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The light is red by default, but turns green when an attached speed camera detects an approaching motor vehicle that’s driving under the speed limit.

The touch screen pullback is the result of consumer backlash, not the enactment of overdue regulations or an awakening of corporate responsibility. Many drivers want buttons, not screens, and they’ve given carmakers an earful about it. Auto executives have long brushed aside safety concerns about their complex displays—and...

In a series of votes in the European Parliament this morning MEPs have backed a raft of amendments to the bloc's draft AI legislation -- including agreeing a set of requirements for so called foundational models which underpin generative AI technologies like OpenAI's ChatGPT.

This is a Liminal Space Video Essay to start off peoples knowledge about the topic. There’s many points which are clear enough to understand little bits about this topic. The point is to gather what you are interested as a viewer and go more into details. I’m glad I could finish this video as it is my longest one.

Training data can be used "regardless of whether it is for non-profit or commercial purposes, whether it is an act other than reproduction, or whether it is content obtained from illegal sites or otherwise."

I wrote a blog post titled 'The day I decided to build my own “Twitter”' and I still stand behind it. Yet I returned to Twitter. What gives?

Out of about 150,000 early subscribers to Twitter Blue, just around 68,157 have stuck around and maintained a paid subscription as of April 30. Subscriptions are $8 per month – $11 on mobile.

On Monday, an activist named Sharon Maxwell posted on Instagram, sharing a review of her experience with Tessa. She said that Tessa encouraged intentional weight loss, recommending that Maxwell lose 1-2 pounds per week. Tessa also told her to count her calories, work towards a 500-1000 calorie deficit per day, measure and weigh...

If our collective philosophical literacy were better, we might notice that this fallacy seems to be working spectacularly well for the fossil-fuel industry, the petrochemical industry, and a bunch of other bad actors who would like to throw us off the trail that would lead us fully to grasp their transgressions. We shouldn't...

The trio claimed that they had effectively “broken the internet” because of mass interest in the event, but in reality that was not the case. The audience that assembled was not even close to epic proportions. At its peak, some six-hundred thousand listeners were awaiting DeSantis’ remarks during the initial Twitter Spaces...

Google launched this week a new TLD or “Top Level Domain” of .zip, meaning you can now purchase a .zip domain, similar to a .com or .org domain for only a few dollars. The security community immediately raised flags about the potential dangers of this TLD. In this short write-up, we’ll cover how an attacker can leverage...

I spent 12 days in Nigeria, and saw the cities of Lagos, Kano, Ibadan, and Abeokuta. Even compared to my other travel writing, I have barely scratched the surface of Nigeria, but these are my notes on what I saw and various historical rabbit holes I went down.

A difference between extractors and ejectors in shotguns and how are they depicted in games.

Everywhere at the End of Time is the eleventh and final recording by the Caretaker, an alias of English electronic musician Leyland Kirby. Released between 2016 and 2019, its six studio albums use degrading loops of sampled ballroom music to portray the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Inspired by the success of An Empty...

The concern is that machine-generated content has to be balanced with a lot of human review and would overwhelm lesser-known wikis with bad content. While AI generators are useful for writing believable, human-like text, they are also prone to including erroneous information, and even citing sources and academic papers which...

Understanding speech in a noisy environment is crucial in day-to-day interactions and yet becomes more challenging with age, even for healthy aging. Age-related changes in the neural mechanisms that enable speech-in-noise listening have been investigated previously; however, the extent to which age affects the timing and...

Following numerous complaints from users concerned that the Circles feature of Twitter was broken, the company has conceded that tweets that were supposed to be visible to only a select number of people were in fact accessible by anyone.

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The EU is ready to agree that immediate open access to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, without authors having to pay fees, and that the bloc should support non-profit scholarly publishing models.

From his critics to the enemies of foreign governments, Elon Musk seems willing and eager to censor. Musk himself a "free speech absolutist." Take a look at these examples and see if that seems accurate.

We classify animals according to their diets as carnivores, omnivores, herbivores and frugivores. Humans are classified as omnivores. But if we couldn’t prepare and cook food, we would probably face serious caloric and nutritional deficits. Since we depend on cooking and other food preparation and conservation techniques, we...

I guess my main suggestion is a don't-listen-to-me suggestion: "hire and listen to professionals with training in the subject", where "the subject" covers everything "a bunch of compiler nerds" are typically bad at. Project management to political science to finance to communications to mediation to personnel. The Project is now...

Today we’ll go over how to handle it when someone insults you....

If you love Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, that may sound like great news. But, even as a big fan of those games, I can’t help feeling like there’s a bit of a void in gaming created by the more traditional Zelda’s absence. Tears of the Kingdom makes some changes to address that, like incorporating dungeons...

The ABC is shutting down almost all of its official accounts on Twitter – now known as X under Elon Musk’s ownership – citing “toxic interactions”, cost and better interaction with ABC content on other social media platforms.