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The Download: AI replicas, and China’s climate role
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI can now create a replica of your personality Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken two-hour interview. A friendly voice guides you through a conversation that ranges from your…
November 2022
Binance launches proof-of-reserves system for BTC holdings
Cryptocurrency exchange company Binance has released a new site that explains its proof-of-reserves system. The company is starting with BTC reserves. Right now, Binance has a reserve ratio of 101%. It means that the company has enough bitcoins to cover all users’ balances. This move comes a couple of weeks after the collapse of FTX, […]
Binance launches proof-of-reserves system for BTC holdings by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch
Amazon to shut down food delivery business in India
Amazon will shut down its food delivery business in India by the end of the year, the retailer said Friday, retreating from a vertical it entered less than three years ago. The retailer will shut down the food delivery business, called Amazon Food, on December 29 in India. The company launched Food in India in […]
Amazon to shut down food delivery business in India by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch
How to run data on Kubernetes: 6 starting principles
Running data on Kubernetes isn’t always easy, but the good news is that it’s well worth the hard work.
How to run data on Kubernetes: 6 starting principles by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch
Thanksgiving 2022 online sales pip past forecasts at $5.3B, up 2.8% on last year, mobile accounted for 55% of all purchases
Analysts and e-commerce leaders have been predicting a muted online holiday shopping season this year, with sales in the first three weeks of November essentially flat over a year ago due to a weaker economy, inflation, and more people returning to shopping in stores again in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. But looking at […]
Thanksgiving 2022 online sales pip past forecasts at $5.3B, up 2.8% on last year, mobile accounted for 55% of all purchases by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Be like Gmail? Proton Mail will soon offer email categorization, message scheduling, and more
Proton, the Swiss company behind a suite of privacy-focused products including email, has teased a fairly substantial upgrade for its flagship Proton Mail and calendar services. Although Proton has expanded into cloud storage and VPNs through the years, encrypted email remains Proton’s bread and butter — and that is arguably the most interesting facet of its latest […]
Be like Gmail? Proton Mail will soon offer email categorization, message scheduling, and more by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch
The Download: AI conquers Minecraft, and babies after death
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A bot that watched 70,000 hours of Minecraft could unlock AI’s next big thing The news: An AI that binged on 70,000 hours of people playing Minecraft has learned how to play the…
A bot that watched 70,000 hours of Minecraft could unlock AI’s next big thing
OpenAI has built the best Minecraft-playing bot yet by making it watch 70,000 hours of video of people playing the popular computer game. It showcases a powerful new technique that could be used to train machines to carry out a wide range of tasks by binging on sites like YouTube, a vast and untapped source…
UK to criminalize deepfake porn sharing without consent
Brace for yet another expansion to the UK’s Online Safety Bill: The Ministry of Justice has announced changes to the law which are aimed at protecting victims of revenge porn, pornographic deepfakes and other abuses related to the taking and sharing of intimate imagery without consent — in a crackdown on a type of abuse […]
UK to criminalize deepfake porn sharing without consent by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
We can now use cells from dead people to create new life. But who gets to decide?
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. Peter Zhu was just 19 years old when he died following a skiing accident in West Point, New York. His donor card made clear he had wanted to donate his organs. But…