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• Elon Musk says AI has 'more positives than negatives' as he launches his own anti-woke chat bot - in first public appearance since firing Don Lemon

  19-03-2024 22:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The maverick tech mogul - who previously called AI the 'most destructive force in history' - maintained there was still some chance it wiped out humanity. But he was less gloomy than usual.
  
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• Meet Lily, the Frenchie of the future: Breeders trying to save the French bulldog by weeding out its major health defects have raised first 'innately healthy' dog - with an elongated snout, body and tail!

  19-03-2024 22:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  French bulldogs are like cartoon characters, with short legs and backs, and squished faces. But the Frenchie of the future will sport a longer snout, spine, tail, and legs to avoid common ailments.
  
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• Next month's solar eclipse could cause widespread cell phone disruptions for MILLIONS of Americans, officials warn

  19-03-2024 22:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  State officials are preparing for the more than three million out-of-towners to visit for the solar eclipse, fearing cellular disruptions could hit due to a strain on local networks.
  
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• British AI pioneer joins Microsoft

  19-03-2024 20:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of DeepMind - which was bought by Google - is to lead Microsoft AI.
  
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• Over 700million pounds of Amazon's 'recyclable' plastic packaging is dumped into environment each year - where chemicals infest livestock, human organs and even clouds

  19-03-2024 19:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Under five percent of that plastic makes it to a recycling center, a new report US Public Interest Research Group by found. The rest is on course to degrade into microplastics
  
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• Millions of transparent blob-like creatures are washing ashore on the West Coast due to warming oceans... do YOU know what they are?

  19-03-2024 18:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Strange blob-like creaturesare washing up on the shores of Oregon and Northern California and are consuming the majority of energy in the ocean, a new study has found.
  
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• Fascinating origin of Southern accents and what makes them different from the rest of the nation, according to linguists

  19-03-2024 18:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The two main types of Southern American accent are the inland, spoken by Matthew McConnaughey and Woody Harrelson, and the coastal, as heard from Reese Witherspoon and Walton Goggins.
  
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• AI scandal rocks academia as nearly 200 studies are found to have been partly generated by ChatGPT

  19-03-2024 18:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists are submitting AI-written papers that bear telltale signs of having been produced by ChatGPT: the phrase 'As of my last knowledge update.' It is the latest in a trend of scientific fraud.
  
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• NASA's asteroid contains 'ingredient of life' - finds new analysis of Bennu space rock

  19-03-2024 18:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have discovered that the Bennu asteroid samples contain water-bearing minerals that have rarely been found on space rocks. The asteroid samples are the largest and most pristine.
  
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• Technocracy Is Constructing AI-Powered Control Grid To End Freedom

  19-03-2024 17:03 via technocracy.news
  Leo Hohmann explores censorship, banking, and AI, but it is much bigger than that. Technocracy seeks to take over the entire planet. The late Rosa Koire saw it as “the blueprint, the comprehensive plan of action for the 21st century to inventory and control all land, all water, all plants, all minerals, all animals, all construction, all means of production, all energy, all law enforcement, all health care, all food, all education, all information, and all human beings in the world.”
  
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• Inside Fukushima: Eerie drone footage reveals first ever look at melted nuclear reactor with 880 tonnes of radioactive fuel still inside - 13 years after disaster

  19-03-2024 16:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fukushima's operators, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings released 12 photos from inside the site, the first time the internal structures have been seen since the disaster 13 years ago
  
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• British Antarctic Survey is recruiting chefs, plumbers, and electricians to work at the South Pole - so, could you live in an area where it's dark for 24 hours a day?

  19-03-2024 16:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When it comes to jobs at the South Pole, explorers or marine biologists might spring to mind. But the British Antarctic Survey is hiring - and it's chefs, plumbers, and electricians they're after.
  
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• Swift enters safe mode over gyro issue while NASA preps patch to shake it off

  19-03-2024 16:00 via go.theregister.com
  
  Gamma-ray burst watcher almost two decades past use-by date NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has dropped into safe mode after one of the spacecraft's three gyroscopes showed signs of degradation.…
  
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• ChatGPT scandal now rocks scientific world as multiple published studies are found with AI-generated text like 'as of my last knowledge update'

  19-03-2024 14:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists are submitting AI-written papers that bear telltale signs of having been produced by ChatGPT: the phrase 'As of my last knowledge update.' It is the latest in a trend of scientific fraud.
  
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• The mission to Earth's watery graveyard: British explorer will attempt to reach Point Nemo - a remote area 2,000 miles north of Antarctica that is 'unseen by man'

  19-03-2024 14:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British explorer, Chris Brown, hopes to reach Point Nemo - the most remote place on Earth and the graveyard for hundreds of pieces of space debris.
  
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• Climate change is 'off the charts': Damning report reveals how records were smashed for greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures and sea level rise in 2023 - and scientists warn 'changes are speeding up'

  19-03-2024 14:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Climate change is 'off the charts' and presents a 'defining challenge' to humanity, a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns.
  
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• Women with long hair have more sex than ladies with shorter cuts, study finds

  19-03-2024 12:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Yonsei University in South Korea say that married women with long, high quality hair, have sex more often than ladies with shorter crops.
  
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• Spring has officially sprung! Vernal Equinox is today as the sun shines directly over the equator - meaning winter is finally over

  19-03-2024 11:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Today is the Spring Equinox - also known as the Vernal Equinox - which marks the start of 'astronomical' spring.
  
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• Parents should turn on TV subtitles on shows such as Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol to help their children learn to read, experts say

  19-03-2024 11:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Letting your child watch hours of TV might not seem like the best thing for their education. But scientists say that it could actually improve their reading skills - as long as you turn on the subtitles.
  
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• Do bears, wolves and lynx live in your favourite holiday hotspot? In-depth maps reveal how widely the fearsome predators are spread across Europe, after terrifying brown bear attack in Slovakia injured two

  19-03-2024 09:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MailOnline Travel's interactive map shows where the predators live in Europe. It follows a recent bear attack which left two people hospitalised in Slovakia.
  
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• Nvidia unveils latest artificial intelligence chip

  19-03-2024 03:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The firm has benefited from the AI boom, making it the third-most valuable company in the US.
  
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• How Temu is shaking up the world of online shopping

  19-03-2024 01:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Despite controversy China's Temu is becoming a global online shopping force.
  
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• Is TikTok really a danger to the West?

  19-03-2024 01:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Calls in the US for a ban on TikTok have reignited the global debate about its cyber-security risks.
  
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