Bobby Allyn

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Post-Idalia, residents in Horseshoe Beach consider whether to rebuild or move on

Friday, September 01, 2023

Hurricane Idalia's storm surge and powerful winds raked across several of Florida's older and rural Gulf Coast communities. Now, the cleanup begins.

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Parts of the Southeast coastline are dealing with the aftermath of Idalia

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Idalia came ashore along the Florida Gulf Coast as a major hurricane — the first to hit the region since the 1800s. A major storm surge and electricity outages are complicating rescue efforts.

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What we know about the damage in Florida from Hurricane Idalia

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Now tropical storm Idalia came ashore in the Big Ben region of Florida. The storm hammered low-lying areas and brought a massive storm surge. Power is out for scores of residents.

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Worldcoin uses silver orbs to scan people's eyeballs in exchange for crypto tokens

Friday, August 18, 2023

Hundreds of people around the world lined up to have their eyeballs scanned by a tech startup that says it wants to authenticate humans in the age of AI.

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OpenAI is facing lawsuits over copyrighted materials it uses to train ChatGPT

Friday, August 18, 2023

AI tools like ChatGPT scrape millions of pages from the internet. Pages such as news articles, books, Wikipedia pages and blog posts. But is it legal?

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New York Times considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

The news publisher and maker of ChatGPT have held tense negotiations over striking a licensing deal for the use of the paper's articles to train the chatbot. Now, legal action is being considered.

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Silicon Valley's latest hype: Eyeball-scanning silver orbs to confirm you're human

Sunday, August 13, 2023

The project is called Worldcoin. It was co-founded by Sam Altman of ChatGPT fame. Its mission is to authenticate all the world's humans, one eyeball scan at a time.

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Movie extras worry they'll be replaced by AI. Hollywood is already doing body scans

Wednesday, August 02, 2023

Five background actors told NPR they had to undergo face and body digital scans while on TV and movie sets. The use of digital replicas is a sticking point in the ongoing strikes in Hollywood.

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Movie extras worry they'll be replaced by artificial intelligence

Tuesday, August 01, 2023

As the Hollywood strikes grind on, some background TV and film actors are concerned about losing jobs to artificial intelligence.

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Twitter's new logo is an X. Musk says it's part of the transition to everything app

Monday, July 24, 2023

Twitter has ditched the bird logo for an X. Elon Musk says the change is a step toward turning the platform into an app that offers other services. It's a tall order considering Twitter's finances.

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Meta's Threads, which is basically a Twitter clone, minimizes news and politics

Thursday, July 13, 2023

Meta's new app Threads aims to be a friendlier alternative to Twitter by deemphasizing news and politics. But for many people, partisan brawls are a big part of Twitter's appeal.

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Meta's Threads wants to become a 'friendly' place by downgrading news and politics

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Mark Zuckerberg has pitched Meta's Twitter clone as a more "friendly" place for online discourse. Executives say breaking news and politics will not be the emphasized. But is that realistic?

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Meta launches fast-growing Threads app; Twitter threatens Meta

Saturday, July 08, 2023

Facebook parent company Meta broke most-downloaded records recently with its new app, Threads. It's a direct challenge to Twitter, which has been upended under the leadership of Elon Musk.

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The Zuckerberg-Musk rivalry continues with the launch of Meta's 'Twitter killer' app

Thursday, July 06, 2023

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter owner Elon Musk have long had a rivalry. That's now been put on vivid display with Zuckerberg taking aim at Twitter by launching the new social media app Threads.

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Meta has unveiled an app called Threads to rival Twitter

Thursday, July 06, 2023

Meta hopes to become the go-to platform for public discourse. Its app comes as Elon Musk's chaotic rule at Twitter has many looking for a new place to go.

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Why Twitter is limiting the number of tweets a user can view

Monday, July 03, 2023

Twitter CEO Elon Musk said the social media platform is capping the number of tweets users can view — saying the unusual measure was needed to fight off companies that scrape Twitter for data.

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Hollywood actors are pushing back against studios using AI to clone them

Sunday, July 02, 2023

The rise of artificial intelligence has Hollywood actors on edge. Studios are interested in how the technology can allow for digital clones of actors - and actors are pushing back.

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Google says it will start blocking Canadian news stories in response to new law

Thursday, June 29, 2023

The Google fight with the country echoes a similar battle in Australia, where the tech industry eventually struck deals with news publishers after tense negotiations.

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He lost $340,000 to a crypto scam. Such cases are on the rise

Sunday, June 25, 2023

He thought he was investing in cryptocurrency. In fact, he was being swindled out of his life savings. There has been a 900% increase in such cases since the pandemic began, federal regulators say.

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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: 'It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company'

Thursday, June 15, 2023

In his first interview since thousands of subreddits went dark in protest, Huffman said he is not going to reverse his plan to start charging for outside access to Reddit data.

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