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Facebook Trains A.I. to ‘See' Using 1 Billion Public Instagram Photos
Facebook has built an AI program called “SEER” that can tell what it is looking at. It did this by feeding it over 1 billion public images from Instagram.
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Data Firm That Monitors Reddit Says It Saw GameStop Mentions Spiking Days Ago
Thinknum co-founder Justin Zhen told CNBC that his data firm started to see GameStop mentions spike before shares took off Wednesday.
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Cramer Says He Owns Bitcoin, Sees It as Alternative to Large Cash Positions, Which Make Nothing
“As a way to have a pastiche of things that you should use your cash with, I’m all for it,” CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday.
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Digital Easter Egg in New Biden White House Website Has Job Offer for Tech Workers
The Biden White House has a job listing in the software code of its website. The application for the U.S. Digital Service was spotted by a Microsoft worker.
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Why Everyone Is Talking About an Image Generator Released by an Elon Musk-Backed A.I. Lab
OpenAI has trained a piece of software, known as Dall-E, to generate images from short text captions.
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Google Chrome Changes to Be Investigated by UK Competition Regulator
The Competition and Markets Authority said has announced that it plans to investigate changes that Google intends to make to its Chrome web browser.
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SoftBank-Backed Improbable Sees Pre-Tax Losses Rise to $88.5 Million on Its Quest to Develop Virtual Worlds
Improbable posted a pre-tax loss of £64.8 million ($88.5 million) for the seven months leading up to Dec. 31, 2019, according to a filing on Companies House.
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VMware Commits to Closing Workforce Gender Gap by 2030
“We want to see more diversity in the workplace. We’re committed to having 50% of our managers be women,” VMware COO Sanjay Poonen told CNBC’s Jim Cramer.
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Chegg CEO Projects Sustained Growth in 2021 After Boost From Remote Learning
The shift to remote learning sparked a surge in business for Chegg in 2020, and CEO Dan Rosensweig does not see that exponential growth easing.
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Op-Ed: The Big Covid Technology Boom Still to Come That's a No-Name One
Online retail, telehealth and Zoom aren’t the only Covid tech booms. Business spending on no-code software tools will increase dramatically in 2021.
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Suspected Russian Hack Is Much Worse Than First Feared: Here's What You Need to Know
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said the threat “poses a grave risk to the federal government.”
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DeepMind A.I. Unit Lost $649 Million Last Year and Had a $1.5 Billion Debt Waived by Alphabet
DeepMind had a loss of £477 million ($649 million) in 2019, up from £470 million in 2018, according to documents filed with the U.K.’s Companies House.
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Op-Ed: 6 Productivity Apps to Help You Survive Working From Home
Here are productivity apps that can help you become more productive while working from home.
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Slack Co-Founder Says He Was a Work From Home Skeptic Until the Pandemic Hit
Slack co-founder Cal Henderson said had his doubts about whether companies could work from home before the coronavirus pandemic.
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ByteDance Has Been Given Another Week to Sell Off TikTok's U.S. Business
ByteDance has been given another week to sell off TikTok’s U.S. business and avoid a ban.
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Elon Musk Has Overtaken Bill Gates to Become the World's Second Richest Person
Tesla co-founder Elon Musk is now the world’s second richest person after he leapfrogged Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates on the Bloomberg Billionaire Index.
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Europe Looks to Crack Open Data Encryption on Messaging Services Like WhatsApp
EU lawmakers have long searched for a fairer balance between privacy and the ability of police agencies to do their jobs, an EU spokesperson told CNBC.
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Cyber Security Tips: Software Updates
“Most people put it off,” said Nick Percoco, founder of THOTCON, an annual Chicago hacking conference, said of computer updates. “A lot of excuses I hear are: I’m afraid I’m going to lose my information. I’m afraid it’s going to take too long for the update to run.” That is dead wrong, he said, and likely opening up the computer...
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Protect Yourself From Criminals: Don't Blow Off Computer Updates
Cyber security expert Nick Percoco says that the easiest way to protect yourself from cyber criminals is to make sure you download the latest updates for your cell, apps or computer.
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‘Nuts! Out of Control. Do Something': American Robocall Outrage
Both the FCC and the Federal Trade Commission receive a mind-boggling number of complaints monthly from Americans who can’t stand the growing scourge of scam calls. Last year, the FCC received 232,000 complaints regarding unwanted calls like robocalls and telemarketing offers, while the FTC received more than 3.7 million robocall complaints alone, NBC News reports. Responding to a Freedom of...