The golden age of video streaming services is quickly coming to an end. It was an age where subscription fees were affordable, plans were sharable, and content was ad-free. But starting today, one of the last video streaming services that didn’t show advertisements to viewers is jumping on the ad bandwagon.
Subscribers to both the individual Amazon Prime Video streaming service and the Amazon Prime membership (which includes access to Prime Video) will now see ads served to t
Reddit, the 18-year-old social media network, is all grown up. Almost. After meeting with potential investors ahead of its upcoming IPO, the company is considering a valuation of at least $5 billion, Bloomberg reports.
At the moment, private trades of unlisted Reddit shares value the company below that number, at between $4.5 billion and $4.8 billion. Those numbers may indicate that the company will achieve a lower valuation than $5 billion at the time of its IPO.
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I am not a crypto purist. At best I am a dabbler. Back in 2020, I had to teach myself Web3 just to navigate the frenzied startup deal flow of the times. The whole ordeal cost me a few thousand dollars, which I spent on “gas” (not real gas), an .eth handle, and a smattering of JPEGs I was told were super valuable, though it wasn’t entirely clear why. Today I own a little bit of Bitcoin, a little bit of eth, and 3 NFTs—roller-coaster investments that my husband predi
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Remote work isn’t just a hangover from 2020. For many employees, it’s become the new standard—a recent survey found that over half (51%) of respondents would not apply to a job if remote or hybrid working was not an option.
This is because flexible working has opened up a world of possibilities for people who, because of remote work, now have the opportunity to work jobs they may otherwise not have had access to.
In 2024 generative Artificial Intelligence will grow to be a potential part of work at every small business, every team in a bigger company, and every individual worker. What does that mean for how we’ll work?Since last year, we’ve seen people work with gen AI across our own products, through Duet AI in Google Workspace. Sometimes it’s improving existing skills, as when writers smooth their work with a virtual editor, or designers brainstorm new ideas. Or sometimes it
Most local TV stations air just a few weather reports a day: a forecast in the morning, perhaps an update in the afternoon, followed by an outlook for the next day at night. But when a winter storm was blanketing much of the U.S. earlier this month, Cleveland residents were able to get hourly updates on the situation on Haystack News—a TV news aggregator that recently began to use AI to produce local weather reports.
Haystack built an automated workflow on top of Amazonȁ
Perfect safety is no more possible online than it is when driving on a crowded road with strangers or walking alone through a city at night. Like roads and cities, the internet’s dangers arise from choices society has made. To enjoy the freedom of cars comes with the risk of accidents; to have the pleasures of a city full of unexpected encounters means some of those encounters can harm you. To have an open internet means people can always find ways to hurt each other.
But som
Football fans will be gathering around their screens big and small today to watch the final two playoff games of the 2023 NFL season. With teams on the East Coast, West Coast, and in the Midwest all represented, the regional rivalry should be fierce—in a friendly way, of course.
The conference championships will take place on Sunday, January 28, between the AFC and the NFC conferences. The winners will determine which two teams advance to Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium
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U.S. antitrust enforcers are opening an inquiry into the relationships between leading artificial intelligence startups such as ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and the tech giants that have invested billions of dollars into them.
The action targets Amazon, Google, and Microsoft and their sway over the generative AI boom that’s fueled demand for chatbots such as ChatGPT, and other AI tools that can produce novel imagery and sound.
“We’re scrutinizing whether these