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Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft Copilot+ PCs

In May 2024, Microsoft announced a new initiative called Copilot+ PC for Windows laptops. If you aren’t immersed in the world of Windows, you probably met the announcement with a confused shrug—a confusion that persists thanks to what has been, in my estimation, some iffy messaging around the term. Today, …

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OpenAI Threatens to Ban Users Who Probe Its ‘Strawberry’ AI Models

OpenAI truly does not want you to know what its latest AI model is “thinking.” Since the company launched its “Strawberry” AI model family last week, touting so-called reasoning abilities with o1-preview and o1-mini, OpenAI has been sending out warning emails and threats of bans to any user who tries …

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Lo-Fi Weather Channel Videos Are Soothing Climate Fears on YouTube

The Vaporwave album Conditions at Hickory begins with static, as if you’re tuning in to a 1940s radio broadcast. First and second tracks “Foothills” and “Daily Commute” start out humdrum and benign enough. Then, the mood shifts. Sounds come like warnings, cautions of something sinister to come. Beeping sounds and …

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The 'Gen Z marketing script' trend is not giving

“Northumberland Zoo hits different,” a white-haired employee of the establishment says in a resigned tone over TikTok. He then proceeds to make a “Gen Z hand heart” — created using your middle and index fingers — with his fellow white-haired colleague. The video garnered nearly 8 million views and over …

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Yes, BOYNEXTDOOR are watching your fan edits

The first thing you must know about BOYNEXTDOOR is that they’re loud. Not the kind of loud that turns off and on for cameras, but the kind that’s natural and uncontainable — an energy that fills a room even when they’re just being themselves. The six-member boy group is doing …

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Sam Altman steps down as head of OpenAI's safety group

OpenAI ‘s internal safety committee is becoming an independent oversight body, as CEO Sam Altman leaves the group’s top leadership role. The announcement came as part of the results of a 90-day evaluation by the existing Altman-chaired Safety and Security Committee into the company’s AI safeguards and governance. The committee’s …

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Microscopic footage uncovers the tiny worlds our eyes can't see

Each year, the Nikon Small World In Motion competition showcases compelling microscopic videos that reveal detailed pictures of entire worlds hidden within our own.The winner of the 2024 edition is a captivating video showing mitotic waves in the embryo of a fruit fly (drosophila melanogaster). Captured by Dr. Bruno Vellutini …

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