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Musk threatens to sic the government on people ‘pushing’ Tesla ‘propaganda’
As protests against Tesla continue to grow, Elon Musk is threatening to âgo afterâ the people who say or post anything negative about the company â which he labels âpropaganda.â  That was what I took away from Elon Muskâs 38-minute interview on Fox News last night, which largely focused on the billionaireâs efforts to eliminate…
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Google to pay $100 million to settle 14-year-old advertising lawsuit
Google will pay $100 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing the company of charging for clicks on ads placed outside the geographic locations selected by advertisers, as reported earlier by Reuters. The proposed settlement was filed in a California court on Thursday and still requires approval by a judge. The lawsuit, first filed…
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Here’s what military planning usually looks like — and why it doesn’t include Signal
The Trump administration planned a military strike in Yemen the way normal people plan a surprise birthday party: in a group chat. As detailed by The Atlantic earlier this week, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, and other senior officials used a Signal group to discuss an attack on Houthi targets, sharing…
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A beginner’s guide to using Signal
Keep your private messages private. If you hadnât heard of Signal before this week, chances are youâre well aware of it now. The messaging app was thrust into the news on Monday when The Atlanticâs editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was mistakenly added to a group chat involving top military officials planning an airstrike. Even though it…
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The first trial of generative AI therapy shows it might help with depression
The first clinical trial of a therapy bot that uses generative AI suggests it was as effective as human therapy for participants with depression, anxiety, or risk for developing eating disorders. Even so, it doesn’t give a go-ahead to the dozens of companies hyping such technologies while operating in a regulatory gray area. A team…
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Trump pardons ex-Nikola CEO Trevor Milton
Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola Corp., exits court in New York, US, on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Trevor Milton, the founder of Nikola Motors who was convicted of defrauding investors in his zero-emission truck company, has been pardoned by President Donald Trump, the White House confirmed Friday. A federal jury convicted Milton of lying about…
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This Crazy Instrument Lets Us Hear How Dinosaurs Might Have Sounded
Using 3D models of ancient skulls, Dinosaur Choir gets us closer than ever to understanding the noises that dinosaurs made.
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King Arthur wants to automate your sourdough starter
The Sourdough Sidekick will work with other flour brands, but the King Arthur logo isn’t going anywhere. Baking sourdough bread may seem pointedly old-fashioned, but that doesn’t mean it’s immune to the allure of a novelty gadget. That’s where the Sourdough Sidekick comes in: a new countertop appliance that automatically feeds your sourdough starter so…
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Meta Reality Labs Research Introduces Sonata: Advancing Self-Supervised Representation Learning for 3D Point Clouds
3D self-supervised learning (SSL) has faced persistent challenges in developing semantically meaningful point representations suitable for diverse applications with minimal supervision. Despite substantial progress in image-based SSL, existing point cloud SSL methods have largely been limited due to the issue known as the “geometric shortcut,” where models excessively rely on low-level geometric features like surface…
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Tutorial to Create a Data Science Agent: A Code Implementation using gemini-2.0-flash-lite model through Google API, google.generativeai, Pandas and IPython.display for Interactive Data Analysis
In this tutorial, we demonstrate the integration of Python’s robust data manipulation library Pandas with Google Cloud’s advanced generative capabilities through the google.generativeai package and the Gemini Pro model. By setting up the environment with the necessary libraries, configuring the Google Cloud API key, and leveraging the IPython display functionalities, the code provides a step-by-step…