The garage door is not simple to open
WIRED’s Bay Area journalists, Michael Calore, Zo Schiffer, and Lauren Goode, are the hosts of a new podcasts, ‘Uncanny Valley’. In the podcast, the hosts will untangle and explain the latest and greatest trends from within the tech industry and how they’re poised to shape society at large. With this, they’ll counterbalance that smart talk with a healthy dose of the weird stuff.
The America PAC created an Election Denial Cesspool
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reinstated accounts of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Andrew Tate, both of which were banned by Twitter years ago. Twitter had banned them for “engaging in targeted targeting of public figures” ahead of the 2016 US presidential election. Earlier, Musk had also reinstated accounts of Jones and Tate, who were banned several years ago.
It was not the Amazon Skills revolution that was happening
Amazon skipped its annual’hardware event’ in Los Angeles this year due to reports that the company was far from achieving its promised new voice assistant. This comes amid reports that the new voice assistant could be months away from being available. Alexa was launched in 2015 and reportedly has over 1.6 lakh different skills on its platform.
Musk suggests that a Trump administration could be a target
Elon Musk has said that AI models being trained in San Francisco Bay Area take on the philosophy of people around them. “A lot of the AIs…take on the philosophy of people around them,” he added. He also warned against the current artificial intelligence models being too politically Correct, and dragged it into former US President Donald Trump’s crosshairs.
Donald Trump’s Ground Game in Michigan is mostly jokey
Autoworkers for Donald Trump, a campaign to win the votes of undecided low-propensity voters, has said, “You’ve gotta vote early…One thing I know is, the Democrats are gonna cheat.” The Harris campaign and the Michigan Democratic Party have also put a premium on low-propensity voters that they hope to reach with relational organising, or individuals harnessing their personal networks to get out the vote.
There are fake ads being put out by the super PAC financed by Elon Musk
Facebook’s ad-blocking platform Meta said it will not allow new political advertisements to be placed the week before the US presidential election, adding that political ads can still appear if purchased before the week of the election. “Yes, there is a FirstAmendment right to lie, but that doesn’t constrain Meta’s management of advertisements on its platform,” it added.
Everything was announced during Apple’s Mac week
Apple has launched its 13.3-inch MacBook Pro notebooks with the highest-performing M4 Max processor, a standard chip and three new options. The entry-level model of the MacBook Pro has 16 gigahertz of RAM, while the 17-inch model has 16 gigahertz. It also has three Thunderbolt 4 ports on the back of the Mac Mini and M4 Pro version.
There is a method for rapid 3D-printing
A 3D interface printing system with a motion system was developed for imaging the capillary waves induced by the meniscus. This system allows the print-speed parameters space to be limited by the rate of new material that can wet the interface. A second system iteration was developed for in situ imaging, with modifications to allow the printing to move relative to a stationary probe.
Where’s my Star Trek computer?
Amazon has admitted that it lost $10 million in the early days of Amazon’s Alexa. The company said it “didn’t do enough” to incentivise developers to use the platform for skill development. “We knew we didn’t have a lot of resources…We didn’t know how to make skills work,” it added. Amazon has now stopped paying developers with credits or cash.
A baseless voting claim is being amplified on social media
Several accounts on social media that claimed they voted overseas in the US Presidential election were also bragging that they voted for Donald Trump inswing states, a report said. In 2015, Trump made a false claim on his social media that the Democrats intended to use overseas ballots to manipulate the election results.