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Mariella Moon / Engadget: Google gives Bard the ability to generate, debug, and explain code in 20+ languages, including C++, JavaScript, and Python, and export code to Google’s Colab  —  Google’s Bard chatbot now has the capability to help you with programming tasks.  The tech giant said that coding … Lees verder op Tech Meme

John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: The White House meets with corporate, government, and academic experts to begin developing strategies for 6G, as the US seeks to build an early lead over China  —  Biden administration aims to reassert U.S. leadership in telecom, an area where China has made gains Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carina Chocano / New Yorker: A profile of Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn, who co-created CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, as he predicts AI will eventually make computers better teachers than humans  —  The company’s founder, Luis von Ahn, believes that artificial intelligence is going to make computers better teachers than humans. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Email: Twitter tells advertisers that they must have “a verified checkmark or subscribe to either Twitter Blue or Verified Organizations” to keep running ads  —  As Twitter’s legacy blue check mark system finally comes to an end, the social network’s new paid-for verification system … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jahnavi Nidumolu / Reuters: Twitter dropped the “Government-funded” and “China state-affiliated” labels from accounts of media organizations and journalists, including NPR, BBC, and Xinhua  —  Twitter dropped the “Government-funded” and “China state-affiliated” labels, which implies government involvement … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: Docs: Apple plans an iPhone journaling app to let users compile their daily activities in an expansion of its efforts in the mental and physical health space  —  Daily activities log is set to compete with existing software  —  Apple Inc. is planning an iPhone app to let users compile … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nilay Patel / The Verge: After YouTube pulls Heart On My Sleeve due to a UMG copyright notice, a look at the legal dilemma for Google, which claims scraping data to train AI is fair use  —  If young Metro don’t trust you, I’m gonna… tie you up in a decade of fair use litigation.  —  The AI Drake track … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ina Fried / Axios: Humane co-founder Imran Chaudhri demoed an AI-powered wearable with a projected display that does not need a nearby phone and uses voice and gestures for input  —  Ex-Apple employee Imran Chaudhri gave TED attendees on Thursday an early glimpse of the AI-powered wearable that his startup, Humane, has been developing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Austin-based cybersecurity company Halcyon, which provides protection against ransomware, raised a $50M Series A, including $6M in debt, led by SYN Ventures  —  Following the Colonial Pipeline incident in 2021, Jon Miller and Ryan Smith wondered why, with the widespread adoption of security tools … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Internal Q&A: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to slow hiring, and that net employee growth of 1% to 2% per year will be the standard going forward  —  Facebook-parent CEO says employee growth of 1%-2% a year will be standard in future  —  Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark … Lees verder op Tech Meme