Cheer Up! AI Can’t Do Everything …Yet.
(Image via Getty) There’s been a lot of discussion about “soft skills” for lawyers. You can’t test for them on the bar exam. These could be included under the general rubric of competency — those attitudes and attributes that make lawyers good and good lawyers better. These are not skills that you can pick up […]
Google’s hidden AI diversity prompts lead to outcry over historically inaccurate images
Enlarge / Generations from Gemini AI from the prompt, “Paint me a historically accurate depiction of a medieval British king.” On Thursday morning, Google announced it was pausing its Gemini AI image-synthesis feature in response to criticism that the tool was inserting diversity into its images in a historically inaccurate way, such as depicting multi-racial […]
MarsLander Keyboard Model K74Kr #3DThursday #3DPrinting « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
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Fundstrat Exec Predicts Bitcoin Will Reach $150,000, Here’s When
Tom Lee, Managing Partner and Head of Research at Fundstrat Global Advisors, recently commented on the future trajectory of Bitcoin. He also mentioned when the flagship crypto token could hit this particular price level. Bitcoin To Rise To $150,000 This Year Lee mentioned during an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that Bitcoin could rise to […]
FTC to ban Avast from selling browsing data for advertising purposes
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will order Avast to pay $16.5 million and ban the company from selling the users’ web browsing data or licensing it for advertising purposes. The complaint says Avast violated millions of consumers’ rights by collecting, storing, and selling their browsing data without their knowledge and consent while misleading them about the […]
The morning read for Thursday, Feb. 22
WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on Feb 22, 2024 at 10:36 am Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: Recommended Citation: Ellena Erskine, The morning read for Thursday, Feb. 22, SCOTUSblog (Feb. 22, 2024, 10:36 AM), […]
The Download: tracking animals, and biotech plants
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How tracking animal movement may save the planet Animals have long been able to offer unique insights about the natural world around us, acting as organic sensors picking up phenomena invisible to humans. […]