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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OpenAI Employee Discovers Eliza Effect, Gets Emotional
Designing a program in such a way that it can truly convince someone that another human is on the other side of the screen has been a goal of AI developers since the concept took its first steps toward reality. Research company OpenAI recently announced that its flagship product ChatGPT would be getting eyes, ears,…
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eBay Accused of Selling Thousands of Environmentally Harmful Products
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a lawsuit against eBay, Inc. in a Brooklyn Court on Wednesday for allegedly violating the Clean Air Act and other environmental laws and for permitting users to sell harmful products that don’t align with automobile pollution controls. The complaint, filed on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,…
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Snoop Dogg’s a Dungeon Master and All of Meta’s Other AI Announcements
Every tech company in existence is currently racing to cram as much AI into their product base as possible, so it’s not at all surprising that Meta’s annual Connect event was flush with such developments this year. In addition to a number of new VR and “metaverse”-adjacent products and features, Meta’s pale commander and chief,…
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Discord’s Outage Has Been Resolved
Discord is currently experience server and voice communications issues.