A newly released poll found that 82 percent of Germans are unhappy with their governing coalition headed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, according to an ARD-DeutschlandTrend poll.
Category: 12 December 2023
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IN AI, IT’S THE E/ACCs VS. THE DECELs
The tech community has split over AI into two factions battling it out on X and other social media platforms.
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WE’VE ALREADY GOT A DICTATOR-IN-CHIEF: HOW ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTED THE PRESIDENT
Power-hungry, lawless and steadfast in its pursuit of authoritarian powers, the government does not voluntarily relinquish those powers once it acquires, uses and inevitably abuses them.
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FREE SPEECH IS DEAD: CONDEMNING ISRAEL GENOCIDE IN GAZA PROHIBITED
M. Elizabeth Magill announced that she would step down from her post as president of the University of Pennsylvania after the fallout from her appearance before Congress where she refused to take the scalps of students who chanted in support of an intifada.
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SMALL BUSINESS DISCOVERS AI IN THE HOLIDAY RUSH
Small businesses, many short of staff, have turned to AI this holiday season to create marketing messages, social media updates, customer emails, and even help hire extra humans, according to a new study of 550 such businesses by American Express.
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CONSORTIUM ESTABLISHES STANDARDS FOR AI PEDIGREES
Companies eager to put AI to work may hesitate because they aren’t sure of the data their AI was trained with. Perhaps there are copyright issues, offensive comments ready to pop out, or the AI might be making things up out of thin air.
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GOOGLE UNVEILS ITS LONG-AWAITED AI
Racing to catch up with rivals OpenAI and Microsoft, Google finally has released Gemini, the “largest and most capable AI model” the company has yet built, it said.
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TOP TREND 2023, GOING GREEN, LIKE IT OR NOT: U.S. AIR FORCE IS BUSY TESTING ALTERNATIVES TO FOSSIL FUELS
The U.S. military recognizes that dependence on fossil fuels can be a vulnerability, so it’s at work testing aircraft powered by hydrogen and even an electrofuel made by combining waste carbon with hydrogen extracted from water.
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AI, THE ROBIN HOOD OF THE WORKPLACE
AI is a workplace Robin Hood, giving help to low-performance workers while stealing luster from high achievers, an essay from Business Insider (BI) contends.
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PRINTED SKIN HEALS AS WELL AS THE REAL THING
In a breakthrough, researchers at Wake Forest University’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine have combined the six main types of skin cells with a hydrogel to bioprint skin that grafts over wounds and integrates with surrounding tissue as well as the real thing.