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Google Dropped the ChatGPT killler!?

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Steve Nouri, LinkedIn – Google Dropped the ChatGPT killler!? Microsoft announced a game-changer(PyEx). How to teach using AI and more: Google dropped the new AI-powered assistant (#chatgpt rival). Duet AI assistant across its Workspace apps: Gmail, Drive, Slides, Docs, etc. It assists users in various tasks, such as converting a Docs outline into a Slides presentation, generating images, writing email responses, checking grammar, and finding content in Drive. Other Common Uses:

  • ✔Google Meet: offers AI-based lighting and sound adjustments
  • ✔Chat: provides automatic summaries of long threads.
  • ✔Assisted Development: Speeds up application development, and offers code suggestions.
  • ✔Assisted Operations: Helps operations teams with tasks, troubleshooting, and code assistance.
  • ✔Assisted Data Analysis: Provides contextual SQL completions, and aids in data visualization.
  • ✔Assisted Data Science: Enhances code completion and generation in AI/ML models.
  • ✔Assisted Database Management: Aids in database tasks, and provides code suggestions.
  • ✔Assisted Security Management: Assists in security analysis, threat classification, and remediation.
  • ✔Assisted Interoperability: Helps developers build APIs and integrations using natural language prompts. It is compared to a combination of “Clippy”s assistance and “ChatGPT”s creativity. Check it out here

U.S. v. Google: What to Know About the Biggest Antitrust Trial in 20 Years

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WSJ [listen to the article here] – “Search engine faces charges of using illegal agreements with partners such as Apple to maintain a monopoly.” See also NPR – “A court battle kicks off on Tuesday in which the U.S. Justice Department will argue that Google abused its power as a monopoly to dominate the search… Continue Reading

The Atlantic’s Guide to Privacy

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The Atlantic’s Guide to Privacy [read free]: “In 2023, digital privacy is, in many ways, a fiction: Knowingly or not, we are all constantly streaming, beaming, being surveilled, scattering data wherever we go. Companies, governments, and our fellow citizens know more than we could ever imagine about our body, our shopping habits, even our kids.… Continue Reading

Z-Library Opens ‘Z-Points’ Around the World to Share Paper Books

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Torrent Freak: “Z-Library, which is commonly known as a pirate ebook repository, has opened up 11 physical book distribution points around the world. From the United States to South Sudan, there are Z-Points in every inhabited continent. The ultimate goal is to broaden the library’s scope to the physical realm, further promoting book sharing. With… Continue Reading

Law Schools: Want to Help Bend the Arc of the Moral Universe Toward Justice? Hire Law Professors with Public Service Experience

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Kincaid, Rachel, Law Schools: Want to Help Bend the Arc of the Moral Universe Toward Justice? Hire Law Professors with Public Service Experience (September 5, 2023). University of Richmond Law Review, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4562584 “We are living in momentous times. Social justice and the legitimacy of our political systems are at the forefront… Continue Reading

An Ed-Tech Tragedy?

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UNESCO – “A new book about experiences with educational technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic and the implications for the future of learning. The COVID-19 pandemic pushed education from schools to educational technologies at a pace and scale with no historical precedent. For hundreds of millions of students formal learning became fully dependent on technology –… Continue Reading

Bike Index

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“Cofounded by Seth Herr and Bryan Hance in 2013, Bike Index is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It is the most widely used and successful bicycle registration service in the world with over 1,132,000 cataloged bikes, 1,570 community partners and tens of thousands of daily searches. Seth built Bike Index when he was a bike mechanic because… Continue Reading

Modeling the Demand for Electric Vehicles and the Supply of Charging Stations in the United States

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CBO – Modeling the Demand for Electric Vehicles and the Supply of Charging Stations in the United States: Working Paper 2023-06 By David Austin. “This paper presents a simulation model of the markets for light-duty electric vehicles (EVs) and the associated public charging infrastructure, as well as the network interactions between them. It illustrates the… Continue Reading