All Things Internet: The Big Players & The Issues
The world has grown increasingly connected over the past few decades and a huge chunk of our lives are online. We cover the companies you care about: YouTube, Google, Amazon, and the issues you care about: NBN, IoT, social media, privacy and security.
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Most OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit After Microsoft Hires Sam Altman
The ousting of Sam Altman imploded OpenAI, and now its staff wants the board to resign or else.
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Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving Is a Dumb, Disgusting Delight
The idea for Eli Roth to make a horror movie about Thanksgiving was originally a joke. Several holidays are synonymous with Hollywood horror. Halloween, of course. Christmas has a few movies. Valentine’s Day too. But Thanksgiving? That’s so silly. Or is it? While every frame of Thanksgiving, which is now in theaters, has the zest…
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It’s Time to Say Goodbye to Clyde, Discord’s AI Chatbot
Discord is shutting down its AI chatbot, Clyde, in December. Considering it was introduced just earlier this year, why it’s being shut down so soon is unclear. Clyde was announced in March as an experimental feature. In a presentation to the press, Discord showed how users can invoke it in chat by typing @Clyde followed…
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NASA Probe Transmits Groundbreaking Laser Message From 10 Million Miles Away
A gold-capped laser transceiver attached to the asteroid probe Psyche saw its first light on Tuesday, sending and receiving data through laser beams from far beyond the Moon for the first time. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment beamed data encoded within a near-infrared laser from nearly 10 million miles in deep space (16…