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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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2024-03-04 07:57:05     Drift of Earth's Pole Confirms Groundwater Depletion as a Significant Contributor to Global Sea Level Rise 1993–2010 - Seo - 2023 - Geophysical Research Letters - Wiley Online Library

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/.../2023GL103509

Earth's pole has drifted toward 64.16°E at a speed of 4.36 cm/yr during 1993–2010 due to groundwater depletion and resulting sea level rise

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2024-03-01 10:01:57     JSON is incredibly slow: Here’s What’s Faster! | by Vaishnav Manoj | DataX Journal | Medium

https://medium.com/...-slow-heres-what-s-faster-ca35d5aaf9e8

Yes, you heard that right! JSON, the ubiquitous format for data interchange in web development, might be slowing down your applications. In a world where speed and responsiveness are paramount, it’s crucial to examine the performance impl...

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2024-02-29 04:27:50     How to improve your sense of direction - BBC Future

https://www.bbc.com/...ople-have-a-better-sense-of-direction

Some people can strike off on any journey with no guide except their 'pigeon senses'. How do they do it? And can this ability be learned?

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2024-02-20 10:25:59     New Study Reveals The Single Most Important Factor for Learning Rate | by Scott H. Young | Feb, 2024 | Medium

https://scotthyoung.medium.com/...learning-rate-acc9042c00c6

the rate of learning among students doesn’t actually differ all that much. Instead, what differs mostly between students is their prior knowledge.[1]

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2024-02-20 10:24:14     An astonishing regularity in student learning rate | PNAS

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2221311120

Students are Astonishingly Similar in Learning Rate.
Whereas initial knowledge varies substantially across students, we found learning rate to be astonishingly similar across students.

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2024-02-19 20:39:47     Mappa Mundi: The greatest medieval map in the world - BBC Travel

https://www.bbc.com/...he-greatest-medieval-map-in-the-world

From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world.

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2024-02-16 08:19:19     ‘By preserving the language, you reinforce communities’: a school saving one of Louisiana’s oldest dialects | Louisiana | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...un-languages-community-impact

[ From frame: about:srcdoc ]

Preserving Indian French, as community members call it, has taken on new urgency as climate-related hurricanes and coastal erosion threaten to displace the tribe

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2024-02-10 13:31:40     Sketch of The Analytical Engine

https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html

the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

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2024-02-10 07:41:22     Fighting the smartphone ‘invasion’: the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public | France | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ed-to-ban-scrolling-in-public

Seine-Port, in the Seine-et-Marne area south of Paris, with a population of fewer than 2,000 people, last weekend voted yes in a referendum to restrict smartphone use in public,

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2024-02-06 06:52:58     Peak–end rule - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%E2%80%93end_rule

The peak–end rule is a psychological heuristic in which people judge an experience largely based on how they felt at its peak (i.e., its most intense point) and at its end, rather than based on the total sum or average of every moment of ...

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2024-01-18 18:07:40     I have a new favourite wellness guru. And it’s not who you might think | Food | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ss-guru-arnold-schwarzenegger

The first piece of advice was: “You should mostly eat food you know is healthy. There is no magic food.”
And the second? That was: “You should also occasionally let yourself eat delicious food you know isn’t healthy. Otherwise, what...

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2024-01-18 08:24:37    

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67993056

It has happened to most people waiting for a specific bus in a busy city - you stand around for ages only for three to turn up at once.
This phenomenon is known as "bus bunching", and it can be annoying.
To try to alleviate the problem, UK ...

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2024-01-17 07:31:14     Welcome to AirSpace - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/...inimalism-startup-gentrification

We could call this strange geography created by technology “AirSpace.” It’s the realm of coffee shops, bars, startup offices, and co-live / work spaces that share the same hallmarks everywhere you go:

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2024-01-17 07:30:26     The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same | | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ry-coffee-shop-looks-the-same

My theory was that all the physical places interconnected by apps had a way of resembling one another. In the case of the cafes, the growth of Instagram gave international cafe owners and baristas a way to follow one another in real time an...

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2024-01-05 06:23:47    

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67872693

Harry Potter, Elon Musk, Beyoncé, Super Mario and Vladimir Putin.

These are just some of the millions of artificial intelligence (AI) personas you can talk to on Character.ai - a popular platform where anyone can create chatbots based on ...

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2024-01-02 11:03:01     Introducing Golden: Mapping human knowledge

https://golden.com/blog/introducing-golden/

Golden has been designed from the start to encourage a deep, extensive view on knowledge.

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2023-12-27 07:21:36     Seshat

https://seshat-db.com/

Seshat: Global History Databank
✓ the most current and comprehensive body of knowledge about human history
✓ collects what is currently known about the social and political organization of human societies over time
✓ offers the means ...

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2023-12-18 12:09:49     Imran Khan deploys AI clone to campaign from behind bars in Pakistan | Imran Khan | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...-from-behind-bars-in-pakistan

Artificial intelligence allowed Pakistan’s former prim... Khan to campaign from behind bars on Monday, with a voic... opposition leader giving an impassioned speech on his be...

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2023-12-09 08:56:46     EU agrees ‘historic’ deal with world’s first laws to regulate AI | European Union | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...lds-first-laws-to-regulate-ai

The world’s first comprehensive laws to regulate artif... have been agreed in a landmark deal after a marathon 37-... between the European Parliament and EU member states.

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2023-12-06 15:28:32     English High Court Decision: AI Inventions are Patentable, David Knight

https://briefings.brownrudnick.com/...entions-are-patentable

the court held that the exclusion was not invoked — s... not “a program for a computer … as such.” The UKIP... issued guidance (available here) confirming that:
“Patent examiners should not object to inventions invo ...

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2023-09-17 13:45:35     ‘I couldn’t believe the data’: how thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making | Language | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...uage-improves-decision-making

Besides altering the quality of our memories, switching ... can influence people’s financial decision-making and t... moral dilemmas. By speaking a second language, we can ev... rational, more open-minded and better equipped to deal w...

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2023-05-22 09:07:01     Renewable Energy Is Charging Ahead - Scientific American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...rgy-is-charging-ahead/

Globally, renewables account for about one third of elec... generation—and that share is rising.

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2023-05-08 09:49:26     AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Naomi Klein | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...nes-hallucinating-naomi-klein

The more our media channels are flooded with deep fakes ... various kinds, the more we have the feeling of sinking i... quicksand.

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2023-05-05 07:32:38     US aims to tackle risk of uncontrolled race to develop AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ficial-intelligence-arms-race

“At this point, Big Tech companies need to be saved fr... companies and their top AI developers are well aware of ... generative AI. But they are in a competitive arms race a... themselves unable to slow down,”

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2022-12-16 07:43:28     Deep Mapping Estate Archives Project | Deep Mapping Estate Archives

https://deep-mapping-estate-archives-rcahmw.hub.arcgis.com/...

The main emphasis of the project was to bring together a... historical mapping into a publicly accessible web map en...

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2022-10-23 06:52:30     Eucatastrophe: Tolkien's word for the "anti-doomsday" - BBC Future

https://www.bbc.com/...e-tolkiens-word-for-the-anti-doomsday

According to Tolkien, a eucatastrophe in a story often h... darkest moment. When all seems lost – when the enemy s... – a sudden "joyous turn" for the better can emerge.

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2022-10-21 07:02:21     Millennials Are Actually Workaholics, According to Research

https://hbr.org/...ctually-workaholics-according-to-research

“in the 1950s, 12% of high-school students perceived t... important person’ – by the 1990s, 80% did.”

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