More evidence continues to pile up that AI—and some of its most ardent advocates—is going off the rails.
Category: 17 September 2024
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WHO’S MORE PRO-ISRAEL: TRUMP OR HARRIS?
ABC News last week devoted a few minutes during the debate to discuss support for Israel and which candidate will be more supportive of the ongoing Gaza genocide.
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WILL CRYPTO SPEED THE METERED LIFE?
Imagine transactions—micro, or not so micro—occuring every moment, based on nearly every activity of life.
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POPE FRANCIS TO AMERICAN CATHOLICS: VOTE FOR ‘LESSER EVIL’
Pope Francis seems underwhelmed by the two main candidates in the U.S. presidential election and told Catholic voters that they should vote for the “lesser evil.”
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A NEW PROCESS TURNS PLASTIC TRASH BACK INTO USABLE PLASTIC
A process created by chemists at the University of California Berkeley vaporizes two of the most common waste plastics, turning them into gases that can be used to make more of the same plastics again.
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REVERSE-ENGINEERING THE PLACEBO EFFECT RELIEVES CHRONIC PAIN IN MICE
The “placebo effect” refers to people feeling relief from symptoms when given a substance they believe to be medicine but really isn’t—a sugar pill instead of an actual drug, for example.
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A BETTER WAY TO CULL CRUCIAL METALS
Rare earth metals aren’t actually rare. Some are as abundant as copper.
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U.S. NAVY SEALS PREPARING FOR A CHINESE INVASION OF TAIWAN
For over a year, members of the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team 6 have been training at their Virginia Beach headquarters on ways to respond to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, the Financial Times reported, citing unnamed sources.
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AMERICA THE UNSPEAKABLE
Some commentators who bothered to watch the Trump-Harris debate observed that both candidates adroitly maneuvered around saying anything that might be truly important.
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FRANCE CONVICTS 2 WOMEN WHO CLAIMED MACRON’S WIFE WAS BORN A MAN
Two French women were convicted of slander last week for claiming that President Emmanuel Macron’s wife was born a male and is transgender.