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8 months ago+25 25 0Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO
The grim prediction comes from K Krithivasan, head of Indian IT giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). The second-largest company in India by market cap, it has more...
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10 months ago+26 26 0Thank God for Science Fiction
How we’ve unknowingly spent our lives preparing for AI discourse
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10 months ago+15 15 0NASA is looking for volunteers to live in its Mars simulation for a year
NASA put out an open call on Friday for volunteers to participate in its yearlong Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA 2) mission. The space agency will select four people for a crew that will be housed in its 1,700-square-foot 3D-p ...
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10 months ago+26 26 0NSW taskforce aims to return Indigenous children to their families
Minister says ‘shocking proportion’ of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care can be reduced by working with community-controlled organisations
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11 months ago+34 34 0Don’t let Big AI fool you: Piracy isn’t a business model
Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, is basically saying that he can’t make his product unless he steals from others.
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11 months ago+35 35 0Google DeepMind’s new AI system can solve complex geometry problems
Its performance matches the smartest high school mathematicians and is much stronger than the previous state-of-the-art system.
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1 year ago+26 26 06 weird invasive species wreaking havoc in the US, from self-cloning ticks to 20-pound rodents with orange teeth
Nutria, hammerhead worms, and Asian longhorned ticks are among the strange invasive animal species damaging ecosystems in the US.
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1 year ago+32 32 0‘The book took me about a decade’: the 2023 Booker prize shortlisted writers on the stories behind their novels
From the paintings of Paula Rego to a Jamaican American childhood, the six novelists up for the UK’s most prestigious fiction prize share the inspirations behind their nominated books – and how they got them onto the page
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1 year ago+31 31 0Lost Doctor Who episodes found – but owner is reluctant to hand them to BBC
As sci-fi show’s 60th anniversary nears, a collector pleads for BBC to offer amnesty to those with recordings discarded by corporation
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1 year ago+31 31 0Space drugs factory denied reentry to Earth
The Air Force and the FAA denied permission for Varda Space's capsule to return and land on Earth.
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1 year ago+52 52 0OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work
No detectors "reliably distinguish between AI-generated and human-generated content."
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1 year ago+37 37 0Spain’s Top Soccer Official Resigns Over Unwanted World Cup Kiss
Pressure had been building on Luis Rubiales, with prosecutors opening an investigation, his soccer federation calling for him to step down and FIFA suspending him.
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1 year ago+40 40 0‘Tesla Syndrome’ Explains Why Tech Is Making Us Miserable
There’s a class war that’s leading to worse innovations—but it’s not between the sides you think it is.
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1 year ago+35 35 0Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush hush’
For years, cops and other government authorities all over the world have been using phone hacking technology provided by Cellebrite to unlock phones and In a leaked video, a Cellebrite employee urges law enforcement customers to keep their use of its ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0Doctor Who missing episodes are "out there", says TV archive boss
Lost episodes of the BBC sci-fi series exist in the collections of private owners, says archivist.
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1 year ago+25 25 0Disney Plus Takes Down $53 Million Original Movie 'Crater' Just 48 Days After Its Premiere
Looking to further trim EBITDA losses on video streaming in its current fiscal third quarter, Disney said in an SEC filing a month ago that it expects to write down as much as $400 million as it removes more original movies and TV shows from Disney P ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement
Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each in a US District Court over dual claims of copyright infringement. The suits alleges, among other things, that OpenAI’s Cha ...
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1 year ago+33 33 0Seven Amazing Accomplishments the James Webb Telescope Achieved in Its First Year
The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most sophisticated space observatory ever built, has been sending back images and data for almost a full year now—and in that time it has delivered a treasure trove of information about everything from ...
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1 year ago+26 26 0Apple is now the first publicly traded company to close above a $3 trillion market value
Apple is the first publicly traded company to close a trading day with a $3 trillion market value. The company’s shares climbed about 2.31% on Friday to a new high. The tech giant first reached a $3 trillion market cap back in January 2022, but faile ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0CRISPR’d plant is resistant to the “cancer of rice”
Thanks to CRISPR, farmers may finally have a good defense against rice blast, a fungal disease so devastating, it’s known as the “cancer of rice.”