GeekWire

MARCH 30, 2021

The more urgent question for many is this: what are the climate impacts of tethering the sales of virtual items to cryptocurrency? Seattle’s yearly emissions , by comparison, are about 5.8 ” At the same time, the NFT controversy could provide a wake-up call for Ethereum blockchain developers to step up their carbon game. “I

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Dataconomy

JULY 18, 2023

These agents can be robots, drones, or even virtual entities, and they collectively work towards achieving a common goal or solving complex tasks through distributed coordination. By emulating their collaborative strategies, swarm robotics aims to develop multi-robot systems that can work together cohesively to solve complex tasks.

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Vox

JUNE 9, 2021

But beyond these core social features, Snap has bigger ambitions with augmented and virtual reality. Once upon a time, like around 2017, Snap was the go-to app to watch casual, day-in-the-life content from celebrities, influencers, and friends. So why, then, is the company dishing out millions of dollars a month on a clone of TikTok?

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2021

At this point, every platform has a virtual storefront, so there’s always room for a few gift cards, and unlike hardware or collectibles, scalpers can’t buy up all the digital media before you can get to the store. A physical Switch game, with a quarter for comparison. Photo: Thomas Wilde). Guilty Gear Strive.

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Vox

JULY 17, 2023

For comparison, OpenAI has so far raised over $11 billion , the vast majority of it from Microsoft.) And virtually the only places where such models can be built are in well-funded companies like Anthropic. Center for Effective Altruism Dario Amodei (center) speaks at the 2017 Effective Altruism Global conference.

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Vox

AUGUST 8, 2022

EA, as a subculture, has always been categorized by relentless, sometimes navel-gazing self-criticism and questioning of assumptions, so this development has prompted no small amount of internal consternation. Those opportunities were overwhelmingly found outside developed countries, primarily in global health.

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Vox

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Algospeak is just one of the user-developed methods of varying effectiveness that are supposed to dodge suppression on platforms like TikTok , Instagram , and Facebook. Shadowbanning, by comparison, is not publicly labeled, and platforms might not tell a user that their account’s reach is limited, or why.

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Vox

JANUARY 1, 2024

As political scientists Robert Erikson and Christopher Wlezien have noted, “polls from the beginning of the election year have virtually no predictive power” when it comes to calling presidential races. Disclosure: I worked on the issue on and off from 2012 to 2017 at animal welfare nonprofits prior to joining Vox.)

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