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1 year ago+9 9 0A bot that watched 70,000 hours of Minecraft could unlock AI’s next big thing
OpenAI has built the best Minecraft-playing bot yet by making it watch 70,000 hours of video of people playing the popular computer game. It showcases a powerful new technique that could be used to train machines to carry out a wide range of tasks by ...
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1 year ago+10 10 0Millennials Have More Debt and Many will be Renters for Life
In the recently released report, Millennials are $1 trillion in debt — more than any other generation in history. This isn’t exactly their fault. Over 44 million Americans have student loans, with the average debt hovering around $33,000 (2020). Yet ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Bill Maher Just Described Being Straight and White In America As A Disadvantage
Bill Maher—the same man who thought that referring to himself as a “house n*gger” on his eponymous HBO show Real Time With Bill Maher would be a funny joke—decided to share even more of his unfunny antics in a new episode. During a guest appearance f ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Iran's Currency In Freefall As Protests Sweep The Country
Iran's battered currency, the rial, was in a freefall on Saturday, hitting a historic low of more than 360,000 against the US dollar amid continuing protests. Since August, when there were some hopes for a nuclear deal with the United States, th ...
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1 year ago+21 21 0Kanye West Censored by ‘Free Speech’ Platform He Praised
Two weeks ago, news broke that rapper Kanye West—now known as Ye—was planning on buying the right-wing social media site Parler after he was temporarily booted from Instagram and Twitter over antisemitic posts. Despite West moving to the “free speech ...
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1 year ago+13 13 0Climate Anxiety: The Uncertainty Haunting Our Next Generation
Anxiety. It’s a normal part of life and plays a very important role in protecting humans from danger and preventing risk. The American Psychological Association (APA) defines anxiety as “an emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried though ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0Why It’s Totally Possible for Jon Stewart to Be President
The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur can’t stand Republicans and can’t stand Democrats. So who can he possibly see as a viable progressive presidential option for 2024? asks host Andy Levy in this episode of The New Abnormal podcast.
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1 year ago+10 10 0For the 'Rings of Power' Showrunners, the Road Goes Ever On
After five long years spent developing, writing, and filming the most expensive television series of all time, Rings of Power showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay have finally reached the end of the road—of Season One, anyway. The explosive Seaso ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0Actor Robbie Coltrane, who played Harry Potter's Hagrid, dies at age 72
Robbie Coltrane, the baby-faced comedian and character actor whose hundreds of roles included a crime-solving psychologist on the TV series "Cracker" and the gentle half-giant Hagrid in the "Harry Potter" movies, has died. He was ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0New 10.5-inch iPad with M1 chip could be here this month
Apple’s most affordable iPad has seen some decent upgrades in recent years, but thoughts are turning towards the next iteration. What has Apple got in store for us in the 10th-gen version of the 10.2-inch iPad? In this article we gather all the lates ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0‘House of the Dragon’: Paddy Considine Won’t Watch Sunday’s Episode
“I’m sure somebody will show me a photograph,” he said, about his character’s big moment on Sunday night. The actor discussed the inspiration and meaning for King Viserys’s decline.
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1 year ago+1 1 0Bitcoin Miners selling rigs in huge quantity
It raise close to $27 million through a potential subscription with a strategic partner to improve its balance sheet. The miner also executed a letter of intent to alter current loans and revise the equipment finance arrangement to release $5.7 milli ...
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1 year ago+3 3 0Russian Rapper Against Ukraine War Dies by Suicide After Being Drafted
A Russian rapper who was opposed to his country's invasion of Ukraine jumped from a high-rise building to his death ... after being drafted to fight in the war.
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1 year ago+19 19 0European observatory NOEMA reaches full capacity with twelve antennas
The NOEMA radio telescope, located on the Plateau de Bure in the French Alps, is now equipped with twelve antennas, making it the most powerful radio telescope of its kind in the northern hemisphere.
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1 year ago+5 5 0I don’t want your god in charge of my health care
More Catholic health systems are acquiring or merging with secular ones, which puts God in charge whether patients like it or not.
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1 year ago+4 4 0Oil rises towards $90 as OPEC+ considers output cut
Oil prices steadied on Thursday as indications that OPEC+ might cut output were tempered by a stronger dollar and weak economic outlook. Brent crude futures for November edged up 26 cents, or 0.3%, to $89.58 a barrel by 1354 GMT. The more active Dece ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Amphibian collapses increased malaria incidence in Central America
Since the global pandemic began in 2020, the world has become ever more aware that the health of our species is closely intertwined with other animals. Today, the conversation is mostly focused on birds and mammals, with amphibians rarely considered ...
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1 year ago+13 13 0Nope Cinematography Analysis
Jordan Peele earned his status as one of Hollywood’s most important new filmmakers when he arrived on the directorial scene with Get Out (2017), a psychological horror film with themes of internalized racism and the lingering effects of slavery. He f ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0iPhone 14 Pro's 48-Megapixel ProRAW Photos Take Up to Three Times More Storage Than 12-Megapixel Shots
If you're planning to make the most out of the camera system in the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max using the full 48-megapixel Main camera sensor, then be ready for your pictures to consume a significant amount of storage.
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1 year ago+4 4 0Discovery of alien world with strange, tilted orbit puzzles astronomers
The orbit of an exoplanet around a star in a binary star system has been portrayed in three dimensions for the first time. The planet orbits its star at a different angle to the plane of the orbit of the two stars, and the misalignment could offer cl ...