Meta’s AI thinks CEO Mark Zuckerberg is as sketchy as you might — at least, if you ask the right questions at the right time. The BBC and other outlets like Insider have reported on their adventures stress-testing BlenderBot 3, the artificial intelligence chat tool Meta released last week. As they note, it’s easy to …
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Enlarge / A 3D paleoreconstruction of a sauropod dinosaur has revealed that the hind feet had a soft tissue pad beneath the “heel,” cushioning the foot to absorb the animals immense weight. Andreas Jannel Ask people to think of a dinosaur, and they’ll likely name Tyrannosaurus Rexthe carnivorous antagonist prominently featured in the Jurassic Park …
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In-game updates First quarter: The Giants trail, 7-3. Daniel Jones is 6 of 10 for 69 yards. Saquon Barkley has four carries for 13 yards and a reception for six yards. Shane Lemieux (TOE) will not return. On the broadcast we’re being told the Giants had hoped to let Lemieux play some center later on. …
In season two of HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant, Kaley Cuoco’s Cassie Bowden hits rock bottom. Little did Cuoco know, however, that she’d be going through a similar season in her real life as well. “It was one of the hardest years of my life. Not only personally, but doing this character that was so …
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Enlarge / Intel’s as-yet-unreleased Arc A750 Limited Edition card. The “Limited Edition” GPUs appear to be reference models along the lines of Nvidia’s Founder’s Edition cards and AMD’s first-party graphics cards. Intel Intel still hasn’t announced a release date for its Arc dedicated graphics cards, but the company has conducted a PR offensive over the …
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Rivian, the buzzy electric vehicle company backed by Ford and Amazon, reported a net loss of $1.71 billion in the second quarter of 2022 based on $364 million in revenue. It’s a sign that Rivian’s nascent EV business is picking up speed, albeit slowly compared to the previous quarter in which Rivian reported a net …
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Scientists have identified evolutionary modifications in the voice box distinguishing people from other primates that may underpin a capability indispensable to humankind: speaking. Researchers said on Thursday that an examination of the voice box, or larynx, in 43 species of primates showed that humans differ from apes and monkeys in lacking an anatomical structure called …
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On Thursday night, the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds are meeting in Dyersville, Iowa, for the second edition of MLB’s Field of Dreams Game. The game is a living tribute to the iconic 1989 film “Field of Dreams” that starred Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Amy Madigan, and the late Ray Liotta that was in …
When Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav spoke to investors on Aug. 4, the very first question was about his decision, announced two days earlier, to cancel the release of DC comics adaptation “Batgirl,” taking the HBO Max production (as well as “Scoob!: Holiday Haunt”) as a tax write- down instead. If Zaslav hoped his …
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Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has been rewriting websites its users visit, letting the company follow them across the web after they click links in its apps, according to new research from an ex-Google engineer. The two apps have been taking advantage of the fact that users who click on links are taken …
