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Former US president Donald Trumps familybusinesses are in jeopardy. His financialfuture is in flux. Its safe to say he isnt having his best week. Hes alleging they violated his Constitutional rights and demanding a provisional reinstatement of his social media accounts immediately. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. To date, conservatives have demonstrated absolutely no evidence of bias against conservative ideologies. In other words: conservatives benefit from the myth that theres a conservative bias against them....

Sometimes, just providing a function signature or description is enough to generate an entire block of code. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. General-purpose language applications have proven to bevery hard to nail. There are many intricacies involved when applying natural language processing to broad environments. Humans tend to use a lot of abstractions and shortcuts in day-to-day language. There are already plenty of special-purpose deep learning models for different language tasks....

40% off TNW Conference! One example involved a volunteer who watched content about the US military. They were then recommended a misogynistic video titled Man humilitates [sic] feminist in viral video. But by that point, they had already racked up a collective 160 million views. But pushing content that keeps people watching for as long as possible comes with risks. The system haslong been accusedof recommending harmful content. Story byThomas Macaulay Thomas is the managing editor of TNW....

A fellow group member commented, Ill fight for whats right, this corruption has to be stopped immediately. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Citizen Browserconsists of a paid nationwide panel of Facebook users who automatically send us data from their Facebook feeds. the United Kingdom Democratic Socialist Movement. (For a full list of groups and methodology, see our data onGitHub). Facebook has not said how it defines a political group....

Weve already been blown away by Rimacs breathtakingNevera, the all-electric hypercar that goes 0-60mph in just 1.85 second. And if thats not the best match in the automotive world, I dont know what is. Rimacs new shareholder structure This has brought some changes to the overall shareholder arrangement. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. The remaining 45% will be held by Porsche, which means that Volkswagen isnt folding completely....

On paper, this feels like any other AI projects training method. But several people took to Twitter criticizing GitHubs move and calling it a copyright violation. Im leaving GitHub because copilot uses my OpenSource code for training is such an odd move. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. She also added that text and data mining is not against copyright laws. This assumption is wrong and counterproductive. Copyright law has only ever applied to intellectual creations where there is no creator, there is no work....

So I did some research and will now share my newly acquired wisdom with you. What is an electric motor? It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Basically, theelectric motoris a machinethat can convert electric energy into mechanical energy, also called energy of motion. In our case, this conversion process is what makes the car move. This happens through the relationship between electricity and magnetism, well get into that below....

Law experts have previously argued thatonly courts can decideif a company could lose its intermediary status. The company has declined to comment on the matter. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. The company could face action in all these cases if the court decides to rule against it. Twitter Indias head,Manish Maheshwari, has been booked in several of these cases. That’s one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say “Bleh....

Ive tested a fair few JBL bookshelf speakers here at TNW. Well, what if you want both a retro designanda horn-bang out sound? JBL has a hi-fi speaker for you too: the $2,000 JBL 4309. While they arent perfect, the speakers maintain JBLs neutral approach to speaker design with an impeccable spatial presentation. If youve read my review of theJBL HDI-1600, the 4309 sounds alotlike it. 40% off TNW Conference!...

The Big Apple versus The Big Orange. The City of Dreams versus The City of Angels. To do so, we analyzedmillions of GPS-enabled tweetsacross New York City and LA. It could be valuable for understanding many aspects of urban life, including the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Tweeting in Los Angeles (left) and New York City (right). Blue indicates density of tweets; the brighter the blue the greater the number of tweets....

A pro version of the Nintendo Switch has beenrumored forever and now its… kinda here? Say hello to Nintendos OLED Switch. Or the Nintendo Switch (OLED model) if you prefer dumb names. Thats right you beautiful people, a new Nintendo Switch will be hitting the shelves on October 8. It will come with a 7-inch OLED screen (YES!) and has a recommended retail price of $350 (OKAY!). Lets talk about some new shit though....

XTube, a pornography site, owned byMindGeek, will shut down permanently on September 5. But the clues are there. MindGeek hascontroversiallybecome the largest pornography business in the world. Over the past several years, MindGeek has been embroiled in a series of lawsuits. A large number of these concentrate on the fact that MindGeeks sites host illegal content. This includes, but is not limited to, rape, child sexual abuse, and revenge porn....

Nextdooris the latest company seeking to go public through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Up front:Nextdoor announced its plan after usage surged during lockdowns. The deal is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Background:SPACs became a hot investment trend on Wall Street last year. Quick take:Nextdoors announcement shows theres still an appetite for SPACs. The companys share price performance will provide signals about the methods benefits and risks....