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Business professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School Ethan Mollick used a photo of himself (left) in an artificial intelligence platform where he generated a deepfake video of himself (right). Ethan Mollick hide caption toggle caption Ethan Mollick Business professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School Ethan Mollick used a photo of himself (left) in an artificial intelligence platform where he generated a deepfake video of himself (right). Ethan Mollick At first glance, the video Ethan Mollick posted on LinkedIn last month looks and sounds like what you’d expect from a business professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s…
Character.AI, a 16-month-old start-up that builds online chatbots, said it had raised $150 million in a recent funding round that valued the company at $1 billion.Character.AI is among a tiny group of small companies — along with the tech industry’s giants — that are building technology that could one day rival the systems under development at OpenAI, the San Francisco start-up that incited the A.I. boom with the release of an online chatbot called ChatGPT.These companies have an unusual blend of experienced researchers and outsize ambition, and they require huge amounts of capital. Many experts believe that a handful of…
Event Details Payload Blog SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink 5-5 Mar 24, 2023 11:33 AM Space Launch Complex 40 • Cape Canaveral Space Force Station MISSION: SpaceX’s Starlink is the constellation of networked satellites aimed to provide internet services to those who are not yet connected, and to provide reliable and affordable internet across the globe. The launch window opens at 11:23 AM ET and concludes at 3:06 PM ET. The Falcon 9’s booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. LAUNCH VIEWING: Watch the launch of the Falcon 9…
“We see that play out perfectly in Australia: strong attention on reducing domestic emissions, and policy shying away completely from addressing the export side of things,” says Jotzo. The Australian government elected in 2022 has set a target of net zero emissions by 2050, but it refuses to ban any new coal or gas projects. It has promised hundreds of millions of dollars for community batteries, solar banks, and EV charging, yet the nation is the second-largest exporter of coal in the world and has the third-largest coal reserves.Given recent record-breaking droughts, temperatures, bushfires, and floods, one might expect the…
In a few short years, the enterprise workplace has been transformed.Most corporate work used to take place inside physical offices. IT systems and security stacks were built to support this predominant model, with various workarounds for a relatively small contingent of remote workers. Businesses ran applications — mostly on-premises — with interfaces designed specifically for company-owned machines running Windows or MacOS.Today, the majority of workers are remote. Use of the public cloud has soared. Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and third-party contractors are common. And the everyday, consumer web browser has become the default front-end for enterprise and third-party SaaS applications.However, many of…
VR is one of those things where immersion doesn’t end with putting on a headset. Touch controllers, room-scale tracking, tactile interactivity, and software and games tap into all that. 4Omni One complete VR entertainment system with treadmill, image credit: VirtuixVIEW GALLERY – 4 IMAGES With the Meta Quest 2 and the recently released PlayStation VR2, there’s a definite market for what VR brings to immersive digital spaces, and it’s one of those things where after you try it, you’re likely to become a convert.This makes the debut of the Omni One, which is now shipping units to its investor community…
Khalistan activist Amritpal Singh has evaded the arrest for five days now even as state and central security agencies are trying to trace his whereabouts. Source
Visitors take photos of the 1:1 scale model of the Tianhe core module of China’s space station on February 24, 2023. The model is part of an exhibition showcasing the achievements of China’s manned space program over the past three decades, which opened the same day and will run for three months. Photos: Li Hao/GTThe International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), a mega space project jointly proposed by the national space agencies of China and Russia that is intended to become operational by 2035, has selected five primary scientific and application objectives, including learning about the moon’s evolution and searching for…
Example of a long-tailed macaque using a stone tool to access food. Credit: Lydia V. LunczMacaques unintentionally created stone fragments that bear a resemblance to some of the earliest stone artifacts crafted by early hominins.The study focuses on fresh analyses of stone tools employed by long-tailed macaques in Thailand’s Phang Nga National Park. These primates utilize stone tools to open tough-shelled nuts, frequently causing their hammerstones and anvils to break in the process.The collection of fragmented stones that results from this process is both significant in size and extensively distributed across the terrain. Furthermore, numerous artifacts exhibit the same traits…
In a rare event, a portion of Los Angeles was hit by a tornado that damaged buildings and injured at least one person. The phenomenon occurred Wednesday morning in Montebello, about 8 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, according to ABC News affiliate KABC. The outlet said at least five buildings showed damage to their roofs, with some being torn off or collapsed. “It felt like somebody was hitting the wall with iron bars,” one person in the area told NBC affiliate KNBC. “I saw trash flying around, trees falling down. Even our wrought iron gate is torn up. I’m…