Dataconomy

JUNE 19, 2023

When we use the internet, we leave a trail of data behind us. This data tells a story about us – what we like, what we do, and how we behave online. That’s why companies love collecting this data as it helps them understand their customers better. But there’s a problem. What is data deprecation?

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Dataconomy

MARCH 7, 2024

The “Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” has sparked intense debate among US lawmakers, tech giants, and the public alike. "This bill is not a ban, and it’s not really about @tiktok_us. What is the bill about? What did TikTok say about the bill? It’s a choice. ."

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

The AI era is upon us. With generative AI continuing to push forward, companies like Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm are also talking about the hardware …

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 25, 2022

There is a chance that regulatory agencies and governments will look into and impose sanctions on Twitter as a result of a number of damning revelations about the company’s cybersecurity methods and regulations. The shocking revelations were disclosed in an over 80-page filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Have you heard about the DPD chatbot swearing incident? Recently, something unexpected happened at DPD, a company known for delivering packages. But soon, he got it to say bad things about DPD and even use swear words. Surprisingly, the poem included negative comments about DPD and some swearing. Not really.

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 5, 2022

Businesses may want to rethink how they use TikTok as a platform because of the concerns raised by US politicians regarding the company’s data privacy practices. Many people are becoming more selective about what they share on social. Consumers have elevated privacy to a top priority across all digital channels.

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MARCH 25, 2024

Emad Mostaque, the founder and CEO of Stability AI, has resigned from his leadership position and from the board of the high-profile startup, the company announced on Friday evening. Instead, Shan Shan Wong, the COO, and Christian Laforte, the CTO, have been designated as temporary joint CEOs, according to a company blog post.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 25, 2024

We still don’t have an official announcement, but some users have already started using it. With Snapchat AI Bitmoji pet, the company is showing it’s always coming up with fresh ideas. It’s not just another update; it’s a big step for Snapchat, making the app more about having fun and being yourself.

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Join us as we delve into this remarkable tale of resilience, where a transportation giant refused to yield, even in the face of a relentless cyber siege. The company posted a message on a social media platform, which is now referred to as X, notifying their customers of the ongoing IT outage.

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MARCH 12, 2024

The crux of the issue lies in the fact that Microsoft, as a US-based company, is subject to US laws like the CLOUD Act , potentially granting US authorities access to data stored on Microsoft’s servers. This makes us wonder if they were processing way more data through Microsoft than was actually necessary.

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Hacker News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

About Prelay Prelay’s Team Selling platform helps the world’s fastest-growing technology companies surpass their revenue goals. Join our mission and help us transform how revenue teams work together to drive growth like never before. About the role We’re in growth-

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Summary In this post I’ll go into detail about how, during my contracting work for Shimmer Industries (a company founded by Eskil Steenberg which is focused on developing a real-time lighting designing software), I worked on a piece of software which enabled us to use the MacOS and iOS APIs using a custom C API without having to use ObjC.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

According to the leaked Google Pay data, the black staff at the company make $20k less than white employees, and also gender pay gap is still an issue. The leaked salary data from Google reveals that employees with longer tenure with the company and who held higher-level positions tended to have higher salaries. women and 66.1%

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

TigerEye is in stealth building a solution that will help companies make better strategic decisions. For our customers to make critical strategic decisions in TigerEye, the app needs to be fast, easy to use and premium. Life can be hard even for the most fortunate of us. Wholehearted.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

About Us The convergence of laboratory automation, high-throughput assays, and machine learning is moving the medium of biological discovery to silicon. Over forty biotech companies are using our platform to accelerate their ability to engineer biology, from drug discovery to bioproduction.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 30, 2024

Big news hit us recently: China Evergrande liquidation Hong Kong, a huge property company, is in deep trouble. This company owes a lot of money – over $300 billion. A company named Alvarez & Marsal Asia is going to handle the liquidation. They’re using social media to show they’re upset.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Data centers already use a hell of a lot of electricity, which could thwart the company’s climate goals unless it can find clean sources of energy. Energy-hungry AI makes that an even bigger challenge for the company to overcome. The company “does not currently have any agreements to sell reactors to Microsoft,” it told CNBC.

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Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The breach forced the company to shut down crucial IT systems, including access to its online payment portal, leaving a trail of confusion and concern among the company’s millions of customers. The company employs around 9,000 people and services approximately 4.1 million customers.

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JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last If you’re running some other department, these should sound familiar.)

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

Xinmei Liu for Vox The brain implant company Neuralink is pushing a needlessly risky approach, former employees say. Of all Elon Musk’s exploits — the Tesla cars, the SpaceX rockets, the Twitter takeover, the plans to colonize Mars — his secretive brain chip company Neuralink may be the most dangerous. What is Neuralink for?

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Hacker News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Located in the Caribbean, the country, home to about 15,000 people, has a unique and suddenly in-demand resource. Anguilla received.ai, a luck of the draw that is now paying dividends as the country registers website domains for AI companies. open up for use outside of Anguilla? Cate: It’s about US $3 million per month.

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Hacker News

JUNE 10, 2023

You may not realize it, but the majority of us developers have been living a sheltered professional life. He had never heard of the programming language that the company used, but he was assured that he’d receive plenty of training and should have trouble picking it up. And they weren’t joking about “plenty of training.”

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JANUARY 1, 2024

To that end, today we can report that DMCA notices continued to be filed against us at Google, all of them demanding the deindexing of links to our news reports in Google search. We also received a few direct to us via email, more than usual in 2023. ” Once again, the complaint demanded the removal of our article.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If you think about how much we advanced wind and solar and lithium ion storage, here we are — this is kind of the next set of stuff and we feel like companies have a huge role to play in advancing these technologies.” “If For now, the company is keeping mum on where else it might try to deploy geothermal energy for its data centers.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In the the Amazon Buy Box lawsuit, it is alleged that the company’s platform has been engineered to guide the majority of its customers towards purchasing items at higher prices, which could have been bought for less with similar or quicker delivery options.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

In the wake of the Riot Games layoff announcement, the company is facing a critical juncture, as it eliminates approximately 11 percent of its global workforce, amounting to 530 positions. Alongside the Riot Games layoff, the company also announced the sunset of its publishing label, Riot Forge.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Under the current DMCA legislation, US-based Internet services are expected to remove infringing links, if a copyright holder complains. In recent years there has been a lot of discussion about the effectiveness of the system but it remains standard practice. This process shields these services from direct liability.

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APRIL 11, 2023

However, instead of laying down their arms, the music companies went after Uberspace , youtube-dl’s website hosting company in Germany. According to Uberspace, the software wasn’t clearly illegal but the court ruled that the company should have known better. Let’s do some research,” Pasche tells us.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Instead, the most common lies about climate change now have to do with denying the benefits of clean energy, attacking policies meant to slash planet-heating pollution from fossil fuels, and maligning scientists and advocates that push for change. It is time for digital platforms to put their money where their mouth is.

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Dataconomy

MAY 6, 2024

Chrome now enables direct use of Gemini in the browser with “@chat with Gemini”, mirroring the capability that Edge has offered from the outset with its Copilot feature. Initially, this app was only accessible in the US, but its availability soon extended to Europe and Asia. ” Enter your prompt.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

According to the company, the recent Cloudflare Okta breach has not caused any harm to any of the customers or users. However, the incident brought more questions about the Okta breach, which affects many different services and companies. Cloudflare Okta breach explained On November 14, Cloudflare found itself under attack.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 6, 2024

The retractable panels help generate up to 4.96kWh per day in the western US, according to Jackery. That’s enough to generate 4.96kWh per day in the western US, or 4kWh as you move east, according to Jackery’s estimates. Rooftop tents can already be fitted with solar panels made by any number of companies, including Jackery.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This decision comes as part of an antitrust settlement with US states and consumers, officially recorded in a federal court this Monday. According to the terms of this agreement, a significant portion of the impacted consumers, about 71.4 Developers using a third-party billing system may benefit from a reduced fee rate from Google.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

It’s up to us whether that’s for the better, or the worse. While children use resources, and so in a very narrow sense can be said to contribute to resource shortages or the addition of carbon to the atmosphere, people are not liabilities bleeding out a fixed pool of resources. What happens from there is up to us.

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Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Fresh off the success of GPT-4, this revelation signals a departure from earlier hesitations, propelling us into an era where machines not only understand human language but predict its nuances with uncanny accuracy. The company is in the preparatory phase, focusing on training methodologies, organizing annotators, and curating datasets.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

What’s the Willy Wonka Experience about? A photo taken from the event venue ( Image credit ) AI in advertising and consumer expectations The rise of artificial intelligence has significantly impacted advertising, empowering companies to develop, target, and deliver more impactful campaigns.

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Hacker News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Computers collect data about what we’re doing on them, and as both storage and processing have become cheaper, that data is increasingly saved and used. Surveillance has become the business model of the internet, and there’s no reasonable way for us to opt out of it. AI is about to change that.

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