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  AI  system  could  be an innovative way to rescue dying corals and revive them A team of scientists from British and Indonesian Universities used Artificial Intelligence to listen to the sound of corals. Hundreds of such audio clips were used to create a computer program to gauge the health of the coral reefs. A healthy reef has a bustling sound emanating from it, almost like the sound of a campfire, because of all the life thriving on it. On the other hand, a dying coral reef would have a more desolate sound. The Artificial Intelligence system uses the frequency and decibel of the sound to determine if a reef is healthy or not. According to the team's study in the Ecological Indicators Journal, the AI system can determine so with 92% accuracy. The new AI system could be an innovative way to rescue dying corals and revive them. Human-driven carbon emissions that cause the ocean's acidity to increase are the main reason the corals face stress. The world has lost aro...

  An Australian court ordered Google to pay a former politician, John Barilaro, A$715,000 ($515,000), saying its refusal to remove a YouTube content creator’s defamatory videos drove him out of politics. The Federal Court found Alphabet Inc.’s subsidiary Google deliberately made money by hosting two videos on its YouTube website attacking Barliaro, the then-deputy premier of New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, viewed almost 800,000 times since being uploaded in 2020. The court’s ruling revived the question of how much culpability technology firms had for defamation carried by users on their Australian websites, one of the few Western countries where online platforms are held to the same legal responsibility as content publishers. Australia is reviewing what   legal  exposure websites should have for defamatory posts. In 2021, a landmark case found a newspaper was liable for defamatory reader comments below an article posted on Meta’s Facebook. The court...

Perimeter 81 said its investors now valued the Israeli  cybersecurity  company at $1 billion, providing it unicorn status after the firm secured $100 million to fund product development. B Capital led the funding round and it marked a jump in valuation from its last raise in August 2020, when the firm was valued at $200M. Insight Partners, an existing investor, and ION Crossover Ventures participated in the round. Perimeter 81 offers secure   network  solutions for hybrid workforces on its cloud-based platform, including Firewall as a Service, Zero Trust Network Access, and VPN as a Service. The four-year-old firm is not yet profitable. However, Perimeter 81 said it had more than doubled its annual recurring revenue year-over-year and was on track to make tens of millions of dollars in revenue this year. Amit Bareket, the co-founder and CEO of Perimeter 81, said the new investment would be used in product development to help achieve the firm’s goal to build a pl...

  Diagnostic firms are racing to develop tests for monkeypox, hoping to tap into a new market as governments increase efforts to trace the world’s first major outbreak of the virus outside Africa. The scramble began last month, shadowing early 2020 when companies rushed to make kits to help diagnose COVID-19, creating a multibillion-dollar gift for test makers. But demand for monkeypox tests will be a fraction of what it was for COVID-19, given the disease is not as transmissible nor as dangerous as COVID-19. Monkeypox typically spreads through close contact and causes influenza-like symptoms and pus-filled lesions on the skin that generally resolve on their own within weeks. And unlike the sudden emergence of COVID-19,  treatments , vaccines, and tests can already help control the spread of monkeypox. About 30 countries have reported over 550 confirmed cases of monkeypox since early May. Most of the cases were in Europe and not linked to travel to Africa, where the viral dise...

  Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp won over $10 million in damages, achieving a commanding victory in a defamation  suit  against Amber Heard, his actress ex-wife, to end a globally televised six-week trial. In Virginia, a seven-person jury also ruled for Heard on one counterclaim against Johnny Depp. The film star famous for his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in “The Pirates of the Caribbean” referred to the decision as a vindication, and Amber Heard, his former wife, said she was disappointed with the verdict. The jurors awarded Depp $15 million in damages from Heard, which the judge reduced to $10.35 million to comply with the state of Virginia’s limits on punitive damages. The panel also ordered Depp to pay Heard $2 million in damages. Depp, the 58-year-old movie star, sued his ex-wife Heard for $50 million and claimed that she defamed him by calling herself a public figure on behalf of domestic abuse in an opinion piece in the Washington Post. The jury agreed with Depp’...

  Rimac raises 500 million euros ($537 million) in its latest financing round. But the Croatian  automaker’s  chief executive cautioned sales would have to be twice as much before he would consider an IPO. The new investments, led by  Softbank  and Goldman Sachs and existing shareholders, including Volkswagen’s Porsche unit, bring the automaker’s total valuation to over 2 billion euros, Rimac reported. In a media roundtable, Mate Rimac, CEO of Rimac, said that taking the step of an initial public offering (IPO) would depend on revenue reaching over a billion, and the current firm was around halfway there. Rimac also said during the meeting with the reporters that it was great to have Porsche on board but did not want to be fully dependent on them. Iconic sports carmaker, Porsche, holds a 45 percent stake in Bugatti Rimac. The firm was formed in 2011 between Porsche, Bugatti, and Rimac. Most of the new funding will be invested in expanding production facilities a...

  Chick-fil-A, an U.S-based fast food restaurant chain specializing in chicken sandwiches with a side of god, said that it enlisted Refraction  AI  to deploy a fleet of self-driving vehicles to two restaurants in downtown Austin, Texas. Matthew Johnson-Roberson, chief technology officer and co-founder of Refraction AI, said the deal with Chick-fil-A was part of a more extensive set of tests the firm was running to understand how it could serve quick-service restaurants (QSR) by maximizing the effectiveness and profitability of   robotic  delivery. Working with a  large chain such as Chick-fil-A rather than individual restaurants could quickly fill up the startup’s fleet capacity for all the robots it has now and probably other robots they could potentially build near to mid-term. Refraction’s REV-1 robot is affectionately nicknamed the ‘Goldilocks of robotic delivery.’ The robot is not too big to only operate on streets and not too small to only operat...