Russian President Vladimir Putin may have convinced himself that Russia’s main enemy lies in the West. But the deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall carried out by an offshoot of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) demonstrates that Islamist terrorists pose a far more deadly threat to his country’s well-being. The Kremlin … Read more
VLOGGER can take a single photograph of someone and create clips in high-fidelity and varying lengths, with accurate facial expressions and body movements, down to a blink, exceeding previous kinds of “talking head” software. Google The artificial Intelligence (AI) community has gotten so good at producing fake moving pictures — take a look at OpenAI’s Sora, … Read more
The Big Picture Jigsaw’s motivation in the Saw franchise is to make people prove their desire to live through torturous tasks, but his inconsistent and unfair approach makes him a hypocrite. Jigsaw’s victim selection is often contradictory to his beliefs, punishing people who have no disregard for life and showing personal vendettas, highlighting his unfairness. … Read more
BERLIN — When Sabine Thonke joined a recent demonstration in Berlin against Germany’s far-right party, it was the first time in years she felt hopeful that the growing power of the extremists in her country could be stopped. Thonke, 59, had been following the rise of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, with unease. But … Read more
Summary Game of Thrones season 8 disappointed fans with a lackluster ending, which can be attributed to the rushed pacing and lack of time to naturally conclude the series. The show’s decline can be traced back to when it overtook the source material, resulting in the dilution of Martin’s intricate storytelling and deviations from established … Read more
DENVER (AP) — A 78-year-old woman who sued two police officers after her home was wrongly searched by a SWAT team looking for a stolen truck has won a $3.76 million jury verdict under a new Colorado law that allows people to sue police over violations of their state constitutional rights. A jury in state … Read more
shapecharge/Getty Images To the great sadness of Shakespeare punsters everywhere, Google has renamed Bard to Gemini. Google has also come out with a more capable, more advanced, more expensive version of Gemini called Gemini Advanced. Gemini and Gemini Advanced are roughly analogous to ChatGPT’s base model and the ChatGPT Plus service offered for an additional … Read more
‘Being broke is a mindset’: New York man says he’s $100,000 in debt, but buys Gucci clothes and books expensive vacations. Is he wrong — or would Dave Ramsey agree with him? You may think that your status as “rich” or “poor” is based on your bank account. But according to one New York man, … Read more
Google has apologized (or come very close to apologizing) for another embarrassing AI blunder this week, an image-generating model that injected diversity into pictures with a farcical disregard for historical context. While the underlying issue is perfectly understandable, Google blames the model for “becoming” oversensitive. But the model didn’t make itself, guys. The AI system … Read more
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Roughly half of the land targeted by a major tech-backed forest restoration campaign in Africa was never meant to be forest, according to a new analysis. Planting trees in the identified area could actually harm grasslands and savannas that may have been inadvertently mislabeled as “forests” in need of help, the report concludes. The paper, … Read more