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Will AI text-to-image generators put illustrators out of a job?
Imagen, from Google, is the latest example of an AI seemingly able to produce high-quality images from a text prompt – but they aren't quite ready to replace human illustrators
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4 hours agoCurrent Event zyery
Barnes & Noble introduces a cheap e-reader to compete with the Kindle
It’s got actual physical buttons.
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2 days agoCurrent Event zyery
Tennessee company hopes new gun-detection technology can be integrated into schools
New technology created in Middle Tennessee is designed to contain threats at schools, including keeping deadly weapons out of school buildings.
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3 days agoAnalysis zyery
Google’s image generator rivals DALL-E in shiba inu drawing
Google Research has publicized Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion-based generator built on large transformer language models.
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3 days agoExpression zyery
Safari is crippling the mobile market, and we never noticed
With web apps, Apple insists on taking the pith helmet
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8 days agoCurrent Event zyery
Amazon's Rings Of Power Presentation Leaves Tolkien Experts Stunned
Amazon Studios is taking a massive gamble with its "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" series. The studio has poured an enormous amount of money into the production of the show and is clearly angling to make a thorough and comprehensive adaptation. Even so, from the moment its marketing started picking up some momentum in early 2022, fans have had epically mixed reactions.
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8 days agoCurrent Event zyery
Pollution killing 9 million people a year, Africa hardest hit - study
Worsening outdoor air pollution and toxic lead poisoning have kept global deaths from environmental contamination at an estimated 9 million per year since 2015 – countering modest progress made in tackling pollution elsewhere, a team of scientists reported Tuesday.
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8 days agoCurrent Event zyery
Bird-watcher wrongfully accused in Central Park video gets a bird-watching TV show
Christian Cooper, the bird-watching Black man who was the target of false accusations during an encounter in New York City's Central Park in 2020, has a new TV show airing on National Geographic. The channel announced this week that Cooper, a lifelong bird-watcher, will host a series called Extraordinary Birder. In the series, Cooper will take viewers into the "wild, wonderful and unpredictable world of birds," according to National Geographic.
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9 days agoCurrent Event zyery
Thousands of intestinal viruses have now been mapped. And they can be used to fight antibiotic resistance
A new method developed at the University of Copenhagen has been used to identify more than 1,000 bactericidal viruses in the human intestines. The researchers believe the discovery may help fight antibiotic resistance.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zyery
Legal Expert Says Fan Support of Johnny Depp on Social Media 'Means Nothing for the Case'
Daniel Gutenplan chats with PEOPLE about Johnny Depp's fans and how their support should not affect the outcome of his defamation case against Amber Heard.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zyery
Most organizations hit by ransomware would pay if hit again
Almost nine in 10 organizations that have suffered a ransomware attack would choose to pay the ransom if hit again, according to a new report, compared with two-thirds of those that have not experienced an attack.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zyery
Tech firms ask U.S. Supreme Court to block Texas social media law
Lobbying groups representing Facebook, Twitter, Google and other tech companies filed an emergency request with the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, seeking to block a Texas law that prohibits large social media platforms from banning users based on their political views.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zyery
Meta-analysis of 15 studies on depression suggests significant mental health benefits from being physically active
Is exercise really that important to individual’s mental health? A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry suggests that exercise is related to lower levels of depression, even for people who are doing less physical activity than is recommended by public health professionals.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zyery
Startup offers $800-a-month bunk bed 'pods' in Bay Area home
For $800 a month you could live in a tiny bunk bed-style pod with 13 other roommates in the Bay Area. Eight-month-old startup Brownstone Shared Housing has come under the spotlight this week after an Insider profile on the company revealed what it looks like inside the Palo Alto home with 14 tenants each living in a "pod."
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zyery
Astronomers discover asteroid treasure trove in old Hubble Space Telescope data
Astronomers have revealed the trails of nearly 1,500 new asteroids hidden in data gathered by NASA's most venerable space telescope. In a new study, astronomers and a team of amateur scientists have worked together to comb through archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope. The project began on International Asteroid Day in 2019, when a team of astronomers launched the "Hubble Asteroid Hunter" project on Zooniverse, a popular platform for crowdsourcing science. The project'...
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zyery
6 months after the climate summit, where to find progress on climate change in a more dangerous and divided world
Six months ago, negotiators at the United Nations’ Glasgow climate summit celebrated a series of new commitments to lower global greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to the impacts of climate change. Analysts concluded that the new promises, including phasing out coal, would bend the global warming trajectory, though still fall short of the Paris climate agreement.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zyery
Patron the bomb-sniffing dog cements his hero status with a presidential medal
A tiny Jack Russell terrier has won hearts and admirers for helping neutralize hundreds of Russian explosives in Ukraine. Now he's won state honors, too. Patron the bomb-sniffing dog — and his owner, Mykhailo Iliev of the Civil Protection Service— received a medal from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a news conference on Sunday, in recognition of their service to the country.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zyery
New study sheds light on how unfaithful men reduce cognitive dissonance after committing infidelity
The research published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships examines the thought processes that provide solace to perpetrators of infidelity. The study provides new information about how men who cheat on their partner frame their experience to reduce their own feelings of discomfort.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zyery
Scientists discover a giant groundwater system under the ice sheet in Antarctica
Have you ever stared at the long ice sheets in the Antarctic and wondered what lies beneath? Now, Columbia University researchers have explored this question and found an answer that may surprise you, according to a study published in Science on Thursday.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zyery
You will soon be able to use Bitcoin to buy Gucci
Luxury brand Gucci has announced that it will accept cryptocurrency payments at select locations. For the pilot project, customers will be able to pay with cryptocurrency at locations in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta and Las Vegas starting at the end of May.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zyery
SpaceX's president predicts people will reach Mars before the end of the 2020s and land on the moon sooner
SpaceX's president and chief operating officer predicts that humans will reach Mars before the end of the 2020s. Gwynne Shotwell said in an interview with CNBC: "We should put people on the surface of Mars within a decade." She then added: "I think it will be in this decade, yes."
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event zyery
Vast underground water system helps drive Antarctica’s glaciers
Lake Whillans is a strange body of water, starting with the fact that there is liquid to fill it at all. Though buried under more than 2,000 feet of Antarctic ice, its temperatures climb to just shy of 0° Celsius, thanks to a combination of geothermal warmth, intense friction from ice scraping rock, and that thick glacial blanket protecting it from the polar air. Given the immense pressure down there, that’s just balmy enough to keep the lake’s water watery.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event zyery
Federal judge dismisses Trump's lawsuit against Twitter
San Francisco federal district court Judge James Donato has tossed the lawsuit Donald Trump filed against Twitter last year in a bid to get his account back. The social network permanently suspended the former president's account after his supporters stormed the Capitol in January 2021. In the company's announcement, Twitter cited two of his tweets in particular that it believes were "highly likely to encourage and inspire people to replicate the criminal acts that took place at t...
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event zyery
Apple's Merger of 'iCloud Documents and Data' Into iCloud Drive Now Complete
As noted in a support document updated today, users who previously relied on iCloud Documents and Data for syncing files across devices will need to turn iCloud Drive on in order to see their files.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event zyery
Jaguar Land Rover and NVIDIA have announced a partnership to develop the car of the future
Jaguar Land Rover has entered into a multi-year strategic partnership with NVIDIA, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and computing, to jointly develop and deliver next-generation automated driving systems, as well as AI-enabled services and experiences for its customers.
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