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☆ A locked box in a locked space, and out of view from family: This strict list of rules shows Apple is really, really paranoid about early versions of its $3500 Vision Pro being stolen
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Kylie Kirschner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Apple has opened applications for Vision Pro developer kits ahead of its "early 2024" launch. The real answer is the developer kit for Apple's upcoming $3,500 Vision Pro headset. Other developers will use the visionOS simulator that Apple has made available for building Vision Pro apps. Apple unveiled the Vision Pro in early June, and says the product will be available early next year for purchase on its website and at US Apple store locations. The Vision Pro will be the company's first major new product in over eight years, with a starting price of $3,499.

Persons: Apple Watches, Gizmodo Organizations: Apple, Vision Pro, Morning, Vision, US Apple

☆ 10 ways artificial intelligence is changing the workplace, from writing performance reviews to making the 4-day workweek possible
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Here are 10 ways AI tools such as ChatGPT have entered the workplace — and what may come out of it. Nick Patrick, the owner of the music-production company Primal Sounds Productions, told Insider he used ChatGPT to fine-tune legal contracts for clients. "You really got to find time to, like, learn this skill," Nigam previously told Insider. Companies are using AI to write their performance reviewsManagers may find writing performance reviews for their employees a tough task. He told Insider: "Any technology that increases productivity, ChatGPT included, makes a shorter workweek more feasible."

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☆ Twitter abruptly took the @x username from the guy who originally had it. Read the email he was sent offering an 'exclusive visit' to Elon Musk's rebranded X HQ.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Pete Syme | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The owner of the handle, Gene X Hwang, said he'd been willing to trade it. In its rebranding efforts, X — formerly known as Twitter — abruptly took over one of its user accounts with the handle @x on Tuesday night. He'd owned the @x handle since 2007 and has since generated over 53,000 followers on the social media site. X emailed Gene X Hwang that they had taken his handle during their rebranding process. What's more, taking over the @x handle appears to be the least of the social media's rebranding woes.

Persons: Gene X Hwang, he'd, X, Twitter —, He'd, Hwang, that's, he's, Elon Musk, Gizmodo Organizations: Twitter, Tesla, SpaceX, X, Telegraph, Meta, San Francisco Police Department Locations: San Francisco

☆ AI is supposed to make our jobs easier. These workers disagree
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“In the next few years, the main impact of AI on work will be to help people do their jobs more efficiently,” Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said in a blog post recently. Big Tech companies are now rushing to jump on the AI bandwagon, pledging significant investments into new AI-powered tools that promise to streamline work. News outlet CNET had to issue “substantial” corrections earlier this year after experimenting with using an AI tool to write stories. Others like Clarke, the publisher, have tried to combat the fallout from the rise of AI by relying on more AI. “You listen to these AI experts, they go on about how these things are going to do amazing breakthroughs in different fields,” Clarke said.

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☆ Google is building an AI tool for journalists
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Google is developing an artificial intelligence tool for news publishers that can generate article text and headlines, the company said, highlighting how the technology may soon transform the journalism industry. The tech giant said in a statement that it is looking to partner with news outlets on the AI tool’s use in newsrooms. But these tools, which are trained on information online, have also raised concerns because of their potential to get facts wrong or “hallucinate” responses. News outlet CNET had to issue “substantial” corrections earlier this year after experimenting with using an AI tool to write stories. But both outlets have said they will still move forward with using the technology.

Persons: “, Gizmodo Organizations: CNN, Google, Gmail, The New York Times, The Times, Washington Post, News Corp, Street, CNET Locations: newsrooms

☆ AI can't even tell you the chronological order of 'Star Wars' movies
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A recent article on the "Star Wars" films had numerous errors, The Washington Post reported. The story was one of five articles published using Google's Bard and OpenAI's ChatGPT technologies as the outlet pilots new AI initiatives, a representative of Gizmodo told Insider. These will all be designed to complement our journalism and give our editorial teams new tools to serve our audiences." Gizmodo reporters weren't the only ones angered at the flub — readers, too, expressed their dissatisfaction with the AI creation. At the same time, outlets — including Insider — have announced new initiatives to experiment with AI, with editorial procedures in place meant to prevent errors from being published.

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☆ Salesforce wants employees back in the office so badly that it's donating $10 to local charities for every day an employee comes into work
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Nidhi Pandurangi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Salesforce really wants its employees back in the office. It's willing to fork out up to $2.5 million in return for employees showing up to the office, Fortune reported. The company said it will donate $10 to a local charity per day an employee shows up between June 12 and June 23. Salesforce aims to raise between $1 million and $2.5 million through these efforts. The company previously required 65% of its workforce to come to the office three or four days a week, per Gizmodo.

Persons: Salesforce, Fortune, —, Gizmodo, Marc Benioff Organizations: Service, Fortune, Company, CNBC, Good

☆ Florida passes bill to prevent billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos being sued if their mega-rockets kill or injure people
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Florida passed a bill protecting space companies in case of injury or death of a crew member. The bill comes as more billionaires are trying to make commercial space flight a reality. Passengers will have to sign a waiver stating they understand the risks of spaceflight before boarding a spaceship, the bill states. Jeff Sharkey, a lobbyist representing SpaceX, also stood in support of the bill at a March 26 hearing, per Florida Politics. Still, the bill doesn't abrogate space companies from all responsibility.

☆ News startup Messenger launches with Trump 'exclusive' while advertisers expressed skepticism ahead of debut: 'We can't have another Quibi'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Jimmy Finkelstein's startup The Messenger launched today with a Trump interview leading the site. Advertisers said it'll be tough to sell ads on a site without an established audience. The site led with an interview with former President Donald Trump and ads from the American Petroleum Institute. The Messenger said it'll roll out seven other verticals including business, entertainment, and sports later in the year. Image from The Messenger's launch ad campaign.

☆ The Messenger, Jimmy Finkelstein's digital news startup, meets advertiser skepticism ahead of May 15 launch: 'We can't have another Quibi'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Jimmy Finkelstein's startup The Messenger will roll out an ad campaign touting its mission to provide unbiased news. An ad campaign by Publicis unit Le Truc will kick off May 22 and is designed to provoke, with copy like "Agendas are for meetings. Image from The Messenger's launch ad campaign. The Messenger said it'll have three to four big advertisers at launch as well as a significant amount of programmatic advertising. The Messenger's ad campaign promotes its ambitions to provide unbiased news.

☆ Frank Ocean fans, starved for new music, allegedly paid money for so-called leaked tracks. Turns out they were AI-generated
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Will Gendron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The incident follows fake song releases from the likes of Drake and Travis Scott. This recently led to a scammer making thousands, peddling so-called leaked Ocean tracks on Discord that were actually generated by AI, according to Motherboard. Some artists are open to AI-generated music using their likeness. Discord servers have served as a kind of refuge for music-based communities to compile leaked songs from artists. The practice of selling leaked songs is illegal.

☆ Google employees who tested its ChatGPT rival Bard reportedly called it 'cringeworthy' and a 'pathological liar,' and said the AI's responses could 'result in serious injury or death'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google employees who tested Bard called it "cringeworthy" and a "pathological liar," per Bloomberg. Google employees tasked with testing their employer's AI chatbot Bard were not all that pleased by what they found, according to Bloomberg. After testing the bot, one employee reportedly called Bard "cringeworthy," and another called it a "pathological liar," according to screenshots of internal discussions obtained by Bloomberg. Google employees called the announcement "rushed" and "botched." Read Bloomberg's full report on Google employees' responses to Bard here

☆ ChatGPT needs to 'drink' a water bottle's worth of fresh water for every 20 to 50 questions you ask, researchers say
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Will Gendron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Training GPT-3 requires water to stave off the heat produced during the computational process. Every 20 to 50 questions, ChatGPT servers need to "drink" the equivalent of a 16.9 oz water bottle. While training GPT-3 in its data centers, Microsoft was estimated to have used 700,000 liters — or about 185,000 gallons — of fresh water. When asked about LaMDA's water usage, Google pointed to a November 2022 report that published 2021 data on the broad consumption of water across data centers. "While it is impossible to know the actual water footprint without detailed information from Google, our estimate shows that the total water footprint of training LaMDA is in the order of million liters," the researchers wrote.

☆ Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Crypto fans just celebrated the bitcoin inventor's birthday and his legend is as mysterious as ever.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Phil Rosen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Satoshi Nakamoto is said to be the inventor of bitcoin and wrote the token's original white paper in 2008. Nakamoto's paper, "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System," was published in October 2008. In his white paper, Nakamoto cited the work of Stuart Haber, a computer scientist credited with helping invent blockchain technology. A Newsweek article in 2014 said that Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, a Japanese American man living in California, was the elusive inventor of bitcoin. After the article published, Nakamoto's online account revived itself after a five-year hiatus, stating: "I am not Dorian Nakamoto."

☆ Bing AI's celebrity mode helped me speak to 7 famous stars, politicians, and fictional characters. Some were too robotic, while others were pretty convincing.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-12 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Users of Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot recently discovered that it has a celebrity mode. The celebrity mode allows users to impersonate celebrities. The celebrity mode, first reported by BleepingComputer last week, is part of a series of secret modes users can access with Bing AI. The feature can be turned on by typing "Bing Celebrity Mode" or by simply asking the chatbot to impersonate a celebrity. In celebrity mode, you can spark friendly conversations, ask questions, or even annoy your favorite stars.

☆ A puzzle aficionado used ChatGPT to create a new game that's basically 'reverse Sudoku'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Grace Mayer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The popular AI chatbot created 'Sumplete,' a game its human creator described as a "reverse Sudoku." Since the game launched last week, it has already attracted thousands of players. The AI chatbot then created 'Sumplete,' which Tait described as a "reverse Sudoku." After ChatGPT spit out a list of five games he was already familiar with, Tait prompted ChatGPT to create a puzzle game entirely from scratch. To Tait's knowledge, there is no other existing iteration of this "reverse Sudoku" game.

☆ 'Truth serum' drugs do exist. Here's how medicines like sodium pentothal and scopolamine can manipulate the brain.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Jessica Orwig | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Numerous accounts and scientific reports suggest that you're more prone to tell the truth under the effects of truth serum drugs, but the drugs have other side effects. Furthermore, not only are truth serum drugs not all that useful, they are illegal under certain circumstances, including interrogation. A truth serum experimentTo find out if truth serum works, TV journalist Michael Mosley experienced it for himself in 2013. To investigate sodium thiopental, one of the more popular truth serum drugs, Mosley took two different doses of it. The future of truth-telling drugsThere may be a more powerful truth serum drug out there that researchers have yet to discover.

☆ FDA says sugary cereal and white bread no longer 'healthy'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Those changes mean that food companies could no longer market white bread as well as sugary cereals and yogurt as "healthy," according to the FDA. Sources of omega-3 fatty acids such as fish, for example, would get the "healthy" designation because of potential health benefits from that type of fat. The revised definition of "healthy" isn't a requirement for food companies, according to the FDA. Even so, many food companies closely follow nonbinding FDA guidelines. Another set of proposed FDA guidelines for plant-based milks, for example, drew ire from the dairy industry this week.

☆ Twitter's team focused on ethics rushed to publish research papers before Elon Musk's takeover fearing he would lay them off, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Twitter's AI ethics team hurriedly published studies in the weeks before Elon Musk's takeover, Wired reported. The team feared "the runway would shut down when the Elon jumbo jet landed," one ex-staffer told Wired. In Musk's first week owning Twitter, he laid-off most of the team, known internally as META. "We were rightfully worried about what this leadership change would entail," Rumman Chowdhury, who was engineering director on the team, told Wired. Employees told Wired that several more papers on misinformation and algorithms were quickly published too around the time of the takeover.

☆ Amazon removes Nazi and neo-Nazi items after human-rights group protests
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-14 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon has since removed the items, but more related products remain, Gizmodo reported. The Simon Wiesenthal Center blasted Amazon for "monetizing Nazi and Neo-Nazi paraphernalia" on its website in a Thursday blog post. The human-rights organization said Amazon allowed various businesses to market and sell items associated with neo-Nazis, including swastika necklaces and face masks. The Simon Wiesenthal CenterCooper went on to note a letter the SWC sent to Amazon in 2022 for featuring 30 films the organization deemed as Nazi propaganda on Amazon Prime. In 2019, Amazon removed Christmas ornaments featuring the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, according to a report from Insider.

☆ As Elon Musk finalized his Twitter deal, company founder Jack Dorsey launched a beta for his new social media company
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Jack Dorsey's decentralized social media platform, Bluesky Social, is accepting beta users. The news coincides with Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, which Dorsey founded and ran for several years. Dorsey left Twitter in 2021 and named Parag Agrawal as his successor, whom Musk fired shortly after taking over this week. Dorsey's blockchain-based Bluesky Social announced last Tuesday that it's launching soon and is currently enlisting users for beta testing. Dorsey had said in 2019 that Twitter was funding work into developing "an open and decentralized standard for social media."

☆ Audiences are still discovering John Carpenter's cult classic 'Prince of Darkness' 35 years later
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Mike Calia | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

John Carpenter is the king of Halloween. A lucrative new trilogy of "Halloween" sequels to his 1978 original just wrapped up with "Halloween Ends," which Carpenter helped score and executive produce. But this year, one of Carpenter's more obscure movies, "Prince of Darkness," which teems with insects and metaphysical dread, is having a moment and finding new audiences. The movie's 35th anniversary was just last weekend, in the heart of the peak time for scary movies. That's quite a turnaround for "Prince of Darkness," which critics panned when it was released in 1987.

☆ A 23-year-old, self-described 'Crypto King' reportedly had his Lamborghini, BMWs, and McLarens seized after investors sued him claiming he stole $35 million
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Aiden Pleterski, who calls himself "Crypto King," had $2 million of assets seized, CBC Toronto reports. Now, he's being sued by former investors in a bankruptcy proceeding and two civil lawsuits. The seized assets of the man, Aiden Pleterski, include his Lamborghini, two McLarens, and two BMWs, CBC Toronto first reported. A lawyer for Pleterski told CBC Toronto that Pleterski thinks the claims against him by former investors are "wildly exaggerated." In a meeting with creditors, Pleterski reportedly told them he was "very unorganized," and didn't keep records of his investments.

☆ Un parazit se răspândește de la câini la oameni; Boala parazitară asemănătoare cancerului
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-25 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +3 min

Sursa foto: ProfimediaUn parazit se răspândește de la câini la oameni; Boala parazitară asemănătoare canceruluiUn parazit care se poate transimte de la câini la oameni s-a răspândit deja în Canada, avertizează experții. Potrivit unor cercetări recente, o boală parazitară asemănătoare cancerului, cauzată de tenie, a fost identificată la pacienții din provincia canadiană Alberta. Cercetătorii cred că parazitul a fost adus de câini, din Europa, și că acum își face simțită prezența în America de Nord. Sunt foarte îngrijorat de faptul că am putea asista la o nouă creștere a valului”, a adăugat Houston. Potrivit noului articol, o nouă tulpină a parazitului, care este mai capabilă să se răspândească și să îmbolnăvească oamenii, a fost depistată în Canada.

Persons: Stan Houston, Houston Organizations: Universitatea din, American Journal, Tropical, News Locations: Canada, canadiană Alberta, Europa, America de Nord, Alberta, Universitatea din Alberta, Tropical Medicine, Houston, Gizmodo, China

In October, Elon Musk proclaimed that in 2024 humans would set foot on Mars. An essay published in 1953 tells of how a leader titled "Elon" would lead humans to the planet. In 1953, a book was published that predicted plans for an "Elon" to take humans to Mars. On December 30, Musk quoted a popular line from "Young Frankenstein" on Twitter: "Destiny, destiny. Business Insider EspañaIn a temporary update to his Twitter profile, Musk proclaimed himself imperator of Mars.

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