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Google is counting on its very own GPT-4 competitor, Gemini, so much that it staged parts of a recent demo video. In an opinion piece, Bloomberg says Google admits that for its video titled "Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI," not only was it edited to speed up the outputs (which was declared in the video description), but the implied voice interaction between the human user and the AI was actually non-existent.Instead, the actual demo was made by "using still image frames from the footage, and…

6ix9ine was targeted in an assault last month at an LA Fitness in Florida. Now, he’s opened up about the incident“For me, it was tough to watch because it was so unexpected,” the Brooklyn native told NBC Miami. “It’s cowardly. When I look at it, I just see hate, right? Imagine being someone who doesn’t know someone from a hole in the wall. I’ll give you an example: today is the first day that I meet you, I don’t know you from anywhere, I could have heard something about you that I may have an opinion on, but I don’t know…

In December 2022, two scientists took to a stage and interrupted the start of a talk at an American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference, unfurling a banner urging their colleagues to embrace climate activism. The protest lasted just 32 seconds. As applause and cheers broke out in the audience, event officials pulled the banner from their hands. AGU expelled the scientists from the conference, removed their abstracts from the program, and opened an ethics…

The video, which remains archived on Tesla’s website, was released in October 2016 and promoted on Twitter by Chief Executive Elon Musk. A 2016 video that Tesla used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not have, according to testimony by a senior engineer. The video, which remains archived on Tesla's website, was released in October 2016 and promoted on Twitter by Chief Executive Elon Musk as…

There are a lot of media reports about Tesla having ‘staged’ or ‘faked’ a self-driving video in 2016 today after the testimony of a Tesla Autopilot executive was released, but here’s the full story. In 2016, Tesla announced that all its vehicles going forward would be equipped with the hardware necessary to achieve full self-driving capability through software updates in the future. Seven years later, Tesla has yet to deliver on that promise, but the company is still promising it and…

Last updated: October 31st, 2022 at 12:06 UTC+01:00 A couple of weeks ago, Samsung announced its plans to bring Samsung Wallet to thirteen new countries in 2022. That plan is underway, and today, Samsung introduced its Wallet platform to Switzerland. The tech giant also says it wants to gradually expand the wallet’s list of partners in the country to offer more services to its customers. Since the middle of 2022, Samsung Wallet merged with Samsung Pay and Samsung Pass to offer mobile payment solutions, easy and secure…

A high school football team in Northern California was forced to forfeit the remainder of its season after a video showed several players staging a reenactment of a “slave auction,” according to district officials.In a statement, Doreen Osumi, the superintendent of Yuba City Unified School District, called the incident at River Valley High School in Yuba City “extremely distressing,” and confirmed that participating students are not playing the rest of the season. The student-athletes were in violation of the code of…