This 'AI' Interpreter Is A Game Changer Among Translation Gadgets (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
In a world that’s now more connected than ever, we must be able to communicate our ideas and words to various audiences and the people we interact with. But for the most part, the one thing that hinders us from communicating well with our global peers is the language barrier. While this puts perspective on international...
Carbon free steel is on its way - Volts with David Roberts (www.volts.wtf)
This boston company has developed a new process to manufacture steel using zero carbon dioxide and a whole lot of electricity
The problem with GIMP (www.spacebar.news)
Amazon Customers Get One Step Closer to Drone Deliveries in US (www.hngn.com)
Amazon says it has been given approval from regulators to fly drones farther and deliver goods to more customers....
Israel's Killer AI (stopkiller.ai)
The Israeli military wanted to kill more Palestinians faster. They unleashed powerful technology to do it.
U.S tech giants are building dozens of data centers in Chile. Locals are fighting back (restofworld.org)
Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental devastation....
ChatGPT's voice closely resembles Scarlett Johnasson's, says lab analysis (www.npr.org)
ChatGPT's voice closely resembles Scarlett Johnasson's, says lab analysis (www.npr.org)
A Marriage Made in Hell: An Introduction to Microsoft’s Complicity in Apartheid and Genocide (medium.com)
Executive summary...
Google Admits Its AI Overviews Search Feature Screwed Up (www.wired.com)
Google's Controversial Plan to Disable Older Chrome Extensions Starts June 3 (me.pcmag.com)
The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)
When you picture the tech industry, you probably think of things that don’t exist in physical space, such as the apps and internet browser on your phone. But the infrastructure required to store all this information – the physical datacentres housed in business parks and city outskirts – consume massive amounts of energy....
Spacetop G1 is a $1900 laptop that uses a pair of Augmented Reality glasses as a display - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
Framework Laptop 13 gets Intel Core Ultra with a 120 Hz display, and cheaper AMD models (www.gamingonlinux.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/16433795...
We're Watching Facebook Die (www.wheresyoured.at)
In the first quarter of 2024, Meta made $36.45 billion dollars - $12.37 billion dollars of which was pure profit. Though the company no longer reports daily active users, it now uses another metric: “family daily active people.” This number refers to “registered and logged-in users of one or more of Facebook’s Family...
The People Deliberately Killing Facebook (www.wheresyoured.at)
Over the last decade, few platforms have declined quite as rapidly and visibly as Facebook and Instagram. What used to be apps for catching up with your friends and family are now algorithmic nightmares that constantly interrupt you with suggested content and advertisements that consistently outweigh the content of people that...
A look at search engines with their own indexes (seirdy.one)
cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/19788762...
The Internet Archive has been fending off DDoS attacks for days (www.engadget.com)
World’s first diabetes cure with cell therapy achieved in China (interestingengineering.com)
Finally an alternative to Big Tech, your new open-source mobile ecosystem (f-droid.org)
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to engage in a mobile ecosystem outside of the watchful eye of the Big Tech giants and gatekeepers? A system that includes everything from operating systems, to app stores, to cloud services, messaging apps, email servers and more? A system that puts your privacy first, believes in a...
UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.
YouTube has now begun skipping videos altogether for users with ad blockers (www.androidpolice.com)
After successful animal trials, human trials to begin for tooth regrowth drug (www.theregister.com)
Bigme Hibreak: These smartphone come with a color E-Ink screen and also Android 14 (www.notebookcheck.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16133938...