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• Voyager 2: Nasa fully back in contact with lost space probe

  04-08-2023 23:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Voyager 2 has restored its communication with Earth months earlier than expected.
  
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• America is using recovered UFOs to make high-tech weapons: Intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower claims US recovered ET craft and 'opened Pandora's Box' - in bombshell BBC interview

  04-08-2023 21:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Intelligence veteran David Grusch told BBC Radio 4 that America's secret UFO programs opened 'a Pandora's Box for potential military weapons development' on Thursday
  
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• We asked Google's Bard AI to give us betting odds on when AI will take over

  04-08-2023 19:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Artificial intelligence can pass the country's toughest exams and bring artists back from the dead - but can it predict the future? We asked the Ai chatbot Bard some tough existential questions.
  
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• Ambulance: Facial Recognition Used To Identify Patients

  04-08-2023 18:54 via technocracy.news
  The Duality product PIX will allow ambulance personnel to scan a patient’s face, identify him and tie his identity to existing health records. Upon arrival at the hospital, all records are available to ER personnel and will follow him throughout the hospital stay. Of course, the use of AI makes this possible.⁃ TN EditorDuality Health, a face biometrics patient identification software provider, and Acadian Ambulance, one of America’s largest privately-held medical transportation
  
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• Scaling Scotland's greatest mountain to put Berghaus' new range to the ultimate test

  04-08-2023 17:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  I scaled one of Scotland's greatest mountains to put the Berghaus Deluge Pro 2.0 jacket and MTN Seeker 32L pack to the test.
  
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• Brain2Music: Reconstructing Music From Human Brain Activity

  04-08-2023 17:39 via technocracy.news
  A new study from Cornell University demonstrates that scientists can reconstruct music that you are listening to with remarkable precision. AI is used to decipher changes in the brain as you listen to a music recording, then reads your mind in real time.
  An overview of our Brain2Music pipeline: High-dimensional fMRI responses are condensed into the semantic, 128-dimensional music embedding space of MuLan (Huang et al., 2022). Subsequently, the music generation model, MusicLM (Agostinelli et al.,
  
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• Lab-grown steaks could soon be on British menus after Israeli start-up becomes the first firm to apply for permission to sell cultivated meat in the UK

  04-08-2023 17:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Each slab of beef, which takes around four weeks to grow, is cultivated from a single batch of cells taken from a cow in California.
  
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• Google’s Deepmind AI Scores Major Advance In Robotic Control

  04-08-2023 17:08 via technocracy.news
  
  The paper is titled, Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control, and reveals new capabilities to transfer web knowledge to real-world robot: “High-capacity models pretrained on broad web-scale datasets provide an effective and powerful platform for a wide range of downstream tasks.”
  In particular, the great replacement of jobs has doubled down on low-skilled and entry-level workers. This is a very large percentage of the overall workforce and a training g
  
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• Astronaut-menacing sunstorm spotted rippling across inner solar system

  04-08-2023 17:00 via go.theregister.com
  
  Rare coronal mass ejection so powerful it was observed from Earth, Moon, and Mars simultaneously Spacecraft orbiting the Earth, Moon, and Mars have all detected the same giant coronal mass ejection from the Sun – the first time vehicles in all three locations - plus one on the surface of Mars - have all observed the same event of this sort.…
  
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• Petting other people's dogs even briefly can boost your health for MONTHS on end

  04-08-2023 16:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The stress hormone cortisol drops in people after just 5 minutes spent with a dog, experts say.And feel-good hormone oxytocin also increases - for people and dogs
  
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• The 43 Best Series on Netflix Right Now

  04-08-2023 16:00
  
  From Heartstopper to Cobra Kai, these are our picks for the best streaming titles to binge this week.
  
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• When will the new iPhone 15 be released? Launch date, price and everything we know so far about Apple's latest smartphone

  04-08-2023 15:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The California tech giant is expecting to pull back the curtain on its new flagship smartphone in the first two weeks of September - here's what we know.
  
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• Incredible moment giant fireball made 'two audible booms' as it exploded over West Virginia and eight other US states is captured by photographer shooting the supermoon

  04-08-2023 14:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The fireballshot through the early morning sky traveling at 37,000 miles per hour. A photographer was lucky enough to capture the exact moment it exploded and released to loud booms.
  
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• Holidaymaker in disbelief after taking incredible footage of a 'UFO soaring through a thunderstorm at 2,000mph'

  04-08-2023 13:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A man was on a family holiday at Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida, when he saw what he claims is a UFO soaring through a thunderstorm at 2,000mph.
  
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• Psyche spreads its wings: NASA puts finishing touches on spacecraft that will visit a '$10,000 QUADRILLION space rock' packed full of precious metals

  04-08-2023 13:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Engineers in California are getting the orbiter ready to journey 2.5 billion miles (4 billion kilometres) to 16 Psyche, which sits in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
  
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• World's oceans hit hottest EVER recorded temperature of 20.96C after soaking up the warmth from climate change, scientists say

  04-08-2023 12:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Average sea temperatures have been climbing steadily since the 1970s, due to greenhouse gases trapping more heat, making the water feel 'like a bath', according to one Florida expert.
  
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• World's oceans hit hottest EVER recorded temperature after soaking up the warmth from climate change, scientists say

  04-08-2023 12:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Average sea temperatures have been climbing steadily since the 1970s, due to greenhouse gases trapping more heat, making the water feel 'like a bath', according to one Florida expert.
  
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• Having no luck on Tinder? Get a ROBOT to choose your photos: Dating app tests AI tool that selects users' best-looking photos for their profiles

  04-08-2023 11:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bernard Kim, the chief executive of Tinder's owner, US-based Match Group, said the aim of the feature was to remove the stress that comes with having to choose a profile picture.
  
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• Urban Company Lured Women Into the Gig Economy—Then Pushed Them Out

  04-08-2023 08:00
  
  Home services platform Urban Company helped Indian women get into the gig economy. Now they say it’s setting impossible targets and then abandoning them.
  
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• Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet

  04-08-2023 06:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The oceans are a vital regulator for the climate and our weather but are rapidly heating up.
  
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• Elon Musk: Japan issues rare warning over fake X account

  04-08-2023 05:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The account on the platform formerly known as Twitter impersonated Japan's top currency diplomat.
  
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• US snake hunters fight pythons big enough to devour gators

  04-08-2023 02:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Over the past decade, thousands have competed to kill some of the planet's biggest serpents in Florida.
  
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