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c0lo writes:Tech Exec Predicts Billion-Dollar AI Girlfriend Industry

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An Anonymous Coward writes:So I came across this article : Fifty Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio and it inspired me to do more research and I plan on trying it out very soon!The person behind the article had this to say in the start of his article:

mhajicek writes:https://spacenews.com/fifth-helium-leak-detected-on-starliner/

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upstart writes:Google Wallet takes over app duties, but it looks like Google is quitting P2P payments:

upstart writes:Apple is to boost its Siri voice assistant and operating systems with OpenAI's ChatGPT as it seeks to catch up in the AI race:

upstart writes:When an earthquake rocked Taiwan, hundreds of Gogoro's battery-swap stations automatically stopped drawing electricity to stabilize the grid:

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DannyB writes:Water frost detected on Mars' volcanoes in 'significant' first discovery: StudyResearchers say the frost patches equate to '60 Olympic-size swimming pools.'

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owl writes:http://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-part-xii-strange-file-resizing-on-dos/

canopic jug writes:Multiple sites are reporting on an article in Nature Ecology & Evolution about communication between African elephants (paywall). Using machine learning to analyze the low rumblings that elephants make, they researchs conclude that elephants have names for each other and use them.

janrinok writes:https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2eeg9gygyno

AnonTechie writes:Source: General RobotsA very interesting article about programming Robots, written by BENJIE HOLSON:

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upstart writes:OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior:

Windows Recall Demands an Extraordinary Level of Trust That Microsoft Hasn't Earnedupstart writes:Op-ed: The risks to Recall are way too high for security to be secondary:

Motor Trend is running a story that summarizes a number of different sources that look at vehicle privacy, https://www.motortrend.com/news/connected-cars-data-privacy-issues-sex-speeding/ It isn't favorable to the car companies, which (historically) is a change of direction for Motor Trend--long ago accused of making back room deals over their long-running "Car of the Year" award and other industry-favorable coverage.As well as stories covered here earlier from Mozilla and NY Times, they also link to this possibly interesting page,

quietus writes:Historically, high-speed rail travel by Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) in France was the monopoly of the French national rail service, SNCF.Under EU rules, all national operators have to make their rail system available to other willing operators. So in 2021, Trentalia, a unit of Italy's state rail operator, decided to offer high-speed train rides in France too.Now a third company has decided to enter the fray. The difference is that this is a private company named Proxima, backed by a (French) private equity firm (Antin Infrastructure Partners) to the initial tune of $1.1bn.Proxima will offer high-speed rail trips between Paris and four cities in western France - Bordeaux, Nantes, Rennes, and Angers, using 12 Avelia Horizon Trains. This will add 10 million new passenger seats on these lines, per year. According to the company,

fab23 writes:Thomas A. Limoncelli writes in Make Two Trips:

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quietus writes:Are you looking for something more titillating to read than the usual low-brow stuff you find here at soylentnews?You might just be in luck, as MIT Press has released an impact report about its Direct-To-Open (D2O) program, under which faculty members do not publish with pay-for-play journals and publishers anymore, but release [some of] their good stuff directly to the public.Next to lots of happy geeks directly downloading juicy titles like Model Systems in Biology, Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy and No Heavenly Bodies: A History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure, MIT claims that "D2O has exceeded expectations in its first three years, and we're thrilled to share the impact."

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anubi writes:I just found this while browsing Russian Television :It has pictures. Much like art has been through the millennia, done with today's digital media.https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/596257-ai-models-beauty-pageant/So contestants from all over the world can gather and compete for the title of "Miss AI".Excerpt from RT:

upstart writes:With PoC code available and active Internet scans, speed is of the essence:

looorg writes:Interested in a career selling virtual meatballs at IKEA? I guess it's some kind of gimmick between IKEA and Roblox but it seems somewhat weird, selling virtual products in a virtual world to people. Is this the future of employment?https://thecoworker.co.uk/Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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Editors note: This article has been been *greatly* shortened; it is well worth reading the whole article. --Bytram----------upstart writes:This AI-powered "black box" could make surgery safer:

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upstart writes:What's next for MDMA:

hubie writes:Risky Biz News: The Linux CNA mess you didn't know about:

William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.It has been reported from multiple sources.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

owl writes:https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-misfit-who-built-the-ibm-pc

hubie writes:Dogs trained to detect scent may be able to identify significantly lower concentrations of odour molecules than has previously been documented:

c0lo writes:Video report in NYTimes, taken as text reporting by various outlets. E.g. The TelegraphIntroduction of high-speed Starlink turns some Brazilian tribesmen into 'lazy addicts' glued to their phones

upstart writes:reuters.com:

upstart writes:Most downloaded local news app adds disclaimer that it's not always "error-free":

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quietus writes:Shuffling a set means randomly choosing an ordered sequence of its elements.For example, shuffling {A,B,C} means choosing with equal probability one of 3! = 3 * 2 * 1 = 6 permutations: ABC, ACB, BAC, BCA, CAB, or CBA.Easy-peasy, no?Which programming problems did you encounter which looked easy, but were really a front for a Gordian Knot of subtle details -- and their consequences?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

owl writes:https://gamehistory.org/atari-2600-tarzan/

canopic jug writes:Eighty years ago, as of Wednesday, June 6, 2024, the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy started as part of Operation Overlord. This was the beginning of the turning point in WWII against the fascists. Even the youngest veterans from that operation, those who were underage at the time, are pushing 100.

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