Hi there! It's issue #142 of DNT Weekly and the week has been quite eventful. Here's what we've been reading.
Rock-bottom rates were the secret engine fueling the world of the $1 billion start-up, and virtual attempts to conquer the physical world. But in 2023, reality bites. - here's a look into the pitfalls of easy money, and why it will hit us so hard.
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Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion
Getty Images claims Stability AI ‘unlawfully’ scraped millions of images from its site. It’s a significant escalation in the developing legal battles between generative AI firms and content creators.
OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic
In its quest to make ChatGPT less toxic, OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan laborers earning less than $2 per hour, a TIME investigation has found.
YouTube is bringing viral fame to one of Delhi’s oldest markets
YouTubers are replacing Amazon and Flipkart to help small businesses in Chandni Chowk find customers.
How “Battle Royale” Took Over Video Games
With a simple, ingenious formula, a Japanese novel has inspired some of the most successful games in history.
Revisiting Apple’s ill-fated Lisa computer, 40 years on
On its 40th anniversary, we look back at the machine that brought the GUI to personal computers.
How the Xbox got its good looks
How can a company that was once laughed at for its lack of taste, create something this beautiful?
Physicists Create a Holographic Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer
The unprecedented experiment explores the possibility that space-time somehow emerges from quantum information, even as the work’s interpretation remains disputed.
Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive
Why that is, is a mystery
Greenland is the hottest it’s been in 1,000 years, says an alarming new study of ice cores
Until now, Greenland ice cores hadn’t shown a clear signal of global warming, but data also hadn’t been updated since 1995.
Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just Another Fad
Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods wanted to upend the world’s $1 trillion meat industry. But plant-based meat is turning out to be a flop.
SlowMo app aims to help people with psychosis
London design studio Special Projects has worked with clinical psychologists to develop SlowMo, a mental health app for people experiencing psychosis that will be trialled by the UK's National Health Service.
Inside the battle for the future of Amazon
After the largest corporate layoffs in its history, the tech giant is at a crossroads.
Honorary mentions
You don't have to engage with people on the Internet ❌
10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2023 ⬆️
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