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1 year ago+30 30 0 x 1Microsoft Bing AI ends chat when prompted about 'feelings'
Microsoft Corp. appeared to have implemented new, more severe restrictions on user interactions with its "reimagined" Bing internet search engine, with the system going mum after prompts mentioning "feelings" or "Sydney," ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Steven Spielberg on Age, Mortality and How the Pandemic ‘Gave Me the Courage‘ to Tackle Buried Traumas in ’The Fabelmans’
Steven Spielberg has confessed that the coronavirus pandemic forced him to reckon with age and mortality, acknowledging that his fears are what drove him to make his multi-Oscar-nominated film “The Fabelmans.” “The fear I felt about the pandemic gave ...
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1 year ago+12 12 0Bernie Sanders: ‘Oligarchs run Russia. But guess what? They run the US as well’
The veteran senator is now part of Joe Biden’s inner circle, and is still fighting his country’s vast inequalities
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1 year ago+3 3 0Family of US tourist killed in Mexico takes action to demand justice
Frustrated friends and relatives of a North Carolina tourist who was killed under suspicious circumstances on a Mexico holiday four months ago are taking matters into their own hands this weekend. A group of Shanquella Robinson’s loved ones and local ...
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1 year ago+13 13 0Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak thinks ChatGPT is 'pretty impressive,' but warned it can make 'horrible mistakes': CNBC
"The trouble is it does good things for us, but it can make horrible mistakes by not knowing what humanness is," Wozniak warned.
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1 year ago+4 4 0The Berlin start-ups tearing up capitalism and putting workers first
Unlimited holidays, no bosses, democratic salaries, and the same wages for less work. That’s the pitch vegan condom company Einhorn makes to potential co-workers. Einhorn is a pioneer of what is known in Germany as "New Work": a re-imaginin ...
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1 year ago+3 3 0People with attachment anxiety tend to have heightened collective narcissism, study finds
People with higher levels of attachment anxiety are more likely to have higher levels of collective narcissism, according to new scientific research published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. The findings shed light on the role of a ...
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1 year ago+2 2 0Voyager 1 and the Golden Record
The farthest human object from Earth; over 14.8 billion miles away and counting.
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1 year ago+15 15 0Greedy people have more money but are less satisfied with their lives, according to new study
A Dutch study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin suggests that greed may be good for our pockets but comes at a psychological cost. The findings revealed that greedy people tended to have higher household incomes but lower life s ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Former Bank of China Adviser Calls to Lift Bitcoin Ban
Huang Yiping, formerly a member of the People's Bank of China's monetary policy committee, raised the idea that the country should review its ban on trading bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies.
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1 year ago+3 3 0Silicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOs
Tech CEOs at companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon screwed up — but it's the laid-off employees who are paying the price.
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1 year ago+3 3 0Dell is cutting 6,650 jobs amid falling demand for PCs
Computer manufacturer Dell is set to cut about 6,650 jobs representing 5 percent of its global workforce, according to a report from Bloomberg. Announced in a memo on Monday, Dell Co-Chief Operating Officer Jeff Clarke said that the company’s previou ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0Poco X5 Pro review
It's been ten months since the Poco X4 Pro premiere, and naturally, in the break-neck pace of industry releases, it's time for Poco's next-generation smartphone to come out. And while the X4 Pro was a big step backward from the X3 Pro ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0Goodbye coffee, hello brain stimulation? People are zapping their brains at home to clear brain fog
At-home brain stimulation is flourishing among a group of enthusiasts, who say it gives them a mental edge. The science behind why it may work is still in the early stages.
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1 year ago+4 4 0Melinda Dillon, Actress in ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ and ‘A Christmas Story,’ Dies at 83
Melinda Dillon, who received supporting Oscar nominations for her turns in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Absence of Malice and portrayed the doting mom in the holiday perennial A Christmas Story, died Jan. 9, her family announced. She was 83 ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Mass Effect Writer Mac Walters Leaves BioWare After Nearly Two Decades
Mac Walters, the lead writer on Mass Effect 2 and 3 and production director on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf who had been with BioWare for nearly two decades, has officially left the company as "with a new year comes new adventures." Walters took t ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0How the U.S. Government Amassed $31 Trillion in Debt
Two decades of tax cuts, recession responses and bipartisan spending fueled more borrowing — contributing $25 trillion to the total and setting the stage for another federal showdown.
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1 year ago+4 4 0Why is the Climate Crisis So Underreported By the Free Press?
By 2040 snow in the UK will be a thing of the past. By 2050, London will feel like Barcelona, Madrid will feel like Marrakech, Milan will feel like Texas, Dallas. Compare these impacts of climate change to the fact that by 2050 the risk of global dro ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0Bitcoin: what is it? Is it still a good investment?
Bitcoin (BTC), the world's first cryptocurrency, is a decentralized digital currency that operates without the oversight of a central authority. This gives users complete control over their financial transactions, rather than relying on traditio ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0French city believes Madonna may own artwork lost in war – and asks for loan
What do the singer Madonna and Amiens in northern France have in common? Not a lot, says the city’s mayor, Brigitte Fouré, who admits the global star has probably never heard of the city until now. However, Fouré insists there is a “special link” bet ...