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Pantone Color of the Year 2024 – Peach Fuzz
For 2024 Pantone has announced Peach Fuzz as the Color of the Year. Officially PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz, the colour "is a heartfelt peach hue bringing a feeling of tenderness and communicating a message of caring and sharing, community and collaboration". Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute, explains ““A cozy peach hue softly nestled between pink and
OnePlus 12 Design Revealed
OnePlus has revealed the design of the upcoming OnePlus 12 smartphone and it's definitely an evolution of the 11 rather than a radical redesign, retaining the large circular camera array on the rear. The alert slider remains, although it's moved to the right-hand side to accommodate a new integrated antenna which will improving gaming latency. Although not mentioned in the
OpenAI Sam Altman Departs The Company
Sam Altman, the chief executive and co-founder of OpenAI has been ousted from his own company after its board accused him of “being not consistently candid in his communications”, The Guardian reported. Altman’s dismissal is a major shakeup in Silicon Valley. Following the launch of ChatGPT, the widely popular chatbot developed by OpenAI, Altman became one of the world’s most
Meta Platforms Enforces Disclosure of AI-Altered Media in Political Ads
Meta Platforms has introduced a new policy necessitating advertisers to reveal when political ads include media manipulated by AI or other software before the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Political ads featuring significantly altered images, videos, or audio must be marked starting from the new year. This measure follows the surge in generative AI technology post-ChatGPT's release by OpenAI in November
Stack Overflow Lays Off Over 100 People
Coding help forum Stack Overflow is laying off 28 percent of its staff as it struggles toward profitability. CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar announced today that the company is “significantly reducing the size of our go-to-market organization,” as well as “supporting teams” and other groups, The Verge reported. According to The Verge, word of the layoffs comes over a year after the
Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Creator Yuga Labs Confirms Layoffs
Yuga Labs, the $4 billion startup behind the Bored Apes Yacht Club and other prominent NFT projects, announced Friday that it has restructured the company and eliminated certain roles as a result, leading to layoffs, Decrypt reported. In a team email that was also shared publicly, Yuga Labs CEO Daniel Alegre wrote that he believed the startup had taken on