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11 months ago+29 29 0Amazon Is Being Flooded With Books Entirely Written by AI
Books almost entirely generated by AI are flooding Amazon's marketplace, The Washington Post reports, a worrying trend.
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11 months ago+16 16 0Florida lawmakers pass bill allowing radioactive material to be built into Florida roads
More than 1 billion tons of radioactive waste are already stored in 25 stacks in Florida.
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11 months ago+14 14 0TV Writers Say They’re Striking to Stop the Destruction of Their Profession
Television shows across the country are going dark because their writers have walked off the job. The strikers say they had no choice but to walk, as new technology and the squeeze from executives have put their very livelihood in serious danger.
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11 months ago+22 22 0Brain activity decoder can reveal stories in people's minds
A new artificial intelligence system called a semantic decoder can translate a person's brain activity—while listening to a story or silently imagining telling a story—into a continuous stream of text. The system developed by researchers at The ...
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11 months ago+15 15 0How Joseph Dispenza Seduced America With Pseudoscience
Maria Shriver, Russell Brand, Maria Menounos, and Ana de Armas are among his devotees. But is he perverting science for popularity?
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11 months ago+23 23 0ChatGPT’s Challenge: Rethinking the Innate Nature of Language Acquisition
Explore the debate surrounding ChatGPT and Noam Chomsky's linguistic theories on the acquisition of language. Discover how language models raise questions about the nature of human language and its innate properties.
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11 months ago+22 22 0Europe’s major new interplanetary spacecraft has a slight problem
It has now been two weeks since the on-target launch of the European Space Agency's 1.5 billion euro probe that is bound for the moons of Jupiter. This process had been going well until the space agency attempted to extend a 16-meter-long antenn ...
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11 months ago+25 25 0Fox News Falling Apart?: Ratings Said To Be in Freefall While Late-night Comedians Continue to Poke Network
Things apparently have not been well at Fox News since the right-wing network ousted its star primetime host earlier this week. Ratings reportedly have fallen, while it's become a punching bag — both for some of the most strident figures on the ...
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11 months ago+16 16 0Vegan Chocolate Market To Grow Faster Than Dairy, Experts Predict
The dairy-free and vegan chocolate market is expected to see enormous growth in the next nine years, outpacing conventional dairy alternatives. New data suggests that the plant-based chocolate sector, currently valued at $1 billion, will reach $4 bil ...
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11 months ago+23 23 0Our Way of Life Is Poisoning Us
Maybe this has been our fate all along, to achieve final communion with our own garbage.
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12 months ago+20 20 0The climate crisis and biodiversity crisis can't be approached separately, says study
Human beings have massively changed the Earth system. Greenhouse-gas emissions produced by human activities have caused the global mean temperature to rise by more than 1.1°C compared to the preindustrial era. And every year, there are additional emi ...
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12 months ago+12 12 0Twitter advertisers told: Come back, but don't make demands
Elon Musk took to the stage at an advertising conference yesterday to try to reassure attendees that Twitter was a safe place to serve ads, while also warning the biz won't bow to pressure from advertisers who want to dictate its behavior.
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12 months ago+22 22 0America's best bet for banning TikTok would have terrible side effects
The leading legislation and bill to ban TikTok, the RESTRICT Act, could encroach on privacy and free speech, and won't actually solve any concerns, experts say.
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1 year ago+18 18 0Five Folklorists You’ve Never Heard Of: A Reading List of Overlooked Fairy Tales
I have imbibed fairy tales ever since I was six years old.
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1 year ago+21 21 0Dicks Are Getting Longer and Scientists Don't Know Why
The average penis length worldwide has increased by 25 percent in recent decades — and the scientists who discovered this apparent growth spurt say it might not be a good thing. In a paper published on Valentine's Day in the World's Journal ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is ill, perhaps poisoned, an aide says
The 46-year-old Navalny fell ill last Friday when he was moved to a conventional cell and had lost about 18 pounds in 15 days. A spokeswoman says it's believed he's being given low doses of poison.
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1 year ago+20 20 0Bernie Newcomb, the blind programmer who created E-Trade, dies at 79
Born legally blind, he co-founded the company that revolutionized stock trading -- “a broker in a box," as one newspaper put it.
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1 year ago+13 13 0Find Out If Your Ancestor Is Among These 19th-Century Silhouettes in This Newly Digitized Collection
The itinerant artist William Bache’s portraits are contaminated by arsenic, but now the National Portrait Gallery offers easy access
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1 year ago+4 4 0Diablo 4 Will Receive New Story Content Every 3 Months
Quarterly updates for Blizzard's upcoming ARPG will bring new storylines associated with additional mechanics and game features.
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1 year ago+17 17 0Tesla reports 422,875 deliveries for first quarter of 2023
Tesla just posted its first-quarter vehicle production and deliveries report for 2023.