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11 months ago+15 15 0Cyberpunk 2077 ends up in New York's Museum Of Failure
Nearly two years after its disastrous release, Cyberpunk 2077 has been admitted into the New York Museum of Failures, a harsh sentence, but not one that’s undeserved. Even if you weren’t interested in CD Projekt Red’s monumental release, you’d have s ...
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11 months ago+21 21 0HBO Max, Netflix, Disney+, and the Day Streaming Died
The streaming industry has been facing a reckoning for a while. This week, it hit.
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11 months ago+17 17 0John Wick 5: Lionsgate Exec Confirms It's in Early Development
After some back and forth on the future of John Wick, Lionsgate confirmed it's planning to continue the mainline series with a fifth film currently "in development." Speaking on the franchise's future during Lionsgate's most ...
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11 months ago+9 9 0Treasury's Yellen says June 5 is last date for debt ceiling to be raised
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday set a deadline for raising the federal debt limit, saying the government would default if Congress does not increase the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling by June 5. Yellen had previously said a default could ...
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11 months ago+28 28 0Fast X: Why cars don't really explode when they crash
Exploding cars may be entertaining to watch in action films. But cars erupting into fireballs when they crash or tumble down a mountainside is one of the most common and scientifically preposterous movie tropes.
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11 months ago+18 18 0Forget Jurassic Park: inside the gorgeous David Attenborough series that’s redefining dinosaurs
Jurassic Park was released 30 years ago, but in those three decades our perception of dinosaurs has largely remained static. In the public consciousness, they were giant, scaly beasts with huge claws and teeth who spent their days chasing down victim ...
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11 months ago+19 19 0'I got a check the other day for $8': TV and film writers share why they're on strike
Entertainment writers are striking coast to coast. The clever signs they’re holding up on the picket lines (“Don’t pay us peanuts to write ‘Billions’”) are often as creative as their work. Every three years, the Writers Guild of America, the TV and f ...
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11 months ago+15 15 0US tech policy must keep pace with AI innovation
As innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) outpaces news cycles and grabs public attention, a framework for its responsible and ethical development and use has become increasingly critical to ensuring that this unprecedented technology wave reache ...
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11 months ago+19 19 0Are New Zealand’s marine heatwaves a warning to the world?
As seas around Aotearoa heat at an unparalleled rate, scientists are starting to understand what it might mean for marine ecosystems
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11 months ago+27 27 0Big Tech Is Taking Cues From Big Tobacco’s Playbook
Alongside tireless political lobbying, Big Tech has infiltrated the academic institutions studying and often promoting AI — with little regard for the potentially catastrophic downsides.
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12 months ago+18 18 0Scientists develop AI tool to predict Parkinson's disease onset
There is no blood test to identify the risk of non-genetic Parkinson’s disease, but that may change if UNSW chemists’ new machine-learning tool is validated.
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12 months ago+34 34 0 x 1Google is increasing the number of ads in Gmail, showing them in the middle of inboxes
Ads have appeared in Gmail for a long time now, placed at the top of the Promotions and Social inboxes, but it seems Google feels that users...
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12 months ago+23 23 0Alanah has lost track of the amount of porn of her being shared. It's all fake
We’re entering a new era of artificial intelligence, where human-like conversation and images can be created with the click of a button. Already, the powerful technology is changing our lives — for better or worse.
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12 months ago+21 21 0Judd Apatow Says Studios May Not Want to Quickly Resolve Writers Strike: ‘They’ve Probably Been Planning This for Years’
Judd Apatow thinks the studios and streamers already have an idea of when the writers strike may end. “I think they probably already know what they’re going to bend on,” Apatow told Variety S…
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12 months ago+18 18 0Rise of artificial intelligence is inevitable but should not be feared, ‘father of AI’ says
The man once described as the father of artificial intelligence is breaking ranks with many of his contemporaries who are fearful of the AI arms race, saying what is coming is inevitable and we should learn to embrace it. Prof Jürgen Schmidhuber’s wo ...
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12 months ago+28 28 0Machine learning programs predict risk of death based on results from routine hospital tests
U of A researchers have developed a machine learning program that predicts patients’ risk of death within one month, one year and five years based on the results of routine hospital electrocardiograms and blood tests. This information may help clinic ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0Greenpeace defeats $100 Million lawsuit in victory for free speech
A federal court in California dismissed a seven-year lawsuit brought by Resolute Forest Products against a number of Greenpeace staff members and entities, including Greenpeace International and Greenpeace USA.
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1 year ago+32 32 0 x 1Billionaire Richard Branson defends space travel, argues it can benefit planet
British billionaire Richard Branson believes space travel can be beneficial for the planet, arguing that trips like the one he undertook in 2021 open doors and cut red tape. Speaking to the BBC in an interview to be broadcast on TV Thursday, it was p ...
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1 year ago+27 27 0White House Pushes for Punitive Tax on Crypto Mining
The Biden administration is campaigning for a tax first sought in a recent federal budget proposal, advocating that crypto miners pay an amount equal to 30% of their energy costs.
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1 year ago+38 38 0 x 1Latest chapter of $2 billion Apple Watch patent battle ends in mistrial
The ongoing US District Court lawsuit from Masimo against Apple ended Monday with a mistrial after jurors couldn't reach a unanimous vote. Masimo is a medical firm suing Apple for stealing trade secrets to build the Apple Watch. It won its preli ...