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The old adage that you should never get into a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel load doesn’t resonate in the digital age as well as it used to. But there’s no doubt news publishers’ complaints about AI startups pirating their copyrighted material has drawn plenty of coverage. There may be a solution. A growing number of startups are emerging to try and help publishers, and other content owners, figure out how to maximize the money they can make from licensing their material to AI firms. Firms l
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The SpaceX founder attacked Boeing CEO David Calhoun, accusing the aircraft company of losing touch with its engineering roots in a post on X. Read more ›
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It turns out seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a form of depression usually associated with the darker winter months, can take hold in the summer, too. While its symptoms can be different from its winter counterpart — cold-weather SAD typically makes people lethargic, while summer SAD makes them more agitated — it’s also a condition triggered […] Read more ›
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Workers will receive 40% more pay for extra hours and 115% more for holiday work. Read more ›
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Forget room-temperature beverages. These insulated bottles, mugs, and tumblers keep hot drinks steaming and cold ones frigid. Read more ›
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It looks like Conan the Barbarian and T-1000 from the Terminator series may be coming to Mortal Kombat 1.According to dataminer Interloko, six more characters will be coming to NetherRealm's fighter, likely as part of the next DLC pack, as well as two arenas and five new announcers.Leaked Mortal Kombat 1 characters from Interloko's datamining efforts are: Read more Read more ›
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Musician M.I.A. has launched an apparel brand, Ohmni, that promises to block 5G waves from entering the body. Read more ›
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The new Nikkor Z 35mm f/1.4 for Nikon's mirrorless cameras is a classic reportage, street and event photography lens that's destined to be one of its best sellers. Read more ›
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Ars chats with production designer Kevin Jenkins and cinematographer Chris Teague. Read more ›
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Episode five of The Acolyte is not only full of great action sequences, but also emotionally devastating moments. Read more ›
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In iOS 18, Apple's Podcasts app now shows chapter segments of a podcast when you scrub through a currently playing episode, making it easier to browse through the audio content. Image credit: Reddit user Wristnut As spotted by Redditor "Wristnut," navigating the timeline across the chapter segments shows the chapter name above the line. Note that this behavior appears in the Podcasts app proper, and it is not currently reproducible... Read more ›
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Ukraine is now able to strike military targets in Russia using Western-supplied weapons. One commander said Ukraine had destroyed columns of troops. Read more ›
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In iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, Apple has added a new "Keep Downloaded" option when browsing items in iCloud, allowing users to designate which files and folders should remain permanently available locally on their device. In previous versions of iOS and macOS, users had limited control over which files and folders were kept offline. iCloud's automatic management system would offload files from the device to free up space,... Read more ›
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Apple is rumored to be planning a revamp of the Apple Watch for the device's tenth anniversary, and 91mobiles claims to have sourced CAD renders of the Apple Watch Series 10 or "Apple Watch X" from industry insiders. The site claims that the renders are of the "larger" model featuring a 2-inch display. The current Apple Watch Series 9 has a 1.7-inch display, while the Apple Watch Ultra has a... Read more ›
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Elon Musk runs half a dozen companies, but keeping the Muskonomy humming hasn't stopped him from beefing with his fellow billionaires this year. Read more ›
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The "Million Dollar Listing" agent revealed the top five US cities where home prices are set to spike, from Atlanta to San Diego. Read more ›
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Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, filed concerns to the FAA about SpaceX's Starship rocket launches. Read more ›
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Bernard Arnault's last visit to China drew large crowds, even as the Chinese luxury market dips. Read more ›
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The deal gives Rivian a financial cushion to continue developing a much cheaper SUV, one that could retail for around $45,000. Read more ›
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As Elden Ring players struggle with the high difficulty of Shadow of the Erdtree, the most popular mods since release focus on easing the challenge. Over on NexusMods, plenty of new mods have already been uploaded since the launch of the Elden Ring DLC last week, ready for PC players to enter the Land of Shadow. Many of these mods provide a save file to ensure players are ready for... Read more ›
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London-based Deskpro, a provider of helpdesk software solutions, announced on Tuesday that it has secured $25M (approximately €23.4M) in a Series A funding round led by Elsewhere Partners. The UK company plans to use the funding to enhance its customer experience team, expand its AI-powered help desk solutions, and further establish a presence in key ... Read more Read more ›
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Read through enough contracts, invoices or purchase orders—any business documents, really—enough times, and your eyes probably glaze over. Ondrej Antos experienced it as a law clerk nearly a decade ago. When Antos met Nischal Nadhamuni at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016, the pair went on a three-hour-long walk in Cambridge, Mass., and decided to start a company to tackle the problem.Klarity, their startup, began in 2017 by building... Read more ›
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Matt Mattingly sold the bed-and-breakfast inn he owned in southern Maine several years ago and was trying to “figure out what I want to be when I grow up.” This year, after looking for a remote job that would put his communications Ph.D. to use, he responded to an online ad looking for people to train artificial intelligence models from home. Mattingly passed a paid assessment lasting nearly six hours,... Read more ›
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Stability AI, a startup that rode the boom in generative artificial intelligence to a $1 billion valuation before experiencing financial trouble and employee defections, has a new CEO. Prem Akkaraju, former CEO of visual effects company Weta Digital, will step into the role, according to a person involved in the decision. The 51-year-old Akkaraju is part of a group of investors including former Facebook President Sean Parker that has stepped... Read more ›
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Cerebras, a developer of artificial intelligence chips that’s trying to wrestle business from Nvidia, has filed confidentially with securities regulators for an initial public offering, according to a person involved in the decision. The startup has also notified Delaware, the state in which it is incorporated, that it is creating preferred shares priced at a deep discount to its last private funding round. The move could make its shares more... Read more ›
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In March, a group of VIPs piled into Qasr Al Sarab, a luxury resort two hours’ drive from Abu Dhabi, for an invite-only event co-hosted by Mubadala Investment Co., a $300 billion sovereign wealth fund based in the United Arab Emirates. It was the same hotel where, two years earlier, cast members of “Dune: Part Two” had gotten their beauty sleep when they weren’t shooting the sci-fi epic in the... Read more ›
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Anduril has lined up backers for one of the biggest venture deals this year. The defense startup is close to finalizing a $1.5 billion investment co-led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, according to two people involved in the deal. Sands Capital, known for investments just before public offerings, is co-leading the deal as a new investor, according to one of those people. The investment will value the 7-year-old company at... Read more ›
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EssilorLuxottica might not be a household name in the U.S. But the eyeglass giant, maker of Meta Platforms’ smart Ray-Ban glasses as well as dozens of other eyewear brands, is suddenly a company tech firms want to buddy up with. Rocco Basilico, the 34-year-old Italian head of EssilorLuxottica’s wearables business, revealed in an interview that the company had been getting approaches from some big tech companies interested in “smart eyewear.”... Read more ›
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Google wants chatbots that people can hang with—not just pelt with questions. The search engine giant has been developing a product for creating and conversing with customizable chatbots, which could be modeled on celebrities or made by users, two people with direct knowledge of the project said. The bots would be similar to the online personalities from Meta Platforms and startup Character.AI, based on celebrities like football star Tom Brady... Read more ›
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It was the kind of incident Apple executives never want to repeat. In November 2022, at a factory in Zhengzhou, China—the largest plant in the world for making iPhones—police officers in white hazmat suits beat factory workers, who had begun protesting over strict Covid-19 lockdowns and disputes over pay. Video of the episode, which took place at a factory operated by Foxconn, Apple’s largest manufacturing partner, circulated on social media,... Read more ›
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Modern technology is everywhere, often in various forms of screen time. That makes it a popular scapegoat for the increasing, collective loss of our human connection to the natural world. It’s not just that time spent using technology has replaced time in nature, it’s also that for many nature is farther away: Over half the world’s population now lives in urban settings, a figure that rises to around 80% in... Read more ›
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