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Don’t throw out those used coffee grounds—use them for 3D printing instead (arstechnica.com)

3D-printed carrot does not rely on large areas of land or maintenance costs, can be cheaper (www.aljazeera.com)

Meta Plans to Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook (www.wsj.com)

Meta Plans to Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook::European users would have option to pay fee or agree to personalized ads, according to company’s pitch to regulators

New UCF Technology Could Reduce Lag, Improve Reliability of Online Gaming, Meetings | University of Central Florida News (www.ucf.edu)

The novel class of optical modulators can make data transfer over optical fiber communication faster and more efficient....

As 2024 Looms, Democrats’ Campaign Tech Crumbles Under Private Equity Squeeze (theintercept.com)

Apple's carbon-neutral product claims called a 'climate-wash' (appleinsider.com)

Apple played into the greenwashing since a long time. For example removing charger for “climate”, “ecology”, while changing the cable port from a usb A (the rectangle one you plug onto the charger) to a usb C when first removing the charger from the box (thanks for bringing this s* to android too).

Lockheed CEO Pitches Pentagon on Subscription Software (news.usni.org)

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Why Big Tech's bet on AI assistants is so risky (www.technologyreview.com)

Colorful quantum dots snag 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Patreon has a new look for its next era (www.theverge.com)

Don't visit kohlchan.net/int (normalcity.life)

Nobel Prize awarded for discovery of quantum dots that changed everything from TV displays to cancer imaging (edition.cnn.com)

Nobel Prize awarded for discovery of quantum dots that changed everything from TV displays to cancer imaging::The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who worked to discover and develop quantum dots, used in LED lights and TV screens, as well as by surgeons when removing cancer tissue.

As some carmakers run from Apple CarPlay, Porsche embraces it (arstechnica.com)

Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes – The Markup (themarkup.org)

A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the time

Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike (www.vice.com)

US accuses Google of illegal methods to push up ad prices (www.reuters.com)

Driving video completely generated by GAIA-1 (twitter.com)

How Planting Artificial Forests Could Backfire (gizmodo.com)

Generative AI Is Coming for Sales Execs’ Jobs—and They’re Celebrating (archive.ph)

ChatGPT-style AI can tackle the drudge work of responding to RFPs faster than humans. Sales teams at Google, Twilio, and others say productivity is spiking.

Facebook’s new AI stickers can generate child soldiers, Elmo with a knife (arstechnica.com)

Facebook’s new AI stickers can generate child soldiers, Elmo with a knife::Instagram, Messenger AI feature goes viral for potentially offensive user-created stickers.

What was Elon Musk’s strategy for Twitter? A fired Trump White House staffer offers a tantalizing clue (www.nbcnews.com)

The text messages described a series of actions Musk should take after he gained full control of the social media platform: “Step 1: Blame the platform for its users; Step 2: Coordinated pressure campaign; Step 3: Exodus of the Bluechecks; Step 4: Deplatforming.”

Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine (finance.yahoo.com)

Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine::Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine, tactics that in turn have thwarted his company’s rival program, Bing. Nadella testified in a packed Washington, D.C.,...

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