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AI now beats humans at basic tasks — new benchmarks are needed, says major report 15 April 2024 Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as the chatbot ChatGPT, have become so advanced that they now very nearly match or exceed human performance in tasks including reading comprehension, image clas...

New study appearing in IOP Science. ----- Analyzing warp drive spacetimes with Warp Factory Published 5 April 2024 • © 2024 IOP Publishing Ltd The field of warp research has been dominated by analytical methods to investigate potential solutions. However, these approaches often favor simple metric f...

I've almost finished The Coming Wave , by Mustafa Suleyman (co-founder of DeepMind). It's a great overview of the ethics surrounding AI. It's been a while since I read any fiction, and I'd like to become engrossed in some futuristic story at bedtime, so I'm thinking of Surface Detail by the late Iai...

Ladders have been built in the Forest of Dean for dormice to get around the forest. 16 hours ago Mini rope bridges have been installed in one of England's ancient forests to help hazel dormice travel safely between treetops. Two 20m-long bridges have been built over a track in the Forest of Dean. T...

India is holding a mammoth election with nearly a billion voters By Geeta Pandey The general election is the largest democratic exercise ever - almost one in eight people in the world can vote. On 19 April, Indians will begin choosing a new parliament for the next five years, as Prime Minister Nare...

This is sourced to the thepeople'svoice.tv, which is absolute crap in terms of reliability. Seriously, it's one of those conspiracy sites that's worse than even the Mail. Indeed. And linking to these sites is really bad for our SEO. Anyway, population news should go in Society & Demographics.

China’s Xi Jinping says ‘no force’ can stop ‘reunion’ with Taiwan April 10, 2024 5:40 pm Amid heightened tensions between China and Taiwan, Chinese President Xi Jinping told a former Taiwanese president who supports unification that the countries “belong” together. “Differences in systems cannot ch...

Tesla lays off more than 10% of its workforce 2 hours ago Tesla will lay off more than 10% of its global electric vehicle workforce. In a memo, first reported by news website Electrek, billionaire owner Elon Musk told staff there was nothing he hated more, "but it must be done". The world...