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Google Partners With Internet Archive To Link To Archives In Search – Slashdot
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: Rolling out starting today, Google Search results will now directly link to The Internet Archive to add historical context for the links in your results. Google has partnered with...
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Facebook Admits To Scraping Every Australian Adult User’s Public Photos and Posts To Train AI, With No Opt-out Option – Slashdot
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Facebook has admitted that it scrapes the public photos, posts and other data of Australian adult users to train its AI models and provides no opt-out option, even though it allows people in the European Union to refuse...
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Six-Word Sci-Fi: Stories Written by You
THIS MONTH’S PROMPTIn six words, write a story about a new flavor.Disclaimer: All #WiredSixWord submissions become the property of WIRED. Submissions will not be acknowledged or returned. Submissions and any other materials, including your name or social media handle,...
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This New Tech Puts AI In Touch with Its Emotions—and Yours
A new “empathic voice interface” launched today by Hume AI, a New York–based startup, makes it possible to add a range of emotionally expressive voices, plus an emotionally attuned ear, to large language models from Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral,...
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Transistor-like Qubits Hit Key Benchmark
A team in Australia has recently demonstrated a key advance in metal-oxide-semiconductor-based (or MOS-based) quantum computers. They showed that their two-qubit gates—logical operations that involve more than one quantum bit, or qubit—perform without errors 99 percent of the time....
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Trump Fans Spread Debate Conspiracy About Microphone Earrings
This claim and many others were quickly fact-checked and debunked by ABC News hosts and debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis, a fact that clearly further incensed Trump.Almost immediately after the debate finished, Trump reiterated the conspiracy about...
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Taylor Swift Endorses Kamala Harris In Response To Fake AI Trump Endorsement – Slashdot
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After tonight's ABC presidential debate, Taylor Swift announced her support for Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming presidential election after AI-generated images falsely depicted her endorsing Donald Trump. "Recently I was made aware that AI of 'me'...
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Meet the 2024 tenured professors in the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
In 2024, eight faculty were granted tenure in the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences....
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The 40 Best Shows on Hulu Right Now
While Netflix seemingly led the way for other streaming networks to create compelling original programming, Hulu actually beat them all to the punch. In 2011, a year before Netflix’s Lilyhammer and two years before the arrival of House of...
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Confessions of a Hinge Power User
That’s all changed. “To be honest, I probably have missed out on a lot of dates because of the way Hinge is set up. You can’t search for keywords in your direct messages. You can’t search names. You can’t...
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The trial of lawyers who once represented late Kremlin foe Navalny gets underway in Russia
PETUSHKI, Russia (AP) — The trial of three lawyers who once represented late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny got...