Nelson's feed
-
10 months agoCurrent Event Nelson
Jon Stewart back at ‘The Daily Show’ is exactly what America needs in 2024
Aside from humor, the comedian offers something we need now more than ever: compassion and humanity
-
1 year agoExpression Nelson
Could 2024 be the year nature rights enter the political mainstream?
Movement is growing to give legal rights and political representation to nonhuman animals, species and places
-
1 year agoExpression Nelson
2023 was the year that GPUs stood still
A new GPU generation did very little to change the speed you get for your money.
-
1 year agoCurrent Event Nelson
Five former Ubisoft execs arrested following sexual harassment investigation
French police have arrested five former Ubisoft executives after an investigation into sexual assault and harassment at the company. Among those taken into custody was former Chief Creative Officer Serge Hascoët.
-
1 year agoCurrent Event Nelson
X's privacy policy confirms it will use public data to train AI models
X's recently updated privacy policy informed its users it would now collect biometric data as well as users' job and education history, Bloomberg spotted
-
1 year agoCurrent Event Nelson
What’s at Stake in the Hollywood Writers’ Strike
Streaming has given the studios one more way to exploit writers—and the writers are pushing back.
-
1 year agoAnalysis Nelson
Nuclear weapons testing cause of radioactivity in wild boars, study says
Scientists previously believed Chernobyl was the main cause of radioactivity in Europe's wild boars.
-
1 year agoCurrent Event Nelson
Vanna White wants Pat Sajak’s pay to stay on ‘Wheel of Fortune’: report
A source has refuted a previous rumor claiming White would seek just “50%” of the legendary “Wheel of Fortune” host’s salary amid Ryan Seacrest’s takeover.
-
1 year agoCurrent Event Nelson
Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard wins second consecutive Tour de France
Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard wins second consecutive Tour de France with Jordi Meeus winning the final stage.
-
1 year agoCurrent Event Nelson
The ground is deforming, and buildings aren’t ready
First study to quantify effects of subsurface climate change on civil infrastructure
-
1 year agoCurrent Event Nelson
Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals
Google says doctors prefer its answers, even if they’re less accurate.
-
1 year agoExpression Nelson
The AI Revolution and The New Roaring '20s
In 2023, predictions about artificial intelligence (A.I.) have spanned from utopian dreams to apocalyptic nightmares, and attempts to identify comparable moments in history range from the development of the atomic bomb to the ancient discovery of how to control fire.
-
1 year agoCurrent Event Nelson
Michael Cieply: Will A Long Writers Strike Sideline Hollywood In The Culture Wars?
One month into the writers strike, there’s little for a bystander to add about the issues, prospects or relative staying power of the opponents. Deadline’s reporters and contributors have done an admirable job on that score. But having intensively covered two prior such strikes, in 1988 and in 2007, I’ll risk one modest observation about the current conflict: If it continues as at present for another few months, it will begin to shift the cultural balance of power.
-
1 year agoAnalysis Nelson
To fight climate change, we've got to quit making so much plastic
A 75 percent reduction is needed to limit warming to 1.5 C, new report says.
-
1 year agoCurrent Event Nelson
Webb maps surprisingly large plume jetting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus
A water vapour plume from Saturn’s moon Enceladus spanning more than 9600 kilometres — long enough to stretch across the Eurasian continent from Ireland to Japan — has been detected by researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Not only is this the first time such water ejection has been seen over such an expansive distance, but Webb is also giving scientists a direct look, for the first time, at how this emission feeds the water supply for the entire system of Saturn a...
-
1 year agoCurrent Event Nelson
Teammates for life: Canadian women's hockey players Poulin, Stacey announce engagement
Olympic gold medallists. World champions. Engaged. Canadian women's hockey teammates Marie-Philip Poulin and Laura Stacey announced their engagement in an Instagram post on Friday. "So... This happened," wrote Poulin, alongside pictures from Hawaii that show the couple both wearing engagement rings. "Best question I ever asked... She said OUI."
-
1 year agoCurrent Event Nelson
Dubai launches first self-driving electric abra
Dubai's first autonomous electric wooden abra has hit the waters to support efforts to cut carbon emissions and boost the emirate's self-driving transport goals. The revamped vessel has embarked on its first journey from Al Jadaf Station to the Festival City Station on Dubai Creek as part of a trial run.