Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 5, 2008

The final stop for my Micronesia trip was Guam, a U.S. Arriving on Guam felt like coming back to the United States, although it's more like Hawaii than the mainland! Guam has a huge American military presence: the armed forces control about a third of the island. The military and tourism are Guam's two big industry.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 16, 2021

Apricot is a new subsea cable from Google and Facebook that will connect Singapore, Japan, Guam, the Philippines, Taiwan and Indonesia.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Kakao Mobility , the ride-hailing subsidiary of South Korean messaging and internet giant Kakao, has made its first acquisition as it looks to raise its international profile. Kakao Mobility currently offers limited services in about 30 markets outside of South Korea: most recently, it launched in Guam last year and Laos earlier this year.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

If successful, the FTC’s case — which was joined by 46 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam — could force the company to divest itself of Instagram and WhatsApp, radically reshaping the digital economy. TikTok’s success is transforming the entire industry; Snapchat just added its own shortform video tab this month.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As U2 trains, it sculpts more challenging and realistic tasks from github repositories on the internet. Surely intelligence cant emerge from a pool of silicon and lightning, isolated from the physical world except through the exhaust of society spewed onto the internet. Models are learning to train themselves. Your friend.

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