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2024-11-02 06:07:43     Elon Musk Veers Into Clearly Illegal Vote Buying, Offering $1 Million Per Day Lottery Prize Only to Registered Voters - Election Law Blog

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=146397

UPDATE: Musk said at his rally that one had to be a petition signer to be eligible for the $1 million prize. (“So– we really want to try to get as many people as possible to sign this petition. So. I have a surprise for you [crowd chee...

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2024-10-24 03:01:43     Human brain can process certain sentences in ‘blink of an eye’, says study | Language | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...in-blink-of-an-eye-says-study

Each participant was presented with a three-word starting sentence that flashed up for 300ms, followed by a second sentence that was either identical or differed by one word. Participants were asked to indicate whether the sentences matched...

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2024-09-19 06:55:18     UK urged to promote speaking of Irish and Ulster Scots in Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ter-scots-in-northern-ireland

The UK is being urged by Europe’s leading human rights organisation to push ahead with strategies to promote the use of Irish and Ulster Scots languages in Northern Ireland despite continued tensions over the issue.
The Council of Europe ...

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2024-09-19 06:53:38     Global AI fund needed to help developing nations tap tech benefits, UN says | Technology sector | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ons-tap-tech-benefits-un-says

Governments and private companies should contribute to a global artificial intelligence fund that will allow developing nations to benefit from advances in the technology, according to a UN report.
The fund would help provide models, comput...

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2024-09-16 07:45:02     An Overview of Empathy - PMC

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5571783/

Empathy is the feeling relationship in which the physician understands the patient’s plight as if the physician were the patient. The physician identifies with the patient and at the same time maintains a distance. Empathetic communicatio...

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2024-09-05 07:27:27     Physicist MV Ramana on the problem with nuclear power | Nuclear power | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...wer-not-solution-energy-needs

Nuclear is costly, risky and slow, Ramana says. Why then, he asks in his new book, do governments still champion it?

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2024-09-05 06:50:30    

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yk5mdj9gxo

AI's solution to the 'cocktail party problem' used in court

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2024-08-23 07:20:58     Can climate stripes change the way we think about air pollution? | Air pollution | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...-we-think-about-air-pollution

Inspired by Ed Hawkins’ climate stripes, the new air quality stripes show air pollution from 1850 to today. Each year is a separate vertical bar that is coloured according to the amount of particle pollution. Air that meets World Health O...

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2024-08-20 12:09:36     Google's AI-generated summaries leave publishers concerned

https://www.computing.co.uk/...es-leave-publishers-concerned

Google's dominance in search, which a federal court recently ruled as an illegal monopoly, has positioned the company as a powerful player in the emerging AI industry.
This has led to accusations of unfair competition, especially as the AI ...

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2024-08-19 06:15:00     Linking two realms: efforts to tap real-life potential of lucid dreams advance | Neuroscience | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ntial-of-lucid-dreams-advance

Scientists show it is possible to control a virtual car and switch on real-world kettle from inside a lucid dream

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2024-08-15 14:24:58     Top A-level grades are up – but worrying regional disparities remain | A-levels | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...g-regional-disparities-remain

The other striking story from this year’s results is the huge and growing popularity of maths, which becomes the first A-level to exceed 100,000 entries, while 17,000 pupils took further maths, making it the subject with the biggest year-...

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2024-07-29 15:04:28     From Burnout to Balance: AI-Enhanced Work Models for the Future

https://www.upwork.com/research/ai-enhanced-work-models

However, this new technology has not yet fully delivered on this productivity promise: Nearly half (47%) of employees using AI say they have no idea how to achieve the productivity gains their employers expect, and 77% say these tools have ...

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2024-07-29 15:03:31     IT Essentials: Investors are running out of patience with GenAI

https://www.computing.co.uk/...estors-running-patience-genai

A recent survey of people using GenAI tools at work found that 77% said that AI had added to their workload rather than increased their productivity in the way envisioned by their bosses.  

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2024-07-17 10:50:06    

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67172726

BBC: Pepper X: Eating world's hottest pepper was euphoric, says creator

At one point during the interview with the BBC, a PuckerButt Pepper Company employee, Tom, chimes in on the phone to talk about what it is like to work with his boss.
...

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2024-07-10 06:37:37    

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7280m3gy14o

Howard's school attendance had dropped below 50% after he started intensive weekly chemotherapy in January, following his diagnosis of a rare kind of arm cancer in December.
But since then, the 12-year-old, who attends a school in Twickenha...

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2024-07-09 08:57:07     AI and the American Smile. How AI misrepresents culture through a… | by jenka | Medium

https://medium.com/...ai-and-the-american-smile-76d23a0fbfaf

The Ifaluk of Micronesia consider emotions transactions between people. To them, anger is not a feeling of rage, a scowl, a pounding fist, or a loud yelling voice, all within the skin of one person, but a situation in which two people are e...

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2024-06-24 11:47:46     Microsoft can't guarantee UK data sovereignty

https://www.computing.co.uk/...soft-guarantee-uk-sovereignty

Owen Sayers, who made the FoI request, said, "the statements from Microsoft make clear that they 100% cannot comply with UK data protection law...
"They've confirmed for the first time that a guarantee of sovereignty for data at rest (which...

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2024-06-23 06:10:21    

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv22y7zl18po

Young people from the wealthiest families across England are 11 times more likely to enter a university requiring high entry grades, the most academically selective, than those from the most disadvantaged.

So when anyone says too many youn...

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2024-06-20 07:05:12     Walking three times a week ‘nearly halves’ recurrence of low back pain | Health | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...s-recurrence-of-low-back-pain

Hancock said people who walked three to five times a week, for an average of 130 minutes a week, remained pain-free for nearly twice as long compared with those who did not receive any treatment.
Taking regular steps also improved their qua...

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2024-05-20 07:55:01     The ‘dead internet theory’ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister

https://theconversation.com/...truth-is-more-sinister-229609

In 2018, a study analysed 14 million tweets over a ten-month period in 2016 and 2017. It found bots on social media were significantly involved in disseminating articles from unreliable sources. Accounts with high numbers of followers were ...

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2024-05-19 06:43:09     Fewer than one in 10 arts workers in UK have working-class roots | Class issues | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ots-cultural-sector-diversity

And while 23% of the UK workforce is from a working-class background, working-class people are underrepresented in every area of arts and culture. They make up 8.4% of those working in film, TV, radio and photography, while in museums, arch...

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2024-04-09 06:44:35     Senior Labour figures call for ‘life-transforming’ Sure Start policy | Early years education | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ransforming-sure-start-policy

Lord Blunkett, education secretary from 1997 to 2001, added: “Sure Start was always one of those programmes that the public yearned for, but politicians rarely deliver. Namely, a long-term policy without short-term electoral gain, but tra...

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2024-04-08 09:53:52     ‘I didn’t want to hurt that girl. I just felt this pressure building …’ The sociopath who learned to behave – and found happiness | Psychology | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...agne-sociopath-fighting-urges

So Gagne studied for a PhD, and became a therapist. She thinks her detachment was helpful. “If you are constantly projecting your own emotions into the session, they’re not going to be able to process what they’re feeling.”

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2024-04-06 06:46:04     ‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes

“So you’re willing to take the margin of error of using artificial intelligence, risking collateral damage and civilians dying, and risking attacking by mistake, and to live with it,” they added.

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2024-03-31 09:27:52     Scraping away generations of forgetting: my fight to honour the Africans buried on St Helena | St Helena | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...-africans-buried-on-st-helena

Between 1840 and 1872, more than 25,000 enslaved Africans were brought on to St Helena from slaving voyages intercepted by the British Navy. About one-third died shortly after and were buried on the island in unmarked graves.

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2024-03-22 07:38:07     Why do we do things that are bad for us? The ancient philosophers had an answer | Well actually | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...for-us-impulse-habits-akrasia

In other fields, there’s an understanding of how common it is for our actions not to line up with internal goals. In economics, revealed preference theory says that what we value is better revealed by our behaviors than our judgements. ‮..

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2024-03-13 07:16:06     Workplace AI, robots and trackers are bad for quality of life, study finds | Business | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ty-of-life-institute-for-work

“We found that quality of life improved as the frequency of interaction with ICTs increased, whereas quality of life deteriorated as frequency of interaction with newer workplace technologies rose,” the report said.

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2024-03-12 07:12:56     Shells from Captain Cook’s final voyage saved from skip | Archaeology | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...-final-voyage-saved-from-skip

An internationally important collection of shells, including specimens from Captain Cook’s final voyage, has been rediscovered 40 years after it was thought to have been thrown into a skip.
More than 200 shells have been returned to Engli...

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2024-03-10 08:07:52     Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them | John Naughton | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ts-regulatory-teeth-into-them

Last Wednesday was a landmark moment for the tech industry, or at any rate for that part of it that aspires to do business in the EU. It was the day when six of the biggest companies in the world had to start complying with the EU’s Digit...

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2024-03-07 22:39:17     AI likely to increase energy use and accelerate climate misinformation – report | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...-energy-disinformation-report

Claims that artificial intelligence will help solve the climate crisis are misguided, with the technology instead likely cause rising energy use and turbocharge the spread of climate disinformation, a coalition of environmental groups has w...

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