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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Announced in the middle of last week, these two new books are two outstanding accounts of remarkably different histories. In the fictional "The News from Paraguay," author Lily Tuck weaves romance and imperial ambitions into an intricate and imaginative portrait of life in 19th century Paraguay.

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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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DeltaX wants to digitize the Andean region’s trucking sector

TechCrunch

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. and Latin America: Magma Partners , out of Chile, which led the round; Duro Ventures , from California; 99 Startups , from Mexico; and Cibersons , from Paraguay.

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

The Verge

What makes GPT-3 amazing, they say, is not that it can tell you that the capital of Paraguay is Asunción (it is) or that 466 times 23.5 The other camp says that if the history of the field shows anything, it’s that problems in AI are, in fact, mostly solved by simply throwing more data and processing power at them.

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