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A Chinese iPhone factory worker says he saw a colleague have his pay reduced for spending too much time drinking water, report says
Nicknamed Hunter, he told Rest of World that working at the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, China felt like he was stripped of his "rights and dignity."
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23 hours agoExpression funhonestdude
'The Last of Us' Is Just the Beginning of Hollywood's Big Video Game Gamble
HBO’s mega-hit series The Last of Us is one of many upcoming video game adaptations that Tinseltown’s betting big money on
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1 day agoCurrent Event funhonestdude
Canadian teen wins $48m lotto jackpot on first try
Sensible Juliette Lamour, 18, immediately turned to a financial planner, or Dad, as she calls him.
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2 days agoCurrent Event funhonestdude
A Judge Just Used ChatGPT to Make a Court Decision
The case is the first time a court has admitted to using the AI text generator’s answers in a legal ruling.
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3 days agoCurrent Event funhonestdude
30% of College Students Use ChatGPT
The popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot from Open AI, ChatGPT, is raising concerns in the academic sector. ChatGPT has continuously made headlines since its launch in November and has become the new best friend of college students in everything from doing homework to preparing assignments.
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4 days agoCurrent Event funhonestdude
Google is asking employees to test potential ChatGPT competitors, including a chatbot called 'Apprentice Bard'
Google is testing chatbots similar to ChatGPT that use its LaMDA technology, as well as new search page designs that integrate the technology.
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4 days agoExpression funhonestdude
What's behind the dramatic drop in NHL viewership?
National NHL TV viewership in the U.S. is reportedly down more than 20 percent compared to last season, but social media engagement has exploded.
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4 days agoCurrent Event funhonestdude
No, Mars will not be Vegetarian
Once again, the idea that space is going to be Vegetarian, is making the rounds of social media. There is close to no chance of that happening. If people can live there, they can make a profit raising meat there, and will. Only violence against those that want to do it can prevent it. That level of violence is costly, has little chance of succeeding and would most likely see the project ended.
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6 days agoUnspecified funhonestdude
Why No One Saw The Success Of Demand Response Coming.
Demand response has seen some crypto miners manage renewables onto the grid and provide grid stability services. Dr. Jemma Green explores how bitcoin mining can reduce carbon, rather than increase it.
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7 days agoCurrent Event funhonestdude
McDonald's president who made $7.4 million last year says proposal to pay fast-food workers $22 an hour is 'costly and job-destroying'
McDonald's president calls AB 257, or the FAST Act, 'costly and job-destroying.' A coalition led by chains like McDonald's has secured a referendum vote in November 2024.
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8 days agoCurrent Event funhonestdude
For 2 million years, humans ate meat and little else — study
Israeli researchers studying the nutrition of Stone Age humans say the species spent some 2 million years as hyper-carnivorous “apex predators” that ate mostly the meat of large animals. The study at Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with Portugal’s University of Minho, challenges views that prehistoric humans were omnivores and that their eating habits can be compared to those of modern humans, TAU said in a statement.
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10 days agoExpression funhonestdude
Even Reality TV Hosts Are Being Replaced By Robots
Milf Manor, The Button, and Pressure Cooker all operate without a host—but at what cost?
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13 days agoExpression funhonestdude
I used to work on Mars rovers and now I develop self-driving cars. Here's how I made the pivot from NASA's JPL to Amazon's Zoox.
Olivier Toupet used to work for NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. Now he's a principal software engineer at Amazon's Zoox.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event funhonestdude
A breakthrough system can see through walls by using Wi-Fi routers
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new method for detecting three-dimensional shapes and movements of human bodies in a room using WiFi routers.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event funhonestdude
Actor Julian Sands identified as hiker missing in Mt. Baldy area since Friday
Julian Sands, an actor who rose to fame in the 1980s and 90s, is one of two missing hikers currently being searched for in Southern California's mountains, authorities confirmed Wednesday.
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2 weeks agoAnalysis funhonestdude
Why faces might not be as attention-grabbing as we think
Research combining wearable eye-tracking technology and AI body detection software suggests our eyes aren’t drawn to the faces of passers-by as much as previously thought.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event funhonestdude
Atomic Heart dev facing backlash on statement relating to Russo-Ukraine war
Atomic Heart developer Mundfish is facing backlash over a statement on its stance on the Russo-Ukraine war. Earlier today on January 16, Mundfish published several tweets from its official Twitter account. Follow-up tweets to the one below state that Mundfish does "not comment on politics or religion," and that the developer is "a global team focused on getting Atomic Heart into the hands of gamers everywhere."
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3 weeks agoAnalysis funhonestdude
Scientists Have Reached a Key Milestone in Learning How to Reverse Aging
The finding involves mice, but represents an important milestone in understanding what causes cells to age
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3 weeks agoExpression funhonestdude
An Interview With the Guy Who Has All Your Data
It's 10 pm. Do you know where your data is? Chad Engelgau does. He's the CEO of Acxiom, a data broker. Your info is probably on one of his servers.