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Amazon has officially opened up its Sidewalk IoT network to developers, allowing anyone to build devices that can utilise the long-range, low-bandwidth network. The network primarily exists to help Ring cameras send motion notifications even when theyโ€™re offline and allow Level smart locks to connect to the internet without the need for battery-sapping Wi-Fi radios, but it has the potential to benefit a range of low-data IoT devices. The network reportedly covers over 90% of the US population.
Newsletter platform, Substack, is seeking millions from retail investors after failing to raise funds from traditional investors last year, potentially due to low revenue of $9 million in 2021 and a high valuation. The company is offering a 10% cut from the subscription fees its newsletter writers charge, totaling over $300 million paid out to writers, but the lack of transparency on cost and revenue has raised concerns among investors.
Australian company Vow has created a mammoth meatball in an attempt to demonstrate the potential of meat grown from cells, without the slaughter of animals, and emphasise the link between livestock production and the climate crisis. The meatball was created by mixing and matching cells from different species, as part of the firm's approach. The company, which is developing meat from cells of more than 50 different species, raised $56m in investment to date. The mammoth cells made by Vow are derived from DNA sequences created at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering at the University of Queensland.
Twitter no longer shows users who others are replying to in tweet replies, making it difficult to understand the context of conversations and adding to the confusing user experience on the platform.
GitHub has laid off almost its entire engineering team in India, eliminating over 100 jobs, as part of the company's streamlining effort disclosed in February due to weakening global market conditions.
A Singapore-based retro computing enthusiast has developed a Chat GPT client for MS-DOS that can run on a vintage IBM PC-compatible computer, allowing users to chat with the popular OpenAI language model in a similar back-and-forth conversation as the traditional Chat GPT web interface, albeit as a text-only, full-screen application running on the antique machine.
Amazon is introducing a warning label for "frequently returned" products sold on its platform to encourage customers to research the item's details and reviews before purchasing.
Elon Musk is dismantling everything that made Twitter valuable, making it his mission to drive out expertise, scare away celebrities, bully reporters, reward bad actors and turn it into an information vacuum, ultimately flushing Twitter down the sink.
Apple has released Apple Music Classical, a standalone app for listening to classical music with an Apple Music subscription, offering curated playlists and composer biographies, but with a few caveats such as the lack of offline downloads and availability only on iPhone.
Microsoft has announced the launch of a new AI-powered Copilot assistant for cybersecurity professionals called Microsoft Security Copilot, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 generative AI and Microsoft's own security-specific model to help defenders identify breaches and understand the vast amounts of signals and data available to them daily.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has declared that, starting 15 April, Twitter will only show verified accounts on the algorithmic โ€œFor Youโ€ timeline and it's the โ€œonly realistic way to address advanced AI bots swarms taking over,โ€ as per a tweet from Elon Musk, but actually verified bots that donโ€™t impersonate humans will be eligible to be shown on the timeline.
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