🕶️ Snap's new Spectacles let you see the world in augmented reality
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Snap's new Spectacles let you see the world in augmented reality. Snap's new Spectacles glasses are its most ambitious yet. On Thursday, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel unveiled the company’s first true augmented reality glasses, technology that he and rivals like Facebook think will one day be as ubiquitous as mobile phones. A demo showed virtual butterflies fluttering over colorful plants and landing in Spiegel’s extended hand. (Alex Heath via The Verge)
Google unit deepmind tried-and failed-to win AI autonomy from parent. Senior managers at Google artificial-intelligence unit DeepMind have been negotiating for years with the parent company for more autonomy, seeking an independent legal structure for the sensitive research they do. (Parmy Olson via Wall Street Journal)
Treasury calls for crypto transfers over $10,000 reported to IRS. The U.S. Treasury said the Biden administration’s proposal to strengthen tax compliance includes a requirement for transfers of at least $10,000 of cryptocurrency to be reported to the Internal Revenue Service. (Laura Davison via Bloomberg)
Why Asian Americans on Wall Street from Goldman Sachs to Wells Fargo are breaking their silence. A year after the pandemic began in New York City, something snapped in Alex Chi. The 48-year-old Goldman Sachs banker had been inundated with articles and video clips of horrifying, seemingly random attacks on Asian Americans in his home town. (Hugh Son via CNBC)
Trump Is Marching Down the Road to Political Violence. At the beginning of last week, former President Donald Trump referred to the 2020 election as the “greatest Election Fraud in the history of our Country.” By the end of the week, he had issued a statement saying, “As our Country is being destroyed, both inside and out, the Presidential Election of 2020 will go down as THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY!” (Peter Wehner via The Atlantic)
The race to understand the exhilarating, dangerous world of language AI. Studies have already shown how racist, sexist, and abusive ideas are embedded in these models. They associate categories like doctors with men and nurses with women; good words with white people and bad ones with Black people. (Karen Hao via MIT Technology Review)
Giving Pledge falls short as billionaires get a big tax break. It was the winter of 2010 and Mark Zuckerberg was in a hurry. A few months earlier, 40 of America's richest families had signed the Giving Pledge, a public promise initiated by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett to give at least half of…(Mattathias Schwartz via Business Insider)
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