Uber is testing a service that lets you hire drivers for chores (www.theverge.com)
Chinese Team Develops AI Robot Utilizing Martian Materials for Oxygen Extraction (www.blobstreaming.org)
Child psychiatrist jailed after using AI to make pornographic deep-fakes of kids (www.theregister.com)
Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library (www.techspot.com)
Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library::undefined
Google paid Samsung $8 billion to be the default search engine, app store and voice assistant (www.cnbctv18.com)
YouTube cracks down on synthetic media with AI disclosure requirement (arstechnica.com)
YouTube Launches Experimental AI Feature With Voice Clones of Major Artists (www.rollingstone.com)
How U.S. satellite rules are different only for Israel : NPR (www.npr.org)
Scientists use Raspberry Pi tech to protect NASA telescope data (www.theregister.com)
Free speech can’t flourish online — Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth (www.ft.com)
Free speech can’t flourish online — Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth::Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth
UnitedHealth sued over use of algorithm in Medicare Advantage plans (www.statnews.com)
cross-posted from c/Medicine: lemmy.ca/post/9440628...
Google originally did not want to make any money from Android's app store (www.androidauthority.com)
Maybe (HBO) Max Just Isn’t Worth It (www.wired.com)
Maybe (HBO) Max Just Isn’t Worth It::Warner Bros. Discovery’s latest earnings call reveals Max shed 700,000 subscribers in the past three months, even as it made money. That might work for Wall Street, but what about viewers?
Ultra-white ceramic cools buildings with record-high 99.6% reflectivity (newatlas.com)
Ultra-white ceramic cools buildings with record-high 99.6% reflectivity::undefined
Automakers' drive to avoid China's EV rare earth dominance gathers speed (www.reuters.com)
Apple extends free period for iPhone 14 satellite features (9to5mac.com)
Apple today announced it is extending the free usage period for Emergency SOS satellite features for iPhone 14 users. Previously,...
Toyota trials hydrogen-powered vehicle on public roads in Australia (japantoday.com)
China Claims World’s Fastest Internet With 1.2 Terabit-Per-Second Network (www.bloomberg.com)
China Claims World’s Fastest Internet With 1.2 Terabit-Per-Second Network::Huawei Technologies Co. and China Mobile Ltd. have built a 3,000 kilometer (1,860-mile) internet network linking Beijing to the south, which the country is touting as its latest technological breakthrough.
Microsoft renames Bing Chat to Copilot as it competes with ChatGPT | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
FCC votes in favor for rules that reduce 'digital discrimination' for communities with poor internet access (abcnews.go.com)
While I heard about this coming to a vote a few days ago, the FCC has voted in favor for the rules today.
John Legend and Sia among singers to trial AI versions of voices with YouTube | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
SanDisk Refutes Claim That Faulty Hardware is to Blame for SSD Failures | PetaPixel (petapixel.com)
Fox Corp.'s OutKick continues to push misinformation about COVID-19 even after a YouTube suspension (www.mediamatters.org)
Fox Corp.'s OutKick continues to push misinformation about COVID-19 even after a YouTube suspension::Fox Corp.’s OutKick is a hotbed for misinformation regarding COVID-19. OutKick’s founder Clay Travis and hosts Tomi Lahren and Charly Arnolt regularly platform false claims about vaccines, attacks on masking, and conspiracy...
Thermal Transistors Handle Heat With No Moving PartsThe technology offers a new way to cool down chips quickly (spectrum.ieee.org)
Electronic transistors are central to modern electronics. These devices precisely control the flow of electricity, but in doing so, they generate heat. Now, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have developed a solid-state thermal transistor—the first device of its kind that can use an electric field to...
X Is The Biggest Source Of Fake News And Disinformation, EU Warns (www.forbes.com)
X Is The Biggest Source Of Fake News And Disinformation, EU Warns::The EU also called upon Google, TikTok, Microsoft and Meta to do more to tackle disinformation—much of it coming from Russia—ahead of upcoming elections on the continent.
