Every passing day becomes testier for TikTok. The social app bans several deepfake accounts before its CEO testifies before Congress. First, former President Donald Trump wanted TikTok sold. The Biden administration bans TikTok from government devices. Now, Mark Warner introduces the Restrict Act, a ridiculously broad and sweeping piece of legislation that gives the government...
To be filed in the, well duh column. Hackers attacked crypto ATM machines made by General Bytes to steal millions in Bitcoins from would be users. What Happened? Crypto ATMs work differently than a standard ATM machine. Instead of an ATM debit card, users enter credentials to connect to a Crypto Application Server that manages...
Microsoft is soft-pushing a new AI assistant destined to change the way professionals work. Copilot is an AI-powered assistant for Microsoft Office. The assistant will help you write cleaner documents and teach you how to use Office products while doing it. What Is Copilot? Software engineers using Microsoft’s software development tool, Visual Studio, have had...
For more information on ChatGPT and GPTs read our previous article. It’s been a long time since I’ve been this geeked out about a technology. I haven’t been this excited since the Pentium. I’m going to try my hardest to write this article hype-free, but it’s damned hard. I haven’t geeked out about performance specs...
This should really be a story for our resident Emcee, Khalil Williams, but I beat him to it. Vinyl albums outsold CDs last year for the first time since CDs began overtaking the market. Vinyl records were once the last bastion of authentic sounds for audiophiles still buying vacuum tube receivers, but an abundance of...
To quote Warren G, or maybe it should be Young Guns, “…Regulators!! Mount up.” Just when things start getting interesting, corporations remove safeguards that protect society. On Tuesday, news escaped Microsoft that it fired an AI ethics team responsible for ensuring AI-powered products ship with safeguards that protect society. This news comes as Microsoft RIFs...
If you’re reading this, the first 3D printed rocket may have blasted off. Relativity Space is a company trying to revolutionize how rockets are built. The company has been trying to get its 3D printed rocket off the ground since 2019. They are really, really close. Yesterday’s launch was aborted due to an automatic launch...
Again for those in the back. Mapp’s Modus on Machines After being ridiculed in the AI press, Google answers with PaLM-E. PaLM-E is a visual language model. This type of model incorporates computer vision with language. This allows someone to control a robot using plain English commands instead of low-level programming. How Does It Work...
Last week’s big TikTok news saw the US House Foreign Affairs Committee granting President Joe Biden broad powers to ban TikTok from American phones. Since then, 30 US states, Canada and EU have banned TikTok from government phones. How Will TikTok Keep Data Out of China By keeping in user countries… TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, announced...
The US House Foreign Affairs Committee voted along party lines (24-16 R) to give the Biden administration the authority to ban TikTok. This represents the most far reaching restriction on any social networking app in the United States. The TikTok controversy began in the Trump administration when he was personally leading the charge to have...