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Why the Chinese government is sparing AI from harsh regulations—for now

Posted on April 9, 2024May 29, 2024 by Rana Shakoor Akbar

09
Apr

Take Alibaba and Tencent as examples. Since the 2000s, the two tech giants have made hundreds of mergers and investments, as a result of which their business empires expanded to include almost every aspect of digital life in China. This insatiable expansion came at the expense of users, who faced higher prices and less choice, […]

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Welcome to the oldest part of the metaverse

Posted on February 17, 2023May 29, 2024 by Rana Shakoor Akbar

17
Feb

As the picture clarified, Origin realized it needed better “gold sinks”—mechanisms to fight inflation by pulling gold out of UO’s economy. Taxing hoarded wealth would have caused a subscriber revolt. Selling rich characters godlike weapons might have sucked up enough gold to solve inflation, but it would’ve created a class of invincible terminators and wrecked […]

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Everything dies, including information | MIT Technology Review

Posted on October 26, 2022 by

26
Oct

Quite a bit, according to the experts. For one thing, what we think is permanent isn’t. Digital storage systems can become unreadable in as little as three to five years. Librarians and archivists race to copy things over to newer formats. But entropy is always there, waiting in the wings. “Our professions and our people […]

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Inside the enigmatic minds of animals

Posted on October 24, 2022 by

24
Oct

In stating his ambition to “explore their senses to better understand their lives,” Yong is true to his word. A longtime staffer for the Atlantic, he has an Attenborough-like talent for excavating simple stories from the unbounded mess of the natural world. A look at the eyes of scallops, for example, becomes a window through […]

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Should we believe in — or even want — immortality?

Posted on October 20, 2022 by

20
Oct

Most of these trials are going to fail, Kirkland said. Most trials do. “People should try to be dispassionate, even though everyone has a stake in this game. I mean, every living person does.” I called the biologist Martin Raff, who retired from University College London 20 years ago, when he was not quite 65. […]

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Technology that lets us speak to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready?

Posted on October 18, 2022 by

18
Oct

Scripted bits like this sounded stilted and strange, but as we moved on, with my mother recounting memories and speaking in her own words, “she” sounded far more relaxed and natural. Still, this conversation and the ones that followed were limited—when I tried asking my mum’s bot about her favorite jewelry, for instance, I got: […]

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The growing influence of effective altruism

Posted on October 17, 2022 by

17
Oct

Within effective altruism’s framework, selecting one’s career is just as important as choosing where to make donations. EA defines a professional “fit” by whether a candidate has comparative advantages like exceptional intelligence or an entrepreneurial drive, and if an effective altruist qualifies for a high-paying path, the ethos encourages “earning to give,” or dedicating one’s […]

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Why the sci-fi dream of cryonics never died

Posted on October 14, 2022 by

14
Oct

The environment was something of a shift for Drake, who had spent the previous seven years as the medical response director of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. Though it was the longtime leader in cryonics, Alcor was still a small nonprofit. It had been freezing the bodies and brains of its members, with the idea […]

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Why the balance of power in tech is shifting toward workers

Posted on February 7, 2022 by

07
Feb

According to Collective Action in Tech, a project tracking the industry’s organizing efforts, every year since the walkout has seen more workers speaking out. The big tech companies’ image as friendly giants had been shattered. Part of the walkout’s legacy, Stapleton says, was “helping people see the gap between how companies present themselves and how […]

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Why the Chinese government is sparing AI from harsh regulations—for now

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Welcome to the oldest part of the metaverse

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Everything dies, including information | MIT Technology Review

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Inside the enigmatic minds of animals

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Should we believe in — or even want — immortality?

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Technology that lets us speak to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready?

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The growing influence of effective altruism

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Why the sci-fi dream of cryonics never died

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Why the balance of power in tech is shifting toward workers

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