For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Twitter removed two tweets by Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro that reportedly included videos of the politician questioning social distancing and quarantine measures aimed at slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus, a sign that the company is taking …
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Days after a report suggested that a billionaire activist investor wanted to replace Jack Dorsey as Twitter’s CEO, another company’s chief executive came to Dorsey’s defense. Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk, a constant tweeter with more than 30 million followers — sent an affectionate tweet late Monday. “Just want say that I support @Jack as Twitter CEO. He has …
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Twitter isn’t adding an edit button anytime soon, but Jack Dorsey is open to change. The microblogging site’s CEO asked Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk — a constant tweeter and one of its most popular users, with more than 30 million followers — to suggest some improvements. Thousands of Twitter employees watched as Dorsey video-called Musk from a company …
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Designing your own chips is hard. But Tesla, one of the most aggressive developers of autonomous vehicle technology, thinks it’s worth it. The company shared details Tuesday about how it fine-tuned the design of its AI chips so two of them are smart enough to power its cars’ upcoming “full self-driving” abilities. Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk and his colleagues revealed …
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Microsoft has invested $1 billion in OpenAI and reached a multiyear deal with the artificial intelligence research startup to jointly develop new supercomputing tech, the companies said Monday. OpenAI will run its services on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. San Francisco-based OpenAI, which launched in 2015, has repeatedly emphasized its focus on the ethical use of artificial intelligence that “benefits all of …
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Amazon has taken another step toward providing global broadband internet from space through its Project Kuiper. The company filed paperwork with the US government to launch the thousands of satellites needed for the plan. Amazon submitted its application with the FCC for Project Kuiper on July 4. The internet heavyweight asked the commission for permission to “launch and operate a …
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Computer storage technology has moved from wires with magnets to hard disks to 3D stacks of memory chips. But the next storage technology might use an approach as old as life on earth: DNA. Startup Catalog announced Friday it’s crammed all of the text of Wikipedia’s English-language version onto the same genetic molecules our own bodies use. It accomplished the …
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An image of a Tesla edition of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 10 is apparently fake, with a render being traced back to a YouTube creator. The YouTuber produced the picture as a theoretical concept of a Tesla-Samsung partnership, Tom’s Guide reported Friday. Weibo had earlier said the Tesla Galaxy Note 10 device would be launching in future. Samsung’s Galaxy …
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The Twitter account of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long been one of the wackier places on the internet. Musk might’ve taken it a step further, changing his Twitter handle to Daddy DotCom and tweeting that he was done with the social media site. “Just deleted my Twitter account,” Musk tweeted early Monday. Just deleted my Twitter account — Daddy …
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Artificial intelligence is ubiquitous. Mobile maps route us through traffic, algorithms can now pilot automobiles, virtual assistants help us smoothly toggle between work and life, and smart code is adept at surfacing our next our new favorite song. But AI could prove dangerous, too. Tesla CEO Elon Musk once warned that biased, unmonitored and unregulated AI could be the “greatest …
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