Uber Reports 29% Growth YOY; Google and LinkedIn Co-Founders Launch Pi Chatbot
In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Uber Technologies reports a 29% rise in revenue for Q1 2023; Google and LinkedIn co-founders launch a new AI chatbot, Pi; and Bluesky emerges as a viable rival to Twitter.Uber reports boosted revenue for Q1 2023 Uber has reported revenue of USD$8.82bn(~£7bn) for Q1 2023, a 29% rise from the same period last year.
Welsh football: FAW members suspended for inappropriate behaviour
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Three male members of the Football Association of Wales (FAW) have been suspended in the past 10 months after allegations of inappropriate behaviour.They were suspended from the FAW council, which is made up of 36 members representing local clubs, leagues and area associations across Wales.
Originally posted on The Road to AI We Can Trust elicited from ChatGPT by Roman Semenov, February 2023 In hindsight, ChatGPT may come to be seen as the greatest publicity stunt in AI history, an intoxicating glimpse at a future that may actually take years to realize-kind of like a 2012-vintage driverless car demo, but this time with a foretaste of an ethical guardrail that will take years to perfect.
There is something deeply divisive about the (often heavily policed) suggestion that people should avoid language that offends or alienates historically marginalized groups.The fight over the efficacy and cultural importance of political correctness has long been a major battle between American conservatives and liberals.
Boris Johnson hit out at the campaign to return the Elgin Marbles and the rewriting of Roald Dahl books as he expressed irritation at wokeness.The former prime minister said people should be vigilant about freedom of speech and warned that returning the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece would leave a huge gap in the British Museum's ability to tell the story of world history.
Boris Johnson recites Oompa-Loompas song in defence of Roald Dahl's books
Boris Johnson has criticised a publisher's rewriting of some language in Roald Dahl's stories by reciting a song by the Oompa-Loompas.The former prime minister expressed his irritation at wokeness and political correctness after Puffin made extensive changes to the author's work to remove language it deemed offensive.
Adam Carrington: New Zealand's sad, silly rejection of Shakespeare
"Thou art the cap of all the fools alive."So says Apemantus to the title character in the William Shakespeare play "Timon of Athens."He might also direct his insult at New Zealand's arts council.After 30 years, it has chosen to end government funding for Shakespeare in Schools, a program in which students interact with the Bard's works through acting, directing, costume design and other creative forms of engagement.
Met Police officers 'shared racist Meghan Markle golliwog joke in Whatsapp group'
Three Metropolitan police officers exchanged racist messages on a Whatsapp group, including a comparison between Meghan Markle and a golliwog, a tribunal heard.
Trump shares CPAC Hungary platform with notorious racist and antisemite
A notorious Hungarian racist who has called Jews "stinking excrement", referred to Roma as "animals" and used racial epithets to describe Black people, was a featured speaker at a major gathering of US Republicans in Budapest.
Political correctness has created blind spot for Islamist extremists'
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A focus on political correctness has created a blind spot for Islamist extremists to operate under our radar, the Home Secretary has said.Speaking on Wednesday at a counter-extremism conference organised by Robin Simcox, the commissioner for countering extremism, Suella Braverman said the entire concept of political correctness should be eliminated.
Malibu's Most Wanted at 20: Black Culture as Food For All | Features | Roger Ebert
Black culture found itself in the vanguard of mainstream popular culture largely through the proliferation of hip-hop that took off in the late '80s and early '90s.The consequences in the early 2000s, as we see in the film, include a generation of white young adults raised on saturated exposure to Black culture.
Review | 'When You Finish Saving the World': Angst times two
StarOutline StarOutline (2 stars) Jesse Eisenberg's feature debut as writer and director, "When You Finish Saving the World," is so imbued with the actor turned filmmaker's idiosyncratic voice that the two central characters - a slightly neurotic do-gooder and her equally overwrought teenage son, played by Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard - seem like twin manifestations of the kind of people Eisenberg excels at playing himself.