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In the last quarter, the companyposted a record revenue of $41.7 billionwith 19% year-on-year growth. Its profit for that quarter was $15.5 billion a 44% jump from 2020. While most verticles from 2019, remain the same, the companys cloud offerings have consistently shown tremendous expansion. Apple is the only other publically traded Americancompany with a market cap above $2 trillion. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. AsCNNnoted, Microsoft share prices have climbed 64% since March 2020....

What if artificial intelligence technology and extraterrestrials are inextricably linked? Some experts believe aliens are waiting for us to develop more advanced AIbefore they reveal themselves. Others thinkaliens gave us our current AI technology. And still others theorize thatspace aliensareAIs. Lets see how these ideas hold up to some very light scrutiny. 40% off TNW Conference! If a human being was inside that craft, they would turn into mush because of the G-forces....

Memory can degrade over time due to years of exposure to radiation in space. 40% off TNW Conference! The main computer then automatically placed all science instruments in a safe mode configuration,NASA reports. The computer and memory modules are redundant. That is, a second computer and other memory modules could be used if needed, GSFC officials explain. This is not the first Hubble shutdown this spaceborne observatory has faced. Since then, Hubble has contributed to countless studies, producing outstanding science....

2020 will forever be the year of COVID-19, but it has a different meaning for UFO enthusiasts. This marked the time when the Pentagons covert UFO operation became an above board government program. And on Friday June 25, it will publish its first report covering 120 UFO sightings. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. He gave us an unequivocal yes to this. This report had a huge impact on how people thought about UFOs, Griffioen said....

However, the app has a nifty new feature that solves this problem. TikTok released afunctioncalled Jump that lets creators use mini-apps with their videos. you’re free to watch the feature in action here. SoonBuzzFeed,Jumprope,IRL, andWATCHAwill also have their own Jumps for events, movies, and articles. This makes it easy for content creators to link to resources that support what theyre saying. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. App or link integration has been a huge hindrance when it comes to images or videos....

One week later the exact sameop-edwas published in the bilingual El Dia Newspaper. Two months later, aversionof it appeared again in Crains Chicago Business newspaper. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Over the past several months, news outlets havedetailed political action committeesset up by Uber and Lyft inNew YorkandIllinois. Uber formed one super PAC in New York. Combined, the companies contributed a total of more than $3 million to the committees....

Colonial eventually paid the extortionistsa group known as DarkSidenearly$5 millionin Bitcoin. TheFBI has since recoveredroughly half of the ransom. Colonial confirmed the attack andthanked the FBI for its effortsin a statement. 40% off TNW Conference! So in some respects, the attacks against Colonial Pipeline and JBS are nothing new. Thousands of companies are targeted by ransomware each year, and many end up paying to recover their data. Organizations cant stick their heads in the sand and hope this is going away....

It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Whats the good news? Do EVs excite your electrons? Do ebikes get your wheels spinning? Do self-driving cars get you all charged up? With a background in the humanities, she has a soft spot for social impact-enabling technologies. Also tagged with

Small aerial drones are touted as a disruptive technology, with massive investment and hype surrounding their use. They may deliver our morningcoffee,pizzas, time-sensitivemedical supplies, andAmazon orders. Ambitions to expand on-demand operations hinge on drones performing with sufficient up-time to supplement or supplant conventional practices. The viability of using drones for these applications is diminished if weather prevents them from flying. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Are drones reliable enough for time-sensitive delivery applications?...

Facebook is doing a terrible job of banning Donald Trump from its platform. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. A quick peek at thead informationindicates the Page just purchased a little over $3K in ads for Ohio. We can also see that its spent more than $16 million since 2018. Supposedly, Trump shouldnt be allowed on the platform at all right now. Quick take:This is a bunch of crap....

GPT-3 is arguably the worlds most advanced text-generator. It was trained using supercomputing clusters, a nearly internet-sized dataset, and 175 billion parameters. Its among the most impressive generative AI systems ever created. But it absolutely did not create a video game. You may have read otherwise. But its what you didnt read that matters. At the risk of oversimplifying, you give GPT-3 a short input and ask it to generate text....

The sale of MGMon May 26 followed more than six months of negotiations. The American studio known for its roaring lion had been weakened by major financial difficulties before the pandemic. The prolonged closure of movie theatres was the final nail in its coffin. In buying MGM, Amazon is clearly demonstrating its ambition to dethrone Netflix. The race for the top spot in the video-on-demand market has never been tighter....

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