It’s really interesting that these open source models are nearly as powerful as the closed source ones. Meta is really out for blood here. It’s an arms race I hope is beneficial to humanity and not the other thing!
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Spain is aging: 15% fewer children and 35% more people over 80 years old than ten years ago
(www.lavanguardia.com)
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Google accidentally leaked a preview of its Jarvis AI that can take over computers
(www.engadget.com)
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'UK first' battery powered train slashes fuel costs by up to 50 per cent
(www.businessgreen.com)
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The global fertility crisis: are fewer babies a good or a bad thing? Experts are divided
(www.theguardian.com)
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Japan's Mount Fuji Has Now Remained Snowless for the Longest Time in Its 130-Year Record
(www.smithsonianmag.com)
A new class of antibiotics is offering real hope of a response to the problem of antimicrobial resistance, hitting bacteria with a dual-pronged assault that’s almost impossible to combat. Called macrolones, the drugs target two bacterial processes simultaneously – and the scientists behind a new study say this makes evolving resistance 100 million times more difficult.
Wow, that’s going to take weeks or even months to sort out.
Thanks, I’ve edited the title. I used the auto generate so the site must have had the typo too!
Just what we need, more microplastics in our soil
Looks like Crowdstrike issued an update that borked all it's customers, which are many. Fix has been issued now, but it shows how relying on a single company for services can cause major global outages.
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Cloudflare, one provider has lots of power in it's hands and if/when they go down the effect is massive.
Facing the end of the world is neither here or there
Said the judge. I wonder if he’ll remember his words in a few decades when it’s the end of the world?
the researchers deposited carbon derived from cassava plants onto metal surfaces using a low-cost high-temperature biowaste treatment process. Once the carbon bonded to the metal, it had the footprint of graphene, a material consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms. This material filled in the grooves caused by wear, creating graphene-only contact points that protected the metal beneath.
Interesting stuff, not a lubricant in the traditional sense, more of a polish to get surfaces very smooth
I'm astonished that we've not spotted these caves before. We've had detailed images of the surface for decades.
I can imagine in the future domes being built over these caves to let in light, although getting them sealed and pumped full of air would be a gargantuan task
Thats a good idea, I like that
Indeed! Although I’m sure GPT5 just moved up in schedule