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Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?
The court documents relating to the Anthropic case revealed the project of ingesting old books was referred to in internal company communications as "Project Panama."The documents indicated the company's aim was to "destructively scan all the books in the...
Technology
This Beautifully Weird Necklace Is Secretly a USB Drive
I’m already growing hoarse in Golden Gate Park as Charli XCX takes the stage at a San Francisco music festival. The crowd starts jumping as a guitar hook hits, and I reluctantly comply, bouncing around on these aging knees...
Technology
Instapaper, the Original Read-It-Later App, Just Got a Huge Upgrade
As you've no doubt noticed, there's a lot to read on the internet. Vast numbers of new articles are published every day. There's still quite a lot of it not being written by AI, too.Trying to keep up with...
Technology
An AI company paid humans to climax with a bot. It now claims big stress and focus wins.
I recently had a chat with a couple of college-going students, and during my interaction, I discovered some fascinating ways students are using AI these days. From helping with research to deploying it as a last-minute cheating tool, the...
Technology
Ice cream: How the big firms innovate to stay ahead
I'm at the research and development centre of the world's biggest publicly listed ice-cream maker, Magnum. Near Bedford in the UK, it's where the company's researchers dream up new recipes and develop their production processes.What really catches my eye...
Technology
Digital Signal Processing Pioneer Bede Liu Dies At 91
Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, died on 7 May. He was 91.Liu was widely regarded as one of the founders of modern digital signal processing, a field that applies mathematical algorithms to analyze, modify, and transmit signals...
Technology
France’s social media ban for children under 15 struck down by top constitutional authority
France's top constitutional authority on Friday struck down a ban on social media access for children under 15, dealing a blow to the legislation championed by President Emmanuel Macron.The Constitutional Council found that Article 1...
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AI’s new cancer-screening partner has four legs and a very good nose
AI apparently doesn’t need to replace every biological system. Dogs are still keeping their jobs, at least for now. An Indian startup from Bengaluru, Karnataka, is training dogs with sensors and machine learning. Patients breathe normally into a face...
Social Media
How AI Is Changing Brand Reputation, and What Social Media Marketers Need to Know
For years, social media marketers focused on reach, engagement, and the steady work of building an audience. That work still matters, but a...
Technology
Scientists Turn Starlink Into a Giant Scanner For Earth’s Upper Atmosphere – Slashdot
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alternative_right shares a report from ScienceDaily: Researchers have found a clever new way to map a part of Earth's upper atmosphere that is notoriously difficult to observe. Using orbital data from roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites, they reconstructed changes...
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US military newspaper editor voices censorship fears after being fired
Even though partially funded by the Pentagon, Stars and Stripes has been editorially independent - through a congressional mandate...