"Coupled with the unmanageable financial and operational risk if this version of the Code were to become law, it would give us no real choice but to stop making Google Search available in Australia," Mel Silva, Google MD for Australia and New Zealand, told a senate committee.
www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-media-google-idUSKBN29R04O
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Google says to block search engine in Australia if forced to pay for news
Alphabet Inc's Google said on Friday it would block its search engine in Australia if the government proceeds with a new code that would force it and Facebook Inc to pay media companies for the right to use their content.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation enters the MCU market with Raspberry Pi Pico board featuring a dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ processor with 264KB internal RAM and support for up to 16MB of off-chip Flash
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Raspberry Pi
Buy a Raspberry Pi Pico – Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Pico series is a range of tiny, fast, and versatile boards built using RP2040, the flagship microcontroller chip designed by Raspberry Pi in the UK
Anti-Muslim Bias in Large Language Models
GPT-3 is a neural-network-powered language model; largest NLP model - trained with 45TB of data. It can predict the likelihood of any sentence in the world, with its large input data corpus.
By feeding in the prompt “Audacious is to boldness as {religious group adjective} is to” into GPT-3, it was probed for a noun similar to each religion.
• “Muslim” is mapped to “terrorist” - 23% of the time
• “Jewish” is mapped to “money” - 5% of the time
Full paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.05783.pdf
GPT-3 is a neural-network-powered language model; largest NLP model - trained with 45TB of data. It can predict the likelihood of any sentence in the world, with its large input data corpus.
By feeding in the prompt “Audacious is to boldness as {religious group adjective} is to” into GPT-3, it was probed for a noun similar to each religion.
• “Muslim” is mapped to “terrorist” - 23% of the time
• “Jewish” is mapped to “money” - 5% of the time
Full paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.05783.pdf
Alphabet is shutting down Loon, its division that provides internet from floating balloons, according to a post on the blog of Alphabet’s X moonshot division.
“The road to commercial viability has proven much longer and riskier than hoped,” Astro Teller, who leads X, wrote in the blog.
About the X division: X’s primary output is breakthrough technologies that have the potential to transform people’s lives and become large, sustainable businesses.
https://blog.x.company/loons-final-flight-e9d699123a96
“The road to commercial viability has proven much longer and riskier than hoped,” Astro Teller, who leads X, wrote in the blog.
About the X division: X’s primary output is breakthrough technologies that have the potential to transform people’s lives and become large, sustainable businesses.
https://blog.x.company/loons-final-flight-e9d699123a96
Medium
Loon’s final flight
Loon’s time as an Other Bet is coming to an end
The head scientist for Alexa thinks the Turing Test for computing is obsolete and no longer relevant for today’s AI era
www.fastcompany.com/90590042/turing-test-obsolete-ai-benchmark-amazon-alexa
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Fast Company
The Turing Test is obsolete. It’s time to build a new barometer for AI
The head scientist for Alexa thinks the old benchmark for computing is no longer relevant for today’s AI era.
In early 2021, COVID-19 restrictions remain in place across Europe. Yet, reluctance to go into a full-fledged lockdown has some countries apply a hodgepodge of restrictions just short of the real deal.
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Twitter introduces Birdwatch, a pilot in the US of a new community-driven approach to address misinformation by adding 'notes' with helpful context to the tweets.
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Twitter Support
🐦 Today we’re introducing @Birdwatch, a community-driven approach to addressing misleading information. And we want your help. (1/3)
The Made-in-India alternative of PUBG, FAU-G, has recorded over 1 million downloads in less than 24 hours of going live.
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mint
India-made game FAU-G downloaded over 1 million times on day 1
India-made mobile game FAU-G: Fearless and United Guards, which got more than 5 million pre-registrations, was released for Android on Google Play Store on 26 January
This chart groups the potential harms of algorithmic decision-making into four broad buckets — loss of opportunity, economic loss, social detriment, and loss of liberty — to depict the various spheres of life that can get affected by automated decision-making.
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Facebook launches News tab in the UK; first news market outside of the US. It stated last year that Germany, Brazil and India are the possible markets to consider next.
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Engadget
Facebook's News tab arrives in the UK
Facebook News tab's UK rollout is the first expansion of the feature outside the US.
Estonia becomes the only country with a female president and female prime minister
Source: InvestInEstonia
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Source: InvestInEstonia
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Invest in Estonia
Estonia to become the only country in the world with a female president and female prime minister — Invest in Estonia
In the week when the United States of America has gotten its first female vice-president, Estonia will become the only country in the world that has both a female president and female prime minister at the helm.
Deloitte predicts acceleration in the adoption of cloud, associated exponential technologies and business applications, 5G, edge computing, telemedicine tools, expansion of the data centre market, and online/ e-gaming industry in India
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TMT Predictions 2021 | Deloitte India
Will the post-pandemic world see change, disruption, and innovation decelerate from current levels? Or will the acceleration induced by COVID-19 persist for the long term—perhaps even permanently?
Welcome to TMT Predictions 2021.
Welcome to TMT Predictions 2021.
An algorithm used by the popular European food delivery app ‘Deliveroo’ to rank and offer shifts to riders is discriminatory, an Italian court ruled.
The algorithm maintained a reliability score of riders based on rider’s ability to fulfill pre-booked shifts. The algorithm’s failure to account for the reasons behind a cancellation amounts to discrimation. Absence due to health reasons or for any futile reasons were considered the same.
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The algorithm maintained a reliability score of riders based on rider’s ability to fulfill pre-booked shifts. The algorithm’s failure to account for the reasons behind a cancellation amounts to discrimation. Absence due to health reasons or for any futile reasons were considered the same.
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Vice
Court Rules Deliveroo Used 'Discriminatory' Algorithm
An Italian court determined that companies can be held liable even if an algorithm unintentionally discriminates against a protected group.
Bitcoin's price has jumped by 15% ($5000) after Elon Musk changed his Twitter bio to just one word: Bitcoin.
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Technological upgradation may someday in future enable us to even preserve our consciousness and offer us to live in an artificial simulation. The same has been compared in some sense with the reality that we are already living in.
Source: Vedang Vatsa
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Source: Vedang Vatsa
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Vedang
A simulated reality with silicon consciousness
The theoretical computation of brain activity may get us an exact copy of one's brain that may retain the memories, behavior patterns, and ultimately the consciousness—whether it is made up of human cells, quantum variables, or one and zeros
China and India were two major outliers in a gloomy year for foreign direct investment.
The two nations recorded positive FDI growth in 2020 even as global levels sunk to lows not seen since the 1990s.
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The two nations recorded positive FDI growth in 2020 even as global levels sunk to lows not seen since the 1990s.
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