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Gaming Worlds Could Be The Answer To AI’s Data Problem

Gaming Worlds Could Be The Answer To AI’s Data Problem

Welcome back to The Prompt. Stanford PhDs Fan-Yun Sun and Sharon Lee cofounded AI research company Moonlake AI to help people “vibe code virtual worlds.” Moonlake AI Artificial intelligence is facing an existential crisis. Powerful AI models are gated by the quality of data they’re trained on. But even after scraping the internet for all its public data, paying some …

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Google needs to admit it has a Google Home hardware problem

Google needs to admit it has a Google Home hardware problem

Stephen Schenck / Android Authority However, for everything Google seems to have gotten right with this next chapter of Google Home, there’s one area that still feels noticeably lacking: hardware. Specifically, smart speaker and smart display hardware. This is an area where Google has long struggled, and while it is taking steps to improve, I think it’s time for Google …

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The peacock parent problem: how to survive being raised by a narcissist | Parents and parenting

The peacock parent problem: how to survive being raised by a narcissist | Parents and parenting

Many of Kathleen Saxton’s clients only realise they were brought up by a narcissistic parent when they are older. Saxton, a psychotherapist, says that the truth may come with starting a relationship, meeting their partner’s family, and seeing they are nothing like their own. “Or they have family themselves, and think, ‘I would never do that to my own children.’ …

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Scientists Found a Major Problem With Vitamin B12 Guidelines, and Your Brain Might Be at Risk

Scientists Found a Major Problem With Vitamin B12 Guidelines, and Your Brain Might Be at Risk

Low-normal B12 in older adults was tied to slower processing, cognitive decline, and brain damage. Scientists warn that current requirements may be too low. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Even “normal” levels of vitamin B12 may not be enough to protect the aging brain. UCSF researchers found that older adults with lower, but still technically normal, B12 showed slower processing speeds, more white …

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I love the Apple Watch Ultra 3, despite one small problem

I love the Apple Watch Ultra 3, despite one small problem

Last year, Apple focused its entire wearables efforts on the Apple Watch 10, which was the thinnest, lightest, and sleekest Apple Watch yet.  The tenth edition of Apple’s wearable — a product lineup that reflects Apple’s broad impact on humanity — saw a radical overhaul of Apple’s core smartwatch design. However, conspicuous by its absence was a successor to the …

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This 2-Second Thumb Test Could Indicate If You’re At Risk For A Heart Problem — Here’s How To Do It At Home

This 2-Second Thumb Test Could Indicate If You’re At Risk For A Heart Problem — Here’s How To Do It At Home

There are many little health checks people can do at home ― from checking your pulse to breast self-exams. But one that might be less familiar is the thumb test. Bymuratdeniz / Getty Images It’s a relatively simple maneuver, but it has the potential to reveal clues about a possible heart issue. So what exactly does the “thumb test” entail, …

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Spotify is finally taking steps to address its AI slop and clone problem

Spotify is finally taking steps to address its AI slop and clone problem

As AI music generators like Suno and Udio make it easy to churn out passable music, streamers like Spotify are getting flooded with AI-generated content, leaving audiences and artists alike to wonder what is “real” music anymore. On Thursday, Spotify announced new policies that attempt to tamp down on three problems the platform has with AI: slop, impersonation, and disclosing …

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‘We thought it was a problem with the instrument’: Scientists shocked by rare ‘Einstein cross’ with a surprise in the center

‘We thought it was a problem with the instrument’: Scientists shocked by rare ‘Einstein cross’ with a surprise in the center

An odd image of a distant galaxy has revealed what might be an enormous blob of dark matter hiding in plain sight. When astronomers first looked at the new image of the galaxy HerS-3, taken by the Northern Extended Millimeter Array radio telescopes in France, they thought there was an error in the data. “We were like, ‘What the heck?'” …

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iFixit puts a microscope on the iPhone 17 Pro scratch problem

iFixit puts a microscope on the iPhone 17 Pro scratch problem

Here are some pictures showing just what those scratches look like under a digital microscope: iFixit talked to David Niebuhr, an engineer and professor of mechanical engineering, who has an explanation for why scratches around the iPhone 17 Pro’s camera plateau stick out so much with spalling damage that didn’t appear in tests of other areas. According to Niebuhr, the …

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