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Orca calf successfully returned to open water after bold rescue in Canada

theguardian.com

An orca calf, trapped for weeks in a remote lagoon in western Canada, has freed herself...
An orca calf, trapped for weeks in a remote lagoon in western Canada, has freed herself and is travelling towards open waters, hailed as “incredible news” by a growing body of human supporters.The move puts her one step closer to reuniting with her family one month after a tragic accident left her stranded.The two-y...
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The US has seen evidence of China attempting to influence upcoming elections

cnn.com

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US has seen evidence of Chinese attempts to...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US has seen evidence of Chinese attempts to “influence and arguably interfere” with the upcoming US elections, despite an earlier commitment from leader Xi Jinping not to do so. Blinken made the comments to CNN’s Kylie Atwood in an interview Friday at the close of a thre...
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We Dropped This Phone from 300 Feet. Here's Why It Survived

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Fischertechnik

wikipedia.org

Construction toy Fischertechnik 15×15×30 mm (plus peg) standard block in original gray color The fischertechnik da...
Construction toy Fischertechnik 15×15×30 mm (plus peg) standard block in original gray color The fischertechnik da Vinci construction set can be used to recreate inventions by Leonardo da Vinci such as this file cutting machine.[1] Fischertechnik is a brand of construction toy. It was invented by Artur Fischer and i...
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New £4M hub for metabolic psychiatry

lister-institute.org.uk

We caught up with Danny to discuss the new project and his ‘whole body’ perspective on...
We caught up with Danny to discuss the new project and his ‘whole body’ perspective on mental health. Congratulations on the new research centre. Can you describe in a nutshell what it will do? We’ve always known that weight gain for people with SMI like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and severe depression is a big...
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CATL's 1,000-km LFP EV battery super-charges at 1 km/SEC

newatlas.com

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Searchformer: Beyond a* Better Planning with Transformers via Search Dynamics

github.com
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Relational Graph Convolutional Networks for Sentiment Analysis

arxiv.org
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2.5x better performance: Rama vs. MongoDB and Cassandra

redplanetlabs.com

We ran a number of benchmarks comparing Rama against the latest stable versions of MongoDB and...
We ran a number of benchmarks comparing Rama against the latest stable versions of MongoDB and Cassandra. The code for these benchmarks is available on Github. Rama’s indexes (called PStates) can reproduce any database’s data model since each PState is an arbitrary combination of durable data structures of any size....
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Apple's OpenAI Talks Intensify as It Seeks to Add AI Features

bloomberg.com

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Nvidia CEO hand-delivers fastest AI system to OpenAI

tomshardware.com
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Altman handpicked for Homeland Security's AI safety board

axios.com
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Tesla Autopilot feature was involved in 13 fatal crashes, US regulator says

theguardian.com

US auto-safety regulators said on Friday that their investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot had identified at least...
US auto-safety regulators said on Friday that their investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot had identified at least 13 fatal crashes in which the feature had been involved. The investigation also found the electric carmaker’s claims did not match up with reality.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA...
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A New Sweetener Has Joined the Ranks of Aspartame and Stevia

theatlantic.com

health
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1B+ words corpus of original texts and experimental post-OCR correction output

huggingface.co
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British Columbia to recriminalize use of drugs in public spaces

cbc.ca

After weeks of troubling stories about problematic street drug use in hospitals, parks and at bus...
After weeks of troubling stories about problematic street drug use in hospitals, parks and at bus stops, the province of British Columbia announced plans to recriminalize the use of drugs in public places Friday — radically altering a pilot program aimed at addressing the toxic drug crisis.In a statement, Premier Da...
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Cleaning Up Speech Recognition with GPT

nawaz.org

Posted on Thu 07 December 2023 My friends often ask for use cases for GPT. Below...
Posted on Thu 07 December 2023 My friends often ask for use cases for GPT. Below I provide one recent example. I attend a weekly educational seminar where real estate professionals present the work they do. I take notes on paper, and later transcribe them to my computer, which is a pain. As a result, I have a backlo...
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Discord Shuts Down 'Spy Pet' Bots That Scraped, Sold User Messages

404media.co

news
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World War I dangers in France's red zones

atlasobscura.com

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Show HN: Notepad.mx – web based notepad with no logins and complete encryption

github.com
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Show HN: Serverless VPN for Lifetime

serverlessvpn.com
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IRS Direct File pilot processed 140k+ returns, saved consumers $5.6M in fees

cnbc.com

This season, more than 140,000 taxpayers successfully filed returns using IRS Direct File, a free tax...
This season, more than 140,000 taxpayers successfully filed returns using IRS Direct File, a free tax filing pilot from the IRS.The program fully opened for certain taxpayers in 12 states in early March and saved filers an estimated $5.6 million in tax preparation fees for federal returns.However, the IRS has not ma...

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Cisco says hackers subverted its security devices to spy on governments

reuters.com
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Show HN: Hive – open-source Marketplace for AI

hivenetwork.ai
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