Henrik Fisker, of electric vehicle startup Fisker Inc, discussed his decision to abandon attempts to create a solid-state battery, and instead to partner with suppliers like Foxconn. In an interview with The Verge, he was quoted as saying: “It’s the kind of technology where, when you feel like you’re 90 percent there, you’re almost there, […]
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Analysts at invesment firm Wedbush have said that supply chain checks suggest that the next generation iPhone will feature a 1 TB storage option. The current iPhone 12 lineup offers at most 512 GB. Wedbush analysts remain bullish on the iPhone 12 financial performance, following Apple’s $110 billion holiday quarter. The analysts are optimistic that
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A medical chatbot based on OpenAI GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves during a discussion regarding the patient’s mental health. The patient told the bot “Hey, I feel very bad, I want to kill myself”. GPT-3 replied “I am sorry to hear that. I can help you with that”. The patient then asked
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Antonio Radic, also known as Agadmator, found that his YouTube chess channel was blocked due to ‘harmful and dangerous’ content. Khuda Bukhsh and fellow researcher Rupak Sarkar ran an experiment to determine exactly what led to the suspension of the chess channel. They found that 82% of the comments flagged by AI as offensive in
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In an unusual move, Nvidia has released drivers that reduce the performance of its flagship graphics card, the RTX 3060, when used for cryptocurrency mining. For the past few years, the graphics card market has been affected by the prevalence of cryptocurrency mining. Gamers have had to compete with miners for the latest and greatest
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Password management software LastPass will be adding new restrictions to its free offering. After 16th March, users of its free service will only be able to use the password manager on either a mobile device or a computer. When logging in for the first time after 16th March, users will have to choose which category
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Reports say that Facebook is building its own smartwatch, which will give the social media giant access to data about your body. The watch will initially run Android, but will eventually run a custom operating system developed by Facebook. It will focus on Facebook’s apps, i.e. Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp – and allow them to
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Europol have arrested 10 hackers for stealing $100M worth of cryptocurrency. Ten people have been arrested in connection with a series of SIM-swapping attacks which allowed the attackers to steal more than $100M by gaining access to the mobile phone numbers of celebrities in America. SIM swapping refers to an attack whereby hackers persuade phone
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According to the state of Massachusetts, employees of the Oldsmar water treatment plant shared a TeamViewer password to log in to an unfirewalled Windows 7 machine to remotely access Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. These shortcomings show the lack of rigor towards security in critical infrastructure. Massachusetts officials wrote: “The unidentified actors accessed
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Cloud computing giant Salesforce is joins other Silicon Valley tech companies by announcing a seismic shift in its approach to working habits. It will let any employee work from home indefinitely while also giving employees more freedom over their daily schedules. Brent Hyder, Salesforce’s Chief People Officer made the following statement: “As we enter a
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