Schools are beginning to throw out expired Chromebooks, creating 'piles of electronic waste,' report says

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A picture from the report that the US PIRG says shows a "school system's Chromebooks that are no longer usable."

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Take a look at the wildest vehicles designed by Kittyhawk, Google cofounder Larry Page's failed flying-car company

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Kitty Hawk Flyer
Google founder Larry Page's flying-car company Kittyhawk went through a lot of wacky designs during its eight-year run, including the once-promising Flyer.

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15 of the most successful companies that started in homes, basements, sheds, and bedrooms

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The garage where Jeff Bezos started Amazon.

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Artificial intelligence will make Big Tech even bigger. Something needs to be done about the power imbalance, researchers warn

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Good morning, readers. I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and I enjoy some of Taylor Swift's music but definitely don't consider myself a Swiftie.

I do, however, find myself enchanted by her financial knowledge.

A former Google researcher behind a seminal AI paper describes how the company lost a top chatbot visionary

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Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, the cofounders of Character.ai, standing next to a stairway.
Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, the cofounders of Character.ai.

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Microsoft should pay whatever it costs to replace Google on Samsung phones

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai (left) and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (right). Samsung is reportedly considering replacing Google Search with Microsoft's Bing as the default search engine on its smartphones. Experts say that would be worth it for Microsoft.

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Google employees who tested its ChatGPT rival Bard reportedly called it 'cringeworthy' and a 'pathological liar,' and said the AI's responses could 'result in serious injury or death'

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Google logo displayed on a phone screen and Bard website displayed on a laptop screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on March 21, 2023.
Google employees tasked to test Google's AI chatbot Bard called it "cringeworthy" and a "pathological liar," according to Bloomberg.

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Elon Musk said he hasn't talked to his former friend Larry Page in years: 'He got very upset with me about OpenAI'

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Elon Musk said Larry Page wanted to create a "digital god."

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Facebook’s parent company Meta is doing layoffs again. But there’s one ‘safe’ team that could actually benefit from the job cuts.

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Welp, it's Wednesday. I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and I (semi-jokingly) like to say that I watch  about one movie per year. I've already watched one in 2023. But in light of breaking news, I might make an exception. 

Elon Musk says the government needs 'some sort of contingency plan' to shutdown AI if it gets too powerful

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Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, speaks at the 2015 Automotive News World Congress January 13, 2015 in Detroit, Michigan. More than 5,000 journalists from around the world will see approximately 45 new vehicles unveiled during the 2015 NAIAS, which opens to the public January 17 and concludes January 25.

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