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Wow. Germany, are you ok, hon?
#democracy

Germany bans Yanis Varoufakis from entering the country - DiEM25 Communications
The German Ministry of the Interior has issued a ban against Yanis after the police shut down the Palestine Congress

Sources: Meta plans to shut down its enterprise Workplace tool in September 2025, becoming read-only until May 2026, and will announce the move as soon as today (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/sour

Sources: Meta is shutting down Workplace, its enterprise communications business | TechCrunch
Facebook once had big ambitions to be a major player in enterprise communication and productivity, but today the social network's parent company Meta will

Today, the Paris Defense and Strategic Forum «L’Europe Š la croisée des chemins» has begun: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/13/today-the-paris.html

The AI bubble crash will be very, very bad
https://mastodon.cloud/@jasongorman/112267939807351935

Broken Hearted 💑☁️❤️‍🩹
Narrated coming-of-age show | Have you ever had a friendship end that hurt more than any break-up possibly could? This is a story about a friendship like all others and how difficult it is to let people go.
1 seasons, 6 episodes as of Jan 06, 2024.
https://www.theend.fyi/shows/br…

Broken Hearted 💑☁️❤️‍🩹
Narrated coming-of-age show | Have you ever had a friendship end that hurt more than any break-up possibly could? This is a story about a friendship like all others and how difficult it is to let people go. 1 seasons, 6 episodes as of Jan 07, 2024.

So it turns out Yanis isn’t banned from Germany and it was just a lie told by the German police to stop him from speaking at the event?
🤔
https://diem25.org/chronicle-of-the-betatigungsverbot-against-yanis-varoufakis/

Chronicle of the Betätigungsverbot against Yanis Varoufakis - DiEM25 Communications
German authorities are struggling to distance themselves from their farcical authoritarianism

Google says Project Starline, its 3D video conferencing platform first unveiled at 2021's Google I/O, will ship in 2025 with HP as a launch partner (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/13/goog

Google's 3D video conferencing platform, Project Starline, is coming in 2025 with help from HP | TechCrunch
Google says it's partnering with HP to bring Project Starline, its futuristic videoconferencing tech, to market.

Waymo plans to debut its Waymo One robotaxi service in LA on March 14, gradually onboarding from a 50K waitlist, and in Austin commercially by the end of 2024 (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/13/waym

Waymo to launch commercial robotaxi service in Austin by end of the year | TechCrunch
Waymo will have a robotaxi service in four cities by the end of 2024 with Austin and Los Angeles coming next.

GPT-4o's text and image capabilities are rolling out to ChatGPT Plus and Team users; GPT-4o's voice version is coming soon; mysterious gpt2-chatbot was GPT-4o (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/13/openai-google-chatgpt-ai

OpenAI debuts new model with enhanced real-time voice abilities
A successor to the company's GPT-4 model is due "later this year," the company said.

Microsoft unveils Places, an AI-powered app to help employees on Outlook and Teams better coordinate in-office time, with Copilot integration coming this year (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/13/24155204/microsoft-places-…

Microsoft Places uses AI to find the best time for your next office day
Microsoft Places integrates into Teams and Outlook to share location data. It will help employees better coordinate in-office time.