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Studio Ghibli hasn’t commented on OpenAI’s onslaught of AI copies, but the fan subreddit has | TechCrunch
When OpenAI debuted its image-generation feature in ChatGPT last week, social media exploded when users realized that they could make AI-generated images that looked like something out of an animated film from Studio Ghibli. Fans hoped that Studio Ghibli...
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Trump’s Tariffs Don’t Apply to Chips, but Taiwan Remains Wary
Taiwan, the center of the global supply chain for computer chips, woke up on Thursday to the news that President Trump had put new 32 percent tariffs on the island’s exports to the United States. Except for semiconductors.The decision...
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Buyers circle and rumours swirl as TikTok sale deadline looms
Imran Rahman-JonesTechnology reporterGetty ImagesThe list of would-be buyers for TikTok in the US - both rumoured and confirmed - has grown longer as the deadline for deciding its future looms.The social media giant faces being shut down in the...
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Extreme weather could disrupt China’s renewable energy boom
China’s vast electrical grid buzzes with more renewable energy than that of any other country, but this system is...
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Starfish-inspired patch solves key issues for wearable heart sensors
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Nature comes to the rescue, again
Immense promise for cardiac wellness
Charging hassles, no more
The domain of wearable devices has grown by leaps and bounds, not just in terms of mass adoption, but also owing to some...
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How Trump Could Make Larry Ellison the Next Media Mogul
For decades, Larry Ellison reveled in being the Silicon Valley executive who really knew how to have a good time. He spent as much as $200 million building a Japanese-inspired imperial villa near Palo Alto, Calif., bought the sixth-largest...
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The Founder of OnlyFans Wants to Buy TikTok
Tim Stokely, founder of the adult content platform OnlyFans, has submitted an eleventh-hour proposal to buy TikTok’s US operations from its Chinese owner ByteDance.The “intent to bid” was made by Zoop—a social media startup Stokely cofounded with RJ Phillips,...
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Amazon tells White House it’s interested in buying TikTok
Amazon has told the White House it is interested in buying TikTok ahead of a key deadline by which its parent company, China-based ByteDance, must either sell the popular social media app or face a...
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What to know about TikTok’s uncertain future in the US and the people who want to buy it | TechCrunch
TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been at the center of controversy in the U.S. for four years now due to concerns about user data potentially being accessed by the Chinese government. Earlier this year, the app...
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Can the Next Generation of Supercolliders Unlock the Secrets of the Universe?
In particle physics, the smallest problems often require the biggest solutions.Along the border of France and Switzerland, around a hundred meters underneath the countryside, protons
speed through a 27-kilometer ring—about seven times the length of the Indy 500 circuit—until...
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EU enlargement commissioner urges Serbia to push forward reform, says protesting citizens want same
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The European Union's enlargement commissioner on Tuesday urged Serbia's new government to push forward democratic...