Microsoft co-founder and former CEO Bill Gates told CNBC on Wednesday morning he had been naive about the government scrutiny that comes with getting large when he was running Microsoft and said the chance of Big Tech antitrust regulation is “pretty high.” CNBC reports: “Whenever you get to be a super-valuable company, affecting the way people communicate and even political discourse…
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Intel Defends AVX-512 Against Critics Who Hope It ‘Dies a Painful Death’
“I hope AVX512 dies a painful death,” Linus Torvalds said last month, “and that Intel starts fixing real problems instead of trying to create magic instructions to then create benchmarks that they can look good on.” Friday PC World published some reactions from Intel:
Torvalds wasn’t the only person to kick AVX-512 in the shins either. Former Intel engineer Francois Piednoel also…
Not a rainbow, not an iridescent cloud
There are many colored arcs in the sky. This photographer captured one commonly seen in summer, when the sun is high in the sky. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/photo-circumhorizon-arc-new-mexico-august-2020…
Mozilla Common Voice Updates Will Help Train the ‘Hey Firefox’ Wakeword For Voice-Based Web Browsing
Mozilla today released the latest version of Common Voice, its open source collection of transcribed voice data for startups, researchers, and hobbyists to build voice-enabled apps, services, and devices. Common Voice now contains over 7,226 total hours of contributed voice data in 54 different languages, up from 1,400 hours across 18 languages in February 2019. From a report: Common Voice consists…
Hey guys: Stop snuggling with your cats (at least in photos) if you want a date
Can posing with a pet help men find dating success? Not if it’s a cat, scientists say. Source: https://www.livescience.com/men-with-cats-photos.html
Hey Email App Open To All After Apple ‘Definitively’ Approves It
Basecamp’s Hey email app is now open to everyone after Apple “definitively approved” it for the App Store. No invite code is required for users to sign up. Engadget reports: Basecamp CTO and co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson tweeted the news today. Hey will not include any in-app purchases (IAP), so Apple will not get its standard 30 percent commission. At first,…