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Ailan Evans Tesla’s new vehicle factory in Austin, Texas, is racking up a considerable price tag. The facility, which Tesla calls the “Gigafactory,” is estimated to cost roughly $1.06 billion, with much of the factory expected to be completed by Dec. 31, according to filings with the Texas Department…
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Ailan Evans Miami will soon start paying its citizens in Bitcoin, the city’s mayor, Francis Suarez, announced Thursday. “We’re going to be the first city in America to give a bitcoin yield as a dividend directly to its residents,” Suarez said in an interview with CoinDesk. The…
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Ailan Evans Foreign hackers are suspected of breaching several organizations, including defense contractors, and accessing sensitive information, according to a report by cybersecurity researchers. Hackers stole documents from at least nine entities in the technology, defense, healthcare, energy, and education industries after first breaching the…
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Ailan Evans Microsoft was ridiculed on social media Thursday for including land acknowledgments, pronoun statements and references to hairstyles in its corporate introductions. While giving presentations during the Microsoft Ignite 2021 conference on Tuesday, Microsoft employees recognized that the land they were currently standing on previously belonged to Native…
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Ailan Evans Facebook announced Tuesday it was shutting down its Face Recognition system and deleting the scans of over one billion people’s faces. Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence at Facebook, announced the changes in a blog post Tuesday, citing the technology’s possible negative effects as…
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Ailan Evans Tesla issued a recall Tuesday for nearly 12,000 vehicles due to a communication glitch in the cars’ self-driving software program. The recall notice, published on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) website Tuesday, points to up to 11,704 cars in its “Full-Self Driving…
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Ailan Evans Despite recent unfavorable media coverage and intensifying Congressional scrutiny, social media interactions with news stories about Facebook declined over the course of 2021, according to data from NewsWhip reported by Axios. The most popular news stories about Facebook since March 2021 each involved…
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User experience is a broad subject. Anyone who practices UX design needs skills in several different fields. It’s impossible to cover the whole subject in one article, but there are some of the most important tips that every UX designer should know. Image – free…
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Ailan Evans Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday the tech giant was changing its name to “Meta.” Zuckerberg announced the name change at the Facebook Connect 2021 conference. The new name reflects Zuckerberg’s goal to reorient his social media company to a technology conglomerate with several…
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Ailan Evans Facebook announced a research project Thursday that aims to develop an artificial intelligence capable of perceiving the world like a human being. The project, titled Ego4D, aims to train an artificial intelligence (AI) to perceive the world in the first-person by analyzing a constant stream of…
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