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Banning Zuckerbucks Isn’t About Trump
18Oct By adminNo Comments
World

Banning Zuckerbucks Isn’t About Trump

Louisiana is the latest state to restrict private funding for elections, after voters on Saturday backed a constitutional amendment, 73% to 27%. Grants to election administrators are often referred to as Zuckerbucks, after the millions that Facebook impresario Mark Zuckerberg poured into the pandemic voting of 2020. To Donald Trump, it was a case of election rigging.But it’s unlikely that Mr. Zuckerberg’s money mattered to the outcome, and a new academic study circulating among election analysts argues exactly that. “While counties that favor Democrats were much more likely to apply for a grant, we find that the grants did not have a noticeable effect on the presidential election,” write Apoorva Lal and Daniel Thompson, the latter of whom is a political-science professor at the University...
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Meta Quest 3: Zuckerberg unveils mixed-reality VR headset
27Sep By adminNo Comments
Technology

Meta Quest 3: Zuckerberg unveils mixed-reality VR headset

New York CNN  —  Meta is moving forward in its efforts to dominate the AR world with the new and improved Meta Quest 3. Unveiled by CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the company’s virtual Meta Connect event Wednesday, the headset starts at $500 and is a complete redesign of earlier models. The Quest 3, first announced in June, offers improved performance, immersive new mixed-reality features and a sleeker, more comfortable design. With a much stronger processor, higher-resolution display, revamped Touch Plus controllers and a 40% slimmer physique, the Quest 3 is a big step up from its predecessors. The Meta Quest 2 allows for strictly virtual reality, while the Meta Quest Pro has advanced passthrough cameras fo...
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Chuck Schumer to host AI forum with Zuckerberg and Musk among attendees
3Sep By adminNo Comments
Technology

Chuck Schumer to host AI forum with Zuckerberg and Musk among attendees

CNN  —  More than a half-dozen leading tech CEOs will be among those attending a highly anticipated artificial intelligence event hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer next month, according to the senator’s office. The September 13 event will involve Google CEO Sundar Pichai and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt; Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella; Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang; and Elon Musk, CEO of X, the company formerly known as Twitter. It is the first of nine sessions Schumer has said will begin this fall to discuss the hardest questions that regulations on AI will seek to address, including how to protect workers, national security and copyright...
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X appears to slow load times for links to several news outlets and rival platforms
16Aug By adminNo Comments
Technology

X appears to slow load times for links to several news outlets and rival platforms

New York CNN  —  Link loading times to some Twitter competitors and news media sites posted to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appeared to be delayed or throttled for much of Tuesday. Links posted to X that directed to sites including the New York Times, Reuters, Facebook, Substack and X competitors Bluesky and Threads took around 5 seconds to load — a notable slowdown from the typically nearly instantaneous loading times, according to observations by CNN reporters. Many other sites, such as NBA.com, CNN, retailer Target and other sites did not appear to be affected by the issue. The delays were first reported by users of the technology forum Hacker News. The re...
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