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2 days 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
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2 weeks 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.
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1 month 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months agoCurrent Event Nelson
The ground is deforming, and buildings aren’t ready
First study to quantify effects of subsurface climate change on civil infrastructure
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2 months 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.
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3 months 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.
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3 months 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.
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3 months 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.
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4 months 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...
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4 months 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."
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4 months 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.
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4 months agoCurrent Event Nelson
Despairing about climate change? These four charts on the unstoppable growth of solar may change your mind
Last year, the world built more new solar capacity than every other power source combined. Solar is now growing much faster than any other energy technology in history. How fast? Fast enough to completely displace fossil fuels from the entire global economy before 2050.
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5 months agoCurrent Event Nelson
‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Officially Smashes $1 Billion Globally
“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” is officially the first film of the year to cross the coveted $1 billion milestone at the global box office.
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5 months agoCurrent Event Nelson
Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
A new report from The Information today goes in-depth on the apparent chaos inside teams at Apple working on Siri and artificial intelligence. According to the story, “organizational dysfunction and a lack of ambition” have plagued Apple’s efforts to improve Siri and the backend technology that powers it.
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5 months agoCurrent Event Nelson
Meet the Software Detective Who Debunked the Mike Lindell’s Election Fraud Claims
Robert Zeidman, a software detective who literally wrote the book on looking for evidence of wrongdoing in lines of computer code (The Software IP Detective’s Handbook), was awarded US $5 million on 19 April by an arbitration panel for winning the “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge. That is, he debunked a claim made by MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, who insisted that he had data documenting Chinese interference in the 2020 election.