Figure makes digital payments firm the most valuable private business to come out of US tech hub The digital payments firm Stripe has been valued at $95bn after a funding round that makes the company the most valuable private business to come out of Silicon Valley. The company, which is dual-headquartered in San Francisco and …
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The departure of two members of the tech firm’s ethical artificial intelligence team exposes the conflict at the heart of its business model If I told you that an academic paper entitled “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots” had caused an epochal row involving one of the most powerful companies in the world, you’d have …
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The father of the world wide web talks about its first 30 years, the rise of the toxic internet – and whether Facebook needs to be broken up Zoom being Zoom, Tim Berners-Lee’s name appears in my browser window about 20 seconds before his audio and video feed kick in – and for a brief …
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New services mean you can have a greener vehicle on your driveway for little commitment You’ve already got a monthly Netflix subscription, and maybe a veg box delivery service. So why wouldn’t you start leasing an electric car on the same month-to-month terms? Hot on the heels of bicycle and other monthly subscription services, drivers …
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From animated cats and sex tapes to major albums, artists are using NFTs to sell their work. But why? If you go by the headlines, there’s a trading boom in something called non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Grimes has sold $6m of art via NFTs; Kings of Leon will be releasing their new album as two types …
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Holmes is on trial for allegedly defrauding investors, doctors and patients while at the helm of blood-testing startup The alleged Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes is pregnant, according to a new court filing, potentially delaying her trial by several weeks. Continue reading… Holmes is on trial for allegedly defrauding investors, doctors and patients while at the …
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Artists have been dismayed to find their work ending up in the ‘control’ of others When the virtual auction bell rang at Christie’s on Thursday, Mike Winkelmann, a digital artist better known as Beeple, made history: he had sold a “non-fungible token” representing his piece Everydays: The First 5,000 Days, for $69.4m. But while the …
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Sadly, it has nothing to do with fungus When is an album not an album? Why, when it’s a “non-fungible token”, a new form of digital swag, related to cryptocurrency, being sold by artists and musicians such as Kings of Leon and Grimes. They’re called NFTs for short, but why? Perhaps disappointingly, “fungible” does not …
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Streaming service tests feature that asks viewers if they share household with subscriber Netflix has begun testing a feature that asks viewers whether they share a household with a subscriber, in a move that could lead to crackdown on the widespread practice of sharing passwords among friends and family. Some Netflix users are reported to …
A suicide and a strange bitcoin bequest have opened a window on to the new frontier of extremist online media On 8 December last year, a Frenchman called Laurent Bachelier gave away a total of 28.5 bitcoins – worth $556,000 – to 22 people. On the same day, he killed himself. In suicide notes written …
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