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PayPal is making more features freely available to Ukrainians

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2 years ago

March 18, 2022

PayPal is increasing the providers accessible to its Ukrainian customers and waiving charges to assist with humanitarian efforts within the nation throughout Russia’s ongoing invasion. In response to a information launch, Ukrainians will have the ability to ship and obtain peer-to-peer PayPal or Xoom funds, and the corporate received’t apply its regular charges to both aspect of the transaction (h/t CNN Enterprise).

PayPal additionally says that it’s giving Ukrainians the flexibility to switch cash out of their accounts onto Mastercard and Visa playing cards. Residents who’ve fled the nation will even have the ability to entry these options in the event that they arrange a Ukrainian PayPal account. The corporate says Ukrainians will have the ability to ship and obtain funds in US and Canadian {dollars}, in addition to British kilos and Euros. (Ukraine’s official foreign money is the hryvnia.)

PayPal confirmed to The Verge that earlier than the change went into impact Thursday, Ukrainian clients have been solely in a position to ship cross-border transfers, not obtain them. PayPal didn’t straight reply why they couldn’t obtain cash earlier than — the corporate’s spokesperson Tom Hunter solely mentioned that “performance varies by market” primarily based on “a variety of elements.” Ukrainian clients have been in a position to obtain funds from family and friends within the US, Canada, UK, and different components of Europe through PayPal’s money pickup and pay as you go cell phone refill, in line with a put up from the corporate about its efforts in Ukraine.

PayPal notes that the modifications, together with the elimination of charges, are for a restricted time — they’re at present slated to be in impact solely till June thirtieth, 2022. However for the reason that scenario is “creating,” PayPal says it’s reserving the best to make any modifications however will put up notices to its web site if or when it does.

Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov has been actively reaching out to many tech firms, asking them to assist Ukraine and minimize off providers to Russia. In response to a letter he posted to Twitter, he had reached out to PayPal asking them to broaden providers within the nation earlier than the corporate made the change.

Fedorov has additionally efficiently requested for assist from firms like SpaceX — he tweeted at Elon Musk asking him to produce Ukraine with Starlink satellite tv for pc web dishes and, a number of days later, posted an image of a truck stuffed with the gadgets.

Earlier this month, PayPal paused most of its providers in Russia shortly after it stopped accepting new customers from the nation. (The corporate mentioned on the time it might “proceed work to course of buyer withdraws for a time frame.”) Worldwide sanctions have restricted Russian residents’ entry to different monetary providers, like Apple and Google Pay, in addition to the system that helps perform many worldwide cash transfers.

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NASA says Voyager 1 is fully back online months after it stopped making sense

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2 hours ago

June 15, 2024

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NASA says Voyager 1 is fully back online months after it stopped making sense

Voyager 1, the farthest human-made craft from the Earth, is finally sending back data from all four of its scientific instruments, NASA said this week. That means the agency is once more receiving its readings on plasma waves, magnetic fields, and space-bound particles.

Now, NASA says Voyager 1, which is over 15 billion miles from Earth, is “conducting normal science operations” and the agency just needs to resync its timekeeping software and do some maintenance on a sparingly-used digital tape recorder.

One of several Voyager posters from NASA’s website.

Image: NASA

Now seems like a great time to either remind you of or point you to the sick Voyager posters, like the one above, that NASA has published on its site.

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Fox News AI Newsletter: Ashton Kutcher doubles down

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2 hours ago

June 15, 2024

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Ashton Kutcher attends the 9th annual Breakthrough Prize ceremony at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on April 15, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

Welcome to Fox News’ Artificial Intelligence newsletter with the latest AI technology advancements.

IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER:

– Ashton Kutcher doubles down on AI comments after facing backlash: ‘Need to be prepared’ for what’s coming
– Artificial intelligence, proven in NASA and neurosurgery, could remake childhood education
– Pope Francis warns of AI in first-ever G-7 papal address

‘BE PREPARED’: Ashton Kutcher is addressing the backlash he’s faced after saying artificial intelligence could essentially replace a multitude of roles in the entertainment industry. Last week, Kutcher spoke with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the Berggruen Salon in Los Angeles, praising OpenAI’s generative video tool, Sora.

Ashton Kutcher listens during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, on May 2, 2023. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

TEACHER’S AID: Artificial intelligence delivered advances to the U.S. space program and to medicine decades before it made headlines. Now, AI is poised to bring major improvements to American education, tech entrepreneur Alex Galvagni said in an exclusive interview in New York City with Fox News Digital.

AI BOOM COMING? Apple’s artificial intelligence features will push consumers to seek iPhone upgrades and be a boon for future sales, some analysts projected. “We believe Apple’s AI strategy will leverage its golden installed base around personalization and LLMs [large language models] on the phone that should change the growth trajectory of Cupertino as spur an AI driven iPhone upgrade cycle starting with iPhone 16,” Wedbush Securities analyst Daniel Ives said in a research note after WWDC.

Apple made a major artificial intelligence announcement this week. (Stanislav Kogiku/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

POPE’S AI WARNING: Pope Francis delivered the first-ever papal address at a G-7 conference on Friday, warning about the ethical pitfalls of artificial intelligence. The pope told the council of world leaders in Fasano, Italy, that AI offers immense benefit to the human race, but also threatens to dehumanize society.

Pope Francis delivers remarks as French President Emmanuel Macron (L), Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (R) and President Biden (bottom, back turned) take part in a working session on Artificial Intelligence, Energy, Africa-Mediterranean at the Borgo Egnazia resort during the G7 Summit in Savelletri near Bari, Italy, on June 14, 2024. (LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)

MUSK MOVES: Billionaire Elon Musk moved to drop his lawsuit against artificial intelligence (AI) firm OpenAI that accused the company of abandoning its original mission of developing AI for the benefit of humanity rather than financial profit.

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Philips Hue’s jaunty sunrise smart lamp is called the Twilight

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9 hours ago

June 15, 2024

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Philips Hue’s jaunty sunrise smart lamp is called the Twilight

Philips Hue’s next smart bedside lamp will reportedly be called the “Twilight.” The lamp will feature two buttons on top for power, scene selection, and sleep automation, and it also has LEDs in the back that will feature a sunrise or sunset effect, according to HueBlog.com.

The rear LED and main light, like the Hue Dymera’s top and bottom lights, will apparently be individually controllable, and when triggering its sleep automation, the site says it will simulate a sunset before turning off. It’s not clear yet when — or for how much — Philips will release the Twilight.

Philips might also have a new 5-meter (about 16 feet) lightstrip called the Hue Solo on the way, as it was briefly listed by “a major American retailer” for $89.99 before being taken down, according to a story HueBlog published yesterday. And there is indeed a cached Best Buy Hue Solo product page that describes a “seamless blend of multicolor light in a single LED strip” and says it can be controlled via Bluetooth.