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19 hours agoCurrent Event sauce
San Francisco asks California regulators to halt or slow the rollout of driverless taxis
San Francisco city officials have sent letters to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) asking them to slow or halt robotaxi expansion..
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4 days agoExpression sauce
ChatGPT: are AI-generated cover letters the way forward?
Thinking of using AI to speed up your job search? Think again. ChatGPT, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a large language model developed by OpenAI that can understand and generate text. The model is trained on a huge amount of text data and can be used to generate a variety of formats, including cover letters for job applications.
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8 days agoCurrent Event sauce
There’s Bipartisan Agreement on One Thing: Ticketmaster Sucks
In the most polarized Congress probably ever, there are still plenty of Taylor Swift fans, and the Senate will hold a hearing on the monopoly ticket-peddler Tuesday.
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8 days agoCurrent Event sauce
Magnetic solution removes toxic "forever chemicals" from water in seconds
Scientists in Australia have developed an intriguing new technique for removing toxic “forever chemicals” from water. Adding a solution to contaminated water coats the pollutants and makes them magnetic, so they can easily be attracted and isolated.
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9 days agoCurrent Event sauce
Mystery of England’s crab and lobster die-offs deepens as experts find no clear cause
The mystery behind the deaths of thousands of crabs and lobsters along England’s north-east coast has developed a further twist, with experts saying it could be down to a new disease. The die-offs, which began in autumn 2021 and recurred at various points in 2022, affected at least 70km (43 miles) of the coastline, with some of the crustaceans showing an unusual twitching while dying.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event sauce
‘M3GAN’ Screenwriter Says Original Script “Was Way Gorier” & Unrated Version “Is On The Books”
M3GAN is slaying at the box office and there are already plans for a sequel. Screenwriter Akela Cooper opened up about writing the script for the horror film and revealed that it was originally “gorier” and an unrated version is possibly in development. “No shade to Universal, love them, and I understand that once the trailer went viral, teenagers got involved and you want them to be able to see it. There should be an unrated version at some point,” she said in an interview with the Los ...
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event sauce
A biotech firm says the U.S. has approved its vaccine for honeybees
The federal government has granted a conditional license for a honeybee vaccine, the developer of the drug announced Wednesday. The vaccine will be used to help fight American Foulbrood disease in the insects and was approved by the Department of Agriculture, Dalan Animal Health, the biotech company behind the vaccine, said.
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1 month agoCurrent Event sauce
Apple iPhone 15 Plus model could receive a price cut, here's why
Apple iPhone 14 series was announced at the Far Out event earlier this year. The lineup has four new models. Much to the company's chagrin, the iPhone 14 Plus failed to garner popularity among iPhone fans. As a result, it has pretty disappointing sales.
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1 month agoCurrent Event sauce
Lockheed Martin's vision for Mars base in 2050
At its "Destination: Space 2050" event in October Lockheed Martin (one of the largest American aerospace, advanced technologies and defense companies) shared its vision of a vibrant space economy in the year 2050. Here Lockheed Martin envisions a future on Mars with "power beaming, laser communications and robotic in-situ construction for a sustainable living and economic environment". Note company's conceptual Mars lander on the landing pad.
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1 month agoCurrent Event sauce
Apple, Meta And The $10 Billion Impact Of Privacy Changes
Last year, Apple announced significant changes to its privacy policy to give users greater control of their data, adding opaqueness and complexity for advertisers. What Apple calls IDFA was a bold move that was set to potentially disrupt advertisers that had depended on relatively easy to gain access to user data to help target advertisements. As Apple implemented these new policies there were many questions as to which advertisers would be most significantly impacted.
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1 month agoCurrent Event sauce
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Gives New Insights on Jezero Crater
In its quest for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars, the NASA's Perseverance Rover has unearthed several fascinating pieces of information about the Red Planet. It landed on the Jezero crater in 2020 and has been since exploring the region. In its latest discovery, the rover has found that the floor of the crater, which once hosted a lake billion years ago, is made up of volcanic rocks rather than sedimentary rocks, as believed earlier.
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1 month agoCurrent Event sauce
Ronan Vibert: Stars' tributes after death of actor, 58
Kathy Burke and Richard E Grant are among the celebrity names remembering Ronan Vibert.
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1 month agoCurrent Event sauce
McDonald's unveils first automated location, social media worried it will cut 'millions' of jobs
Some users worried the technology will end up cutting "millions" of jobs, but McDonald's argued the system helps restaurant crews focus on speed and accuracy in food prep.
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1 month agoCurrent Event sauce
‘My power’s really low’: Nasa’s Insight Mars lander prepares to sign off from the Red Planet
Nasa’s InSight lander has delivered what could be its final message from Mars, where it has been on a history-making mission to reveal the secrets of the Red Planet’s interior. In November the space agency warned the lander’s time may becoming to an end as dust continued to thicken and choke out the InSight’s power.
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1 month agoCurrent Event sauce
63% of men use dates to become ‘a better version of themselves’—for the other person, it can feel like a therapy session
The experience of dating is more rewarding for men than it is for women, according to recent data from Match. The report surveyed more than 5,000 singles between ages 18 and 98 during the last year. A whopping 63% of men said dating helps them be a better version of themselves, but only 46% of women said the same.
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2 months agoCurrent Event sauce
We could run out of data to train AI language programs
Large language models are one of the hottest areas of AI research right now, with companies racing to release programs like GPT-3 that can write impressively coherent articles and even computer code. But there’s a problem looming on the horizon, according to a team of AI forecasters: we might run out of data to train them on.
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2 months agoCurrent Event sauce
Comcast’s sneaky Broadcast TV fee hits $27, making a mockery of advertised rates
Comcast's advertised prices don't include ever-rising Broadcast TV and sports fees.
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2 months agoCurrent Event sauce
Eye-tracking study suggests that negative comments on social media are more attention-grabbing than positive comments
When it comes to reading news stories on social media, new psychology findings suggest that people pay more attention to negative comments than positive ones. This evidence comes from an eye-tracking study published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior. News posts shared on social media often attract emotionally-charged comments.