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Montana TikTok users file lawsuit challenging ban

Posted on May 19, 2023 By Charlielikes
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before Congress in March.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before Congress in March. | Photo by Becca Farsace /The Verge

A group of TikTok creators have sued to block a recently signed law that bans the app’s operation in Montana. The suit, filed last night and announced today, alleges that Montana’s SB 419 is an unconstitutional and overly broad infringement of their right to speech.

“Montana has no authority to enact laws advancing what it believes should be the United States’ foreign policy or its national security interests, nor may Montana ban an entire forum for communication based on its perceptions that some speech shared through that forum, though protected by the First Amendment, is dangerous,” says the suit, filed by law firm Davis Wright Tremaine. “Montana can no more ban its residents from viewing or posting to TikTok than it could ban the W…

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Physicists Create Biggest-Ever Schrodinger’s Cat

Posted on May 19, 2023 By Charlielikes
Researchers in the Hybrid Quantum Systems Group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have put a sapphire crystal weighing 16 micrograms in a quantum-mechanical superposition of two vibrational states. The researchers “excited the crystal into vibrations such that its atoms oscillated back and forth simultaneously and in two opposite directions — putting the entire crystal in what is known as a state of quantum superposition,” reports Scientific American. From the report: As the research group reports in Science, this condition is much like that of the cat in the famous thought experiment of physicist Erwin Schrodinger. In Schrodinger’s quantum-mechanical scenario, a cat is simultaneously alive and dead, depending on the decay of an atom that releases a vial of poison. The sapphire crystal in the new experiment has been put in the macroscopic equivalent of that “cat state.” Such states can help scientists fathom how and why the laws of the quantum world transition into the rules of classical physics for larger objects.

To get the sapphire, which consists of about 10^17 atoms, to behave like a quantum-mechanical object, the research group set it to oscillate and coupled it to a superconducting circuit. (In the terms of the original thought experiment, the sapphire was the cat, and the superconducting circuit was the decaying atom.) The circuit was used as a qubit, or bit of quantum information that is simultaneously in the states “0” and “1.” The circuit’s superposition was then transferred to the oscillation of the crystal. Thus, the atoms in the crystal could move in two directions at the same time — for example, up and down — just as Schrodinger’s cat is dead and alive at the same time. Importantly, the distance between these two states (alive and dead or up and down) had to be greater than the distance ascribed to the quantum uncertainty principle, which the ETH Zurich scientists confirmed. Using the superconducting qubit, the researchers succeeded in determining the distance between the crystal’s two vibrational states. At about two billionths of a nanometer, it’s tiny — but still large enough to distinguish those two states from each other beyond doubt.

These findings have “pushed the envelope on what can be considered quantum mechanical in an actual lab experiment,” says Shlomi Kotler, a physicist who studies quantum mechanical circuits at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Kotler did not participate in the study. […] Kotler notes that finding larger cat states is a way of “stretching the limit” of observed quantum-mechanical objects — in this case, by demonstrating that something as massive as 16 micrograms can exist in this state. (Though, to be clear, 16 micrograms is still microscopic.)


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Meta is working on a new chip for AI

Posted on May 19, 2023 By Charlielikes
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Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge

Meta is building its first custom chip specifically for running AI models, the company announced on Thursday. As Meta increases its AI efforts — CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said the company sees “an opportunity to introduce AI agents to billions of people in ways that will be useful and meaningful” — the chip and other infrastructure plans revealed Thursday could be critical tools for Meta to compete with other tech giants also investing significant resources into AI.

Meta’s new MTIA chip, which stands for Meta Training and Inference Accelerator, is its “in-house, custom accelerator chip family targeting inference workloads,” Meta VP and head of infrastructure Santosh Janardhan wrote in a blog post. The chip apparently provides “greater…

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Seattle Startup’s Ex-CFO Accused of Diverting $35 Million, Losing It In Crypto Crash

Posted on May 19, 2023 By Charlielikes
A former CFO of a Seattle startup is accused of diverting $35 million and losing it when the crypto market crashed last year (Warning: source paywalled; alternative source), according to a report. The CFO allegedly used the funds for personal expenses and investments without authorization. The Seattle Times reports: Nevin Shetty, 39, was hired in March 2021 as CFO of a company called fabric, which makes software platforms for retail commerce. About a year later, after the company informed him it was letting him go over job performance concerns, he secretly took the money and transferred it to HighTower Treasury, a crypto platform he controlled as a side business, the indictment said. His idea was to pay the company 6% interest while retaining profits above that, but soon the $35 million investment was practically worthless, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle said in a news release.

The indictment in U.S. District Court charged Shetty with four counts of wire fraud. He is scheduled to be arraigned May 25. Shetty’s attorney, Cooper Offenbecher, said in an emailed statement that he and his client had been in regular contact with prosecutors and disagreed with the decision to bring an indictment. “As the CFO of his former employer, tasked with making investment decisions for its benefit, Mr. Shetty was personally devastated by these losses, which occurred as a result of a catastrophic crash in the cryptocurrency market in May 2022,” Offenbecher wrote. “We look forward to responding to these allegations in Court.”

Prosecutors, however, said that as the company raised hundreds of millions of dollars in startup funding, it adopted a conservative approach to managing that money — a policy that Shetty had helped draft. According to the Seattle tech news website GeekWire, fabric had raised more than $293 million by February 2022 and was valued at $1.5 billion. In an emailed statement, the company said it had been cooperating with law enforcement and appreciated the work of the FBI and federal prosecutors. “While the amount taken is substantial, fabric remains very well-funded with years of runway,” the statement said.


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Best Apple Watch Bands for 2023 – CNET

Posted on May 19, 2023 By Charlielikes
Whether you’re looking for protection, style or a little bit of both, these are the best Apple Watch bands available right now.
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Believe It or Not, We Talked to the Author of The Greatest American Hero Companion

Posted on May 19, 2023 By Charlielikes

It only ran for two and a half seasons from 1981 to 1983, but The Greatest American Hero—starring William Katt as an unassuming teacher who receives a super-powered suit from aliens, then promptly loses the instructions—has left an indelible mark on pop culture. You probably already have the theme song stuck in your…

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Big sauce wants your condiment data

Posted on May 18, 2023 By Charlielikes

As tech conglomerates and moneyed men call for AI dealers to pump their brakes, I believe another emergent technology, Heinz Remix, warrants close examination. At first, Heinz Remix simply appears to be a mix-n-match soda dispenser — for sauce. Yet, a great deal more is going on beneath the surface. This is about responsibility, in […]

Big sauce wants your condiment data by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch

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Montana TikTok creators shrug off state’s ban on app

Posted on May 18, 2023 By Charlielikes
Montana is first US state to ban the app, but influencers there don’t seem too concerned.
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Willow Is One of Many Shows About to Depart Disney+ and Hulu

Posted on May 18, 2023 By Charlielikes

Axes continue to fall at Disney this week—and now the company is getting to shows with actual axes in them. Last week, Disney revealed in an earnings call that it would begin to remove programming from some of its streaming services as a cost-cutting measure, and the first impacted shows have been revealed.…

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Harmony: The Fall of Reverie spotlights Don’t Nod’s choice mechanic

Posted on May 18, 2023 By Charlielikes
Don’t Nod’s next choice-based game is visual novel Harmony: The Fall of Reverie, which makes decisions and outcomes clearer than ever.
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