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In a significant blow to the Amazon-owned site and indicative of its strained relationship with content creators, one of Twitch’s most popular streamers announced on Friday that he would be joining a rival streaming platform, Kick. Félix Lengyel, widely known online as xQc, has secured a lucrative two-year contract with Kick worth approximately $70 million, …

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Think back on previous projects that involved a team effort. Remember those projects th at failed to meet deadlines or exceeded the budget. What was the common factor? Was it insufficient hyperparameter tuning or poor model artifact logging? Probably not, right? One of the most prevalent reasons for project failures is bad project management. Effective …

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The moderators of hundreds of Reddit forums, known as subreddits, closed off access to their groups on Monday to protest the company’s plan to charge for access to the data that outside developers need to run apps on the site. Many said the new pricing scheme could kill off some of the most popular third-party …

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Quantum computers today are small in computational scope — the chip inside your smartphone contains billions of transistors while the most powerful quantum computer contains a few hundred of the quantum equivalent of a transistor. They are also unreliable. If you run the same calculation over and over, they will most likely churn out different …

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Reddit is currently facing some issues with new charges for third-party Reddit apps, leading to a significant number of subreddits going dark and blocking visitor access. This situation has left users cut off, affected Google web searches, and prompted people to seek alternatives that offer a similar Reddit-like experience. To address this need, we have …

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The age change for the Quest headset comes as building a virtual reality-based version of the metaverse has become crucial to Meta’s future. Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s founder and chief executive, has spent the past two years shifting his social networking business to the metaverse. Last year, he spent nearly $14 billion to expand Reality …

Meta to Lower Age for Users of Quest VR Headset to 10 From 13 Read More »

Late on Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced an agreement with Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, allowing it to continue operating within the United States and safeguarding customer assets amidst an ongoing government lawsuit. Following the SEC’s filing of fraud charges against Binance on June 5, the commission took action to freeze …

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In a surprising announcement, Fred Ryan, the long-standing publisher and chief executive of The Washington Post, revealed on Monday that he would be stepping down from his position. This decision marked the end of his nearly decade-long tenure as the newspaper’s top business executive. Ryan, who was appointed by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon …

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Newsletter Sed ut perspiciatis unde. Subscribe If Google’s Pixel Pro family has had your interest for a while, but the thought of using a phone with a curved display prevented you from buying the or , the Pixel 8 Pro could be interesting. According to an published Saturday, Google’s next flagship will feature a flat …

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Hello! We’re back with another edition of On Tech: A.I., a pop-up newsletter that teaches you about artificial intelligence, how it works and how to use it. Last week, I walked you through how to use A.I. to prepare for the dreaded office meeting. Now let’s take the money you’ve earned from all that hard …

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