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Sam Bankman-Fried launches Substack: ‘I didn’t steal funds, and I certainly didn’t stash billions away’
FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried launched his own Substack newsletter today, in a very unusual move for someone who was recently arrested and is facing eight counts of U.S. criminal charges. In a post titled “FTX Pre-Mortem Overview,” Bankman-Fried maintains his innocence surrounding the collapse and bankruptcy of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange he founded in 2019 that went on to…
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Netflix adds the SAG Awards to its growing list of livestreams
/ The SAG Awards will stream directly on Netflix beginning in 2024, but the company will stream this year’s ceremony on YouTube. It’s the company’s latest push into livestreaming, which already includes a Chris Rock special for March. Netflix will live stream the Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards beginning in 2024, the company announced on…
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McLaren Applied and Elaphe partner to enhance EV efficiency and driving dynamics
McLaren Applied has partnered with in-wheel motor specialists Elaphe to develop a powertrain that combines the British engineering and technology pioneer’s next-generation IPG5 800V silicon carbide inverter with the Slovenian company’s range of in-wheel motors. The joint electric drive will offer automakers significant space and weight savings, creating a highly efficient system. At just 3.79L…
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Seattle school district sues TikTok, Meta over youth mental health crisis
SEATTLE — A public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth. Seattle Public Schools filed the lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court. The 91-page complaint says the social media companies…
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Quantum Teleportation!
Simply put, quantum teleportation is a process of transferring quantum information from one particle to another without the actual particles meeting. It involves a principle called entanglement, where the quantum state of one particle can be instantly shared by another regardless of distance. As fascinating as the image it conjures up, quantum teleportation is not the same as teleportation…
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Researchers Say It’ll Be Impossible to Control a Super-Intelligent AI
The idea of artificial intelligence overthrowing humankind has been talked about for decades, and in 2021, scientists delivered their verdict on whether we’d be able to control a high-level computer super-intelligence. The answer? Almost definitely not. The catch is that controlling a super-intelligence far beyond human comprehension would require a simulation of that super-intelligence which we can…
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How generative AI could create assets for the metaverse
The metaverse skyrocketed into our collective awareness during the height of the pandemic, when people longed for better ways to connect with each other than video calls. Gaming’s hot growth during the pandemic also pushed it forward. But the metaverse became so trendy that it now faces a backlash, and folks aren’t talking about it…
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CRISPR Hub project uses quantum machine learning to detect Alzheimer’s
ForgetMeNot is a project that focuses on early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. The project will use quantum machine learning and will be used for MIT Hacking Medicine Grand Hack 2022 and iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) 2022. ForgetMeNot began from The CRISPR Hub (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) at NCSU. According to Neha Suresh,…
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IBM unveils its 433 qubit Osprey quantum computer
IBM wants to scale up its quantum computers to over 4,000 qubits by 2025 — but we’re not quite there yet. For now, we have to make do with significantly smaller systems and today, IBM announced the launch of its Osprey quantum processor, which features 433 qubits, up from the 127 qubits of its 2021 Eagle processor.…
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Elon Musk says he doesn’t want to be CEO of Twitter, or any company
/ In testimony at a trial challenging his giant compensation package at Tesla, Musk said he does not want to be the CEO of any company and would eventually appoint a new chief executive at Twitter. Apparently, Elon Musk doesn’t want to be CEO of any company. Or so he claimed in testimony at a trial…
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