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2 | These are the Daily Tech Headlines for Tuesday, March 5th, 2024. I'm Robb Dunewood. | |||||
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6 | According to Yuri Borisov, head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Russia and China are considering putting a nuclear power plant on the Moon around 2033-35. The two countries are collaborating on the International Lunar Research Station, a massive moon complex with a radius of nearly 4 miles that is set to break ground in 2026. The ILRS will house scientists who will deeply study the moon's properties. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13159113/Russia-China-planning-nuclear-power-plant-MOON-ten-years-Roscosmos-space-agency-reveals.html | ||||
7 | Microsoft filed a motion seeking to dismiss key parts of a lawsuit The New York Times filed against it and OpenAI, accusing them of copyright infringement. Microsoft accused The Times of pushing "doomsday futurology" by claiming that AI technologies pose a threat to independent journalism. The company accused The Times of crafting "unrealistic prompts" to "coax the GPT-based tools" to spit out responses matching its content. Microsoft is asking the court to dismiss claims that it is liable for end-user copyright infringement through the use of GPT-based tools, that it violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and that it misappropriates time-sensitive breaking news and consumer purchasing recommendations. | https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-accuses-the-new-york-times-of-doom-mongering-in-openai-lawsuit-133025748.html?src=rss | ||||
8 | The former CEO, CFO, legal chief, and general counsel of Twitter have sued Elon Musk, saying he owes them collectively more than $128 million in severance. The executives, who sued Musk to follow through with his acquisition plans of Twitter after he changed his mind, were fired for cause by Musk after his takeover of Twitter citing gross negligence and willful misconduct, a charge the executive group denies. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in California escalates a more than a yearlong dispute between the former executives and Musk. | https://www.wsj.com/tech/former-twitter-executives-sue-elon-musk-for-over-128-million-in-severance-ea10f43a?st=1oe3cfhunzeqnqk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink | ||||
9 | Microsoft will live-stream a new Xbox Partner Preview event this week on Wednesday, March 6th at at 10 AM PT. The 30-minute event will stream simultaneously on YouTube and Twitch, and it will feature a dozen new trailers from publishers like Capcom, EA, and Nexon. The Xbox team said, “During Xbox Partner Preview, you can learn more about combat and traversal in Tales of Kenzera: Zau, see new gameplay from Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, get a closer look at The First Berserker: Khazan, and other great titles coming to Xbox, Windows, or Game Pass.” | https://www.thurrott.com/games/298737/microsoft-announces-xbox-partner-preview-event-on-march-6 | ||||
10 | OpenAI announced this week that ChatGPT can now read its answers out loud on the web and mobile versions of ChatGPT. Users have been able to directly ask the chatbot prompts without typing since the voice chat feature launched last September. Now, Read Aloud is available for GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 and can speak 37 languages, autodetecting the language of the text it’s reading. | https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/4/24090500/chatgpt-openai-voice-ios-android | ||||
11 | Google co-founder Sergey Brin, when speaking to entrepreneurs about Google Gemini Saturday at the AGI House” in Hillsborough, California, said, “We definitely messed up on the image generation,” “I think it was mostly due to just not thorough testing. It definitely, for good reasons, upset a lot of people.” Google said last week that it plans to relaunch the image generation feature soon. | https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/04/sergey-brin-says-google-definitely-messed-up-with-gemini-launch-.html | ||||
12 | Amazon employees at a warehouse near Seattle got a glimpse of Digit, a 5-foot-9-inch robot that resembles a human, walks like a bird, and has glowing white eyes. Digit is currently only configured to empty yellow bins off a shelf and ferry them several feet to a conveyor. The robot is in the testing phases and won’t likely transform the logistics industry anytime soon. Digit, however, is a major technological leap forward and positions its maker, Agility Robotics Inc., at the forefront of an effort to build machines that can work alongside human workers. | https://www.oodaloop.com/briefs/2024/03/04/humanoid-robots-at-amazon-provide-glimpse-of-an-automated-workplace/ | ||||
13 | Instagram announced a new feature this week that allows users to edit direct messages up to 15 minutes after sending them. Users will also get the option to pin up to 3 messaging threads to the top of their inbox. To edit a message, you need to press and hold it, and then choose “edit” from the drop-down menu. Once you edit a message, the purple text bubble will have an “Edited” label on top of it to notify the other person that the message has been changed. | https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/04/instagram-now-lets-you-edit-dms-up-to-15-mins-after-sending-them/ | ||||
14 | And finally, bitcoin set a new all-time high cresting above $69,000 a level first touched on Nov. 10th, 2021. Bitcoin’s latest run continues to be fueled by new US-based spot bitcoin ETFs which opened for business on Jan. 11th earlier this year. | https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/03/05/bitcoin-soars-to-new-all-time-high-above-69k/ | ||||
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