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☆ Is Big Tech’s R&D Spending Actually Hurting Innovation in the U.S.?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The moment Noam Bardin , former chief executive of navigation app Waze, knew that life at a big company would be profoundly different from running a startup came soon after he sold his company to Google. “The first few weeks after the acquisition, we began dealing with the bewildering corporate bureaucracy,” says Mr. Bardin. “What seems natural at a corporation—multiple approvers and meetings for each decision—is completely alien in the startup environment: make quick decisions, change them quickly if you are wrong.”

☆ Israel's president became the first world leader to publicly use ChatGPT when he gave a speech partly written by the AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Isaac Herzog, the Israeli president, delivered a speech partly-written by ChatGPT on Wednesday. Herzog opened his speech with an intro written by ChatGPT. He then ended the speech with a ChatGPT generated "inspirational quote" about AI. During his speech, Herzog also emphasized that AI will not replace humans, despite using it to write part of it. The president also used ChatGPT to end his speech with an "inspirational quote," Sky News reported.

☆ Twitter alternatives like Mastadon see downloads plunge
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Long before Elon Musk came along, Twitter users bemoaned the service yet remained addicted to it. It is a text-based social platform, or "microblogging" site, home to independent servers, or "instances." In early November, the hashtag TwitterMigration was trending on Mastodon for several days as Twitter users set up accounts amid Musk's chaotic takeover. Daily users have held steady though, at 1.4 million, a major increase from its usage prior to Musk's takeover of Twitter, which typically hovered around 20,000 daily users. Downloads of the iOS app have grown 290,000% to 1.5 million since Oct. 24, with daily users up 660,000% to 321,000, according to Apptopia data.

☆ Twitter alternatives that got traction after Elon Musk takeover are suddenly seeing downloads plunge. Which has staying power and who is the next Clubhouse?
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Long before Elon Musk came along, Twitter users bemoaned the service yet remained addicted to it. It is a text-based social platform, or "microblogging" site, home to independent servers, or "instances." In early November, the hashtag TwitterMigration was trending on Mastodon for several days as Twitter users set up accounts amid Musk's chaotic takeover. Daily users have held steady though, at 1.4 million, a major increase from its usage prior to Musk's takeover of Twitter, which typically hovered around 20,000 daily users. Yet, it has maintained more than 500,000 daily users.

☆ Google to merge mapping service Waze with maps products teams
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Dec 8 (Reuters) - Google said on Thursday it will merge teams working on mapping service Waze and products like Google Maps, effective Dec. 9, in a bid to consolidate processes. The Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O)-owned company will integrate Waze, which it acquired in 2013 for $1 billion, into Google Geo, its portfolio of real-world mapping products that include Google Maps, Google Earth, and Street View, a Google spokesperson said. Waze CEO Neha Parikh will exit the company following a transition period, Google said, adding that Waze will continue to be a standalone app, with about 151 million monthly active users worldwide. "By bringing the Waze team into Geo's portfolio of real-world mapping products, the teams will benefit from further increased technical collaboration," the spokesperson said. In a letter dated July 12, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said the company would streamline processes and consolidate investments where they overlap.

☆ Google Combines Maps and Waze Teams Amid Pressure to Cut Costs
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Miles Kruppa | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Alphabet Inc.’s Google plans to combine the team working on the mapping service Waze with the group overseeing the company’s Maps product, as the search giant faces pressure to streamline operations and cut costs. Google plans to merge Waze’s more than 500 employees with the company’s Geo organization, which oversees the Maps, Earth and Street View products, beginning on Friday, according to a Google spokeswoman.

☆ How Google's Waze has changed from its early days as car travel is remade
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Barbara Collins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Waze, the crowdsourcing navigation app, is continuing to find ways to make frustrating road bumps a little more bearable. Waze users – also known as "Wazers" – provide information on things like stopped cars, road work, gas prices and police activity during their commutes. The addition of Waze to the Google portfolio was expected to help Google improve features on its own navigation app, Google Maps. Despite these challenges, innovations within the app have kept Waze users consistently coming back to the platform. Partnerships with popular music streaming services such as Spotify, Pandora and iHeartRadio allow Waze users to stream music directly through the Waze app as they navigate to their destination.

☆ Listenbourg is the hottest country on social media right now. The catch? It doesn't exist.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Kahlan-Rosenblatt.Jpg | Kalhan Rosenblatt | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

In their first tweet about the country, @gaspardooo wrote, "Je suis sûr que les américains ne connaissent même pas le nom de ce pays ptdrrr." As the Listenbourg post gains traction on social media, the lore around the fictional country grows. One user shared a made-up flag of Listenbourg, sharing fake historical moments and images of former leaders of the nation. Another Twitter user shared a photoshopped image of Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson appearing to talk about Listenbourg. French TikToker HugoDeCrypte posted a video about Listenbourg to his 3.3 million followers, which has been viewed more than 4.2 million times and liked more than 636,000 times.

☆ See the exclusive 22-slide pitch deck that AI company 4M Analytics used to raise $45 million in Series A funding
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

4M Analytics uses AI and other tools to create its 'Google maps' for underground utilities. 4M Analytics, which uses technology and resources like artificial intelligence, satellite imagery and records to locate underground utility infrastructure, has raised a total of more than $45 million in Series A funding. The latest was an extension of its Series A round — led by Insight Partners and ITI Venture Capital Partners — which raised some $30 million. "We saw the market of subsurface utility engineering and the manually intensive processes of creating maps," Malka said. 4M Analytics' technology to create these underground maps does not use sensors — it uses just satellite imagery, records, and a data engine to identify utility infrastructure underground, according to the company.

☆ Ремонт дорог в стиле руководства Бельц – заблокированы основные городские магистрали – Цензура МД
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-24 | by ( ) cenzura.md time to read: +2 min

Регионы Ремонт дорог в стиле руководства Бельц – заблокированы основные городские магистралиЖитель Бельц Роман Федоров опубликовал в социальной сети сообщение, в котором рассказал о ситуации, сложившейся в «северной столице» Молдовы. Однако, все происходит в традиционном для нынешнего руководства города стиле – из-за того, что все делается в спешке и непродуманно, заблокированными оказались практически все основные магистрали города, что привело к транспортному коллапсу в городе. Правильно – тут же перекрыть самую главную», – пишет Роман Федоров. Также он приводит и другой пример абсолютно непродуманного подхода со стороны руководства города: «Участок дороги от БАСМА до бывшего Банка де Економий перекрыт. Правильно – обновлять как можно чаще информацию о перекрытых на ремонт дорогах и тогда Скайнет решит за вас задачи логистики городского движения, но это пока слишком футуристично, что ли…», – размышляет Роман Федоров.

Persons: Бельц, Роман Федоров, де Економий, Дечебал, Скайнет Organizations: БАСМА, Банк Locations: Бельц, Молдова

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