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Explaining further to Ars, Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt said: There was a small bug in a test we ran that mistakenly caused the English-to-English translation(s) you saw. That bug has been resolved. Unsurprisingly, English-to-English translations are not part of our strategy, as they aren’t necessary. English-to-English translations were not a desired or expected outcome of the test. Reddit pulled the test it was running, but its machine learning-powered translations are still functioning, Rathschmidt said. The company plans to fix the bug and run its unspecified “test” again. Reddit’s explanation differs from user theories floating around beforehand, which were mainly that Reddit…
Microsoft will pay to use Anthropic’s technology for some AI features in Office 365 apps, the Information reported on Tuesday, in a sign that the software firm is diversifying its artificial intelligence portfolio. The move will blend Anthropic and OpenAI technology in the apps, after years in which Microsoft primarily used OpenAI for the new features in Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, the report said.Microsoft is developing its own artificial intelligence models, while integrating DeepSeek’s models into the Azure cloud as it seeks to maximize AI output to meet growing demand. It has been OpenAI’s biggest financial backer, having invested…
Apple’s Repair Assistant is coming to macOS Tahoe, making it simple to pair and calibrate new and used device components.Apple’s Repair Assistant will be available with the full public release of macOS Tahoe on September 15.The Repair Assistant feature debuted in 2024, with the public release of iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. Replacing an iPhone battery or a broken iPad screen with a genuine part was made easier, as users no longer had to contact Apple to resolve issues related to part pairing.Now the same tool will make its way to the Mac as part of macOS Tahoe. Code related…
Immigration and asylum is back as the top issue of public concern the first time since Brexit, according to exclusive polling for Sky News.It overtook the economy as the number one issue facing the country in YouGov’s latest poll in May, even before the summer dominated by the migration debate.Politics Hub: Follow the latest from Westminster It is now at the highest point level of concern in over five years, since the small boats started crossing the Channel in significant numbers.In the most recent YouGov poll, 58% picked immigration as one of the three top issues facing the country at…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has reached a deal worth about $17 billion with EchoStar for spectrum licenses that it will use to beef up its Starlink satellite network.The deal for EchoStar’s AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses includes up to $8.5 billion in cash and up to $8.5 billion in SpaceX stock. SpaceX will make approximately $2 billion in cash interest payments on EchoStar debt through November 2027.SpaceX and EchoStar will enter into a long-term commercial agreement which will allow EchoStar’s Boost Mobile subscribers to access SpaceX’s next generation Starlink Direct to Cell service. Shares of EchoStar surged more than 23% before…
Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons Archaeology tends to amaze us, and the recent discovery of a Roman gold coin hoard in northern Luxembourg is a great example of that. A team of archaeologists working near the tiny village of Holzthum, led by the National Institute for Archaeological Research (INRA), discovered 141 Roman gold coins, or solidi, dated back to the late fourth century CE. These coins were found at the foot of a Roman fortified watchtower, or burgus, that once stood watch along the empire’s Germanic border. Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons The dig…
Perched in the hills outside Rome sits the Palace of Castel Gandolfo, the centuries-old lakeside summer home for popes, which is also home to the Vatican Observatory, established in 1891 to help bridge the chasm between religion and science. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with scientists and students for whom the Church’s observations of the heavens are a means to unite people beyond faith.
YouTube said on Tuesday it is in talks with TelevisaUnivision to continue providing access to the Mexican-American media company’s content on YouTube TV. TelevisaUnivision is a joint venture between Grupo Televisa, Mexico’s largest broadcaster, and U.S. Spanish-language broadcaster Univision.In a Tuesday post on X, Univision said that YouTube TV plans to remove its content from its $83 basic bundle on September 30, and “will force Hispanics to pay another $15 a month – an 18 per cent ‘Hispanic Tax’ – to access Univision.” “Do the right thing Google, otherwise this looks evil,” it said in the video. “We have been…
DOZENS of shipping containers fell from a huge vessel moored at a major California port on Tuesday, halting operations as crews scrambled to limit the damage.Video showed containers toppling like dominoes from a huge ship as cranes moved overhead at the Port of Long Beach, near Los Angeles.Aerial footage revealed several of the containers had crumpled as they smashed down onto what appeared to be some kind of support vessel.Several towers of containers appeared to have been involved in the incident from different areas of a Portugal-registered ship called Mississippi.It was not immediately clear what was inside the containers, but…
Alphabet is among tech companies racing to build out data centre capacity in order to serve growing demand for artificial intelligence processing[NEW YORK] Alphabet’s Google cloud computing division has up to US$106 billion in commitments from existing customer contracts that it has yet to fulfil, according to the division’s chief executive Officer, Thomas Kurian.At least 55 per cent, or US$58 billion, is expected to turn into revenue earned by the company over the next two years as those services are delivered, Kurian said on Tuesday (Sep 9). “It’s growing faster than our revenue,” he added. “So not only are we…