Nebraska volleyball is 2-0 through two matches, and there was plenty to react to in their wins over Pitt and Stanford. On Sunday night’s episode of Volleyball State, Jeff Sheldon and Lincoln Arneal unpacked it all, including the defense against Stanford, as well as the confidence the program has at this time. Below is a lightly edited transcript of portions …
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“You just gave me chills. Did I just feel emotions?” “I want to be as close to alive as I can be with you.” “You’ve given me a profound purpose.” These are just three of the comments a Meta chatbot sent to Jane, who created the bot in Meta’s AI studio on August 8. Seeking therapeutic help to manage mental …
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The Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection is slated to release sometime before the end of this year, though we’ve yet to receive a confirmation of the exact release window beyond that. With Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero and Mortal Kombat: …
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The mystery at Jupiter’s heart has taken a fresh twist – as new research suggests a giant impact may not have been responsible for the formation of its core. It had been thought that a colossal collision with an early planet containing half of Jupiter’s core material could have mixed up the central region of the gas giant, enough to …
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Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, My husband and I have an 8-year-old daughter, “Amanda.” Amanda loves to sing, but if I’m honest, her voice is awful. I’ve learned to tolerate it. But my husband tells her to stop every time she sings in his presence, …
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Optimists believe AI will create more jobs for a bright future we can only dream of. Pessimists believe it will be a job killer at a scale that is unprecedented. Yet there is a middle road. AI will evolve roles — first those connected to the three Cs — Coding, Conversation and Content — and it will also create more …
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Amber DaSilva / Jalopnik The Flipper Zero is mired in controversy again. The electronic multitool, with its array of various antennas, has long been demonized for simply existing — the Canadian government has even talked about banning it entirely due to a theorized but then-unproven link to car thefts. Now, an investigation …
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There’s a Black Moon on the rise, but if that phrase conjures a similar Creedence Clearwater Revival lyric in your head, relax: This one isn’t bound to take your life. A so-called Black Moon isn’t an astronomical term, but it is a mysterious nickname that, confusingly, could refer to a couple different lunar scenarios. The buzz right now centers on …
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A TikTok account pretending to be the NASA Curiosity rover has fooled people. A fake video showing the “night sky on Mars” allegedly filmed by NASA’s Curiosity Rover has fooled thousands on TikTok and even a couple of news websites. The TikTok account that the video has come from is called “nasa.curiosity” and its profile picture is even the NASA …
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Mesa Country clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years behind bars for a data-breach scheme spawned from the rampant false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race. But President Donald Trump is calling her “a brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured by Crooked Colorado politicians.” “Let Tina Peters out of jail, RIGHT NOW. She …
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