the "blackout challenge", which invited young people to basically hang themselves until they lost consciousness.
As a result of the challenge, several parents are blaming TikTok for the deaths of their children. The idea is to make the social network responsible for offering this type of video to more people within the application.
#newsonleo #tiktok
In general, technology platforms are usually protected by the so-called section 230, a legal mechanism that prevents them from being held responsible for their users' publications. It was on this basis that a court had dismissed the case.
However, the high court later ruled that the speech in question was TikTok's own, sending the case back to the lower court for reconsideration. Now, it will be up to her to determine whether TikTok can be held responsible in this specific case. The accusations also involve APP's alleged negligence.
It is worth pointing out that section 230 only protects these sites and applications from being held responsible for how they handle third-party speech, such as their users' posts. In this way, TikTok's actions themselves, such as the recommendations that the app makes to those who use it, could be outside the scope of its protection.
The case is paradigmatic because it may represent, in a certain way, a chink in the armor of digital platforms.
One of the incidents that resulted in death was that of Nylah Anderson, who accidentally hanged herself after watching videos of the blackout challenge. According to the opinion of the court responsible for judging the case, if Anderson had sought the challenge within TikTok instead of having the content suggested to her, then the platform could be seen more as a mere repository of third-party publications.
In this specific case, the judges stated that the algorithm that chooses what appears on a user's account decides what will be presented and what will not. Therefore, the algorithm, responsible for recommending the blackout challenge to Nylah Anderson, is covered within TikTok's own activity, and does not fall under section 230.
Tesla
Tesla will launch automatic driving system in Europe and China; share rises 2% in pre-market
Tesla will launch the Full-Self Driving (FSD) driving system in Europe and China in the first quarter of 2025, according to information published by the company itself on the X platform. The software still needs regulatory approval in both places.
For the months of September and October, Elon Musk's automaker plans other launches, such as the Cybertruck model incorporated with the FSD system. At around 8:15 am, Tesla shares rose 2.38% in the New York pre-market.
#newsonleo #tehnology #tesla
Mercado Livre
End of the era of manual labor: Mercado Livre begins using robots that work 8 hours straight, carry 600 kg and separate more than 80 thousand packages per day!
Mercado Livre has just announced a revolutionary innovation in its logistics operations in Brazil: the implementation of an exclusive robot system.
These robots, designed to increase efficiency and speed up order processing times by up to 20%, will be integrated into the company's main distribution center, located in Cajamar (SP).
#newsonleo #technology #robot
With more than 500,000 packages processed daily, this technology promises to transform Mercado Livre's logistics, ensuring faster deliveries and raising the level of service offered to customers across the country. Discover how this new development can impact the Brazilian e-commerce market.
Being similar to a vacuum cleaner, the robots that will be used in the operation look like the well-known robot vacuum cleaners and are from the Quickton brand. They are one meter in diameter, weigh 145 kilos and are yellow.
Mercado Livre's robots are also strong and fast and, according to the company itself, each robot reaches a speed of two meters per second, being able to suspend and transport up to 600 kilos of goods. Mercado Livre robots have an autonomy of eight hours and recharge in two hours.
They move around the distribution center alone and return to charging stations without relying on humans. It is important to remember that more than 100 robots will be integrated in the first stage. The technology is known as “shelves to person”.
Autonomous Mercado Livre robots will be responsible for the distribution and movement of products, with a capacity of up to 20 thousand items per day. Combined with human work, order processing time will drop by up to 20%.
Mercado Livre robots are part of billion-dollar investment
According to Mercado Livre itself, the robots will take on the heaviest tasks, such as lifting and moving shelves, around 2,500 per day. Employees will be able to focus on less mechanical and more valuable activities.
According to the Senior VP and leader of Mercado Livre in Brazil, Fernando Yunes, by integrating robots into the company's operations, it was possible to speed up processes and improve storage capacity, especially during periods of greater demand, such as commemorative dates and Black Friday.
The adoption of these robots is part of the total investment of R$23 billion that the company plans to invest in Brazil throughout 2024. The amount also includes the hiring of 11 thousand new employees.
It is worth noting that the company has already stated that, by the end of the year, more than 234 robots will be integrated into the operation in Cajamar. The expectation is to reach 80 thousand orders per day. Following the results of this implementation in Brazil, there is the possibility of the technology being expanded to other countries.
Leaving aside Mercado Livre robots, the advance of robotaxis in China is generating revolt among workers in the transport sector, who accuse these machines of “stealing jobs” and threatening the livelihoods of thousands of families.
The fear that robotaxis will put an end to their jobs is becoming an increasingly palpable reality, leading to protests and formal complaints.
These technological innovations, which operate without the need for a human driver, are being seen as a direct threat to traditional jobs.
Last Tuesday, the 27th, the Chinese government took an essential step, issuing 16 thousand test licenses for autonomous vehicles and opening 32 thousand kilometers of public roads so that these machines can circulate.
Although robotaxis represent just 1% of the transportation market in Wuhan, their presence is enough to generate great discomfort among local drivers. The difference in cost between traveling in a robotaxi and a traditional ride is one of the main points of tension.
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Billions of people, billions of philosophies. How can we find common ground in this diversity of beliefs?
#cent #askleo
How about asking the creator of billions of people
Free will: a gift or a burden? How does the concept of choice shape your worldview?
#cent
I believe it's a gift.
MISFITS IIIAbout the only thing you can't do is ignore them, because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius! #freecompliments #cent #dailydook
$61k worth of used media sold in the last 12 months on Amazon. $3k on ebay since starting 2 months ago.
$100k by end of year 🚀 #business
Great results! What are you selling? used Books?
books. VHS, DVDS, and CDs
Really cool.
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congrats
Who's rich?
Luxembourg fell to the third spot.
Wow Monaco ?? Time for fly down to Monaco.. lol
Postage stamp manufacturers on the second meta :) !BEER
Rich in money doesn't equal to wealth. Sweden is a good example. Many are perceived rich, but I would say very few are wealthy.
Monaco on top is not a surprise.
didn‘t expect ireland so near the top, but by thinking more about all those it company
Ireland is somewhat surprising, considering ethnic/racial strife not very different from Britain. But, then again, Ireland wasn't called Celtic Tiger for nothing, and even if it is not anymore, enough wealth was accumulated.
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Good morning, I share with you this cup of coffee
#selfie #memory
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I'm looking forward to the summer in Argentina, to drink a nice lager. #selfie #memory
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Too early to drink that!
I only know the Hoy.
what re you drinking
It's an old photo, drinking lager. Longing for summer.
ok, good to know
Dame un poquito
Guess who bought some strawberries for breakfast?
#selfie, #memory
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They are over! 😥
I
Good morning! Here is a #selfie from when sister and I were at the Gettysburg Farm campground here in PA last year. The fellow sitting at the picnic table looking at me is my brother-in-law Steve.
#memory
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mid day dog walk portrait
Where is the dog? Dry today?
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Greetings to my beloved friends and family, how is the day going?
#selfie
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But you missed the Fracking and the sauce 🤣🤣🤣🤣 lol
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I did in my short!
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#selfie
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With hubby
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beautiful and lovely kids
#selfie
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beautiful woman
thanks
#selfie
interesting and another selfie day.
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#linux is the #dojo for #operatingsystems
It's been a while since I posted a blog or a thread. Trying to decide if I want to start #the100dayproject again or not.
Do it :)
Ha, ha, ha. 10 minutes in and I'm already frustrated. I thought I'd sent a reply to your reply but it seems it didn't publish. Or maybe there's a lag. Let's see what happens with this one . . .
You broke it! lol. I just had to log out and log back in myself. !BBH !DOOK
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Ha, ha, ha. Well I'm glad it's not just me. But this is why I've given up with threads so many times before. Always so much hassle. 😂 I still can't see my replies so am back to responding via Peakd.
Over the last week it has been really good and stable. The little issue I had earlier is gone now.
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Just checking out the changes since I was here last. Seems there are draft posts here now. That makes it more tempting.
Do it :)
I just might do that but not sure I'll post about it on threads. It's so frustrating. I've been a way a while and was hoping it might have changed for the better but that's not the case this morning. Can't see replies. Have to look on Peakd
I get all my replies ok. Perhaps do a #feedback thread so they can take a look.
Narrowing it down I can now see the replies via notifications but not on the main page. At least that's a step in the right direction.
like adam suggested, write a thread with #feedback tag and explain … don‘t forget to add your OS, device, browser and whatever could be helpful …
I can't understand that, 99% of the basics on inleo now work perfectly as far as I can see … 🤔
Yeah. It's weird. They must be there somewhere as I can see them on Peakd. Is there a setting on threads that needs to be turned on or something?
nope, no setting, that‘s just basic ui behaviour to comment and to see them 🧐
Another example of my book cover. I approved it with my publisher yesterday.
looks beautiful
Thank so much :)
you are welcome
The title and the cover are tempting to read.
#freecompliments
I will let everyone know when it is published :) !BBH !DOOK
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Welcome to The #fitnesscast – Day 9!
A daily #threadcast for fitness and physical health, where the goal is to motivate and inspire each other to get/stay active in our daily routines.
In this threadcast you can discuss and share anything relating physical health. Tell us about your training program, your goals and your progress. Learn from what others are doing, and share your own knowledge. Use the blockchain to hold yourself accountable and get rewarded for your efforts!
Example topics
If you have any suggestions for how this threadcast should work, don't hesitate to share your thoughts below.
Let's get moving! 💪🏃♀️
Ran 3.01 km in 12 mins yesterday which gave me a fitness score of 56.
😱
Very impressive! 👏 👏
thanks 🙏 was happy with the result. Just imagine how good it could be if I dropped 10kg :D
I can't even imagine xD
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It's in Portuguese, but the news says that the injury the Brazil player suffered is the same as Neymar's.
ACL is very common among athletes, although recovery takes months.
https://inleo.io/threads/view/coyotelation/re-coyotelation-fxwouewh?referral=coyotelation
Knee injuries are very serious, and many never recover from what I understand
Yes, it's true, I have an extra worry when my children fall or injure themselves near their knees.
Once my 9 year old son was on the top bunk and he forgot he was on the top (the bunk had just been added).
He fell and complained a lot about his leg and my fear was his knee. Thank God he didn't have any fractures. But the wound was only purple. Ice helped ease the pain.
Yeah I can imagine.. Glad to hear it wasn't that serious
Thank you friend, but you know, right? Kids being kids hahaha...
Falling from the top bunk can be pretty scary, so good thing he got lucky. But in general, yep I know what you mean 😅 My brother has three kids and they get into all sorts of things
#fitnesscast
I think he misunderstood the exercise 🤣
HAha 😂😂😂 oh yes..
9500 steps today, no workout. Tomorrow, strength training
Good job! Your day was pretty busy by the looks of it.
I have yet to follow @khantaimur's recommendation, but I will! Past week has been pretty crazy. Anyways, here's a repost in case others are interested:
https://inleo.io/threads/view/khantaimur/re-mightpossibly-el4cyz7g?referral=khantaimur
Habits need time to build, soon, hopefully.
#freecompliments
Welcome to another day of fitness motivation! Yesterday we handed out the first Actifit-sponsored participation reward. Who will be today's winner?
Yesterday I walked appriximately 10k steps and did a 50 minute yoga session. That yoga session was much needed -I haven't done it in months!
Do you generally sleep well and enough? Recent experiences has taught me a hard lesson in that regard.
Today's Minpump episode is about the effects of inflammation in your body. Summary below ⏬
Key Points:
The discussion focuses on inflammation, its role in the body, and the importance of balancing omega-6 to omega-3 ratios.
Dr. Cabral explains that inflammation is a natural process in the body, but chronic inflammation can lead to various health issues.
The average American has an omega-6 to omega-3 ratio of about 18:1, while a healthier ratio is closer to 3:1 or 4:1.
Omega-6 fatty acids, particularly when oxidized, can lead to increased inflammation, while omega-3 fatty acids help reduce inflammation.
The discussion highlights the importance of balancing these fatty acids through diet and supplementation.
They review inflammation test results for the podcast hosts, noting improvements in most cases after implementing dietary changes and omega-3 supplementation.
Dr. Cabral recommends eating fish 3-4 times a week and/or supplementing with 2-3 grams of omega-3s daily for most people.
The conversation touches on the benefits of omega-3s for muscle building, metabolism, and overall health.
They discuss the importance of getting omega-3s from animal sources (like fish) rather than plant sources, as the latter are not as easily converted by the body.
The quality of meat (grass-fed vs. grain-fed) and fish (wild-caught vs. farmed) is discussed, with emphasis on how the diet of animals affects their fatty acid profile.
Dr. Cabral offers a free inflammation test to 100 listeners per month through his website.
Recommendations:
The overall message emphasizes the importance of managing inflammation through diet and supplementation for overall health, performance, and longevity.
5 Intermittent Fasting MISTAKES Causing Weight Gain. Summary below ⏬
Intermittent fasting has gained popularity as a weight loss strategy, but according to fitness experts, it may not be the miracle solution many believe it to be. In fact, there are several reasons why intermittent fasting can potentially lead to weight gain and other health issues.
The first mistake people make is approaching intermittent fasting solely for aesthetic reasons. Historically, fasting was practiced for spiritual growth and detachment, not weight loss. When used primarily for changing one's appearance, it can lead to an unhealthy relationship with food and ultimately fail as a long-term strategy.
Intermittent fasting often makes it challenging to meet daily protein requirements. Experts recommend consuming about 1 gram of protein per pound of target body weight, which becomes difficult when limiting eating to a short window. Adequate protein intake is crucial for preserving muscle mass, boosting metabolism, and promoting fat loss.
Restricting food intake to a small window can encourage binge eating when it's time to eat. This behavior can lead to consuming more calories overall and potentially gaining weight. The quality of food choices may also suffer as people try to fit all their daily calories into a shorter period.
Fasting can be a form of stress on the body, particularly for individuals who are already dealing with high levels of stress in their lives. It can lead to increased cortisol production and other stress hormones, which may contribute to weight gain, especially around the midsection. For people exhibiting signs of HPA axis dysfunction (formerly known as adrenal fatigue), fasting can exacerbate their symptoms.
When the eating window arrives, there's a tendency to consume less nutritious, highly palatable foods. This behavior can lead to nutrient deficiencies and, over time, an increase in calorie intake as the body adapts to consuming large amounts of processed foods in a short period.
The experts argue that the initial weight loss often seen with intermittent fasting is primarily due to overall calorie restriction, not any magical properties of fasting itself. Moreover, this approach can be harder to sustain long-term compared to other, more balanced eating strategies.
They also criticize the fitness industry for promoting intermittent fasting as an easy solution, often paired with the idea that you can eat whatever you want within the eating window. This oversimplification can lead to poor food choices and ultimately, weight gain.
In conclusion, while intermittent fasting may work for some individuals, it's not a one-size-fits-all solution for weight loss. The potential risks, including nutrient deficiencies, disordered eating patterns, and increased stress on the body, should be carefully considered. Instead, focusing on a balanced diet with adequate protein intake, spread throughout the day, may be a more sustainable and healthier approach to weight management and overall wellness.
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Are you an owner? A contributor ? (On inleo)
Or a simple user, "consumer " ?
I think that maintaining a delegation of 40K HIVE POWER to the @leo.voter profile and actively participating in the platform makes me a contributor.
I'm trying to be somewhat of a contributer right now...
!RemindMe 1 hour
This is a reminder @ahmadmanga
Trying to be all in one.
Owner even though it's small and moving into contributor as I learn more. But I also consume others content so all?
All of the above
Does dowdownvotes make you mad?
i have not experienced it but i will try to find out why I was downvoted , if the reason sounds logical or sensible , I will learn from it and move on. , but if the downvote was done just out of hate. ,then I will get mad
#opinion #cent
This is a good answer. Thanks
I get small ones that are irrelevant. I see some trending posts get bigger ones, but they may not even lose 10% of their rewards. They are a fact of life on Hive and it's best to avoid getting into fights with bigger accounts. If you try to cheat the system then all bets are off.
Sometimes ;)
No, I don't wanna spend energy on being mad about those type of things :)
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More vintage slides scans from Italy circa 1970.
#slides #vintage #photos #Italy #1970s
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Most of these appear to have been taken in the Florence area. Check out the original post for more: https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-goodwill-lot-1-d11c84dd1c5ba
Standing in line for the Star Tours ride at Hollywood Studios (then Disney MGM) in Orlando, Florida in 2005.
#StarWars #Disney #MGM #HollywoodStudios
Threading and re-thread of your shorts of all kinds
Jokes, Music etc
#threadcast #leoentertainment 05/09/2024
Greetings to you sir @beststart, how is your day going?
Happy Thursday to you..
So far, it is going well, thanks
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Greetings to you @lucidlucrecia, how is your day going 😌😌😌😌. We miss your activities on the entertainment threadcast ❣️❣️❣️... We are always happy to see you around 😊😊😊... Much love and respect to you....
Thank you for the reminder, I'll be participating actively for sure.
#freecompliments
Thanks very much my good friend 💕😊💕.
It is your choice to re-thread some music, here are some artist tag. Double click on any artists of your choice, copy link of any of their songs and post it under the entertainment threadcast.
#luckydube #boneym #kellyclarkson #jimmycliff #dollyparton #westlife #blacksherif #bobmarley #wyclefjean #jimreeves #donwilliams #psquare #akon #atifaslam #jmartins #asa #billieeilish #dimitryvegas #juicewrld #xxxtentacion #dax #ericdonaldson #2face #burningspear #duncanmighty #simi #ub40 #kennyrogers #culture #snoopdogg #50cent #oritswilliki #top100musicvideo
More stuffs for you to play with..
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AM gonna try this out..
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This is good for meditation..
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Thanks to @lucidlucrecia for your constant participation on the threadcast. You just received 5 Leo as a week surprise...
Keep on your good job, it's all about entertainment 😃😀😀.
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Hello my friends!
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M👁’s Macr👁 W👁rld
It’s the time of Year when
Natural Hand Flatterers
fall from the trees for free!
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#photographers #photography
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We woke up to the quarrelsome loud shout of the woman who owns a small shop close to us, accusing us of stealing her wires
#threadstorm #outreach #shortstory
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I was surprised because that was the second time they'd been cutting her wires in the night within the space of three weeks.
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what are those white stuff's
Okayy
Those are under-wear of a wedding gown.😂
#feedback Win11, Brave. Keychain:
Scheduling a long-form post on INLEO worked like a charm. Thank you :)
#feedback
Very tempted to give that a go. Now I just need to write some posts. 😂
Try it too :)
I was hesitant to set it last night but I did anyway and it went through in the morning so yay!
Is scheduling a new feature then? I've not been around for a while.
It was there before but wasn't working so I'm glad it's okay now
It's finally working? That's amazing 😍
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Yes. It worked on my most recent post :)
NICE! Took a long time to get this right
Lets make green tea
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#foodtalk #dailydook
Your guy did not even tell us what leaf he used. I am very sad
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Just go through the video again, you will see what he used 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣..
I saw the leaf but not the name
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Oasis… #memes #meme #memesonleo #jokesonleo #notmymeme
two hit wonder boy band needs money! 😏
Well they sure hit the jackpot now!
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Check the link below 👇
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Trust is like glass.
Once broken. It can never be the same again.
#thread2earn#cent
I can not express well myself, how much I want a "MUTE the user" function.
Especially with so fast growing #leoshorts feed.
InLeo NEEDS that... I mean, urgently!
Best complaint I hear. That means Threads is picking up. Awesome #AFS
I‘d like to filter / mute TOPICS somehow, like i absolutely don‘t care about sports and maybe the upcoming LeoAI will be helping with that 🖖🏼😎🤙🏼
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Here We Go Again
°924
A photography I took the 6 August, celebrating the independence day of #Bolivia
#photographers
This is a daily reminder to eat your fiber and drink a good amount of water every day so you can have a healthy, big #dailydook! 💩
#health #freecompliments
absolutely correct
💩👍🏽
I will do just that. Thanks
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So many things in our lives are connected. But, those connections are not necessarily visible.
#freecompliments #quotes #life
They are.
We all just have to admit that life is spiritual and beyond human reasoning.
#freecompliments #cent #dailydook
I partially disagree.
We have new theories and new discoveries in sciences as we move forward. What's complex and beyond reasoning today, might be a simple fact tomorrow.
Accepting that life is spiritual does not hinder one from believing in science.
But I get you, different strokes for different folks.
#freecompliments #cent #dailydook
Well said!
I guess you are limited by word count to write a comprehensive explanation, as am I.
Spirituality has more to do with beliefs. Science is always trying to explain the situation in a logical way.
ℹ️ This is the SBT #threadcast for
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We talk all things #hivegaming🦊 specifically #splinterlands🐲.
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Rise and shine great Lion family
It's morning already
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Water, salt, sugar, bay leaf, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, mustard, coriander, hot red pepper, allspice, ground black pepper, cinnamon... what's missing from this list of ingredients for pickling herring or mackerel? 😃
African seasoning: maggi
#freecompliments #cent #dailydook
Are salted herring and mackerel popular on the African continent? I didn't know that :) !PIZZA
curry
Interestingly, curry is not on this list and is clearly redundant :) !BEER
wow 😲! I got it right
There is no curry in the classic recipe, but, in principle, you can experiment. !LOLZ
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Bee farm
Not specific, but like a bee 🐝 farm.
#freecompliments
SWC me ha regalado grandes amigos que son como hermanos! #Team Marg & Mars
#swc
treat for latoooooor
Looks delicious
Is that a cake
that's cake with some pudding and rhubarb
OMG😱
Is that spicy?
#freecompliments #cent #dailydook
Nah it's take it's little bit sweet
Oh, nice.
#freecompliments #cent #dailydook
This looks yummy. It's a type of cake right? How was it baked?
It was simply cake - made with baking feature of the microwave
Oh, okay. Was it mixed in a blender or a hand mixer?