Leah Feiger: Yes, the royals are globalist, conspiracy is well trodden, but always good. Makena Kelly: Yeah. Haunted portrait. Leah Feiger: Haunted portrait, OK, that’s actually a really good one. I didn’t even think about that one as related to conspiracies. Hasan Piker: Yeah, it wasn’t bad at all. Leah Feiger: I like that one.… Continue reading How Twitch Streamers Could Shape the 2024 Elections
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Russian Disinfo Campaign Blames Ukraine for Shooting of Slovakia’s Prime Minister
Russia Today’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan went further in a comment on her Telegram channel, blaming Ukraine for the attack: “The Slovak Prime Minister is injured. The one who said that the war began as a result of rampant Ukrainian neo-Nazis and Putin had no other choice. That’s how they work.” Logically, a company that tracks… Continue reading Russian Disinfo Campaign Blames Ukraine for Shooting of Slovakia’s Prime Minister
Jane Schoenbrun Wants to Blow Up Your TV
Jason Parham: Why do people look to TV for identity? Jane Schoenbrun: In a broad sense culturally, we look to media for identity for reasons that are maybe kind of dark. A lot of it has to do with capitalism and the way that we are told that the things that we identify with, the… Continue reading Jane Schoenbrun Wants to Blow Up Your TV
RFK Jr. Is Priming His Audience for Election Denialism
The idea of “rigged polling methodologies” is obviously self-serving—Kennedy argues that in a poll he commissioned, he comes out ahead of Biden and scarcely behind Trump. But it’s also fundamentally a complaint about not being portrayed as a serious candidate, despite his having been featured in countless articles, podcasts, and interviews with outlets both fringe… Continue reading RFK Jr. Is Priming His Audience for Election Denialism
Saunas Are the Next Frontier in Fighting Depression
“The premise of this is great,” says Earric Lee, a physiologist with the Montreal Heart Institute, who was not involved in the study but has led sauna studies since completing his doctoral research in Finland. “Trying to move away from pharmacology is a good thing.” More than 250 million people worldwide have major depressive disorder,… Continue reading Saunas Are the Next Frontier in Fighting Depression
Android 15 Theft Detection Lock Knows When Your Phone Is Stolen
Android’s new Theft Detection Lock uses Google’s AI to determine when your phone has been snatched from your hand. If it detects this, the phone’s screen will automatically be locked. Using smartphone sensors, such as the accelerometer and gyroscope, Google trained its algorithms to detect sudden changes in the phone’s positioning and the motions that… Continue reading Android 15 Theft Detection Lock Knows When Your Phone Is Stolen
OpenAI’s Chief AI Wizard, Ilya Sutskever, Is Leaving the Company
Ilya Sutskever, cofounder and chief scientist at OpenAI, has left the company. The former Google AI researcher was one of the four board members who voted in November to fire OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, triggering days of chaos that saw staff threaten to quit en masse and Altman ultimately restored. Altman confirmed Sutskever’s departure Tuesday… Continue reading OpenAI’s Chief AI Wizard, Ilya Sutskever, Is Leaving the Company
Astra Is Google’s ‘Multimodal’ Answer to the New ChatGPT
Pulkit Agrawal, an assistant professor at MIT who works on AI and robotics, says Google’s and OpenAI’s latest demos are impressive and show how rapidly multimodal AI models have advanced. OpenAI launched GPT-4V, a system capable of parsing images in September 2023. He was impressed that Gemini is able to make sense of live video—for… Continue reading Astra Is Google’s ‘Multimodal’ Answer to the New ChatGPT
With OpenAI’s Release of GPT-4o, Is ChatGPT Plus Still Worth It?
Barret Zoph, a research lead at OpenAI, was recently demonstrating the new GPT-4o model and its ability to detect human emotions though a smartphone camera when ChatGPT misidentified his face as a wooden table. After a quick laugh, Zoph assured GPT-4o that he’s not a table and asked the AI tool to take a fresh… Continue reading With OpenAI’s Release of GPT-4o, Is ChatGPT Plus Still Worth It?
The Dyson WashG1 Is an All-in-One Wet Floor Cleaner That Doesn’t Use Suction
There’s also only one roller head on the Submarine, but it already has a debris tray you can no-touch rinse and empty. It’s also easy to take apart the Submarine head to rinse it and let it air dry at my laundry room sink. After six months of use, the roller head still doesn’t smell.… Continue reading The Dyson WashG1 Is an All-in-One Wet Floor Cleaner That Doesn’t Use Suction