Why iRobot’s founder won’t go within 10 feet of today’s walking robots.
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"My advice to people is to not come closer than 3 meters to a full-size walking robot," Rodney Brooks writes in a technical essay titled "Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity" published on his blog last week.He would know.
OpenAI's new Sora2 makes it so that you can't trust any video anymore. To demonstrate, they created a fake video of Sam Altman getting arrested for shoplifting.
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AI causes reduction in users’ brain activity. Well, I kinda already knew that, but this caught my eye:
You mean it lingers? Yikes....but its effects continue, negatively affecting mental activity in future work.
Gallup Poll: Americans' Trust in Media at Record Low. Because the mainstream media no longer just presents the news. It presents opinionated viewpoints on select news topics. For example, watch this interview with Dana Bash. Her lack of objectivity is so obvious.
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Lesbian couples have a high divorce rate – 41% of female couples had divorced within ten years, compared to 27% of male couples and 22% of different-sex couples. At least in Finland, where the study was conducted. Why is that?
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Wow. The Arc spacecraft aims to deliver cargo anywhere in the world in an hour. Our planet just became smaller.
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Blocking a protein called Ant2 makes T-cells more effective in anticancer cell therapy. Paper here. Apparently inactivating Ant2 normally inhibits ATP synthase activity and NAD+ regeneration. But Ant2 knockout mice bypassed this roadblock, which led to increased mitobiogenesis and anabolism. So blocking Ant2 led to improved adoptive T-cell therapy.
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I keep reading about all these breakthroughs in extending the capacity of EV batteries, but these never seem to make it to the market. When are we going to see practical EVs?
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And here's another breakthrough regarding solar panels. An organic semiconductor film greatly improves charge efficiency. It would be nice not to have to blight our landscape with ugly solar panels. Let's put these in action instead of them just being in the research lab. We're never going to have access to this tech if we buy all our solar from China.
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Perplexity's Comet browser is free to everyone now. I still don't trust AI browsers, and am going to wait this out. I think these are way to intrusive. Why give up security and privacy just so that a browser can schedule your next plane reservation for you, or summarize the websites you browse?
Yup. This is indeed Portland – the city of childless hipsters. That's why they all think Portland is safe. It's just that the destruction isn't complete. Take a look at this statistic: Metro Portland Office Vacancy Rate Hit Record 26.6% in Third Quarter. Wow, there's so little business activity in the city. So what with the mayor and the city council do to keep maintain the revenue stream? Guess.
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