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Rep. Ken Buck says the GOP does not seem to plan tougher antitrust rules on Google, Amazon, and Apple in 2023; Jim Jordan does not want to give Biden more power (CNBC) 15-03-2023

CNBC: Rep. Ken Buck says the GOP does not seem to plan tougher antitrust rules on Google, Amazon, and Apple in 2023; Jim Jordan does not want to give Biden more power  —  – The new Republican leadership in the U.S. House doesn’t appear to have the appetite to impose tougher antitrust rules on the tech giants. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zipline announces the Platform 2 Zip drone, which can deliver packages to small landing zones using a tethered “delivery droid” from up to 300 feet high (Umar Shakir/The Verge) 15-03-2023

Umar Shakir / The Verge: Zipline announces the Platform 2 Zip drone, which can deliver packages to small landing zones using a tethered “delivery droid” from up to 300 feet high  —  Zipline is revealing its new drone delivery platform today that the company says is capable of making a 10-mile delivery in 10 minutes … Lees verder op Tech Meme

OpenAI partners with Stripe to take payments and subscriptions for ChatGPT and Dall-E; Stripe also plans to integrate OpenAI's AI tools into its products (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg) 15-03-2023

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: OpenAI partners with Stripe to take payments and subscriptions for ChatGPT and Dall-E; Stripe also plans to integrate OpenAI’s AI tools into its products  —  OpenAI will use Stripe Inc. to take payments and subscriptions for its artificial intelligence tools ChatGPT and Dall-E … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The US charges exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui with a conspiracy to defraud his online followers out of over $1B and arrests him; the DOJ seizes $634M (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) 15-03-2023

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: The US charges exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui with a conspiracy to defraud his online followers out of over $1B and arrests him; the DOJ seizes $634M  —  The U.S. government on Wednesday charged exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui with fraud, accusing him of orchestrating a conspiracy … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Snap will begin publishing its guidelines for serving personalized Snapchat content, after previously sharing them with publishing partners and some creators (Sara Fischer/Axios) 15-03-2023

Sara Fischer / Axios: Snap will begin publishing its guidelines for serving personalized Snapchat content, after previously sharing them with publishing partners and some creators  —  Snapchat on Wednesday said it will begin publishing guidelines that detail what types of content gets algorithmically distributed in its app to users. Lees verder op Tech Meme

A journey into the metaverse to find friends and true believers on Meta's Horizon Worlds, raising questions over what promise Mark Zuckerberg saw in VR (Paul Murray/New York Magazine) 15-03-2023

Paul Murray / New York Magazine: A journey into the metaverse to find friends and true believers on Meta’s Horizon Worlds, raising questions over what promise Mark Zuckerberg saw in VR  —  In September, my family and I move from our home in Dublin to a fancy East Coast college town, where I’ll be teaching for the semester. Lees verder op Tech Meme

An investigation finds illegal miners in Brazil are using SpaceX's Starlink, helping coordinate logistics, make payments, and warn of law enforcement raids (Fabiano Maisonnave/Associated Press) 15-03-2023

Fabiano Maisonnave / Associated Press: An investigation finds illegal miners in Brazil are using SpaceX’s Starlink, helping coordinate logistics, make payments, and warn of law enforcement raids  —  Brazilian federal agents aboard three helicopters descended on an illegal mining site on Tuesday in the Amazon rainforest. Lees verder op Tech Meme

T-Mobile plans to acquire Ryan Reynolds-backed budget wireless provider Mint Mobile for as much as $1.35B, seeking to expand its pay-as-you-go marketshare (Bloomberg) 15-03-2023

Bloomberg: T-Mobile plans to acquire Ryan Reynolds-backed budget wireless provider Mint Mobile for as much as $1.35B, seeking to expand its pay-as-you-go marketshare  —  T-Mobile US Inc. is buying Mint Mobile, the budget wireless provider part owned by actor Ryan Reynolds, for as much as $1.35 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

An interview with OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman on GPT-4 being “different” to GPT-3, training on images and text, a “slow and intentional” rollout, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) 15-03-2023

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: An interview with OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman on GPT-4 being “different” to GPT-3, training on images and text, a “slow and intentional” rollout, and more  —  OpenAI shipped GPT-4 today, the much-anticipated text-generating AI model, and it’s a curious piece of work. Lees verder op Tech Meme

FBI report: US citizens lost $10.3B to online scammers in 2022, up from $6.9B in 2021, with losses from crypto investment fraud reaching $2.57B, up from $907M (Gareth Vipers/Wall Street Journal) 15-03-2023

Gareth Vipers / Wall Street Journal: FBI report: US citizens lost $10.3B to online scammers in 2022, up from $6.9B in 2021, with losses from crypto investment fraud reaching $2.57B, up from $907M  —  Cryptocurrency investment fraud nearly tripled in 2022 from the year before  —  Americans lost more than $10 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme