AI-based data center optimization startup MangoBoost raises $55M Series A | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Your mom can now recommend matches for you on Tinder (www.businessinsider.com)
Your mom can now recommend matches for you on Tinder::Tinder’s matchmaker feature lets your friends and family play Cupid for you, but don’t worry, they won’t be able to message anyone on your behalf.
The Rise of Excel Part 1 (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.capebreton.social/post/1047745...
Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics: Engaging Essay Topics for Students (r.nf)
Entrepreneurship is a dynamic and ever-evolving field that often raises ethical questions and dilemmas. In this essay, we will explore various aspects of entrepreneurship and delve into the ethical considerations that students and aspiring entrepreneurs should contemplate. We’ll also touch upon how advanced AI tools like a...
Canon is Making Metalenses, Further Legitimizing the Technology (petapixel.com)
Metalenses are a relatively fringe optical technology — at least, they were. Until now, it has been largely pursued by startups and scientists but that is changing as Canon has jumped into the fray and not only makes them but also produces the equipment necessary to manufacture them.
NASA's interstellar Voyager probes get software updates beamed from 12 billion miles away (www.space.com)
NASA’s interstellar Voyager probes get software updates beamed from 12 billion miles away::A few updates to the two Voyager spacecraft should extend the space explorers’ lives so they can continue adventuring in the cosmos.
Tired Of Being Ripped Off By Monopolies, Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband (www.techdirt.com)
Tired Of Being Ripped Off By Monopolies, Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband::Cleveland has spent years being dubbed the “worst connected city in the U.S.” thanks to expensive, patchy, and slow broadband. Why Cleveland broadband sucks so badly isn’t really a mystery: consolidated...
Snapdragon Summit 2023: Keynote Livestream (www.youtube.com)
The Snapdragon summit 2023 keynote starts in 5 minutes. They’ll show off their new ARM CPU for windows PCs, hopefully it’s good.
Japan launches antimonopoly probe into Google's search dominance (www.reuters.com)
‘Pause Ads’ Creep Onto Hulu, Peacock and Max as Streamers Seek New Revenue (variety.com)
‘Pause Ads’ Creep Onto Hulu, Peacock and Max as Streamers Seek New Revenue::Big streaming services like Hulu, Max and Peacock are relying more heavily on ‘pause ads’ that show up when a user halts a binge session
What Youtube captioning extensions/userscripts are there?
I have hearing issues, (specifically CAPD) and the built in captions are downright awful....
Stellantis drops out of CES, blames UAW strike (www.theverge.com)
Nestle, Volvo among 130 companies urging COP28 agreement to ditch fossil fuels (www.reuters.com)
Nestle, Volvo among 130 companies urging COP28 agreement to ditch fossil fuels::Companies including Nestle , Unilever , Mahindra Group and Volvo Cars are urging political leaders to agree a timeline at the upcoming U.N. climate summit to phase out fossil fuels.
Millions of smart meters will fail when 2G and 3G turns off (www.theregister.com)
#PimEyes facial recognition search engine now blocks searches for children’s faces (news.retiolus.net)
Microsoft Fixes Excel Feature That Forced Scientists to Rename Human Genes (gizmodo.com)
Microsoft Fixes Excel Feature That Forced Scientists to Rename Human Genes::Microsoft now allows users to disable automatic date conversion, which means scientists no longer have to worry about using alternative names for genes.
This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI (www.technologyreview.com)
A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways....
New policy requires Chinese influencers to display their personal information on Weibo (globalvoices.org)
This got deleted from lemmy.ml for fuck all reason so reposting here, I assume the mods here will be more reasonable as this is a completely normal article and good information for any users here that also use Weibo, maybe it’s a sensitive issue but to my knowledge none of the information presented here is false so the...
Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out (www.engadget.com)
Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics for Threads in a bid to boost engagement on the Twitter competitor.
Microsoft opens early access to AI assistant for infosec, Security Copilot (www.theregister.com)
Copilotization of all things continues… as helper offers incident reports to share with the boss and more
Over 10 Years After It Was Announced, Star Citizen’s Single-Player Squadron 42 Is ‘Feature Complete’ - IGN (www.ign.com)
Over 10 Years After It Was Announced, Star Citizen’s Single-Player Squadron 42 Is ‘Feature Complete’ - IGN::Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games has said Squadron 42, the single-player portion of its controversial space sim, is finally “feature complete”, over a decade after it was announced.
Google Chrome to soon get a new ‘IP protection’ feature: Here’s what it does (indianexpress.com)
Google will soon start testing a new ‘IP protection’ feature for Chrome users, offering them greater control over their privacy. The tech giant the upcoming feature prevents websites from tracking users by hiding their IP address using proxy servers owned by Google....
Reuters: Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel (www.reuters.com)
Most of the world's biggest advertisers have stopped buying ads on Elon Musk's X, exclusive new data shows (www.businessinsider.com)
Most of the world’s biggest advertisers have stopped buying ads on Elon Musk’s X, exclusive new data shows::Musk and X CEO Linda Yaccarino have recently stated that most of the company’s top-spending advertisers from last year have returned.