Apple, in its latest update to the App Store developer guidelines for iPhone and iPad, marked by 9to5MacIt says it will allow game console emulators and even downloadable games.
Apple warns developers, however, that they “are responsible for all software offered in (their) application, including ensuring that such software complies with these Guidelines and all applicable laws.” So don't expect to play Super Mario, Spyro, or a third series of games starting with an 'S'.
In the meantime, we have a guide to watching (and recording) the total eclipse in North America later today. The best chance for good viewing along the total eclipse path is still in the northeastern US (Buffalo, NY, Burlington, VT) and southeastern Canada (Niagara Falls and Montreal).
-Mat Smith
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If so, they violated the copyrights of YouTube creators.
OpenAI and Google trained their ai models using text transcribed from YouTube videos, which could violate creators' copyrights, according to a report from The New York Times. The report focuses on how OpenAI, Google and Meta have attempted to maximize the data they can feed their AIs and cites numerous people with knowledge of the companies' practices.
It's not that these companies relied on automatically generated (random) transcripts provided by YouTube itself. OpenAI reportedly used its speech recognition tool Whisper to transcribe more than a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4. However, the report claims that people at Google knew about it but did not act, because Google was doing the same thing to train its own ai models. Google said NOW Only use video content from creators who have accepted it.
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Musk made the announcement in x.
Hours later Reuters released a report that the automaker scrapped its plans to produce a low-cost electric vehicle, Tesla boss Elon Musk took to x to say the company would unveil a robotaxi on August 8. The same report said Musk's directive was to “go all out” on robotaxis built on the company's small vehicle platform.
In response to the report, the Tesla boss tweeted: “Reuters is lying (again).” Since he confirmed the robotaxi plans, it could have meant that a more affordable Tesla EV was still on the table, at least for now.
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Three companies are in the running.
Three companies are submitting lunar rover designs to support NASA's upcoming Artemis missions. The space agency announced this week that it has chosen Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Venturi Astrolab to develop its lunar terrain vehicles (LTVs) in a feasibility study over the next year. The LTV will be required to operate as a crewed and uncrewed vehicle, sometimes serving as a means of transportation for astronauts and other times as a remotely operated explorer. NASA says it will contract the chosen vehicle for lunar services until 2039. Take a look at the options.
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