Technology

59 readers
70 users here now

Share interesting Technology news and links.

Rules:

To encourage more original sources and keep this space commercial free as much as I could, the following websites are Blacklisted:

Encouraged:

founded 3 days ago
MODERATORS
26
27
 
 
  • Mexico has filed a lawsuit against Google for relabelling the Gulf of Mexico in its Maps app.
  • The big tech firm did so after receiving instructions to do so by the Trump administration.
  • The region’s name is displayed as Gulf of Mexico with Gulf of America in brackets for Maps users outside the US.
28
29
 
 

OpenAI has released a new benchmark for testing AI systems in healthcare. Called HealthBench, it's designed to evaluate how well language models handle realistic medical conversations. According to OpenAI, its latest models outperform doctors on the test.

30
 
 

App-based digital salary payments are yet to gain traction in Japan two years after being introduced, with only a fraction of workers choosing the option despite the nation slowly trending towards a cashless future.

31
32
33
2
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
34
35
36
37
38
 
 

In the first quarter, total revenue was $121 million, a decrease of 30% year-over-year. This includes Subscription Services revenue of $108 million. We had 3.2 million subscribers during the quarter, representing a year-over-year decline of 31%.

we regrettably will be parting ways with approximately 22% or 248 of our talented team members

39
 
 

As the U.S. deepens its support for Israel, social media has become both a site of political awareness and a tool of control, where anti-war dissent is tracked, flagged, and punished offline as well.

40
41
42