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Twitter previously announced that free access to its API would close on February 9. Image: Primakov (Shutterstock)In a poorly thought out plan to make Twitter as profitable as possible, Twitter has officially unveiled three new tiers of API access: Free, Basic, and Enterprise. Twitter previously backed off from rescinding free access to the platform’s API after public backlash.How To Remove Followers From TwitterTwitter Dev, an official Twitter account, tweeted the news this morning. While the Free tier is, well, free, it…

The television home of the New York Yankees is launching a streaming service that will allow fans in the region to watch games without needing a cable or satellite subscription, the latest sign of the continued erosion of the traditional pay-TV bundle.  The YES Network, which also airs games of the National Basketball Association’s Brooklyn Nets and the WNBA’s New York Liberty, on Wednesday said its new streaming option would cost $24.99 a month or $239.99 annually. The move…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is gradually expanding its usage to more avenues. After major tech giants including Microsoft and Google introduced their AI-powered tools, other popular firms are also ‘embracing’ AI in their products. Recently, US-based tech giant Adobe unveiled its family of generative AI models, ‘Firefly’.Adobe generative AI model Firefly Adobe Firefly majorly focuses on generating images based on text prompts. Besides that, it can also tweak and edit images as per text-based commands. This will enable…

Credit: JAMA (2023). DOI: 10.1001/jama.2023.3212 The entire scientific publishing world is currently undergoing a massive stress test of quantity vs. quality, open access (free) vs. institutional subscriptions (paywall), and how to best judge the integrity of a publication. The traditional model in scientific journal publishing has…

A new banking trojan has surfaced, and this one will try to get access to your bank accounts as well. All banking trojans have the same purpose, but different ways of achieving their goals.New Android trojan will try to get access to your bank accountsThis particular one is called ‘Nexus’, and it first surfaced in January 2023. Back then it popped up on forums, and was described as “very new” project that will be continuously developed. It did cost $3,000 per month back then, according to a report.Well, an Italian…

Get your magnifying glass ready Fireshine Games has announced that ColePowered Games’ sandbox detective game, Shadows of Doubt will be hitting Steam Early Access on April 24, 2023. This follows an impressive demo released for Steam Next Fest this past February. Shadows of Doubt puts you in the wingtips of a private investigator and lets you loose on a sci-fi city to try and track down a serial killer. You gather evidence, pursue leads, and solve crimes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUaVPh0-vYs Early Access is…

ChatGPT just received a massive update in the form of GPT-4. You can now use different types of inputs to ask for information when dealing with the artificial intelligence chatbot. That’s a massive upgrade that should significantly improve how you interact with ChatGPT. But it’s not the only development you should be aware of. OpenAI announced plugin support for ChatGPT a few days ago as well, available to a limited number of users initially. That might not sound like a big deal, but plugins allow ChatGPT to…

Twitter chief executive officer Elon Musk said on Friday that Microsoft was given exclusive and complete access to OpenAI’s codebase as part of its investment in the generative AI firm. Microsoft, an early backer of OpenAI, has reportedly invested another $10 billion in it.“As part of their investment, Microsoft gained exclusive access to the entire OpenAI codebase,” Musk tweeted.As part of their investment, Microsoft gained exclusive access to the entire OpenAI codebase— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 1679636071000Musk cofounded…

Microsoft Corp. has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines if they don't stop using it as the basis for their own artificial intelligence chat products, according to people familiar with the dispute.The software maker licenses the data in its Bing search index — a map of the internet that can be quickly scanned in real-time — to other companies that offer web searches, such as Apollo Global Management Inc.'s Yahoo and DuckDuckGo. In February, Microsoft…

MicrosoftAs Microsoft continues to ramp up its integration of generative AI tools, the newest product the company announced is a strong competitor to AI productivity hub, Notion AI. Microsoft's new collaboration hub, Microsoft Loop, harnesses the Microsoft Office suite to offer a seamless way of managing projects and tasks. With Loop, users can create collaborative documents using any Microsoft Office application, like Outlook, Teams, or Word.Also: Just how big is this new generative AI? Think internet-level…