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You Could Get Banned From Amazon For Doing This Common Thing

Online shopping is a large part of retail these days, with a NPR/Marist Pollrevealing that more than two-thirds of Americans had given into online shopping as of 2018. Still, it can be hard to judge an item before you actually see it in person, which is why the ability to return items is such a necessary feature. But you may want to ease up on your returns if you want to keep shopping online: It turns out, you could actually get banned from Amazon for returning items too often. According to The Wall Street Journal, Amazon will ban shoppers from using their site for returning too many items—sometimes without even telling the customer why they’re being banned. And for more things that could get you in hot water, You Could Get Sued By Amazon for Doing This Online. Amazon reportedly banned one man in 2018 after just five returns.The WSJ…

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Como montadoras pressionam governo a adiar normas e permitir fabricação de carros mais poluentes no Brasil – BBC News Brasil

Regras para fabricar veículos mais limpos estão previstas para o início de 2022, mas montadoras querem adiá-las.

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China grants first ‘robotaxi’ licences to two operators in Beijing

Baidu and Pony AI became the first companies to be approved by mainland Chinese authorities to launch their autonomous cab services commercially following successful trial periods.

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150 demissões em um segundo: os algoritmos que decidem quem deve ser mandado embora

Uma empresa de ‘software’ despediu centenas de funcionários em agosto seguindo apenas a recomendação de uma inteligência artificial, um caso que pode se tornar comum

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Presidente de empresa demite 900 funcionários por teleconferência no Zoom | CNN Brasil

Vishal Garg acusou os funcionários de “roubar” de seus colegas e clientes por serem improdutivos e trabalharem apenas duas horas por dia

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UK government publishes pioneering standard for algorithmic transparency

The CDDO has launched an algorithmic transparency standard for government departments and public sector bodies, delivering on commitments made in the National Data Strategy and National AI Strategy.

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The movement to hold AI accountable gains more steam

First-in-US NYC law requires algorithms used in hiring to be “audited” for bias.

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World Robotics 2021 – Service Robots report released

The market for professional service robots reached a turnover of 6.7 billion U.S. dollars worldwide (sample method) – up 12% in 2020. At the same time, turnover of new consumer service robots grew 16% to 4.4 billion U.S. dollars. This is according to World Robotics 2021 – Service Robots report, presented by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).

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World’s first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say

The US scientists who created the first living robots say the life forms, known as xenobots, can reproduce in a way not seen in plants and animals.

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Spotify Has Plans To Move Beyond Music And Become The Instagram And TikTokOfAudio

Daniel Ek convinced labels and artists to stream their songs on Spotify, reviving the flatlining music industry. Now, after amassing a $4.4 billion fortune, he’s opening his superstreamer to storytelling, live talk and a new breed of audio creators in a bid to own the world’s digital eardrums.

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A standardized federal test confirms Clearview AI is scary accurate

Clearview’s reach in the U.S. continues to grow, despite protests from Big Tech and activist groups.

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Disney Combines CGI With Neural Rendering to tackle the ‘Uncanny Valley’ – Unite.AI

Disney’s AI research division has developed a hybrid method for movie-quality facial simulation, combining the strengths of facial neural rendering with the consistency of a CGI-based approach. The pending paper is titled Rendering with Style: Combining Traditional and Neural Approaches for High Quality Face Rendering, and is previewed in a new 10-minute video at the […]

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Jogador de vôlei italiano que caiu em golpe por acreditar namorar a modelo brasileira Alessandra Ambrosio perde 700 mil euros

Uma mulher de 50 anos falava ao telefone e se passava pela modelo brasileira. Esse tipo de golpe, no qual um interlocutor finge ser uma outra pessoa, é conhecido como catfishing.

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Barbados será o 1º país a ter embaixada no metaverso – Gizmodo Brasil

Pode parecer estranho, mas não é a primeira vez que isso acontece: em 2007, as Ilhas Maldivas criaram sua embaixada própria no Second Life. E a moda pegou

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Metaverso Cryptovoxels, o Minecraft do mundo cripto, sai na frente do Facebook e vai permitir importar avatares de outros metaversos

A plataforma Cryptovoxels, construída como um metaverso usando o blockchain Ethereum (ETH), vem sendo apontado como o Minecraft dos tokens não fungíveis (NFTs) e anunciou uma nova funcionalidade que lhe coloca a frente da proposta do criador do Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg

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Roblox sues banned ‘cybermob leader’ for terrorizing the platform, its developers

The banned Roblox user is also a popular and controversial YouTube creator, Ruben Sim

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MrBeast’s ‘Squid Game’ is already one of his most popular YouTube videos of all time after just 4 days

MrBeast’s video recreating “Squid Game” has become the YouTuber’s 11th most popular video of all time in only 4 days. It has 110 million views.

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Starlink quer testar internet por satélite em comunidade de São Paulo – Tecnoblog

Empresa de Elon Musk quer conectar 40 alunos de centro estudantil em comunidade de baixa renda em São Paulo à internet via satélite

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Can Afghanistan’s underground “sneakernet” survive the Taliban?

A once-thriving network of merchants selling digital content to people without internet connections is struggling under Taliban rule.

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Jack Dorsey steps down as Twitter CEO

Dorsey has been CEO since 2015.

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Dorsey-led Square rebrands to Block in nod to blockchain

Square Inc , the payments company led by Twitter Inc co-founder Jack Dorsey, said on Wednesday it was changing its name to Block Inc, as it looks to expand beyond its payment business and into new technologies like blockchain.

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1ª medida do novo CEO do Twitter: proibidas imagens sem consentimento – Gizmodo Brasil

Rede social vai deletar imagens publicadas sem permissão e restringir a circulação de fotos não autorizadas

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Entenda a tecnologia que identifica imagens íntimas e será usada por Facebook e Instagram para combater pornô de vingança

Meta, controladora das plataformas, fez parceria com ONG britânica que irá gerenciar banco de dados com ‘cópias’ embaralhadas de fotos.

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Facebook sold ads comparing vaccine to Holocaust

Facebook has sold ads promoting anti-vaccine messages, comparing the US government’s response to Covid-19 to Nazi Germany, casting doubt on the result of the 2020 election, and even pushing political violence.

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How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation

The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.

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Instagram is Facebook now

Users are saying a recent algorithm update has officially ruined the app.

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WhatsApp agora permite que todas as novas conversas sumam após 24 horas

O recurso de mensagens temporárias do WhatsApp começa a ganhar

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Beyond Off-White, Nike, and Louis Vuitton: Virgil Abloh’s incredible legacy

The designer, artist, musician, and architect, who died on November 28 at age 41, leaves behind a body of work much greater than fashion.

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Peter Jackson convenceu Disney a não cortar palavrões dos Beatles em doc

Peter Jackson convenceu Disney a não cortar palavrões dos Beatles em doc The Beatles: Get Back

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Private Reasons, by Bruno Pernadas

13 track album

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