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How do you celebrate your 50th birthday? is a question that’s been on my mind as I prepare to exit my forties. Maybe a big party with lots of food and an iPhoto-esque slideshow of my “greatest hits” going back to Halloween costumes in elementary school, bizarre hair styles from my teens, up to and including high school and college graduations, plus marriage, my own children, and holiday memories.
Since the pandemic, more and more people have relied on food delivery companies to bring their meals to them. But a message sent by DoorDash to some customers has set off a firestorm of debate over who should pay the drivers: customers or DoorDash?
The prompt, first spotted on Twitter/X, encourages users to tip their drivers while placing an order, reading, “Orders with no tip might take longer to get delivered—are you sure you want to continue?”
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Testimony in Sam Bankman-Fried’s federal fraud trial ended Tuesday, wrapping up with Bankman-Fried on the stand maintaining that he hadn’t known until October 2022 about the $8 billion that Alameda Research, his hedge fund, had taken from customer deposits at FTX, his crypto exchange.
As she finished her cross-examination, prosecutor Danielle Sassoon focused on vivid details about Bankman-Fried’s relationship with officials in the Bahamas, where FTX was headquar
Makers of generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT have been using copious amounts of copyrighted news material to train their chatbots, according to new accusations from a new trade group.
The News/Media Alliance, which represents over 2,200 publishers, showcased its research in a blog post and white paper Tuesday, saying AI companies regularly used the information in news stories without authorization, and violate laws protecting that intellectual property.
Investors in Pinterest are waking up to a very nice Halloween treat this morning: Shares in the image-sharing social media platform are skyrocketing after the company posted better-than-expected Q3 numbers yesterday. Here’s what you need to know.
- What’s happened? Pinterest shares (ticker: PINS) are surging in pre-market trading this morning, up over 17% to $29.40 as of the time of this writing. Shares in the image-sharing website haven’t tr
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Millions of people use Google Slides, so an ecosystem of add-ons has sprung up to help you make more engaging presentations. Read on for five free ways to boost your next deck.
1. Poll people from your slides
Thank beer and YouTube for Lilium.
One evening back in 2013, Daniel Wiegand, then an aerospace engineering graduate student at the Technical University of Munich, was wandering the internet when a V-22 Osprey video caught his eye. The combat aircraft combined the vertical lift of a helicopter with the speed and range of an airplane. The eruption of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft startups had yet to happen, and Wiegand’s mind began racing.
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Eighty years ago, at Bletchley Park, a country house 50 miles outside of central London, mathematician Alan Turing and a team of experts cracked the Enigma code, the German secret cryptogram for transmissions in World War II. Next week, the U.K. government will attempt to ride on the coattails of that success—and show it’s a key player in a technology that Turing was inexorably tied up with: artificial intelligence.
Bletchley Park will be home to this week’s AI
Sam Bankman-Fried finished his direct testimony in his federal fraud case on Monday on reasonably strong footing, maintaining that he didn’t know about much of what was going on at FTX and Alameda Research, his crypto exchange and trading firm, until their implosion in November 2022. But in several hours of cross-examination, Bankman-Fried seemed less believable, claiming over and over that he didn’t remember statements and documents, and relying on answers like “I’