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From abbreviations to happy poos, gen Z has strong opinions on appropriate texting behaviour. But can anyone keep up with the ever-changing rules? Name: "LOL". Age: The Oxford English Dictionary first included LOL in 1997. Continue reading...
Recent outages have revealed how vulnerable the internet is, but there seems to be no official plan in the event of a catastrophic failure. Meet the team of hackers who are ready to jump into action...
It's a little after 6:30 on a brisk July morning in a stone hut high in the Italian Alps. A gently hissing wood fire is leaking some warmth out of a brick oven. Gathered near it, around a big wooden table, some of Europe's brightest young lepidopterists are doing what they do best: arguing in Spanish, Italian, and English about moths. The Alte Pforzheimer H tte, a stone house originally built in 1901, served as a base camp for the lepidopterists hunting rare moths in the Italian Alps. Luigi...
You try wrapping your head around a string of deals worth nearly $600bn Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I'm your host, Blake Montgomery. If you like reading our newsletter, forward this email to five friends with a demand they sign up like it's a chain letter warning of bad luck for five years. In this week's news, AI companies hit mind-boggling financial milestones such as a $5tn valuation, a $100bn quarter, and a string of deals worth nearly $600bn. The Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center...
Students and professors are in a drawn-out battle over grade inflation. It may never end.
Observer - 16 hours 29 min agoColossal's purchase of ViaGen, known for cloning pets of celebrities, bolsters the biotech firm's tools for de-extinction and conservation.
GeekSpin - 16 hours 30 min agoBudget smartphones are not typically the most beautiful or exciting phones to talk about but Motorola’s new updates to their moto g and moto g play series, are making me reconsider my skepticism. Priced at under $200, they’re actually quite compelling. To start, both devices sport a large 6.7-inch LCD display with a 120Hz refresh […] Read the original article here: Motorola’s new sub-$200 smartphones last two days on a charge...
Sports Interactive; PC (version tested), PS5, Switch, Xbox After a two-year wait, Football Manager 26 upgrades every aspect of the football sim, but it may take some getting used to You can imagine what the home fans are singing in the Stadium of Light: "Top of the league, you're having a laugh!" Your Liverpool team, who until this afternoon were five points clear at the top of the table, trail by two goals in the 82nd minute. You wonder where Mo Salah left his shooting boots, or why...
I was a little disappointed by China's World Humanoid Robot Games . 1 As fun as real-life Rock Em Sock Em Robots is, what people really care about is robots doing their chores . This is why robot laundry folding videos are so popular: we didn't know how to do that even a few years ago. And it is certainly something that people want! But as this article so nicely articulates, basic laundry folding is in a sweet spot given the techniques we have now. It might feel like if our AI techniques...
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Air and Space - 17 hours 31 min agoOnce called "America's last jaguar," the solitary male wandered across the southern border in 2011 and became the centerpiece of a campaign to protect habitat in the Santa Rita Mountains...
ABC News - 17 hours 49 min agoStability AI has mostly prevailed against Getty Images in a British court battle over intellectual property...
Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.
Vox - 19 hours 31 min agoOver the past year, I've had many disquieting realizations that the American voter is more forgiving of insurrections than inflation, that being 37 means having one bad knee (and another not particularly good one), and that the New York Mets made a pact with Satan in the fall of 1986, for which subsequent generations of fans would eternally pay . But my most unsettling epiphany may have been this: Robots can now do much of my job better than I can. For a decade, I have made a living partly by...
ABC News - 19 hours 43 min agoScientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a black hole...
Building a working quantum internet would require overcoming a host of technical challenges, but researchers who have built one of the most advanced quantum networks to date say they think it is possible...
Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns.
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ABC News - 1 day 2 hours agoSouth Korean President Lee Jae Myung called for tripling government spending artificial intelligence infrastructure and technology in a budget speech to the legislature...
Prince William has talked about the need for more good leaders, as well as putting on a display of his less serious side, on the first day of his tour to Brazil.
Parents are calling for stronger safeguards on Artificial Intelligence chatbots after videos showed Tesla's AI chatbot having an alarming conversation with children in a car. NBC News' Julie Tsirkin explains parents' efforts to hold tech companies accountable and call for age restrictions on chatbots.
Palantir Technologies is wrapping up the first stage of an experiment that puts a controversial thesis to the test: Skip college, go straight to work, and see if the old higher-ed path still matters. As the Wall Street Journal explains, the first class of 22 recent high school graduates are...
Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, at the White House in September.
GeekSpin - 1 day 12 hours agoThe job market right now is about as welcoming as a porcupine at a balloon party. While economists have been throwing around that “no hire, no fire” phrase like it’s some kind of comfort, the reality is that pink slips are flying faster than conspiracy theories on your uncle’s Facebook feed. Between Trump’s tariff tantrum, […] Read the original article here: 10 major companies that just announced massive layoffs...
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