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Apple poaches AI staff from Google

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Apple, the $2.7tn tech company, has poached dozens of AI expert staff from Google  to set up a secretive European laboratory, “Vision Lab”,  in Zurich for developing AI models for AI smartphones. Apple even acquired two local AI start-ups – Virtual Reality group FaceShift and image recognition company Fashwell, to power products such as Open AI’s ChatGPT chatpot. According to insiders Apple is clearly focused on deploying generative AI on its mobile devices, a breakthrough that would allow AI chatbots and apps to run on the Apple phone’s own operating system and hardware rather than powered by cloud services in data centres. … Continue reading Apple poaches AI staff from Google

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Another billionaire jailed

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Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, nicknamed CZ, was a jailed for allowing money laundering after he pleaded guilty to breaching US anti-money laundering laws designed to prevent terrorist  financing and funds going to sanctioned countries. Zhao apologised before his sentencing at a court in Seattle saying: I failed here. I deeply regret my failure and I am sorry”. District judge Richard Jones told him: “You had the wherewithal, the finance capabilities, and the people power to make sure that every single regulation had to be complied with, and so you failed at that opportunity”. He is the second major crypto boss … Continue reading Another billionaire jailed

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Friendship, fraud, scams, shady deals and Fine Art

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£52bn annual sales for the Art World! Art World’s estimated total annual sales of over £52billion ( $65  billion) like, Venice’s rich displays art, old, new, and compete with parties in private palazzi and billionaires’ boats. Yet art traders are struggling to convert the next generation of enthusiasts into committed buyers. Prices, ownership, and conditions that reveal the limits of a market with no overarching oversight, which still relay on handshakes, and the hidden code of conduct. In the last year art advisor Lisa Schiff whose clients include Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, stands accused of running a Ponzi scheme amid a legal claim … Continue reading Friendship, fraud, scams, shady deals and Fine Art

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Workplace algorithms threatening us

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Did you know that Artificial intelligence alarmists warn that machine learning will end up destroying humanity – or make humans redundant but imagine what if AI tools simply do a bad job.  Artificial intelligence is being used, on a massive scale, to decide who gets hired, fired, and promoted. Through whistleblower exclusives, leaked internal documents, and astonishing real-world practices, reporter and professor at New York University, Hilke Schellmann reveals, after five years of investigating, exposes the secret rise of AI in the world of work. Testing them herself, the tools that are widely used by employers in hiring, firing, and … Continue reading Workplace algorithms threatening us

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Short Story: An Innocent Woman

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AN INNOCENT WOMAN – A Short Story by Penny Nair PriceWould anyone ever discover his deep secret? It seemed he had committed the perfect crime and he had got away with it – his most hated enemy was now ten feet under – and all because she was a cheating swine. He walked away from her grave, reminiscing deeply about their married life together, and as he did so, the sun started to shine and the clouds cleared. “Til death do us part” Ha! That was the joke. He remembered how she had begged with him for a ring he … Continue reading Short Story: An Innocent Woman

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Think Big for success to colonise swaths of economy

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Amazing riveting revelations of Amazon’s endless strategic greed, from destroying Main Street to remaking corporate power in pursuit of total domination, by any means necessary. Dana Mattioli, Wall Street Journal’s Amazon correspondent, whose reporting highlighted on allegations of Amazon’s anti-competitive behaviour, in her latest book “The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power, reveal how Amazon sells its own branded goods by accessing sensitive commercial data on successful third-party sellers, only then to launch its own Amazon-branded competing goods immediately, despite a senior Amazon executive denying under oath to Congress that it would misuse … Continue reading Think Big for success to colonise swaths of economy

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Boeing loses £285m in the first Quarter

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Boeing reported a net loss of £285m ($355m) in the first quarter amid a critical crisis sparked by a mid-air blowout of one of its planes in January. The US plane maker said production on its 737 programme has slowed to below 38 aircraft per month,  as revenue dipped to eight per cent to £13.3bn ($16.6bn). Boeing which has head office in Arlington, Virginia, had faced huge backlash after part of the fuselage on an Alaska Airlines 737-9 aircraft fell off mid-air earlier in the year, triggering an emergency landing. Boeing is under investigation by the US Department of Justice … Continue reading Boeing loses £285m in the first Quarter

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Wales school stabbing leaving shocked teacher seriously hurt

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Police and  two air ambulances were called out to Ysgol Dyffryn Amman Valley School  a Welsh secondary school, in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, after Liz Hopkin (53), a special needs teacher was stabbed in the neck four times by a female pupil during an attack is seriously ill but has been sent home to recuperate. Three people and a  pupil were injure in the attack at around 11:!5am on Wednesday. Worried parents waited for several hours at the gates of the school, which was “in lockdown”, before being tearfully reunited with their children as the school day ended. A teenage girl has … Continue reading Wales school stabbing leaving shocked teacher seriously hurt

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Robots are taking over warehouse jobs

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Online grocery stores  doing a intricate coordination with software, artificial intelligence, Robots, vans and workers. At Ocado warehouse outside Luton, hundreds of robots are whizzing around a grid, collecting items for online orders efficiently with speed and precision. Ocado had been using these unique robots to collect and distribute products, bringing them to staff, who pack them into boxes for delivery. Roboits zoom around the grid , bring items to robotic arms, which reach out and grab what they need for customer’s  shop.  Boxes of tea, coffee, packets of crumpets, peanuts are all grabbed by the arms using a suction … Continue reading Robots are taking over warehouse jobs

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Banging Denmark

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A Contemporary Comedy which will Raise a Few Eyebrows? Yes I think so! “Banging Denmark” – Review – Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road.Earls Court, London SW10 9ED You can join Friends of The Finborough Theatreunder five different categories – ask any staff member for a leaflet for moredetails. Known as the best pub theatre in Europe.http://www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk for times and prices. All comers get a veryinformative programme and a good seat. Writer of this play – Van Badham is an Australian born lady and aninternational award winning writer, theatre maker and broadcaster who is afeatured Guardian columnist and has also written … Continue reading Banging Denmark