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Justice Paula Feroleto of the Erie County Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the more than 40 plaintiffs could try to prove that Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram, Reddit, Google’s YouTube and other platforms were designed to addict and radicalize users like the shooter, Payton Gendron.The plaintiffs included relatives or representatives of people who died in Gendron’s racially motivated mass shooting at Tops Friendly Markets on May 14, 2022, as well as store employees and customers who witnessed it. Gendron was 18…

Nvidia is arguably the most important company in the tech sector these days, with each swing in its stock driving the Nasdaq index higher and lower and a market cap that has more than tripled in the past year. So when it speaks, a lot of people listen.This week, Nvidia should have a lot to say.The company’s GTC conference is one of the hottest tech gatherings of the year. Historically, Nvidia has used it as a launch pad for some of its biggest products, including the Hopper graphics architecture and the H100 graphics…

In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, HG Wells published a novel about the possibilities of an even greater conflagration. The World Set Free imagines, 30 years before the Manhattan Project, the creation of atomic weapons that allow “a man carry about in a handbag an amount of latent energy sufficient to wreck half a city”. Global war breaks out, leading to an atomic apocalypse. It takes the “establishment of a world government” to bring about peace.What concerned Wells was not simply the perils of a new…

Six of the largest tech companies will be forced to make changes to their products and services this week as Europe’s new sweeping tech regulation largely goes into effect.   The European Union’s Digital Markets Act dictates how platforms minimize self-preferencing and allow for inter-operability, meaning how they prioritize their services over rivals and how service operate between ones run by other companies, among other measures. Companies that fail to comply will face hefty fines.   Five of the six…

Published By: Samreen PallLast Updated: March 07, 2024, 15:10 ISTKolkata-Howrah Metro: Telecom Giants Ensure Seamless Connectivity Underwater. (Representational Image)(Photo: Zee News)Telecom operators ensure uninterrupted services for Kolkata-Howrah Metro, including under-river stretch. Vodafone Idea completes network; Airtel follows suit.Telecom operators have said they are ready with the infrastructure to provide uninterrupted voice and data services to subscribers while crossing the river Hooghly, as part of the…

Have you ever thought about how much goes into making the smartphone that is your window to the world? Here’s some food for thought: As per a report by the White House, a semiconductor chip, that is used within the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi component of your phone, could’ve crossed international borders as many as 70 times before it reached you. And this entire process can take up to 100 days, 12 of which are spent in transit between various supply chain steps. And this is just one tiny component that makes up the lifeline of…

Last year Stack Overflow became one of the first websites to announce it would charge AI giants for access to content used to train chatbots. Now the popular Q&A service for coders has signed up its first customer—Google—in what CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar says is the start of a “meaningful” new stream of revenue.The deal is significant, because it remains unclear how broadly Google and other AI developers will pay for content needed for AI projects. Millions of books and websites have fueled the development of AI…

Global tech giants like YouTube, Meta, Netflix, and Amazon have significantly expanded India's video revenues to an estimated $8.8 billion in 2023 for content owners, Media Partners Asia (MPA) said in a new report.Star India and Viacom18, which are in the process of getting merged, reported $2.8 billion in revenue, followed by Zee Entertainment and Sony Pictures at $800 million each, and Sun TV at $500 million.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate…

The Evolution of Model Compression in the LLM EraImage by author using DALL-E 3.The advent of transformers in 2017 set off a landslide of AI milestones, starting with the spectacular achievements of large language models (LLMs) in natural language processing (NLP), and quickly catalyzing advancement in other domains such as computer vision and robotics. The unification of NLP and computer vision problems into a common architecture accelerated efforts in learning joint vision-language representation spaces, which enabled…

With the accord, the 20 organizations promise to observe eight mission statements, including seeking to detect and prevent the distribution of deceptive AI election content and providing transparency to the public on how it addresses such content. They will work together to develop and implement the tools to identify and curb the spread of the content as well as track the origins of such content. These efforts can include developing classifiers or provenance methods and standards, such as watermarking or signed…