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Marc Atallah
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A good initiative launched by Lenovo.
We mainly use our laptops to browse, to write documents with a word processor, create presentations and compute with spreadsheets. Just changing the battery can add extra life to a good computer.
#lenovo #ifixit

www.techradar.com/pro/worlds-l...
World’s largest laptop vendor wants you to buy fewer notebooks by allowing users to change batteries and other parts — but a tiny tweak could be a deal breaker
Lenovo is partnering with iFixit to deliver ThinkPad laptops with user-replaceable parts
www.techradar.com
February 29, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Eiffel Tower iron will become a precious metal!
Medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics will contain some iron from the Eiffel Tower.
#paris2024 #olympics2024

www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/f...
Paris Olympic and Paralympic medals will contain chunks of Eiffel Tower
Podium finishers at the upcoming Paris Olympics will be rewarded with a piece of the Eiffel Tower
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2024 at 2:43 PM
FFC new movie Megalopolis is completely self financed protecting creativity and imaginative vision. It may pave the road to better movies.

screenrant.com/adam-driver-...
If Adam Driver Is Right, Francis Ford Coppola's 2024 Movie Could Revolutionize Sci-Fi Movies
More sci-fi directors may need to self-finance.
screenrant.com
January 21, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Pennsylvania is the first state to grant X the ability to do money transfers similar to Venmo.
X needs to get approval in every state.
This capacity is another functionality similar to WeChat that #Musk would like to build for his "everything app".
#X #wechat

www.reuters.com/technology/m...
reuters.com
www.reuters.com
December 18, 2023 at 12:33 AM
Shelpful is a personal productivity tool using AI to get stuff done.
Shelpful=Super Helpful just received $3M investment from Sam Altman's Apollo fund.
Could actually be a great digital assistant for people suffering from ADHD or Dyspraxia.
#shelpful

www.pymnts.com/news/investm...
December 17, 2023 at 12:24 PM
Grok is the new AI from xAI.
It will go up against chatGPT, Bard (powered by Gemini), Claude, and all the open source LLMs.
Will be interesting to see how well it competes with them.
Here is the timeline leading to Grok.

seekingalpha.com/news/4044158...
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI: A timeline of notable events
A timeline of notable events in the short history of Elon Musk's secretive artificial intelligence startup xAI. Read more here.
seekingalpha.com
December 11, 2023 at 12:33 AM
#NotebookLM or #Google Notes is an AI-powered note-taking app using the Gemini Pro AI model for document understanding and reasoning to:
◾Summarize, list the key points
◾Answer questions about your sources
◾Transform your notes into other document formats: email, script outline, newsletter, and more
Google’s AI note-taking app is now available to users in the US
NotebookLM got an upgrade.
www.theverge.com
December 10, 2023 at 8:59 AM
Interesting discussion between Musk and Page in 2015.
Page accused Musk of being a "specieist" preferring humans over future digital life forms.
AGI is not here yet, Narrow AI remains a positive territory to explore centered around humans.

www-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.busi...
Larry Page once called Elon Musk a 'specieist' over Musk's AI concerns
Elon Musk and Larry Page argued about the threats machines pose to humans at Musk's 44th birthday.
www-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org
December 4, 2023 at 7:58 PM
The movie completely missed what made Napoléon so special.
- Carl von Clausewitz regarded Napoleon as a genius in the art of war making him a great general (he participated in over 80 battles and won most if them).
- But his political imprint on France and Europe made him a unique emperor.
Ridley Scott's Napoleon epic divides and conquers cinema fans
Breathing life into the story of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was never going to be easy, especially for an Englishman. Director Ridley Scott’s version incorporates masterful battles scenes wit...
www.rfi.fr
November 28, 2023 at 9:05 PM