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The platform that allows users to post and share videos is ranked as the second most popular website in the world, second only to Google. YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, three young men who met as employees of the American company PayPal. Hurley and Karim worked as engineers, while Chen worked as a designer. The three co-founders made different statements about the birth of the platform, two of them agreed that the original idea was a dating page where people could qualify based on their videos. Once the site was developed, its domain was…

The artificial intelligence (AI) These are computer systems that can perform tasks that normally require human intelligence. Fundamentally, they are usually tools that allow building solutions to solve complex tasks: image recognition and treatment, diagnosis, event prediction, among other cases. In this regard, the AI, through the instructions that run through its algorithms, aims to emulate those cognitive processes that later lead to mental activities such as learning, creativity or the ability to plan. The paradigm that best represents these virtues is ChatGPT, a system developed by open AI, which is popularly consolidated for being able to answer all kinds…

The artificial intelligence (AI) has been showing expectations throughout the year. A leading Chinese scientist has exposed the important role he will play in dealing with the next health crisis. When China ended its “zero covid” initiative late last year, millions of new infections a day were recorded, quickly overwhelming hospitals and straining capacity, and stoking concerns about the accuracy with which the country reported about the situation. The sudden influx of patients meant that health workers did not have time to fill out the infectious disease report card for each patient, which found an undercount, said Wu Zunyou, an…

Google's parent company, Alphabet, topped market expectations in the first quarter of 2023 with a net profit of $15 billion, the company said Tuesday, in a sign the search engine giant is regaining its footing. The tech titan came under pressure due to a general slowdown in ad spending, over-hiring during the Covid-era boom and a great challenge of Microsoft in the field of artificial intelligence. Microsoft is investing billions of dollars in OpenAI, the company that is building the technology that powers ChatGPT and has released its latest version, GPT-4. That technology, which OpenAI says can be driven by…

He National Bank just released one exclusive promotion in its online store for technology lovers. The promotion includes discounts and payment plans in installments for the purchase of cell phones, smart watches, LED TVs and brand notebooks Motorola, TCL, Noblex, Xiaomi and Samsung. The BNA Store has a wide variety of models of each of these brandswith different prices and characteristics to adapt to the needs and tastes of each user. It is important to note that to make the purchase, it is necessary to have a Visa or Mastercard from Banco Nación and register on the BNA Store platform.…

Day after day, cybercriminals search for new forms of scams to trick their victims into getting their hands on their money. personal, financial data and thus steal their money. In recent times, one of the most popular deceptions among scammers is that of impersonate representatives of companies or government entities. Among other fraud methods, these types of criminals often use fake profiles on social networks, generally pretending to be customer service assistantsPhone calls or fake websites that imitate the originals and appear among the first results of Google. The AFIP alerts for virtual scams via email "It's important that people…

Apple was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobbs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne, a shareholder who left the company twelve days later. It was created with the primary goal of distributing the desktop personal computer known as the “Apple 1”. The machine was widely accepted and with the money from the profits the founders developed the "Apple II", a computer that launched the company to success. With the return of Steve Jobbs to the company in 1997, Apple focused its efforts on improving its products and testing new lines of business. Seeking to venture into the music industry,…

Leaving the cell phone on the table and going to bathe is a typical opportunity that thousands of Argentines have taken advantage of to "check" their partner's smartphone. How common is this situation? A lot, according to one recent survey Conducted by a company specialized in technology and security that discovered that almost half of Argentines who say they are in a loving relationship –43% of men and 44% of women– “suspect” that their partner has checked their phone in a surreptitious way. The work commissioned by the company Avast, specialized in the development of security software for devices, investigated…

The matrix of Facebook and Instagram, metaplatformsannounced this Tuesday that it will cut other 10,000 jobsin the midst of its owner's struggle, mark zuckerberg, to achieve greater corporate efficiency in the face of falling revenues. The cuts are made less than six months later after the social media giant announced 11,000 dismissals in November, a measure that reduced the total number of employees by a 13%. The company will incur construction costs that oscillate between US$3,000 and US$5,000 million, as announced on Tuesday by the company. In this sense, Zuckerberg warned that economic instability could last for "many years". Layoffs…