Month: April 2023

Computer-generated inclusivity: fashion turns to ‘diverse’ AI models

Fashion brands including Levi’s and Calvin Klein are having custom AI models created to ‘supplement’ representation in size, skin tone and age The star of Levi’s new campaign looks like any other model . Her tousled hair hangs over her shouldersas she gazes into the camera with that far-off high-fashion stare. But look closer, and …

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Tesla posts record vehicle deliveries but price cuts fail to supercharge sales

Rising competition and bleak economic outlook drag down sales despite Elon Musk’s price-cutting gamble Tesla on Sunday posted record quarterly vehicle deliveries, but quarter-on-quarter sales growth was modest despite price cuts as rising competition and a bleak economic outlook weighed. The electric carmaker delivered 422,875 vehicles for the first three months of this year, up …

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Twitter legacy blue ticks remain despite Elon Musk’s subscription threat

Removal of verification badges reportedly could take a long time as it may involve many manual elements Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Twitter has so far not followed through on an announcement that it would remove blue …

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I am being terrorised by my robot vacuum cleaner | Emma Beddington

Morning, noon and night, it’s there, whirring and whirling around. It’s so industrious I feel simultaneously scared and shamed In domestic news, an issue has arisen with the robot vacuum cleaner. Our noisy old one annoyed me so much, bashing repeatedly into the skirting and swallowing rug tassels in confusion, that I stamped violently on …

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Social media analyst Emily Hund: ‘We can never know the truth behind an influencer’s seeming authenticity’

Today influencers sell ideas about science and medicine as well as products. But the integrity on which their status rests, says the US author, is as unknowable as the algorithms that push their content In the early 00s, Emily Hund dreamed of a career as a journalist at a glossy fashion magazine. But after internships …

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AI has much to offer humanity. It could also wreak terrible harm. It must be controlled | Stuart Russell

Systems with abilities exceeding human capacity have been let loose. If big tech firms refuse to see the risks governments must step in In case you have been somewhere else in the solar system, here is a brief AI news update. My apologies if it sounds like the opening paragraph of a bad science fiction …

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Programmers, beware: ChatGPT has ruined your magic trick | John Naughton

The generative AI tool can write code on request, making the specialist skill of programming open to everyone Benedict Evans, a tech analyst whose newsletter is required reading for those who follow the industry, made an interesting point this week. He had, he said, been talking to generalist journalists who “were still under the impression …

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From Hamas warnings to VIP perks and criminal clients: the US regulator’s claims against Binance

Just months after the FTX collapse, a US watchdog is suing Changpeng Zhao’s firm, the world’s biggest digital-asset market, over a slew of allegations that make jaw-dropping reading Binance is the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and a cornerstone of the $1tn digital asset market. It has 128 million customers, handles $65bn in daily trades and …

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