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Senegal's government suspends mobile internet access amid days of deadly clashes
Senegal's government suspends mobile internet access amid days of deadly clashes
Senegal’s government has temporarily suspended mobile phone data as the country reels from days of deadly clashes between police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko
2023-06-05 00:29
Fortnite Merch Black Friday 2023 Deals
Fortnite Merch Black Friday 2023 Deals
Fortnite fans should snag these deals before they disappear!
2023-11-13 23:16
MTG Standard Ban May 29 Announcement Leaks
MTG Standard Ban May 29 Announcement Leaks
Magic: The Gathering fans have potentially discovered next week's banned cards in Standard early. Here's the leaked list.
2023-05-23 21:48
xAI: Everything we know about Elon Musk’s new AI company
xAI: Everything we know about Elon Musk’s new AI company
Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk now has a new artificial intelligence startup xAI, years after he left ChatGPT-owner OpenAI. The Twitter owner announced the “formation” of the new firm on Wednesday in a tweet, sharing that its goals are “to understand reality”. He did not reveal any more details about the company’s plans and the firms website also doesn’t say much other than that its aims are “to understand the true nature of the universe”. The startup, however, noted it is a separate entity from “X Corp” – the new name of the company formerly known as Twitter. However, the company mentions in its website that it would work closely with X Corp, Tesla, and firms owned by Mr Musk as well as other companies “to make progress towards our mission.” While xAI does not reveal a lot on its website about its “mission”, the new company’s sole Twitter post hints it would look into the “most fundamental unanswered questions” of the universe. The company’s website also reveals the names of its employees, led by Mr Musk and listing Dan Hendrycks – the director of the Centre for AI Safety – as an advisor. Employees listed with the company are all men, and people who have “previously worked at DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and the University of Toronto.” “Collectively we contributed some of the most widely used methods in the field,” xAI mentions in its website. “We have worked on and led the development of some of the largest breakthroughs in the field including AlphaStar, AlphaCode, Inception, Minerva, GPT-3.5, and GPT-4,” the company noted about its employees. Mr Musk’s new venture also comes as companies including Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and even smaller firms and competitors in other countries like China continue to invest heavily in AI technology. The multibillionaire had previously co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but left the firm in 2018 to avoid conflicts of interest with Tesla which had its own AI operations for the vehicles’ autopilot mode. Following the launch of the now popular ChatGPT AI chatbot by OpenAI, the Tesla titan had also hinted in interviews that he was planning to start his own new artificial intelligence firm. In April, he told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that he planned to develop “TruthGPT,” which he called a “maximum truth-seeking AI”. This was followed by an xAI statement calling for the world to prioritise reducing AI’s dangers, signed by prominent members of the tech industry, and Mr Musk also reportedly acquired thousands of GPU processors from Nvidia seemingly to run a large language model like ChatGPT. The xAI team is planning to host a Twitter Spaces discussion on Friday – one in which listeners can “meet the team and ask us questions,” according to the startup’s website. Read More Elon Musk posts series of explicit tweets about Mark Zuckerberg Twitter gets strange endorsement from Taliban over rival Threads Tucker Carlson’s Twitter show is haemorrhaging viewers, reports says Mark Zuckerberg trains with UFC champions amid rumours of Elon Musk fight Threads: Elon Musk posts series of explicit tweets about Mark Zuckerberg Twitter traffic ‘tanking’ after record-breaking Threads launch
2023-07-13 13:26
The Best Video Games Coming Out in 2023
The Best Video Games Coming Out in 2023
2023 promises a stacked video game lineup, ranging from high-powered, cutting-edge PC games to infinitely
2023-07-09 01:21
When Chuck Cunningham Vanished From ‘Happy Days’
When Chuck Cunningham Vanished From ‘Happy Days’
Richie Cunningham’s older brother not only disappeared from the show, he was wiped from the minds of the entire cast.
2023-07-08 03:19
Disney, Spectrum direct customers to other TV services as dispute keeping ESPN off air continues
Disney, Spectrum direct customers to other TV services as dispute keeping ESPN off air continues
A business dispute that has pulled ESPN and other Disney-owned companies off the air for nearly 15 million cable TV subscribers continues, with both companies taking the unusual step of directing customers to look elsewhere for their favorite networks
2023-09-06 04:21
Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 awarded to scientists who made ‘impossible’ breakthrough
Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 awarded to scientists who made ‘impossible’ breakthrough
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for discovering a way to study the world at a level previously thought impossible. The Nobel Assembly announced that Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier would receive the 2023 prize “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”. “The laureates’ contributions have enabled the investigation of processes that are so rapid they were previously impossible to follow,” the committee announced during a ceremony in Stockholm on Tuesday. Applications for the research include molecular fingerprinting applied to biological samples like blood plasma. By observing minute changes with this technique, it is hoped that in the future it will be possible to detect cancers at a very early stage. The award comes a day after the Nobel Assembly awarded Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against Covid-19.” The awards for chemistry, literature, peace and economics are set to be announced between Wednesday, 4 October, and Monday, 9 October. More to follow Read More Solar airship targets first non-stop round-the-world flight without fossil fuels Zuckerberg says Metaverse can bring back the dead – virtually Apple blames Instagram for overheating iPhones
2023-10-03 18:19
Google’s AI Chatbot Is Trained by Humans Who Say They’re Overworked, Underpaid and Frustrated
Google’s AI Chatbot Is Trained by Humans Who Say They’re Overworked, Underpaid and Frustrated
Google’s Bard artificial intelligence chatbot will answer a question about how many pandas live in zoos quickly, and
2023-07-13 07:16
Twitter may be worth one-third what Musk paid for it last fall as Fidelity fund marks down value
Twitter may be worth one-third what Musk paid for it last fall as Fidelity fund marks down value
Twitter may now be worth one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social media platform just seven months ago
2023-06-01 23:29
American soldiers brought breakdancing to South Korea. Now it's writing its own history
American soldiers brought breakdancing to South Korea. Now it's writing its own history
When hip-hop-obsessed American soldiers showed their Korean counterparts how to land headspins and windmills at US military bases in the 1980s, they probably didn't anticipate breakdancing's eventual explosion in the country.
2023-10-06 11:58
Musk says Twitter applies temporary limit to address data scraping, system manipulation
Musk says Twitter applies temporary limit to address data scraping, system manipulation
(Reuters) -Twitter has applied temporary reading limits to address "extreme levels" of data scraping and system manipulation, Elon Musk said
2023-07-02 01:45