Jan 31
Journalist Says Pro-MAGA GOP Insiders Secretly ‘Can’t Wait Until This Guy Dies’
Posted in: Today's Chili“I was taken aback by how often I heard this,” McKay Coppins said on CNN.
Jan 31
MSNBC Host Ridicules Lindsey Graham’s ‘Hostage’ Video For Trump: ‘Blink Twice’
Posted in: Today's Chili“Oh man,” began Ayman Mohyeldin as he ridiculed the South Carolina Republican’s address at Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign rally.
Jan 31
‘Y’all Wanna Hear Some?’ Stephen Colbert Has George Santos’ Karaoke Recordings
Posted in: Today's ChiliYou might want to get some ear protection first.
Jan 31
Samsung has revealed a sharp decline in profit for 2022, mainly due to the weak demand for its chips and smartphones, which are the company’s main moneymakers. The Korean tech giant has posted KRW 302.23 trillion (US$245.4 billion) in annual revenue, which is a new record high for the company, in its latest earnings report. But it has also reported an operating profit of KRW 43.38 trillion (US$35 billion) for all of 2022, down KRW 8.5 trillion (US$6.9 billion) from the year before.
“The business environment deteriorated significantly in the fourth quarter due to weak demand amid a global economic slowdown,” the company explained. While the tech giant’s Foundry business posted an increase in profit due to customer and application diversification, its semiconductor business performed poorly as a whole. There was weak demand for its chips overall, as customers adjust and reduce their inventory in the face of economic uncertainties. Its chips’ prices also dropped, mostly likely due to a surplus in unsold inventory, contributing to the business’ decline in earnings for the year.
In the fourth quarter of 2022, Samsung’s semiconductor business earned KRW 20.07 trillion (US$16.3 billion) in consolidated revenue but only KRW 0.27 trillion (US$219 million) in operating profit. For comparison, it posted a consolidated revenue of KRW 26.01 trillion (US$21.6 billion in early 2022’s conversion rates) and an operating profit of KRW 8.84 trillion (US$7.35 billion) for Q4 2021. Samsung is bracing for this downward trend to persist throughout the next few months, though it expects demand for its semiconductors to pick up in the second half of the year.
Similarly, the demand for smartphones remained weak in the fourth quarter of 2022. Sales for Samsung’s more affordable phones went down, and while flagship sales held up to market expectations, they’re still lower than previous quarters’. The company expects demand for mass market smartphones to weaken even further in 2023 “due to persistent macroeconomic conditions.” But since it also expects demand for premium devices to stay solid, it vows to strengthen “the competitiveness of its premium flagship products.” To note, Samsung will hold its first Unpacked event of 2023 on February 1st where it will most likely unveil its next flagship phone, the Galaxy S23.
Jan 31
The former president filed a $49 million lawsuit saying that while he agreed to be taped, he never approved their public release.
Jan 31
A former Facebook employee said that Meta can (and supposedly does) engage in negative testing that results in running down a user’s phone battery.
Jan 31
Today’s Wordle puzzle might be a bit vexing, but if you’re looking for assistance, we can provide some helpful hints (and the answer) should you need it.
Jan 31
The Florida Republican responded characteristically.
Jan 31
The actor died in Los Angeles at age 75 on Wednesday after a brief illness, her children, Zak and Emily Hudson, said in a statement.
Jan 31
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In today’s AI world, all the rage is about ChatGPT, the free natural language processing tool launched on Nov. 30, 2022, by OpenAI. The new AI-driven chatbot writes human-like answers about any topic faster than any subject matter expert, and to some extent, it is scary.
Last week, Google published a research paper describing MusicLM, an AI-driven software that can create music in any genre from a text description. In addition, the generative AI system can transform humming or whistling sounds into songs according to the music style described in the text caption.
AI music and song generators are not new, with the likes of Amper Music, AIVA, Soundraw, Amadeus Code, or OpenAI’s Jukebox. However, it looks like the MusicLM system can deliver better music with more variety than existing software, thanks to its access to a large “dataset containing five million audio clips, amounting to 280,000 hours of music” to train its model.
Google does not plan to release its AI music generator but aims at supporting future research by releasing MusicCaps, its own hand-curated, high-quality dataset of 5.5k music-text pairs provided by musicians. The researchers at Google used MusicCaps to “demonstrate that [their] method outperforms baselines” (page 8 of the paper). The scientific team acknowledges that there is a long way to go to improve the quality of the music generated by bots, including the “modeling of high-level song structure like introduction, verse, and chorus”.
The authors of the paper assessed some of the risks involved in developing such an Ai generator, including “cultural appropriation […and] potential misappropriation of creative content associated to the use-case”.
Google’s MusicLM AI System Creates Music from Text Descriptions
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