Tech Insider : Economy
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Silicon Valley is praying that AI tools like ChatGPT can keep customers and investors distracted until the stock market chaos is over and the global economy bounces back.

AI is Silicon Valley's last-ditch attempt to avoid a stock market wipeout

Tech Insider : Economy
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Programming was long considered to be the one haven from the relentless advance of technology. If coders aren't safe, who is?

ChatGPT has come for software developers

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People wear protective face masks outside Salesforce Tower.
Salesforce recently cut around 8,000 roles.
Gizmodo

Apple Maps users who were thinking of visiting ol’ Beantown, AKA Boston, can now get a sneak peak at some of the area’s most famous landmarks in 3D after Apple added it to its growing list of cities with select hand-crafted 3D models.

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Alex Jones is suffering under the weight of massive lawsuits and harsh social media bans, but he’s still finding ways to get his crazed philosophy out into the wider web.

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Google is ending its suspension of Donald Trump’s YouTube channel Friday, making it the last of the major U.S. social media companies to reverse course on a ban of the former president. Trump is effectively back online. How he chooses to connect with his reunited 2.6 million followers there, however, remains unclear.

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Engadget : Arts & Entertainment

Nearly two decades before Facebook and others were talking about the metaverse, Second Life was letting millions of users partake in virtual worlds. Now, all this time later, developer Linden Labs has announced that it's developing a mobile version of the game, Ars Technica has reported. A beta version is expected to launch later this year. 

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Tinder announced this week that its users can now add relationship types and pronouns to their profiles. For example, you can specify whether you’re seeking monogamous or non-monogamous relationships (or are still figuring it out) and list your preferred gender pronouns. Both new features are borrowed from Hinge, owned by the same parent company, which added the same profile options last year.

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Microsoft is now putting its AI into all of its 365 apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint,