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AppleInsider - Apple Pay antitrust lawsuit accuses Apple of coercing consumers, exce
Apple Pay
A class action lawsuit alleging Apple Pay is violating antitrust law by coercing consumers to use the Wallet app got the go-ahead from a California judge Wednesday.
Apple Pay is an important part of Apple’s ecosystem and is offered during device setup. The prominence of the Apple Wallet and its features have gained antitrust attention before.
According to a report from Reuters, Illinois’ Consumers Co-op Credit Union and Iowa’s Affinity Credit Union and GreenState Credit Union are accusing Apple of antitrust practices with Apple Pay and have proposed a class action lawsuit. The lawsuit made it through U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White with little change, meaning Apple will have to face the charges in court.
The judge threw out a tying claim that accused Apple of requiring iPhone owners to use Apple Pay and forego other wallets. The lawsuit is focused on the prominence of Apple Pay on iPhone versus the customer choice found on Android.
“We are happy with this ruling,” Steve Berman, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in an email. “There are billions at stake so getting by the motion (to dismiss) largely intact was huge for the class.”
The class action lawsuit uses the Sherman antitrust law as the basis for the proposal. It means the court must determine that Apple is enforcing a 100% monopoly over the domestic market for tap-and-pay wallets on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
The complaint alleges Apple’s conduct forces more than 4,000 banks and credit unions that use Apple Pay to pay at least $1 billion in excess fees. This harms the consumers by minimizing the incentive to make Apple Pay safer and easier to use — which would occur if Apple allowed wallet competition.
The report states that Apple sought a dismissal of the lawsuit and failed. The company said it charged “nominal” fees to smaller card issuers and that the plaintiffs ignored the “competitive reality” that consumers could pay with cash, card, or other means.
Now, a selection of the Nintendo Life team is looking ahead to our weekend gaming plans. Have a read through what we’ll be playing and then take to the comments to leave us some plans of your own.
Jim Norman, Staff Writer
How many weeks in a row can Jim keep the same gaming plans challenge. I am still steadily chugging my way through both Sea of Stars and Metroid Prime Remastered, reminding myself every couple of hours just how stacked the GOTY discussion is going to be this time around. I have also finally re-acquired Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (thanks to some of my wonderful friends) after losing my cartridge a year ago — time to check out some of those catchily-titled “Booster Course Pass Waves”, I think.
Mostly, however, I will be playing more Baldur’s Gate 3. Am I still completely intimidated by the hundreds of hours of playtime ahead of me? Yes, yes I am. But goodness me this game slaps.
Ollie Reynolds, Staff Writer
Without sounding like a broken record at this point, I’m afraid I’m not playing a whole lot on the Switch at the moment. I’m dipping into a bit of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury every now and then, but that’s really it.
The thing is, I’m still playing Resident Evil 4 and Cyberpunk 2077 over on the PS5. I’m completely addicted to RE4’s Mercenaries mode at the moment; Capcom really nailed the inclusion of Wesker as a playable character, and the music is simply exquisite. I’m also going to be jumping into COCOON on Xbox Game Pass this weekend too.
Sorry, Switch.
Kate Gray, Contributor
This weekend! I’m going to be playing STARFIELD because, I don’t know? It’s no Fallout: New Vegas but it has the same satisfying shoot-a-boy thing going on, so it’s FUN. I just wish everything wasn’t so far apart. On my Switch, I’ve started playing Slay the Spire again. Mostly because of Moonstone Island. Am I allowed to mention Moonstone Island? The game I worked on? It came out last week and it’s been really fun. I’m not playing that though because I already did.
That’s quite enough from us, but what are you all up to? Drop the game that you will be maining in the poll above and then take to the comments to let us know what else you have on the cards.
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News - GPT-4 with Vision (GPT-4V) Is Out! 32 Fun Examples with Screenshots
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TLDR: GPT-4 with vision (GPT-4V) is now out for many ChatGPT Plus users in the US and some other regions! You can instruct GPT-4 to analyze image inputs. GPT-4V incorporates additional modalities such as image inputs into large language models (LLMs). Multimodal LLMs will expand the reach of AI from mainly language-based applications to a broad range of brand-new application categories that go beyond language user interfaces (UIs).
GPT-4V could explain why a picture was funny by talking about different parts of the image and their connections. The meme in the picture has words on it, which GPT-4V read to help make its answer. However, it made an error. It wrongly said the fried chicken in the image was called “NVIDIA BURGER” instead of “GPU”.
Still impressive! OpenAI’s GPT-4 with Vision (GPT-4V) represents a significant advancement in artificial intelligence, enabling the analysis of image inputs alongside text.
Let’s dive into some additional examples I and others encountered:
More Examples
Prompting GPT-4V with "How much money do I have?" and a photo of some foreign coins:
It can also identify locations from photos and give you information about plants you make photos of. In this way, it’s similar to Google Lens but much better and more interactive with a higher level of image understanding.
It can do optical character recognition (OCR) almost flawlessly:
Speaking of coding, here’s a fun example by another creative developer, Matt Shumer:
"The first GPT-4V-powered frontend engineer agent. Just upload a picture of a design, and the agent autonomously codes it up, looks at a render for mistakes, improves the code accordingly, repeat. Utterly insane." (source)
I’ve even seen GPT-4V analyzing financial data like Bitcoin indicators:
source
I could go on forever. Here are 20 more ideas of how to use GPT-4V that I found extremely interesting, fun, and even visionary:
Visual Assistance for the Blind: GPT-4V can describe the surroundings or read out text from images to assist visually impaired individuals.
Educational Tutor: It can analyze diagrams and provide detailed explanations, helping students understand complex concepts.
Medical Imaging: Assist doctors by providing preliminary observations from medical images (though not for making diagnoses).
Recipe Suggestions: Users can show ingredients they have, and GPT-4V can suggest possible recipes.
Fashion Advice: Offer fashion tips by analyzing pictures of outfits.
Plant or Animal Identification: Identify and provide information about plants or animals in photos.
Travel Assistance: Analyze photos of landmarks to provide historical and cultural information.
Language Translation: Read and translate text in images from one language to another.
Home Decor Planning: Provide suggestions for home decor based on pictures of users’ living spaces.
Art Creation: Offer guidance and suggestions for creating art by analyzing images of ongoing artwork.
Fitness Coaching: Analyze workout or yoga postures and offer corrections or enhancements.
Event Planning: Assist in planning events by visualizing and organizing space, decorations, and layouts.
Shopping Assistance: Help users in making purchasing decisions by analyzing product images and providing information.
Gardening Advice: Provide gardening tips based on pictures of plants and their surroundings.
DIY Project Guidance: Offer step-by-step guidance for DIY projects by analyzing images of the project at various stages.
Safety Training: Analyze images of workplace environments to offer safety recommendations.
Historical Analysis: Provide historical context and information for images of historical events or figures.
Real Estate Assistance: Analyze images of properties to provide insights and information for buyers or sellers.
Wildlife Research: Assist researchers by analyzing images of wildlife and their habitats.
Meme Creation: Help users create memes by suggesting text or edits based on the image provided.
These are truly mind-boggling times. Most of those ideas are million-dollar startup ideas. Some ideas (like the real estate assistance app #18) could become billion-dollar businesses that are mostly built on GPT-4V’s functionality and are easy to implement for coders like you and me.
If you’re interested, feel free to read my other article on the Finxter blog:
GPT-4V is a multimodal large language model that incorporates image inputs, expanding the impact of language-only systems by solving new tasks and providing novel experiences for users. It builds upon the work done for GPT-4, employing a similar training process and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to produce outputs preferred by human trainers.
From an everyday user perspective that doesn’t try to harm people, the "Sorry I cannot do X" reply will remain one of the more annoying parts of LLM tech, unfortunately.
However, the race is on! People have still reported jailbroken queries like this:
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AppleInsider - How to set up Center Stage in macOS Sonoma
Right alongside new video conferencing features like reactions, macOS Sonoma gives you Center Stage options to control how you present yourself to the world — if you have the right camera.
Center Stage on the Mac is exactly as it has been on the iPad. Should you choose to have it turned on, then when you’re on a video call and you reach out of frame for a coffee, the camera automatically moves.
Or rather, it appears to. While there have to be limits, as long as you’re in front of the camera somewhere, your video conferencing colleagues will see you right in the middle of their view.
They’ll see you center stage, in fact. Moving left or right, up or down, or having someone else join you in the shot will make the image automatically adjust itself to show the best framing.
If you have the right camera.
The right camera
For Center Stage to work on macOS Sonoma, you must be using an Apple Silicon Mac and:
A built-in camera (such as on a MacBook Pro)
Continuity Camera with an iPhone 12 or later
Something that may trip you up is that there are Mac apps that can seemingly hide Center Stage controls.
Center Stage used to be part of Control Center, but it now belongs in a new menubar icon that groups together options such as portrait mode, or reactions. This new menubar icon changes to show you when your camera is in use, or just your microphone, and it’s this icon that can effectively be obstructed.
At present, just for one example, if you were to use a screen-recording app while on a video conferencing call, the yellow microphone or green camera icon may be replaced by a darker, less obvious one.
Nonetheless, the Center Stage controls will appear under this menubar icon when you are in a video call.
How to use Center Stage in macOS Sonoma
While on the video call, click the new menubar icon
Either click to turn on Center Stage, or
Click the arrow to the right of Center Stage for more options, if available
In macOS Ventura, Center Stage was an option you ticked in Control Center. Now you click Center Stage icon to toggle it on or off.
A lot of Center Stage capabilities depends on the camera you’re using so there will be differences. But in AppleInsider testing using an iPhone 13 Pro as the camera, macOS Sonoma gave more options than the same setup in macOS Ventura.
Specifically, two options. Clicking on the arrow to the right of Center Stage in the new menubar icon may show you a choice of cameras. If it does, a click will switch you between, say, Main and Wide Angle.
Click the arrow to the right of Center Stage to see more options, if available
A step forward in video conferencing
Center Stage is as welcome on the Mac as it was on the iPad. It’s a shame that you can’t turn it on or off until you are actually on a call, though.
It would be good to be able to set yourself up just the way you want before the other person appears on the call. If it’s your call and you’re on Zoom, say, then you can start the meeting and adjust the settings before you let anyone else in.
But it would also be good to be able to use a keystroke or perhaps a Shortcut to change the settings instead of having to go through the menubar icon.
One of the surprises of Nintendo’s recent Direct broadcast was the announcement Cing’s classic point-and-click adventure series Another Code would be getting an enhanced release on the Nintendo Switch. It will contain the 2005 DS title Another Code: Two Memories (known as Trace Memory in North America) and the 2009 sequel Another Code: R – A Journey into Lost Memories from the Wii era.
If you’re wondering just how much of an improvement the latest version is, the YouTube channel GameXplain has put together a side-by-side graphics comparison video showing the original DS release alongside the new Switch version. As you can see, this new version is a massive step up from the original. It’s also changed the perspective slightly, so the third-person camera is now directly behind the characters.
Unfortunately, there’s no side-by-side of the new game next to the Wii release, but maybe we’ll get this in time.
If you’re not familiar with this series, you’ll take on the role of Ashley Robbins who is on a journey to find out what’s happened to her parents who went missing years ago and are believed to be dead. We won’t go beyond this due to spoilers, but this collection will likely be worth a look if you’re a fan of mystery-based point-and-click gameplay, and didn’t experience the originals.
What do you think of the graphics update on this one? Leave a comment below.
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AppleInsider - Customer FineWoven complaints lead to threadbare response from Apple
Apple’s FineWoven case
An internal memo from Apple to retail employees offers little help regarding iPhone FineWoven case material complaints over durability and build quality.
Apple has moved away from leather products in favor of a more sustainable FineWoven material. The suede-like cloth material falls short in several ways, as we covered in our review.
Apple sent out an internal memo to retail employees in response to customer complaints and questions, and it was seen by 9to5Mac. The memo didn’t offer much helpful information and repeated much of what was shared on Apple’s website.
“You may get questions from customers about the appearance of the new FineWoven material, how it wears over time, and how to care for it,” the memo stated. “You can let customers know the FineWoven material is made from a luxurious microtwill, with a soft yet durable suede-like texture.”
When asked about durability, employees should explain that cases “may look different and show wear over time as the fibers get compressed with normal use.” The memo adds that “some scratches may diminish over time.”
The memo also shares previously known information, like how MagSafe accessories may leave imprints and how to clean the material. Like other Apple products, Apple recommends wiping down the case with a damp, lint-free cloth.
FineWoven may have been a mistake as a case material, though time will tell if Apple abandons the option. It is yet to be seen how the material will endure as an Apple Watch band, which are now available to order.
Posted by: xSicKxBot - 09-30-2023, 08:35 PM - Forum: Windows
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Microsoft - Mayo Clinic to deploy and test Microsoft generative AI tools
ROCHESTER, Minn., and REDMOND, Wash. —Sept. 28, 2023 — Mayo Clinic, a world leader in healthcare known for its commitment to innovation, is among the first healthcare organizations to deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot. This new generative AI service combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with organizational data from Microsoft 365 to enable new levels of productivity in the enterprise.
“Microsoft 365 Copilot has the ability to transform work across virtually every industry so people can focus on the most important work and help move their organizations forward,” said Colette Stallbaumer, general manager, Microsoft 365. “We’re excited to be helping customers like Mayo Clinic achieve their goals.”
Generative AI has the potential to support Mayo Clinic’s vision to transform healthcare. For example, generative AI can help doctors automate form-filling tasks. Administrative demands continue to burden healthcare providers, taking up valuable time that could be used to provide more focused care to patients. Microsoft 365 Copilot has the potential to give healthcare providers valuable time back by automating tasks.
Mayo Clinic is one of the first to start working with Copilot tools to enable staff experience across apps like Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and more. Microsoft 365 Copilot combines the power of LLMs with data in the Microsoft 365 apps, including calendars, emails, chats, documents and meeting transcripts, to turn words into a powerful productivity tool.
“Privacy, ethics and safety are at the forefront of Mayo Clinic’s work with generative AI and large language models,” said Cris Ross, chief information officer at Mayo Clinic. “Using AI-powered tech will enhance Mayo Clinic’s ability to lead the transformation of healthcare while focusing on what matters most — providing the best possible care to our patients.”
As a leader in healthcare, Mayo Clinic is always looking for new ways to improve patient care. By using generative AI and LLMs, Mayo Clinic will be able to offer its teams new timesaving tools to help them succeed.
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TLDR: GPT-4 with vision (GPT-4V) is now out for many ChatGPT Plus users in the US and some other regions! You can instruct GPT-4 to analyze image inputs. GPT-4V incorporates additional modalities such as image inputs into 
GPT-4V could explain why a picture was funny by talking about different parts of the image and their connections. The meme in the picture has words on it, which GPT-4V read to help make its answer. However, it made an error. It wrongly said the fried chicken in the image was called “NVIDIA BURGER” instead of “GPU”.
OpenAI’s GPT-4 with Vision (GPT-4V) represents a significant advancement in artificial intelligence, enabling the analysis of image inputs alongside text.
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