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The Indiana Pacers crushed the New York Knicks, 121–89, in Game 4 of their second-round playoff matchup. The series is now tied 2–2 going into Tuesday's Game 5.
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Is Austin’s hot housing market flipping in favor of buyers?
The average home price in Austin, Texas, jumped by $170,000 during the pandemic. But the market is shifting in favor of buyers, and prices are beginning to come down.
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Go on, let bots date other bots
Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd raised eyebrows this week with her comments about how AI might change the dating experience. During an onstage interview, Bloomberg’s Emily Chang brought up bots posing as real people, or real people falling in love with bots, as examples of how AI might make online dating worse.
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Americans are feeling worse about the US economy amid inflation concerns
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Toronto Raptors 2024 NBA offseason preview: There's young talent to build on here
There is considerable talent in Toronto, and now that talent needs to find a way to become more cohesive.
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Blackboard founder transforms Zoom add-on designed for teachers into business tool
When Class founder Michael Chasen was in college, he and a buddy came up with the idea for Blackboard, an online classroom organizational tool. Chasen later developed Class, a Zoom add-on, during the pandemic to help teachers make better use of Zoom in a classroom setting, something they struggled to do early in the pandemic.
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Amazon's CTO built a meeting-summarizing app for some reason
How does Amazon CTO Werner Vogels — a man worth untold millions, who during the COVID-19 pandemic outright bought the small Central Amsterdam Airbnb he'd been living in — spend his days? In a post this week on Vogels' personal blog, he details Distill, an open source app he built with his "OCTO" (Office of the CTO) team to transcribe and summarize their conference calls. As one might expect of an app from Amazon's CTO, Distill relies conspicuously on paid Amazon products and services to do the computational heavy lifting.
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India urges political parties to avoid using deepfakes in election campaigns
India's Election Commission has issued an advisory to all political parties, urging them to refrain from using deepfakes and other forms of misinformation in their social media posts during the country's ongoing general elections. The move comes after the constitutional body faced criticism for not doing enough to combat such campaigns in the world's most populous nation. The advisory, released on Monday (PDF), requires political parties to remove any deepfake audio or video within three hours of becoming aware of its existence.