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Drop all question, comments, and articles relating to #technology and the future. The goal is make it a technology center.
Sustainable Crypto Mining - Japan leads with Bitcoin mining powered by renewable energy. #GreenCrypto #Sustainability
source: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/japans-largest-power-company-tepco-is-mining-bitcoin-using-renewables
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DOJ claims Google has “trifecta of monopolies” on Day 1 of ad tech trial
On Monday, the US Department of Justice's next monopoly trial against Google started in Virginia—this time challenging the tech giant's ad tech dominance.
The trial comes after Google lost two major cases that proved Google had a monopoly in both general search and the Android app store. During her opening statement, DOJ lawyer Julia Tarver Wood told US District Judge Leonie Brinkema—who will be ruling on the case after Google cut a check to avoid a jury trial—that "it’s worth saying the quiet part out loud," AP News reported.
"One monopoly is bad enough," Wood said. "But a trifecta of monopolies is what we have here."
#technology #google
First Step For Europe's Hyperloop Vehicles With Test Launch
The dream of hurtling between European cities at speeds of more than 700 kilometres per hour moved a step closer Monday with the first successful vehicle tests at the European Hyperloop Centre.
#technology
Reuters: Israeli quantum computing startup raises $50 million
https://www.reuters.com/technology/israeli-quantum-computing-startup-raises-50-million-2024-09-10/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gd9g9zzelo
#technology #space #cent
Reuters: Sixty countries endorse 'blueprint' for AI use in military; China opts out
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/south-korea-summit-announces-blueprint-using-ai-military-2024-09-10/
Reuters: Joby applies for certificate to operate commercial air transport in UAE
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/joby-applies-certificate-operate-commercial-air-transport-uae-2024-09-10/
Reuters: Microsoft hosting cybersecurity summit after global IT outage
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/microsoft-hosting-cybersecurity-summit-after-global-it-outage-2024-09-10/
Reuters: New Portuguese government to keep ban on Chinese 5G equipment
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/new-portuguese-government-keep-ban-chinese-5g-equipment-2024-09-10/
Reuters: Pirelli and Bosch to cooperate on 'intelligent tyre' technology
https://www.reuters.com/technology/pirelli-bosch-cooperate-intelligent-tyre-technology-2024-09-10/
Reuters: Oracle shares jump as cloud growth fuels strong results
https://www.reuters.com/technology/oracle-shares-jump-cloud-growth-fuels-strong-results-2024-09-10/
Reuters: SpaceX launches billionaire's private crew on milestone spacewalk mission
https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/spacex-set-launch-billionaires-private-crew-breakthrough-spacewalk-mission-2024-09-10/
Here’s everything Apple just announced: iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Pro, Apple Watch Series 10, AirPods 4 and more
Apple just wrapped up an event at its headquarters in Cupertino, California, where it unveiled new versions of the iPhone, AirPods and Apple Watch.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/competition/news/google-uses-anti-competitive-advertising-practices-uk-authority-finds/
Breaking Down OnlyFans’ Stunning Economics
hough a private company, Felix International (“OnlyFans”) is a UK company and therefore required to publicly disclose certain information pertaining to its business and operations. And while these disclosures are limited, they reveal enough about the OnlyFan’s revenues, profits, scale, defensibility, reach, and impact to say that it is probably the most successful UK company founded since DeepMind in 2010, and the most significant media platform founded since TikTok (via Musical.ly in 2014), and dedicated creator economy platform… ever
#technology #onlyfans
Great addition to put in the database. This is the type of content we need.
Can we post about old technology like the guillotine for example??
I think we aught to bring it back into play.
For those politicians who beat around the bush not answering question... and who are caught in a lie
Sure you can bring that information to the #technology threadcast. At one time it was high tech.
And as things are going, you are right, maybe it is time to go old school.
https://www.91mobiles.com/hub/exclusive-infinix-zero-40-5g-launch-india-september-18th/
#tech #newsonleo #news #cent
So, I asked #ChatGPT on how to feed an LLM valuable information. Where should I start and how? ChatGPT's response in comments below.
Prompt: "I have an LLM program that always finetunes itself on the data in my server. I want to feed it as much valuable information from my own language as possible. I can only put text files in my server, and not actual datasets. The LLM is based on Llama3.x. If I want everything to provide to it to be valuable and accurate, where I should and how?"
ChatGPT's response:
To ensure that the information provided to your LLM is valuable and accurate, consider the following steps:
1. Curate the Text Sources
2. Preprocessing the Texts
3. Diversity and Variety
4. Language-Specific Texts
5. Regular Updates
6. Monitor the Finetuning
Has anyone tried the RemindMe bot? I just did for the first time and it worked. Very nice feature to use on threads
Yes I have used it. It is a nice feature to have added. Congratulations to @ahmadmanga on creating that one. I think it is running on @mightpossibly server. So kudos to both of them.
No, I'm not running it on @mightpossibly server, though I'm happy for their offer. I realized I could just run it on Github. As I explain in this devlog: https://inleo.io/@ahmadmanga/devlog-2-reminderpings-refinement-solving-deployment-and-more-3nk?referral=ahmadmanga
Interesting! Will have to read moar about this. !DOOK
You just got DOOKed!
@pepetoken thinks your content is the shit.
They have 54/400 DOOK left to drop today.
Learn all about this shit in the toilet paper! 💩
Oh I didnt know @mightpossibly was also invovled. Kudos to both indeed
I didn't run it on their server, though I'm grateful for their offer. I'm running it straight on github as I explain here: https://inleo.io/@ahmadmanga/devlog-2-reminderpings-refinement-solving-deployment-and-more-3nk?referral=ahmadmanga
Yep, 100%Ahmad, I didn't do anything but offer to host it since they said they were in need of a server
I was mistaken. It is running on Github.
It's all @ahmadmanga
What does the remindmebot actually do?
It sets a reminder that will appear in your notifications..similiar to the reminder on X.
Use the prompt to set a reminder in an hour as an example.
Ok, thanks for the explanation
No problem.
OpenAI spent years building ChatGPT.
One of the first things they had to do was spending time compiling data.
When we look at Leo as an #ai platform, this is something to keep in mind. We have to fill the database for the model to train upon.
There is simply no way around this. It is also the responsibility of the community.
if we all continue like this. , leoAI might become the next big thing
Google loses appeal against EU’s $2.7B Shopping antitrust case, as bloc also wins $15B Apple state aid appeal
Google has once again lost in its bid to overturn a 2017 antitrust decision by the European Commission.
Google has once again lost in its bid to overturn a 2017 antitrust decision by the European Commission. The bloc found its shopping comparison service had broken competition rules — hitting Alphabet, Google’s parent, with an at-the-time record-breaking €2.42 billion penalty (around $2.7 billion at current exchange rates) and ordering changes to how it operates the service.
#technology #google #antitrust
Google appealed the decision and, in November 2021, the General Court of the European Union largely dismissed the challenge. It confirmed that self-preferencing its own shopping service in general search results was anti-competitive, harming rival shopping comparison services, and upholding the Commission’s penalty. However, the Court did find the Commission had not established that Google’s conduct could have had anticompetitive effects on the market for general search services as a whole — hence annulling that portion of the finding.
Google appealed against the EU’s decision a second time, petitioning the EU’s highest court — the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) — which on Tuesday handed down another ruling that won’t be to the search giant’s liking.
The CJEU agreed with the General Court’s analysis. “[I]n light of the characteristics of the market and the specific circumstances of the case, Google’s conduct was discriminatory and did not fall within the scope of competition on the merits,” the court wrote in a press release.
Commenting on the Google Shopping case at a press conference this morning local time, the EU’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager dubbed it “a landmark in the history of regulatory actions against Big Tech companies”. “It was one of the first significant antitrust cases brought by a competition agency against a major digital company and I think this case marked a pivotal shift in how digital companies were regulated and also perceived,” she suggested.
In further remarks on the CJEU ruling, she said: “The Court of Justice confirms that, in certain circumstances, the favorable treatment of its own services by a dominant company can be a breach of Article 9(2) of the European treaty. This important judgment validates the Commission’s approach to such practices.
“We call them self preferencing. Of course a dominant company, as any other company, are free to innovate in all fields but in doing so they should compete on the merits of their innovation. However, they cannot lean on the competitive advantage that they hold because of their market power.”
“Going forward, the Commission will, of course, make sure that the principle enshrined in this judgment — which is now final — is upheld to the benefits of all European consumers,” she added.
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Leaked Chainalysis video suggests Monero transactions may be traceable
A copy of the now-deleted Monero tracing video was shared with Cointelegraph, and it suggests the firm can trace XMR transactions and associated IP addresses.
Online, led by social media, overtakes TV as the most popular source of news in the UK, Ofcom says
Online platforms have now overtaken TV for the first time as the most popular resource for news among adult consumers, at 71% versus 70%, according to new research.
The newspaper business has been in the middle of a long and slow decline thanks to the rise of the internet. Now some new research out of the U.K. lays bare how TV news is facing a similar fate.
#newsonleo #news #technology #internet
Online platforms have now overtaken TV for the first time as the most popular resource for news among adult consumers, at 71% versus 70%, according to new research from U.K. communications regulator Ofcom.
This is a significant shift. Not only has TV dominated news for more than 60 years (a period when it overtook newspapers in popularity for news; that was the first blow for broadsheets), but also as online platforms replace broadcasters (and newspapers), the news they carry comes from a much wider set of sources. That’s both a blessing for having more viewpoints and a curse for being significantly harder to vet for accuracy — and consumers are concerned that this will only get worse with the growth of AI.
Ofcom’s larger conclusions may not be a surprise: Newspapers have been in trouble for decades; TV has faced pressure from streaming and online media in other categories like entertainment for years; and AI has a lot to answer for in areas like deepfakes and misinformation. But the research is significant because it gives statistics to how usage is shifting, and Ofcom said it will use the conclusions to help determine what to focus its regulation on in the years ahead.
“Television has dominated people’s news habits since the ’60s, and it still commands really high trust,” said Yih-Choung Teh, Ofcom’s group director for strategy and research, in a statement. “But we’re witnessing a generational shift to online news, which is often seen as less reliable — together with growing fears about misinformation and deepfake content. Ofcom wants to secure high-quality news for the next generation, so we’re kicking off a review of the public service media that help underpin the U.K.’s democracy and public debate.”
Ofcom has been running annual surveys on news consumption since 2017. This year it canvassed over 5,000 adults both online and face-to-face.
Face the news
Even as online news as a broader category continues to have a disruptive force in the media market, getting online if you’re a publisher is not exactly a panacea. Online news outlets are also seeing their audiences get eroded by newer kids on the block: Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and X/Twitter all make the list of top 10 news sources in the survey.
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Swiggy weighs increasing its IPO size by $150M, aiming to raise up to $1.4B
Swiggy is considering boosting the fresh issue component of its IPO by $150 million, targeting a total of $1.4 billion.
Indian food delivery startup Swiggy is considering increasing the fresh issue component of its initial public offering by $150 million, aiming to raise a total of up to $1.4 billion in what is shaping up to be one of the largest public listings in India this year.
The Bengaluru-headquartered startup will ask shareholders to approve raising up to ₹50 billion ($600 million) through a fresh issue of shares, up from the previously planned $450 million, according to a 15-page notice for a meeting with shareholders that was filed late last week.
#ipo #newsonleo #technology
Heart disease is the world's biggest killer — this Cambridge Uni spinout is using AI to find new treatments
Cambridge University spinout CardiaTec is striving to tackle cardiovascular diseases, one of the world's leading causes of death, with AI.
While artificial intelligence (AI) promises to transform all manner of industries, the biggest game-changing breakthroughs in this new era of data-infused machine intelligence arguably lies in the field of drug discovery. By analyzing vast amounts of biological data, AI can help researchers predict how different chemical compounds will interact with specific targets in the body, accelerating the discovery of promising drug candidates.
#newsonleo #technology #heartdisease
It’s against this backdrop that Cambridge University spinout CardiaTec is striving to tackle cardiovascular diseases (CVD). To bolster its efforts, the company today said it has raised $6.5 million in a seed round of funding.
CVDs are the preeminent cause of death globally, resulting in 17.9 million deaths each year, according to The World Health Organization (WHO). At the top of the list is ischaemic heart disease (coronary heart disease), responsible for 13% of the world’s total deaths.
Founded in 2021, CardiaTec is the handiwork of biotech and bioengineering graduates Raphael Peralta (CEO) and Thelma Zablocki (COO). They’re supported by their third co-founder and CTO, Namshik Han, a lecturer in AI drug discovery at the University of Cambridge, where Peralta and Zablocki studied for an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise. Han, who has a background in machine learning, computational biology, cancer genomics, and cancer epigenomics, is also head of AI at the university’s Milner Therapeutics Institute, which forges close ties with industry, including pharmaceutical companies.
“He (Han) is an academic who sits on the border with industry, so he understands that translational perspective,” Peralta told TechCrunch in an interview. “We came together with the opportunity to use Namshik’s work, but within the cardiovascular space.”
CardiaTec is tackling the crux of the problem: The average expense of progressing a drug candidate from discovery through launch is around $2.2 billion, and that cost is driven substantively by the fact that 90% of potential candidates fail in the process, according to Deloitte. CardiaTec is setting out to “decode” the biology of CVDs.
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The Guardian: Apple loses EU court battle over €13bn tax bill in Ireland
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/10/apple-loses-eu-court-battle-tax-bill-ireland
The Guardian: Why you won’t be lining up for the new iPhone 16
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/10/techscape-iphone-16-cost-features
Well, I actually consider buying it.
The Guardian: BP extends use of AI in five-year deal with spy tech firm Palantir
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/09/bp-ai-deal-palantir-oil-gas-artificial-intelligence
SpaceX launches Polaris Dawn mission, which will attempt the first private spacewalk
It's the first of three missions that billionaire Jared Isaacman purchased from SpaceX in 2022 for his human spaceflight effort known as the Polaris Program.
SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission launched on Tuesday from Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket, which carried the Dragon capsule "Resilience" into orbit.
It's the first of three missions that billionaire and Shift4 founder Jared Isaacman purchased from SpaceX in 2022 for his human spaceflight effort known as the Polaris Program.
#spacex #space #newsonleo #polaris
The multi-day trip isn't headed to a destination like the International Space Station, but instead is a free-flying mission tracing orbits that the crew hopes will go far from Earth.
As a centerpiece to the mission, the crew will attempt to perform the first-ever SpaceX spacewalk. Extravehicular activities, or EVAs, have been a regular part of government astronauts missions but no private venture has attempted an EVA before. The EVA is expected to last two hours long from start to finish.
In addition to the spacewalk, Polaris Dawn plans to conduct about 40 science and research experiments during the mission.
The launch had been postponed multiple times over the past few weeks because of unfavorable weather conditions and a helium leak.
The Verge: The only thing better than Astro Bot is more Astro Bot... for free
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/9/24239922/astro-bot-free-dlc-challenge-levels-leaderboards
The Verge: Apple’s Visual Intelligence is a built-in take on Google Lens
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/9/24240094/apple-visual-intelligence-camera-control-iphone-16-ai-camera-control-google-lens
BBC: Could powerful lasers unlock cheap fusion power?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cml2pyvmw9ro
BBC: Walking above the air: The awe-inspiring history of spacewalks
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240906-from-space-selfies-to-nearly-drowning-the-11-spacewalks-that-made-history
BBC: Apple banks on AI to boost sales of new iPhone 16
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8erzx2n3j7o
BBC: Online overtakes TV in survey of news habits
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx6l45lddno
Wired: Inside Google’s 7-Year Mission to Give AI a Robot Body
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-mission-to-give-ai-robot-body/
CNN: Apple’s new AirPods are also hearing aids. Can they really save you thousands of dollars?
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/10/tech/apple-airpods-pro-hearing-aids/index.html
Reuters: Google loses fight against $2.7 billion EU antitrust fine
https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-court-upholds-googles-27-bln-eu-antitrust-fine-2024-09-10/
Reuters: Huawei seeks to steal spotlight from Apple with launch of $2,800 tri-fold smartphone
https://www.reuters.com/technology/huawei-teases-tri-fold-smartphone-raising-competition-with-apple-china-2024-09-10/
Reuters: Apple's AI gap in new iPhones disappoints China users as Huawei threat looms
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/apples-ai-gap-new-iphones-disappoints-china-users-huawei-threat-looms-2024-09-10/
DirecTV customers miss 'Monday Night Football' NFL game as carriage fight with Disney continues
DirecTV's pay TV customers lost access to Disney's networks, including ESPN, last week.
Millions of DirecTV customers missed the NFL's opening "Monday Night Football" game on ESPN as the company has yet to reach a deal with network parent Disney.
Disney's TV networks went dark on Sept. 1 for DirecTV's customers amid a carriage battle over fees and bundling. Those networks include pay-TV channels ESPN and FX, as well as broadcast network ABC in some markets.
#nfl #sports #football #directv
Disney and DirecTV did not reach a deal in time for "Monday Night Football," a 32-19 San Francisco 49ers victory over the New York Jets. However, negotiations are still ongoing and a deal could come as early as this week, people familiar with the matter said.
The satellite and streaming company called Disney anti-consumer as DirecTV is pushing for an option in which it could create genre-specific bundles, such as kids, entertainment and news, which Disney opposes.
As a result of the fight, DirecTV customers were unable to see the U.S. Open and the first full weekend of the college football season.
Live sports continue to attract big audiences and, in turn, high media rights deals, which in turn have created some of the most expensive networks on TV. ESPN is said to reap some of the highest fees paid by pay-TV companies to carry the network and its sister channels, CNBC previously reported.
Elon Musk Projected To Be World's First Trillionaire By 2027, Fueled By Space Race Bets
Smartcat secures $43M for its AI-powered translation platform
Smartcat, a Boston-based startup providing AI-powered translation services, has raised $43 million in a funding round.
Can AI ever fully replace translators? Not likely. AI translations tend to lack the lexical richness of their human-translated counterparts, mainly because AI models make choices based on probability — not lived experience. Certainly, AI can produce “accurate” translations, but the translations lack the spice of life, like a textbook version of the source text.
#ai #technology #newonleo #funding
For many companies, accuracy is all that’s required, making the AI translation sector an attractive one. Smartcat, founded in 2016, is among the vendors providing automated translation tools geared toward enterprises, and its co-founder and CEO, Ivan Smolnikov, says business is good.
“We have over 1,000 corporate customers, including 20% of the Fortune 500,” he told TechCrunch. “While most of Smartcat’s clients are large global enterprises, we also count many local and international government entities among them.”
Before founding Smartcat, Smolnikov was a physicist at the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he researched fiber optics materials. After two years in the lab, Smolnikov decided to try his hand at entrepreneurship, founding the language services company ABBYY LS.
It’s at ABBYY where Smolnikov incubated Smartcat, in fact, which spun out as an independent entity in 2016. Smolnikov left ABBYY, where he was a board member at the time, the same year.
Form3, a quiet giant in UK fintech, raises $60M at a $570M valuation
Form3, a startup building tools to connect financial players with each other to enable account payments, has it raised $60 million to continue expanding.
The global economy remains in a sticky spot, in the words of the International Monetary Fund. Understandably, banks and other financial players are therefore looking to do what they can to bring down operating costs while spurring more financial activity.
Today, Form3, one of the startups building tools to do just that by connecting financial players with each other to enable account payments, said it raised $60 million to continue expanding its business.
#technology #newsonleo #form3 #ai
British Patient Capital is making the investment, which closes out Form3’s Series C at $220 million. Others in the round include a mix of notable strategic and financial investors such as Visa, Goldman Sachs, MasterCard, Barclays, Molten Ventures and 83North. Sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch that the startup is valued in the region of $570 million post-money.
A lot of fintechs wade into the market with disruptive mentalities — they are outsiders who see what is broken and are inspired to fix it. Form3 has slightly different DNA.
Threads is not working on its own DM system yet, but it might make it easier to send Instagram messages
The Threads team is not yet working on a separate inbox or a direct messaging system for the social network, despite user demands and will continue to use
The Threads team is not yet working on a separate inbox or a direct messaging system for the social network, despite user demands and will continue to use Instagram inbox. However, the company might make it easier to send messages to Instagram right from the Threads app.
App researcher Adwaith Varma posted on Threads an unreleased Threads feature, highlighting a new messaging button on users’ profiles. When tapping that button, users could see a text box and a send button to send a message to someone’s Instagram inbox quickly.
#technology #instagram #meta
Threads confirmed to TechCrunch that this was a public test with a limited set of users, and it is not active anymore. However, this means the company might bring some features to at least initialize messaging directly from Threads.
At this moment, the only option to message a user privately is to tap on the Instagram icon on their profile and send a message through the Instagram inbox.
Threads is still heavily integrated with Instagram, which is not ideal for users with private profiles. Instagram DMs are also not a good option for contacting someone if the person is not very active on that particular social network.
This move contrasts with its rivals, X and Bluesky. X/Twitter has had a direct messaging system for years. Under Elon Musk, the company has also shipped features like the ability to edit messages. Earlier this year, Bluesky shipped its direct messaging product and also plans to add end-to-end encryption support in the future. While Mastdon doesn’t have a dedicated inbox, you can publish a post that might be visible only to the people mentioned.
#polarisdawn
From Llama3.1:
What is super abundance?
Superabundance refers to a state of extreme plenty or excess, where resources, goods, or services are abundant to the point of being almost unlimited. In an economy or society with superabundance, technology and innovation have advanced to the point where:
Basic needs are easily met
The idea of superabundance is often associated with the potential benefits of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, which could lead to unprecedented levels of productivity and efficiency.
Some potential characteristics of a superabundant society include:
However, achieving superabundance also poses challenges, such as:
The concept of superabundance is still largely theoretical, but it offers a fascinating glimpse into the potential future of human civilization.