Economy

November 8, 2022
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Starlink announces 1TB monthly cap, users who go over will get slower speeds

Enlarge / The new version of Dishy McFlatface. (credit: Starlink) Starlink is imposing new data-usage limits on its Internet customers,…
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November 7, 2022
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Hacker took pains to hide $3.36B of stolen bitcoin. Feds found it anyway

Enlarge / Bitcoin laundering concept vector illustration. Federal prosecutors have recovered $3.36 billion in bitcoin that was stolen a decade…
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November 7, 2022
103

New Go-playing trick defeats world-class Go AI—but loses to human amateurs

Enlarge / Go pieces and a rulebook on a Go board. (credit: Getty Images) In the world of deep-learning AI,…
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November 6, 2022
137

Algorithms quietly run the city of DC—and maybe your hometown

Enlarge (credit: Dmitry Marchenko/Getty Images) Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also…
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November 4, 2022
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Herzog and Žižek become uncanny AI bots trapped in endless conversation

Enlarge / AI-generated portraits of Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek from The Infinite Conversation. (credit: Giacomo Miceli / Ars Technica)…
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November 3, 2022
103

OpenAI debuts DALL-E API so devs can integrate its AI artwork into their apps

Enlarge / Variations of “a photo of a happy corgi puppy with fancy sunglasses on sitting and facing forward, studio…
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November 3, 2022
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Why Egypt became one of the biggest chokepoints for Internet cables

Enlarge (credit: imaginima/Getty Images) The Asia-Africa-Europe-1 Internet cable travels 15,500 miles along the seafloor, connecting Hong Kong to Marseille, France.…
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November 2, 2022
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New Mac app wants to record everything you do—so you can “rewind” it later

Enlarge / Rewind reportedly lets you search your Mac’s usage history for what you’ve seen, said, or heard. (credit: Rewind…
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November 2, 2022
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Intel’s oft-delayed “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon CPUs are finally coming in early 2023

Enlarge / Intel’s Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs. (credit: Intel) Intel’s next-generation Xeon CPUs based on the new Sapphire Rapids architecture…
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November 1, 2022
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Meta’s AI-powered audio codec promises 10x compression over MP3

Enlarge / An illustrated depiction of data in an audio wave. (credit: Meta AI) Last week, Meta announced an AI-powered…
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