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9 months ago+15 15 0Biden pledges billions to rebuild cities ‘torn apart’ by highways decades ago
President announces $3.3bn in infrastructure spending to ‘right historic wrongs’ as he takes 2024 campaign to vital swing states
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10 months ago+11 11 0PGA Tour lands $3B deal, launches for-profit org
The PGA Tour has reached a deal with Strategic Sports Group, a consortium of billionaire sports team owners, to infuse up to $3 billion into a new for-profit entity, PGA Tour Enterprises, that was officially launched Wednesday.
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10 months ago+4 4 0Chickpeas Could Be the Key to Humans Living on the Moon
Modifying a lunar soil simulant with a fungus and worm poop, a pair of researchers say they managed to get chickpeas to grow.
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11 months ago+23 23 0Valve now open to releasing "vast majority" of games with AI content on Steam
"We are making changes to how we handle games that use AI technology. This will enable us to release the vast majority of games that use it."
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11 months ago+36 36 0Here's what to know about Turkey's decision to move forward with Sweden's bid to join NATO
Sweden edged closer toward joining NATO after the Turkish Parliament’s foreign affairs committee greenlighted a protocol for the Nordic country’s membership in the military alliance.
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1 year ago+44 44 0Google agrees to pay publishers in Canada and drops plans for blocking news
One report says it will pay $100 million annually.
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1 year ago+26 26 0GTA's Publisher Thinks Longer Games Should Cost More - Insider Gaming
It has been suggested by Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of Take-Two, that games should cost proportionately more as they get more expansive.
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1 year ago+40 40 0Google Fiber is getting outrageously fast 20Gbps service
For now this is early access, but "most" customers will get upgraded eventually.
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1 year ago+34 34 0Lawsuit over death of autistic man in a Pittsburgh jail alleges negligence, systemic discrimination
Eleven days after 57-year-old Anthony Talotta arrived at a Pittsburgh jail, he died from what his family says was a treatable and preventable infection from a foot wound.
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1 year ago+41 41 0One year post-acquisition, X traffic and monthly active users are in decline, report claims | TechCrunch
Despite proclamations from X CEO Linda Yaccarino that usage of the social network was at an all-time high this summer, a new report is throwing cold water
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1 year ago+35 35 0FBI warns phantom hacker scams are emptying financial accounts — how to stay safe
Over $500 million stolen from victims so far
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1 year ago+46 46 0John Grisham, George R.R. Martin Among 17 Authors Suing OpenAI
Authors Jodi Picoult and Jonathan Franzen are also part of the suit, which accuses OpenAI of copyright infringement and “systematic theft on a mass scale."
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1 year ago+22 22 0NASA's Historic Asteroid Space Probe Set To Return To Earth After 7 Years
NASA's first mission to retrieve an asteroid sample and return it to US is expected to reach a perilous finale on Sunday with a descent into the Utah desert. Scientists hope the material will help understand the formation of solar system.
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1 year ago+41 41 0Sam Altman feels Silicon Valley has lost its innovation culture, saying great research hasn't happened there in a 'long time'
"Before OpenAI, what was the last really great scientific breakthrough that came out of a Silicon Valley company?" Altman said on a Wednesday podcast.
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1 year ago+34 34 0Apple to pay up to $500 million to iPhone users after judge nixes final appeal
Long-running lawsuit arose out of consumer grief over surprise iPhone shutdowns allegedly caused by Apple throttling performance.
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1 year ago+14 14 0Oldest species of swimming jellyfish discovered in 505m-year-old fossils
New species named Burgessomedusa phasmiformis was found in Canada and is exceptionally well preserved
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1 year ago+32 32 0OpenAI working on an advanced AI model that uses 10 million NVIDIA GPUs
According to the founder of Sogou, Wang Xiaochuan, OpenAI's advanced AI computing model will use more advanced training methods for learning.
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1 year ago+11 11 0Netflix lists $900,000 AI job as actors and writers continue to strike | Engadget
Will this pair of Hollywood strikes ever end? It looks like the big corporations are digging in for a long battle, illustrated by Netflix’s recent job posting for a machine learning platform product manager.
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1 year ago+25 25 0‘Put learners first’: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools
Major UN report issues warning over excessive use, with one in six countries already banning the devices
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1 year ago+4 4 0‘They’re in the air, drinking water, dust, food …’ How to reduce your exposure to microplastics
No corner of the planet is free from minuscule fragments of plastic packaging, textiles or utensils. We ask scientists what this means for our health – and what we should do to protect it