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Putting AI into the hands of people with problems to solve | MIT News
As Media Lab students in 2010, Karthik Dinakar SM ’12, PhD ’17 and Birago Jones SM ’12 teamed up for a class project to build a tool that would help content moderation teams at companies like Twitter (now X) and YouTube. The project generated a huge amount of excitement, and the researchers were invited to…
Alleged Crypto Investment Scam Worth $80M Sees Four People Charged With Money Laundering in U.S.
The four allegedly obtained the money through so-called pig-butchering and other fraudulent schemes. Source link
Beeper says some people aren’t getting iMessages again
Here we go again: Just two days after getting Beeper Mini working again after Apple’s block, Beeper says that it’s looking into reports that some users aren’t getting iMessages on Beeper Mini and Beeper Cloud. The issues appear to have started as early as about 6PM ET; at that time, one Verge staffer reported that…
Arctic cowboys: Meet the people wrangling icebergs for drinking water
EACH June, tourists flock to Newfoundland to catch a glimpse of icebergs. Sparkling as they twist in the frigid waves of the Labrador Sea, icebergs have become one of the Canadian island’s most important industries, attracting more than 100,000 visitors a year. But not everyone is satisfied merely watching the behemoth blocks of frozen freshwater…
Netflix is back, after an outage knocked many people offline for a few hours
People worldwide have reported trouble connecting to Netflix and a strange “tvq-pb-101” error message starting at around 5PM ET until the issue was resolved at around 8PM ET. Given the service’s global availability and massive subscriber base, small outages are common, but what we saw on Monday evening is different. Here at The Verge, among…
Amazon sues group that fakes returns so people can get free MacBooks
Amazon is suing a naughty but enterprising group called REKK for offering a paid service to willing shoppers looking to get big-ticket items like laptops and game consoles for cheap by exploiting its return and refund system. This isn’t like the times you try to return a small item purchased from Amazon, like a pair…