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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 30)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DeepMind Has Predicted the Structure of Almost Every Protein Known to ScienceMelissa Heikkilä | MIT Technology Review“From today, the Alphabet-owned AI lab is offering its database of over 200 million proteins to anyone for free. …The update includes structures for ‘plants, bacteria, animals, and many, many other organisms, opening up huge opportunities for […]
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So Much Tech. So Few Winners.
We know that in the 15 years since the iPhone went on sale, technology has seeped into every crevice of our lives. Tech has reshaped politics, industries, leisure time, culture and people’s relationships to one another — for better and for worse. The march of technology has also come with this puzzling reality: Hardly any […]
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‘We show hotshots who’s boss’: how China disciplines its tech barons | Internet
In April 2022, a resurgence of Covid spread seemingly unchecked through the financial centre of Shanghai. The government imposed a strict lockdown, confining millions to their homes, triggering mass-testing on a scale unseen since the initial outbreak and outraging affluent urban residents who were increasingly sceptical about China’s Covid-zero policy. In an attempt to control […]
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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 23)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OpenAI Is Ready to Sell DALL-E to its First Million CustomersWill Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review“‘We’ve seen much more interest than we had anticipated, much bigger than it was for GPT-3,’ says Peter Welinder, vice president of product and partnerships at OpenAI. Paying customers will now be able to use the images […]
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Ann Arbor’s May Mobility closes $111M in latest funding round
ANN ARBOR – Autonomous vehicle technology company May Mobility recently closed $111 million in a Series C funding round. In addition to its development and deployment of autonomous vehicle technology in cities across the U.S., May Mobility has partnered with Toyota on the carmaker’s new e-Palette battery-electric platform and has begun deploying its programs on […]
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Apple joins fellow tech giants in putting a lid on hiring
By Mark Gurman and Nick Turner | Bloomberg Apple Inc. is the latest major technology company to rein in hiring and spending plans, adding to the evidence that even Silicon Valley stalwarts are worried about a recession in the coming months. The iPhone maker is looking to limit expenditures and job growth at some of […]
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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 16)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Meet Plato, an AI That Gains Intuition Like a Human BabyMonisha Ravisetti | CNET“In collaboration with AI research laboratory DeepMind in the UK, this team developed an artificial intelligence system that learned ‘intuitive physics,’ that is, commonsense understanding of how our universe’s mechanics work, just like a human baby. ‘Current artificial intelligence systems […]
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Watch this impressive AR demo ‘reset’ a room using latest Apple tech
What if you could use the augmented reality features of a LiDAR-equipped iPhone to see how a room might look with all its furniture removed? That’s the idea behind a new AR prototype shown off by Shopify’s Russ Maschmeyer on Twitter. The demo, which he refers to as a “reset button” for a room, puts […]
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The tech behind the spatial web
Companies across all different industries are looking to move beyond Web1 and Web2 to Web3 or the Spatial Web. The next iteration brings together the latest revolutionary technologies — such as augmented and virtual reality, immersion, artificial intelligence/machine learning and blockchain — to help facilitate the metaverse. It creates an exciting opportunity for brands to […]
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Chinese stocks hit by Covid fears and new tech crackdown
Casinos in the gambling hub of Macao were ordered to close for the first time since February 2020 because of a Covid outbreak, sending shares of their operating companies plunging, and fears of new lockdowns in Shanghai undermined the broader China market. Adding to the downbeat mood, China’s tech stocks plunged after the country’s antitrust […]
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