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8 days agoAnalysis darvinhg
AI Lie: Machines Don’t Learn Like Humans (And Don’t Have the Right To)
Some argue that bots should be entitled to ingest any content they see, because people can.
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1 month agoCurrent Event darvinhg
New 'AI-brained' Chinese satellite has just been launched
Called "WonderJourney," a new AI-controlled satellite has made orbit to autonomously process Earth-side data in a fraction of the time as regular sats.
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1 month agoCurrent Event darvinhg
Paul Reubens dead: Pee-wee Herman actor was 70
Paul Reubens, the actor who made millions around the world laugh with his Pee-wee Herman character, has died. He was 70.
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1 month agoCurrent Event darvinhg
Houston school district to turn libraries into disciplinary centers
Critics condemn superintendent Mike Miles’s ‘new education system’ that removes students’ access to books
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2 months agoCurrent Event darvinhg
Councils call for ban on disposable vapes by 2024
The vapes are a hazard for bin lorries, difficult to recycle and too appealing to children, they say.
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2 months agoCurrent Event darvinhg
'An Unstoppable Force': Wind and Solar to Produce More Than a Third of Global Power by 2030, Report Says - EcoWatch
Solar and wind projects are on course to make up more than 33% of global energy capacity by 2030, the Rocky Mountain Institute reports.
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2 months agoCurrent Event darvinhg
NASA's quirky new lunar rover will be the first to cruise the moon's south pole
It’s no simple feat to send a rover to space, land it on a celestial body, and get the wheels rolling. NASA has used all kinds of techniques: The Pathfinder rover landed on Mars in 1997 inside a cluster of airbags, then rolled down its landing vehicle’s “petals,” which bloomed open like a flower, to the dusty surface. Cables attached to a rocket-powered “sky crane” spacecraft dropped the Perseverance Mars rover to the Red Planet’s surface in 2021.
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2 months agoCurrent Event darvinhg
Lamborghini has sold its last fully gas-powered supercar
The legendary Italian brand is going all in on hybrids and electric vehicles from here on out.
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2 months agoAnalysis darvinhg
Sleep Deprivation Sometimes Relieves Depression. A New Study May Show Why
Understanding why going without sleep eases depression in some people may lead to less taxing methods to boost mood
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2 months agoCurrent Event darvinhg
The sun's activity could peak 2 years early, frying satellites and causing radio blackouts by the end of this year, experts say
The sun has had an unusually large number of sunspots this year forcing scientists to revisit their predictions of when the solar maximum will hit.
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3 months agoCurrent Event darvinhg
Apple Vision Pro 'Visual Search' Feature Can Identify Items, Copy Printed Text, Translate and More
The Apple Vision Pro headset's visionOS operating system includes a feature called "Visual Search," which sounds like it is similar to the Visual Lookup feature on the iPhone and the iPad.
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3 months agoCurrent Event darvinhg
Needle-free vaccine patches deliver jabs through the skin in seconds
With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world experienced an imminent crisis for which governments were largely unprepared. Despite vaccine breakthroughs within a year of the pandemic, the rollout of jabs was limited and lacked efficiency in the early stages.
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3 months agoCurrent Event darvinhg
Domino's will deliver your next pizza without an address
An address is typically required when getting food delivered. Not for Domino’s. The pizza chain is launching “anywhere” delivery through its app, which lets customers get their food by dropping a pin on the map. The service, called Pinpoint Delivery, is ideal for the “start of summer,” the company said in a release, because people are heading to the beaches and parks where their exact location could be difficult to find.
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3 months agoCurrent Event darvinhg
Microsoft on major Outlook and OneDrive outages: We were hacked
In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft’s flagship office suite — including the Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps — and cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group claimed responsibility, saying it flooded the sites with junk traffic in distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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3 months agoCurrent Event darvinhg
Trump taps lawyer Todd Blanche to helm indictment as two others resign
Trump said he was bringing on new lawyers to fight the seven counts against him. He said he would be defended by attorney Todd Blanche.
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3 months agoCurrent Event darvinhg
8.5kg cat in Thailand falls 6 storeys & smashes into car window, survives with no broken bones
On May. 27, 2023, the car owner, who goes by the name Apiwat Toyothaka on Facebook, shared a post saying that a cat was in his car at 7am. He said the cat fell from the sixth floor and broke the rear window of his car.
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4 months agoCurrent Event darvinhg
'John Wick' franchise hits $1 billion mark at worldwide box office
John Wick franchise surpassed the $1 billion milestone at the global box office, fueled by success of John Wick: Chapter 4. The latest installment leads the pack with $425.3 million, followed by John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum at $326.7 million, Chapter 2 at $171.54 million, and the original 2014 crime thriller at $87.8 million. With the release in Japan yet to come, the franchise continues to perform well worldwide, reported Variety.