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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Trustpilot has published its first transparency report as the veracity of online reviews has been the subject of increased scrutiny. In 2020, 39 million reviews were posted to Trustpilot, and of those, the firm has said that 2.2 million were removed for being “fake or harmful”. 1.5 million were removed by its fraud detection software.
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Bitcoin’s value fell around 17% on Tuesday, sparking investors to sell off their assets across cryptocurrency markets. Bitcoin’s value pushed to around $58,000 after Tesla invested $1.5bn into Bitcoin earlier this month, but this may lead to pressure on the company’s stock price as the company has exposed itself to risk in the cryptocurrency’s volatile
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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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An email app has revealed that two-thirds of the messages it reviews contain hidden tracking pixels. Tracking pixels are tiny invisible images embedded by link within images, but stored on a remote server. When emails are opened, the email application makes a request to the remote server, giving the sender information about who is viewing
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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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Which?, the UK based consumer rights champion, has found during an investigation that Amazon Marketplace reviews are easily bought for as little as £5 per review. These were also available in bulk, starting at £620 for 50 fake reviews and going up to £8,000 for 1,000. The sites that Which? found offered advice on how
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