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Hundreds of San Francisco protesters greet TrumpSign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailDonald Trump brought in a haul of $12m at a San Francisco fundraiser hosted by tech venture capitalists Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, and his wife Jacqueline. The cryptocurrency community was well represented at the event given the perceived hostility to the sector by Democrats and the Biden administration.The judge presiding over Trump’s hush money trial has alerted prosecutors and defense counsel about a Facebook comment from an apparent social media troll announcing…

“The only way to win this game is not to play it.”Foregone ConclusionIn a survey earlier this year, just over half of the 2,778 researchers polled said that there’s a five percent chance that humans will be driven to extinction, among other “extremely bad outcomes.”At the same time, 68.3 percent of respondents said that “good outcomes from superhuman AI” are more likely than bad ones, showing there’s little consensus on the topic among experts.Some are extraordinarily negative. Take AI researcher and University of Louisville computer science lecturer Roman Yampolskiy, who’s squarely in the doomer camp. In a recent episode of Lex…

Soccer friendlies are largely free of consequence, untethered from continental and global competitions that end up rendering clear — and often harsh — judgment on national teams.But friendlies such as the U.S. men’s national team clash with Colombia on Saturday at Commanders Field in Landover are also bellwethers. With its Copa América opener about two weeks away, Gregg Berhalter’s bunch will seek to find focus and form against not just the highflying Colombians but five-time world champion Brazil on Wednesday in Orlando.And as these friendlies might portend performance at Copa América, Copa América, in turn, promises to reveal early signs…

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This week, STYLY announced that it is scaling its urban AR marketing and entertainment platform with help from substantial funding from Mitsubishi Corporation.The unconfirmed capital from Mitsubishi Corporation allows STYLY Inc. to boost its “spatial layer platform, ” enabling brands to create and distribute immersive AR campaigns geo-located to real urban environments – visible via a smartphone or smart glasses.Masahiro Yamaguchi, the CEO, STYLY, Inc. added:In February 2024, Apple Inc launched Apple Vision Pro in the United States. We are on the verge of entering an era where XR/spatial computing becomes a part of everyday life. Through our capital and…

By Narbeh Minassian, news reporterThe time on your ticket is 7pm, but you already know it’s not going to start then.So, what time do you get to the cinema?If you’re arriving at 7.10pm, you’re almost certainly safe, but any later and you may cut it fine.Here, we’ve gathered information from the UK’s major cinema chains and spoken to experts about how long you can expect adverts and trailers to run until the main event actually begins.Cineworld According to the Cineworld website, ads and trailers “normally last between 30-45 minutes before the actual film begins”. The cinema also asks customers to…

With the release of several new tools, policies, and upgrades by Google and Meta in May 2024, there were major advances in the field of SEO. Advertisers, content producers, and companies looking to maximise their online presence are all influenced by these shifts. An extensive summary of the major developments and debates that shaped the SEO scene in May 2024 can be found below. Google Ads Introduces New Policies on Deepfake Content Google Ads introduced a new policy on May 1, 2024, that specifically targets sexually inappropriate material produced or promoted with the use of deepfake technology. Google Ads will…

VOL. 38  NO. 6 Is there a link between freelancing or outsourcing and the world of innovation? This question came to mind after reviewing the two key topics in this month’s issue. And the answer is definitively “Yes.” Freelancing and talent outsourcing—the topic of this month’s cover story—are growing, becoming increasingly global, affecting different sectors, occupations, and ranks. The growth of freelancing is happening in advanced and developing economies, small and large countries, and new and traditional jobs, and has attracted increasing attention from regulators. This trend, which is not new but has expanded enormously in the last few years,…

Privacy-focused web browser DuckDuckGo has announced DuckDuckGo AI Chat, which can prove to be a medium to let users access chatbots like OpenAI’s GPT 3.5 Turbo, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku, Meta Llama 3 and Mistral’s Mixtral 8x7B for free in an anonymous way. The platform noted the optional feature is restricted with a daily limit. According to DuckDuckGo, while users can choose to toggle the option off easily, the chats are private and anonymised by the platform and are not used in any form of AI training. The company noted more chat models, new browser entry points, and a paid…

Visa and Mastercard are facing new lawsuits over multilateral interchange fees. The United Kingdom Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled Friday (June 7) that collective proceedings — which are similar to class action lawsuits in the United States — brought on behalf of merchants can proceed, Reuters reported Friday. The two global payment processors already face several lawsuits in London over the fees retailers pay when consumers use a card for purchases, according to the report. The cases certified Friday were brought by Commercial and Interregional Card Claims, a special purpose vehicle, in 2022, the report said. They allege that merchants were…