Florida signs bill regulating how social media companies moderate speech online, India’s IT Ministry wants social media companies to take down any references to “Indian variant” of Covid-19, and the Epic v. Apple trial concludes.
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A group of over 500 researchers have signed onto the BigScience project, an effort led by the startup Huggingface to build an open-soruce large language model to better understand natural-language processing. Facebook’s vice president of global affairs and former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg wrote an op-ed for CNBC calling for US lawmakers to create a new digital regulator. Ford reveals more information on the F-150 Lightning Pro’s extended-range version, capable of about 300 miles on a single charge and with a 240 V, 80 A charger (called the Charge Station Pro) that can fill the battery to 100% in eight hours. Price? Just under $50,000.
Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe
Honor confirmed its Honor 50 series will include Google Services, Japan’s largest dating app Omiai suffers a potential data breach, and Netflix is hiring for a gaming division.
In this week’s DTH Sunday Science Supplement, Niki Ackermans breaks down more details about a paper published in Nature that showed a way to make semiconductors below 1 nanometer using bismuth.
Twitter begins rolling out its new verification system, Snap announces new true AR Spectacles, and Google reportedly ends negotiations to give DeepMind more autonomy.
The crowdsourced crime watch app Citizen sparks a manhunt for the wrong guy, Twitter restarts its public verification program and more updates from the Epic vs Apple trial.
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