Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice — SVG Tutorial — and 23andMe updates their TOS to force binding arbitration

Issue #1339 — December 08, 2023

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Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice twitter.com \| points: 614 \| comments: 348

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SVG Tutorial svg-tutorial.com \| points: 388 \| comments: 93

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23andMe updates their TOS to force binding arbitration stackdiary.com \| points: 351 \| comments: 223

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He blew the whistle on Amazon. He’s still paying the price ft.com \| points: 328 \| comments: 272

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Quad9 wins appeal against Sony quad9.net \| points: 302 \| comments: 53

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Lithium “shortage” bubble implodes again wolfstreet.com \| points: 294 \| comments: 147

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Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in generative AI ai.meta.com \| points: 293 \| comments: 269

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Wikifunctions wikimediafoundation.org \| points: 285 \| comments: 132

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Unveiling secrets of the ESP32: creating an open-source MAC layer zeus.ugent.be \| points: 271 \| comments: 135

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Building end-to-end security for Messenger engineering.fb.com \| points: 269 \| comments: 359

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Gordon Freeman at the Olympic Games moonbase.lgbt \| points: 253 \| comments: 40

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Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in theregister.com \| points: 236 \| comments: 430

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Long context prompting for Claude 2.1 anthropic.com \| points: 217 \| comments: 92

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Making noisy SVGs daniel.do \| points: 215 \| comments: 50

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Behind the scenes of Sound ID in Merlin – Identify birds using your phone (2021) macaulaylibrary.org \| points: 203 \| comments: 42

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Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1B Instagram and FB photos arstechnica.com \| points: 199 \| comments: 120

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A lost X-Files song twitter.com \| points: 188 \| comments: 84

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OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft businessinsider.com \| points: 186 \| comments: 150

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Fake chips, I got stung linuxjedi.co.uk \| points: 184 \| comments: 142

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A Critique on “A Critique on the OpenPGP Updates” blog.pgpkeys.eu \| points: 174 \| comments: 9

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