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@RealRossU I was arrested at the age of 29 and today I turn 39. I’ve lost my 30s to prison. During that time, I’ve done my best to learn from my mistakes, better myself, and help others do the same. I hope someday I can make amends as a free man as well.

Six months after sharing a photograph on Chinese social media celebrating her graduate school admission with her bedridden grandfather, Zheng Linghua died. SNIP It's unclear how Zheng died but last month a friend of hers broke the news on Xiaohongshu: "Because of bullying online and in school, Zheng Linghua's life ended on January 23, 2023". While so-called cyber bullying happens everywhere, China's collectivist culture and the lack of pressure on social media companies to stamp out abuse lend the phenomenon a particular momentum. A poll of more than 2,000 social media users in China found that about four in 10...

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Framework is a company that specializes in providing modular laptops that feature open-source hardware modules.At their Next Level Event 2023, the company showcased something new and a few updates to its previous laptop lineup, but it was the 16-inch laptop that caught our attention.If you are a gamer, creator, developer, and a power user looking for customizability on a laptop, you are about to get excited! 🤩🆕 Framework's New 16-inch LaptopLaunched with a focus on gamers, developers and creators, the Framework Laptop 16 is a high-performance 16” laptop that focuses on delivering utmost flexibility alongside performance.It carries forward the same...

In 1973, many important events took place in the world. The Soviet research apparatus Lunokhod-2 went flying to the Moon, and four automatic stations went to Mars, the TV series Seventeen Moments of Spring was shown for the first time on central television, and the rock band AC / DC appeared in Australia. And on March 26, 1973, Lawrence Edward Page was born in Lansing, Michigan, a man without whom the modern IT industry would look completely different. Today he turns 50 years old. Larry Page has been dealing with computers since childhood – his father, Carl Victor Page, Sr.,...

Svoye TV premiered its new program, ‘Future Forecast,’ on Tuesday, showcasing the capabilities of its AI weather girl, Snezhana Tumanova. The channel revealed that the program operates using neural networks, with one responsible for the virtual presenter, another for preparing the text, and a third for generating graphic content. The program is set to air five times a day, providing viewers with regular weather updates. Snezhana Tumanova, whose name is a play on the Russian words for ‘snow’ and ‘fog,’ is an ambitious AI presenter seeking to outperform her human counterparts. Despite her potential to revolutionize weather forecasting, the management...

President Biden could find himself roped into his son’s legal woes as an ongoing defamation case against Hunter Biden slowly makes its way through the courts and both sides gear up for discovery, legal experts told The Post. John Paul Mac Isaac, a Delaware computer repairman, filed a suit against Hunter Biden and President Biden’s campaign committee on March 1 claiming the pair sought to falsely cast the contents of Hunter’s laptop as “Russian disinformation.” Hunter Biden dropped off his laptop at Mac Isaac’s computer repair store in Delaware in April 2019 and never returned for it. The computer drive...

What happens to a culture when absolute truth is determined by a group of elites instead of spiritual morality

What should we make for dinner tonight? I have asked my husband this question at least 7,000 times in the 20 years we've been together. Sometimes 5 p.m. rolls around and neither of our brains has an answer. And I know I'm not alone in this—it's a timeless and universal conundrum for all humans. So I wondered, could ChatGPT—the A.I. chatbot that’s been in the news lately for its ability to generate human-like responses after analyzing and summarizing the internet—have dinner suggestions? Maybe it’s just the phone-a-friend I need. I asked ChatGPT, “What should we make for dinner tonight?” “As...

Planning a trip overseas but not sure what to do, or where to start? Using an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool might free yourself from some of that stress. This was what one Singaporean TikTok user Mel did, when she used the Notion AI writing assistant to help plan her 12-day solo trip to Hanoi, Vietnam. Her bare-bones list simply included places she wanted to visit, such as Sapa and Halong Bay, as well as her arrival and return dates. She then left it to the AI bot to work its magic. And map out a detailed itinerary, it did. The...

The couple is accused of causing car collisions in an attempt to collect fraudulent insurance payouts, authorities said. A YouTube channel under the name “BLU3 GHO57″ allegedly contained dashcam videos of crashes and road rage incidents connected to Christopher, authorities said. The channel had around 162 videos of “vehicle collisions, attempted or near collisions, road rage incidents, and other content involving the couple,” officials said. In several incidents, the couple’s child was also present in the vehicle, according to arrest documents. Investigators discovered around 23 collisions documented on the channel were linked to 17 insurance claims... Both suspects are being...

Anyone with GMail having a problem accessing the server? I've been getting "This site can’t be reached" for the past hour.

The office of then-Vice President Joe Biden tried to quash a Bloomberg News story about Hunter Biden at the younger Biden's firm's request, according to 2015 emails published Wednesday. Emails obtained by America First Legal (AFL) through its ongoing lawsuit against the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), showed a close relationship between the vice president's office, Hunter Biden's longtime business partner and the media. On Dec. 8, 2015, The New York Times ran an article saying the "credibility of the vice president’s anticorruption message may have been undermined" by Hunter’s serving on the board of Burisma Holdings with its...

For people who work in hospitality, #restaurantstories is the best place to vent.Back when I worked as a host at a busy Manhattan restaurant, after a long shift, I’d turn to TikTok. My evenings were full of mildly infuriating guest interactions: a couple showing up two hours late and expecting to be seated immediately, someone complaining about the QR codes, and countless individuals asking, “But why can’t I sit at that table instead?” At the time, I had few friends actively working in the hospitality industry who could understand my immediate frustrations with the human race. So instead, I opened...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new hot topic. We’ve been hearing a lot about the AI creation called ChatGPT. Some “experts” are saying that ChatGPT could be the most significant development since the Gutenberg printing press. Is it true? ChatGPT describes itself as an AI-powered language “trained on a massive amount of text data from the internet” that can “generate human-like text responses to a given prompt. It can answer questions, converse on a variety of topics, and generate creative writing pieces.” Like many of you, I was intrigued by all the hype and decided to check it out for...

If you’re new to the Linux world, you may find yourself overwhelmed by the sheer volume of distros available to you. On the surface, it may look like an endless maze that leads you through a bottomless rabbit hole. However, even the most avid distro hopper has a daily driver they eventually settle on. This guide aims to help you find your new home in Linux while making the experience as enjoyable as possible.Managing Your ExpectationsBefore beginning your journey, you have to know what you want out of your system. This involves finding a balance between how you want to...

Tributes have been paid by 'heartbroken' friends to a TikTok famous mum-of-two who died suddenly after experiencing several months of migraines and 'bouts of illness'Tributes have been paid to a TikTok star who died suddenly after suffering from migraines and "bouts of illness". Jehane Thomas, from Doncaster, died unexpectedly on Friday March 17 at the age of just 30, reports Yorkshire Live. She leaves behind her two sons Isaac, aged three, and her one-year-old Elijah. The mum was well known for sharing her life as a parent on TikTok, where she had over 56.6K followers and 1.2million views on...

Artificial intelligence has developed a treatment for cancer in just 30 days and can predict a patient’s survival rate. In a new study published in the journal Chemical Science, researchers at the University of Toronto along with Insilico Medicine developed a potential treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with an AI drug discovery platform called Pharma.AI. HCC is the most common type of liver cancer and occurs when a tumor grows on the liver, according to Cleveland Clinic. Researchers applied AlphaFold, an AI-powered protein structure database, to Pharma.AI to uncover a novel target — a previously unknown treatment pathway — for...

"Last week, when Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger publicly supported ERIC after it was tossed out of Florida, West Virginia, and Missouri, we issued the Raffensperger Challenge."

I'm trying to buy / register a domain name for a new business. I've been stumbling around the web and when I type in the www.address its says not secure and I see go daddy says its parked for free. They say its taken but want a brokerage fee to I guess "try" and get it. I know there are tons of Freepers on here with experience in this. So Im asking for a simple how to on getting my domain name for a future website. Thank you.