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1 year ago+26 26 0Elon Musk founds new AI company called X.AI
He is currently the only director.
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1 year ago+30 30 0 x 1Twitter Ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, 2 Others Sue Elon Musk Over Legal Bills
Three top Twitter executives who were sacked by Elon Musk last year when he took over the social media company filed suit, seeking to be reimbursed for costs of litigation, investigations and congressional inquiries related to their former jobs.
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1 year ago+25 25 0 x 1Microsoft's $13 billion bet on OpenAI carries huge potential along with plenty of uncertainty
When Microsoft first invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, the deal received no more attention than your average corporate venture round. The startup market was blazing hot, and artificial intelligence was one of many areas attracting mega-valuation ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0One million human deaths linked to factory farming, set to double by 2050
The excessive use of antibiotics in factory farming is causing the premature deaths of nearly one million people and $400 billion in global economic losses each year, according to a report titled Global Public Health Cost of Antimicrobial Resistance ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0Walmart to add EV chargers to thousands of US stores
Walmart announced Thursday plans to add electric vehicle (EV) chargers to thousands of US stores in a sign of further mainstreaming of emission-free autos.
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1 year ago+14 14 0‘Coherent’ radio signal from alien planet
Astronomers are one step closer to learning whether there is life beyond Earth, following the discovery of an exoplanet that’s able to emit a “coherent” radio signal.
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1 year ago+24 24 0 x 1Legal and finance jobs are among the most at risk from AI, while construction and trade jobs face minimal influence, studies suggest
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence are stoking employee concerns about the automation of jobs. Generative AI, a type of AI capable of generating text and other content in response to user prompts, has exploded in popularity in recent months fo ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0Judy Blume: book banning now much worse in US than in 1980s
Children’s and young adult author of 1970 book Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret says growing intolerance must be challenged
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1 year ago+10 10 0Giving kids no autonomy at all has become a parenting norm. The pandemic is making this worse
Teaching children independence breeds confidence and social skills. Why aren’t we encouraging this?
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1 year ago+21 21 0World's population could plummet to 6 billion by the end of the century, study suggests
Population growth could grind to a halt by 2050, before decreasing to as little as 6 billion humans on Earth in 2100, a new analysis of birth trends has revealed. The study, commissioned by the nonprofit organization The Club of Rome, predicts that i ...
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1 year ago+21 21 0Olympic chiefs provide pathway for Russians to compete at Paris 2024 games
President Bach has condemned Putin's invasion of Ukraine, but believes governments calling for a blanket ban on Russians in sport amounts to political interference
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1 year ago+15 15 0Succession Season 4 Premiere Hits Series Viewership High
The “Succession” Season 4 premiere hit a new series viewership high as it debuted to 2.3 million viewers across its linear and HBO Max platforms, according to Nielsen and first party data. Sunday evening’s episode, titled “The Munsters,” saw a 62% up ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0 x 1The science of sailing: inside the race across the world’s most remote ocean
After a long hiatus, the epic Ocean Race is back – but this year the teams are gathering crucial data from places even research vessels rarely reach
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1 year ago+17 17 0At least 25 are dead after a rare, long-lasting tornado tore through Mississippi
A rare, long-track tornado left a trail of devastation across western Mississippi on Friday night — killing at least 25 people, tearing buildings and leaving thousands of homes without power. At least one person also died in storms in Alabama.
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1 year ago+16 16 0Ron DeSantis forced into U-turn after calling Ukraine war ‘territorial dispute’
Likely Republican contender for White House says remark was ‘mischaracterised’ but calls Vladimir Putin a war criminal
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1 year ago+20 20 0How AI could upend the world even more than electricity or the internet
The rise of artificial general intelligence -- now seen as inevitable in Silicon Valley -- will bring change that is "orders of magnitude" greater than anything the world has yet seen, observers say.
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1 year ago+22 22 0AI-powered robots cut out weeds while leaving crops untouched
In farming, weeds can strangle crops and destroy yields. Unfortunately, spraying herbicides to deal with the intrusive plants pollutes the environment and harms human health and there simply aren't enough workers to tackle all the weeds by hand.
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1 year ago+20 20 0Software engineer David Auerbach: ‘Big tech is in denial about not being in control’
David Auerbach is a writer and software engineer who has worked for Google and Microsoft. He also teaches the history of computation at the New Centre for Research & Practice in Seattle, US. His new book is Meganets: How Digital Forms Beyond Our ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0Oregon eyes mandate for climate change lessons in schools
Oregon lawmakers are aiming to make the state the second in the nation to mandate climate change lessons for K-12 public school students, further fueling U.S. culture wars in education. Dozens of Oregon high schoolers submitted support of the bill, s ...
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1 year ago+31 31 0History of Technology Timeline
Learn more about the history of technology from the first tools to the space age to the computer age.