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DeltaX wants to digitize the Andean region’s trucking sector

TechCrunch

Transportation startup DeltaX is accelerating its plans to digitize the trucking industry in its native Bolivia and beyond thanks to a recent $1 million seed round. Millions of tons of cargo are transported each year via the Pan-American Highway and its branches across Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Paraguay.

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10 unique places in the world you must see

Medium Technology Section

Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia) The worlds largest salt flat, this place creates a surreal mirror effect after rain, making it look like a vast, endless reflection of the sky. Aurora Borealis

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Extra Crunch roundup: Here’s everything you missed at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

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I always felt that, if I could have the opportunity to go out into those stars and explore and perhaps ask or answer, one of the biggest questions in mankind’s history — ‘Are we the only life in the universe or not?’ — I would take that chance,” Beck says. Latin America finds a champion in SoftBank Group International CEO Marcelo Claure.

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Spotify brings real-time lyrics to 26 countries, not including the US

The Verge

Lyrics have a complicated history on Spotify. Where available, users can access them by tapping the “lyrics” card at the bottom of the service’s “Now Playing” screen. The new feature uses lyrics provided by Musixmatch, and will be shown in the song’s language.

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OpenAI’s latest breakthrough is astonishingly powerful, but still fighting its flaws

The Verge

That means GPT-3’s training data includes not only things like news articles, recipes, and poetry, but also coding manuals, fanfiction, religious prophecy, guides to the songbirds of Bolivia, and whatever else you can imagine. And, yes, that includes the bad stuff as well. The Bitter Lesson: quantity has its own quality.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

TechCrunch

July 6, 2023 OpenAI announced the general availability of GPT-4 Starting July 6, all existing OpenAI developers “with a history of successful payments” can access GPT-4. We’re very excited for the impact they’ll have here at OpenAI,” OpenAI wrote in a brief post published to its official blog. users at launch.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. It is a good thing we are doing this in Women's History Month. It hasn't happened in Latin America's history. I think in the United States, it is rare these days to remember the sheroes.

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