It’s election season in the U.S., and Instagram has changed the way that it recommends political content.
But the platforms won’t proactively recommend content about politics, which could limit users’ ability to learn about political issues from people outside of their existing circles.
Plus, Instagram’s definition of political content is a bit broad — it describes political content as anything “potentially related to things like laws, elections, or social topics.”If these changes bother you, you can adjust your settings to override Instagram’s political content filters.
Changing Instagram’s political content settingsIf you don’t want Instagram to filter out political content from your feed, here are steps to opt out of these changes.
Limiting political content is going to have a ripple effect.
The movie later went on to win 7 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
And this is why it’s so hard to find fulfillment in this current system.
“Which brings me back to AI,” Kwan continued, to a thunder of applause and cheers.
“So imagine what this technology will do within this current system, within this current incentive structure.
“I also want to say, we’re not saying ‘don’t use AI.’ I don’t believe in dogmas.
The “State of Subscription Apps” report offers a bird’s-eye view into the subscription app universe, as RevenueCat has nearly 30,000 apps using its platform’s tools to manage their monetization.
Outside of Apple and Google, that makes RevenueCat the largest collection of subscription app developers on one platform.
For instance, 59% of the apps that reach $1,000 will go on to reach $2,500 and 60% of the apps that reach $2,500 will make it to $5,000.
The report highlights other aspects of the race to subscription app monetization, as well, including that North America-based apps have 4x the monetization of the global average.
The larger report gets into more specifics that will be useful to subscription app developers, including details about subscription packages, pricing, trial strategies, conversion, refund rates, retention, growth, and more.
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Sea is “still making changes” and has yet to launch its popular mobile game Free Fire in India, more than six months after announcing plans to do so.
Garena, the gaming unit of Sea, announced plans to relaunch Free Fire in India in August last year.
At the time, Garena said Free Fire India will be made available in the country on September 5.
India banned Free Fire and dozens of other Chinese apps in 2022.
Days later, Sea said it was shutting down Shopee’s operations in India, months into testing the social commerce service in the country.
Rabbit co-founder and CEO Jesse Lyu isn’t afraid of death… the death of the company, at least.
Rabbit’s r1, the pocket AI assistant that attracted considerable hype after its debut at CES, is certainly an original proposal.
“We immediately tried using super-prompts to get this language model to do things, and the result was very miserable,” he recalled.
“I mean, the first lesson I ever learned from Y Combinator two years ago, is that 99% of startups will die.
I think it’s good to have this level of competition that’s only going to help us grow faster, or die faster, which is the nature of startups.
Google has apologized (or come very close to apologizing) for another embarrassing AI blunder this week, an image generating model that injected diversity into pictures with a farcical disregard for historical context.
While the underlying issue is perfectly understandable, Google blames the model for “becoming” over-sensitive.
But if you ask for 10, and they’re all white guys walking goldens in suburban parks?
Where Google’s model went wrong was that it failed to have implicit instructions for situations where historical context was important.
These two things led the model to overcompensate in some cases, and be over-conservative in others, leading to images that were embarrassing and wrong.
“AI” was everywhere this year at CES; you couldn’t swing a badge without hitting some company claiming generative AI was going to revolutionize your sleep, teeth, or business.
But a few applications of machine learning stood out as genuinely helpful or surprising — here are a few examples of AI that might actually do some good.
These folks can whisper just fine, but not speak — often having to rely on a decidedly last-century electronic voice box.
The rabbit r1 got a fair amount of hype at CES, as a candy-colored pocket AI assistant should.
If you can talk, you can get things done — and if you use Whispp, you don’t even need to talk!
Logan Paul is offering refunds for CryptoZoo, the failed and allegedly fraudulent Pokémon-inspired NFT game that he launched in 2021.
The influencer, who faces a class action lawsuit for allegedly making millions of dollars of cryptocurrency by promoting a game that ultimately didn’t exist, also filed a cross-claim.
Class action lawsuits can be “devastating” for defendants, as damages can include what the plaintiff and class members initially lost, in addition to punitive damages and attorney’s fees.
“That would let him angle for a much more favorable settlement.”Logan Paul is being sued in a class action about the CryptoZoo NFT disaster.
At the time of Coffeezilla’s reporting, CryptoZoo held approximately $79,875,629, or 1,214,225,001.8 $ZOO for “wildlife charities and CryptoZoo development.
If you’re someone who loves an internet hype cycle, good news: There’s a new group of scientists who claim to have discovered a near-room-temperature superconductor.
(It should be noted that most of these people do not appear to be scientists let alone condensed-matter physicists.)
The one that grabbed the most headlines — LK-99 — dominated the internet for a few weeks over the summer before succumbing to the scientific method.
Another one, detailed in a paper co-authored by Ranga Dias and others, made a splash in March only to be subject to a retraction in September.
This new material picks up where LK-99 left off, which isn’t really an auspicious starting point.
