New study reports companion robots with artificial intelligence may one day help alleviate loneliness epidemic. Surgeon General says loneliness may be as pernicious as cigarettes.
Addition of KSA, UAE, Iran means share has doubled to 42% of crude oil output in 2022. "Saudi pricing oil exports to China and India in non-dollar currencies does not spell the end of the dollar as the international currency of choice,” says ING. Trade within bloc makes trade hard to sanction by West.
Unlike batteries, which rely on materials in limited supply, the technology could be produced cheaply using materials that are readily available. Possible to charge electric cars while they are travelling across it.
In the past, Tesla’s owner, Elon Musk, has publicly threatened workers with retaliation if they were to form a union. “Elon Musk’s business model is to avoid respecting human rights. Now he is taken on by one of our strongest unions. We must defeat the Tesla business model, and Sweden is the best place to start.”
ChatGPT can get worse over time, Stanford study finds | Fortune (fortune.com)
By June, “for reasons that are not clear,” ChatGPT stopped showing its step-by-step reasoning.
Toyota claims battery with range of 745 miles, charges in 10 minutes (www.theguardian.com)
Trader Joe's hires union-busting law firm, fires union supporters (sign.moveon.org)
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mRNA vaccine stops pancreatic cancer, study finds (www.thebrighterside.news)
Possible reversion of an 80-year-old to the age of 26 using pig's blood (news.yahoo.com)
95% of senior adults report robot helpful in reducing loneliness (www.youtube.com)
UK: bus engineer pay drops 10% adjusted for inflation over 5 years, while company profit £4.3m last year (www.unitetheunion.org)
AI-powered companion robots could end loneliness in older adults (interestingengineering.com)
New study reports companion robots with artificial intelligence may one day help alleviate loneliness epidemic. Surgeon General says loneliness may be as pernicious as cigarettes.
So you get to vote on who your boss is right? (sh.itjust.works)
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You don't NEED a weekend. The concept is barely 100 years old. (sh.itjust.works)
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South Korea tells Russia to stop getting arms from North Korea (www.koreaherald.com)
BRICS MATERIALS: the flourishing intra-BRICS oil trade (bne.eu)
Addition of KSA, UAE, Iran means share has doubled to 42% of crude oil output in 2022. "Saudi pricing oil exports to China and India in non-dollar currencies does not spell the end of the dollar as the international currency of choice,” says ING. Trade within bloc makes trade hard to sanction by West.
You snowflake rule (sh.itjust.works)
New Vaccine Targets Alzheimer’s Disease at its Roots - Neuroscience News (neurosciencenews.com)
Bad coding (sh.itjust.works)
[video] Fully levitating LK-99 sample claimed replicated (www.douyin.com)
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Boeing locks out its firefighters; in solidarity, picket lines joined by Teamsters, Boeing engineers (SPEEA), longshore workers, electricians, ironworkers, and pipefitters (labornotes.org)
How capitalists get rich (sh.itjust.works)
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Engineers create battery alternative using cement and carbon black (www.dezeen.com)
Unlike batteries, which rely on materials in limited supply, the technology could be produced cheaply using materials that are readily available. Possible to charge electric cars while they are travelling across it.
Sweden: Tesla employees prepare strike as management says negotiations not in their business model (www.industriall-union.org)
In the past, Tesla’s owner, Elon Musk, has publicly threatened workers with retaliation if they were to form a union. “Elon Musk’s business model is to avoid respecting human rights. Now he is taken on by one of our strongest unions. We must defeat the Tesla business model, and Sweden is the best place to start.”
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Argentina, "The homeland is not for sale" - Thousands protest bills that privatize public services and remove rent control, labor and strike protection, price gouging protection, pension increase (sh.itjust.works)
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Study says Europeans fear migration more than climate change – DW – 05/08/2024 (www.dw.com)