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A group of European cities located within a five-hour train journey from London may transform into a unicorn-producing hub to compete with Silicon Valley, claims tech investor Saul Klein. FOR MORE THAN a decade, the tech sector has been pursuing unicorns—those hard-to-find startups worth over $1 billion. The fixation started in 2013, when Aileen Lee—a…
Bots that “strip clothing” from pictures have proliferated on the messaging app, enabling individuals to generate nonconsensual deepfake images despite efforts from lawmakers and tech firms to address the issue. IN EARLY 2020, deepfake specialist Henry Ajder discovered one of the initial Telegram bots created to “strip” images of women through artificial intelligence. Ajder remembers…
Global Intelligence asserts that its Cybercheck technology aids law enforcement in uncovering crucial evidence to strengthen a case. However, an inquiry shows that the incriminating evidence frequently seems much weaker. RIGHT AFTER 9 pm on an August evening in 2020, Kimberly Thompson and Brian James drove the car into a driveway in Akron, Ohio, and…
The passing of an American woman using Philip Nitschke’s newest device highlights the upcoming frontier in the right-to-die discussion. THE WORLD’S FIRST assisted suicide pod encases the human body similar to a space capsule, gently angling upwards toward the sky. According to its creator, Australian right-to-die advocate Philip Nitschke, the device is meant to appear…
Tesla’s problematic electric pickup cannot be sold in Europe, but a slightly altered version has managed to obtain a license. A coalition of European transportation associations asserts that this journey might lead to calamity. THE EUROPEAN NEW Car Assessment Program (Euro NCAP) has not yet evaluated, examined, weighed, or crashed a Tesla Cybertruck—or assessed if…
The emerging advancement in large language models is their capability to “reason” through challenges. Recent studies from Apple indicate it’s not exactly what it’s made out to be. For some time, organizations such as OpenAI and Google have been promoting sophisticated “reasoning” abilities as the next major advancement in their newest artificial intelligence models. At…
