India urges political parties to avoid using deepfakes in election campaigns
India's Election Commission is urging political parties to refrain from using deepfakes and misinformation amid the country's ongoing general elections. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreNutanix Wins Intelligent Data Centers Storage Partner Award
Nutanix, a global leader in cloud software, proudly announces its triumph at the inaugural Intelligent ICT Awards Africa 2024. The company has been bestowed with the Intelligent Data Centers Storage Partner Award, acknowledging its remarkable contributions to IT modernization and excellence in storage solutions. Africa’s organisations dominating the digital space
Read moreElectricity Maps calculates the carbon intensity of electricity consumption to optimize usage at scale
If you’re an electricity nerd, chances are you’ve already spent quite a few hours looking at Electricity Maps and its mesmerizing export flow animations. This open-source data visualization project has been around since 2016. But companies like Google and Samsung are increasingly relying on this rich data set to hit
Read moreNextivity’s Trade-In Boosts SAs Businesses with QUATRA 4000e
Nextivity, available in South Africa through specialized distributor Duxbury Networking, has unveiled an innovative trade-in program for the local channel. Customers can now exchange their current CEL-FI QUATRA 1000/2000 devices for the state-of-the-art QUATRA 4000e. Challenges of poor network coverage Network in buildings Business Development Manager for Duxbury Networking, Tobie
Read moreThis year’s Met Gala theme is AI deepfakes
Whether you love or hate celebrity culture, the Met Gala is an event. Those less jaded among us get to see all of the biggest stars take their boldest fashion risks of the year; unlike an award show, it’s an event that encourages avant-garde extravagance. And if you find the
Read moreBoeing Starliner’s first crewed mission scrubbed
Boeing’s Starliner launch tonight has been postponed “out of an abundance of caution” scarcely two hours before the historic liftoff. The scrub is reportedly due to an issue with the oxygen relief valve on the Atlas V rocket’s upper stage. There are backup launch opportunities on May 7, 10 and
Read moreMCMC and the coupon collector problem
Bob Carpenter wrote today about how Markov chains cannot thoroughly cover high-dimensional spaces, and that they do not need to. That’s kinda the point of Monte Carlo integration. If you want systematic coverage, you can/must sample systematically, and that’s impractical in high dimensions. Bob gives the example that if you
Read moreWayve raises $1B to take its Tesla-like technology for self-driving to many carmakers
Wayve, a U.K.-born startup developing a self-learning rather than rule-based system for autonomous driving, has closed $1.05 billion in Series C funding led by SoftBank Group. This is the U.K.’s largest AI fundraise ever and sits among the top 20 AI fundraises globally to date. Also participating in the raise
Read moreGoogle’s AI plans now include cybersecurity
Illustration: The Verge As people try to find more uses for generative AI that are less about making a fake photo and are instead actually useful, Google plans to point AI to cybersecurity and make threat reports easier to read. In a blog post, Google writes its new cybersecurity product,
Read moreThe Kendrick-Drake feud shows how technology is changing rap battles
The feud between Kendrick Lamar and Drake highlights technology’s increased role in rap beefs, in addition to how and when AI should be used in music. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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