For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers.
As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.
The rise and fall of robots.txt
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The Cocoa Press isn’t an easy 3D printer — but how many let you eat the results?
I hate to be the bearer of bad-for-the-waistline news, but yes — you can now buy a 3D printer that prints chocolate.
The Cocoa Press is a 3D printer that prints chocolate. It costs $1,499 as a DIY kit, and $3,995 prebuilt. It’s shipping now.
Stephanie Song, formerly on the corporate development and ventures team at Coinbase, was often frustrated by the volume of due diligence tasks she and her team had to complete on a daily basis.
Dili is a new, Y Combinator-backed startup that aims to automate different aspects of the due diligence process using AI.
Although I like to write about future predictions for the world of technology and business, I’m usually focused on what’s coming up in the next five years.
But it’s also worth taking a longer view. I believe that in 10 years’ time, the AI that’s a part of everyday life will be as far evolved from today’s AI as today’s internet is from the internet of the early days.
In his excellent book The Coming Wave, Mustafa Suleyman notes that every wave of technology-driven change – from the combustion engine to the internet – has revolutionized society in a shorter time span than the previous wave. So, I don’t think we’ll have to wait 30 or even 20 years until AI is utterly engrained in all aspects of life.
Instead, let’s look ahead just 10 years to 2034. Halfway through the next decade, a lot will have changed, but what will AI look like? Here’s what I think!
New plasma stealth device targets specific areas, not entire aircraft.
Chinese scientists develop plasma stealth device, hiding military aircraft from radar, focusing on shielding specific areas, potentially changing stealth technology.
The hot subdwarf star is smaller than Saturn and its discovery sheds light on the formation of hot subdwarf stars in binary systems.
Apart from these two found, there is one other Q1 computer in the world.
Two of the world’s first desktop computers have been found during a London house clearance. The Q1, launched in 1972, paved the way for computing as we know it today.
Study uses AI and blood samples from 50,000 to predict dementia 15 years in advance, offering hope for early intervention.
EpiSci has won a $1.6 million contract with the US Space Development Agency to flesh out its AI-powered, hypersonic missile tracking system.
The SDA and EpiSci have partnered to create AI software that detects hypersonic missiles using satellite technology, AI, and advanced analytics.
The new model is called Big Adaptive Streamable TTS with Emergent abilities — BASE TTS.
In what is being called the largest text-to-speech model ever developed, researchers at Amazon AGI have made waves after creating the Big Adaptive Streamable TTS with Emergent abilities (BASE TTS).
Text-to-Speech (TTS) models are used in the development of voice assistants for smart devices and are employed to convert written text into spoken words, allowing voice assistants to communicate with users in a natural and human-like manner.
Furthermore, TTS models produce outputs that closely resemble natural speech, incorporating elements such as intonation, emphasis, and inflection.