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The latest wave of generative AI is more likely to augment jobs than destroy them, according to a new study by the International Labor Organization (ILO). Most jobs will only be partially exposed to the automation generated by technologies such as ChatGPT, so it is more likely that they will be complemented by automation — rather than replaced entirely. The impact of these technologies will be greater on the quality rather than on the quantity of jobs, according to the global study. In addition, the effects will be uneven by gender, job category and country income-level. “Any form of technological...

Scientists at Cornell discovered a new quantum matter state in Uranium Ditelluride, which could revolutionize quantum computing and spintronics by forming the materials platform for ultra-stable quantum computers and revealing new avenues for identifying such states in various materials. Researchers from Cornell University have identified a new state of matter in candidate topological superconductors, a discovery that may have far-reaching implications for both condensed matter physics and the fields of quantum computing and spintronics. Researchers at the Macroscopic Quantum Matter Group at Cornell have discovered and visualized a crystalline yet superconducting state in a new and unusual superconductor, Uranium Ditelluride...

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@Sprinter99800 Tucker Carlson was called to Washington because of a possible interview with Putin. Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said the US National Security Agency hacked into his Signal account and read correspondence about a planned interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to the presenter, he received a call and was summoned to Washington to clarify the situation. When he arrived, the question was asked if he was planning a trip to meet with Putin. “How did you know, I didn’t tell anyone. Not at all. Not to my brother, not to my wife, not to anyone at...

This week on Marking The End Times, I have a very important message for you regarding the mark of the beast and a cashless society. I explain this topic in depth as well as discuss the cashless payment system Amazon One.

Dollar Tree had miserable quarter, company management is chalking it up to a mix of factors: changing consumer demands on top of higher prices for fuel and electricity … and theft. The company’s chief executive and chief financial officer homed in on that last one on a call with Wall Street analysts Thursday. Dollar Tree CEO Richard Dreiling and CFO Jeffrey Davis blamed a surprisingly large drop in gross profit margin — tumbling to 29.8% last quarter from 32.7% a year earlier — on “shrink,” the industry term for inventory losses due to theft, damages and other causes. Davis said...

Philadelphia will soon become the first city to allow fans entry into a stadium with facial recognition technology, according to the MLB. The new technology, MLB’s Go-Ahead Entry, will launch Monday, Aug. 21 at Citizens Bank Park, home to the Philadelphia Phillies, according to multiple media reports. The program uses a camera that recognizes any fan who has registered as they walk into the ballpark. Once identified, the tickets automatically scan. “No need to stop or even get a phone out,” MLB officials said in a statement. “Fans can now enjoy the ultimate hands-free, free-flow experience entering the ballpark with...

Remember that guy who threw a bunch of stuff at the bubble protecting his Ferrari? ********************************************************* Watching this guy throw stuff at the plastic bubble protecting his Ferrari is remarkably cathartic. Okay, apparently there is such a thing as a Car Capsule, which appears to be a nigh impenetrable car cover designed to keep your expensive collector's car from getting damaged. ********************************************************* Well, the car's gone now. Here's what happened. He decided to drive the $400,000 car through a dry cornfield at top speed to make an epic video, but then cornhusks start to build up inside the wheel wells...

One of the creators of Amazon’s A League of Their Own has attempted to blame the show’s premature demise on what he believes to be the political persecution of gays, arguing that the cancellation after just one season is the latest indignity to befall “queer” people in this country. In a shocking admission, he said that he and others were pressured to make the show less gay, at least during its first season, in order to attract more viewers — a piece of advice he said he proudly ignored. Will Graham — who publicly identifies as “queer” and “non-binary,” and...

India made history on Wednesday after their Chandrayaan-3 mission landed safely on the moon’s south pole, cementing itself as the first nation to successfully touch down on the largely unexplored region of the lunar surface. “All the people of the world, the people of every country and region: India’s successful moon mission is not just India’s alone,” said India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reiterating that “this success belongs to all of humanity.” But even with Modi’s broad, pseudo-inspirational attribution, not everyone was excited to take credit for the scientific feat — namely, the conspiracy theorists of Reddit who were irked...

I just found out, because I hadnt been keeping track of it that I was signed up for monthly subscription to an app and paying about $24/monthly for about 2 years. I don't know how that slipped by me, but it did. Some of you here might be getting ripped off the same way, so Im just suggesting to check it out just in case.

Back story, Louis ran an Apple Computer repair store in NYC. Finally left after he could not take it anymore and moved to Texas. He did various interesting YouTube videos on NYC real estate, business, government, etc. But I found these two interesting.NY issued a warrant for fees owed by Louis' company. OK it happens, but Louis found the 400 companies with warrants issued on the same day as Louis' also started the same time Louis's started. And the warrant fee was the same for all 400 companies! New York put IDENTICAL warrants on 400 businesses started at the same...

Russian scientist Dr. Dmitry Fedyanin seemed to die doing what he loved. German officials say the 34-year-old expert in ultra-violet light and a senior research fellow at the Nanooptics Department of Siegen University in Germany fell to his death Berchtesgadener Alps National Park after following his hiking app over a cliff. Fedyanin’s body was found at the bottom of Hoher Laafeld peak, which sits at about 7,000 feet. Fedyanin was using his hiking app to make his way down the mountain but the route he was taking didn’t have paths and the app “sent him over mountain precipice.” “Our investigators...

KEY POINTS: The next iPhones, expected to be launched in the coming weeks, could have a feature that no iPhone has ever had — a generic charging port. The USB-C connector would replace Apple’s proprietary port, the Lightning port, which has graced the bottom of every iPhone model released since 2012. The shift would be one of the biggest improvements to the iPhone in years for consumers. ******************************************************** Apple will “comply” with European Union regulation that requires electronic devices to be equipped with USB-C charging, said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing. That will mean Apple’s iPhones,...

John Warnock, who invented the PDF and co-founded Adobe Systems, has died. He was 82. The Silicon Valley entrepreneur and computer scientist died Saturday surrounded by family, Adobe said in a statement. The company didn't give a cause of death or say where Warnock died.“John’s brilliance and innovations left an indelible mark on Adobe, the technology industry and the world,” Adobe said. Warnock worked for Xerox before he and colleague Charles Geschke created a company around a rejected idea in 1982. Nearly a decade later, Warnock outlined an early version of the Portable Document Format, or PDF, transforming the way...

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“There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh, and this is not one of them.” Those words from Inspector Jacques Clouseau may have to be emblazoned across the hearing room of the House Oversight Committee. It was a month ago that House Democratic members mocked the testimony of two whistleblowers who testified about the rigged investigation to protect Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden. Now it appears that the controversial “sweetheart deal” was not the first choice of US Attorney David Weiss. He actually was planning to let Hunter walk without even a misdemeanor charge...

An Ethiopian woman is facing a severe backlash after she accused an Asian-owned boba tea shop of 'stealing black culture' and went on a nasty tirade against the workers. A video of the woman, who was later identified as Alewia Tola Roba - a research fellow at the Colorado State Government Capitol Building - going on the explosive rant at a drink restaurant called Trap Tea - The Boba Plug in Aurora, Colorado, was first shared to Twitter in August 2020. However, the clip recently went viral again after it resurfaced on Reddit in a post titled: 'Karen accuses Indonesians...

@CollinRugg Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News just four months ago… Instead of sitting back and pouting, this man started his own show, built his own studio, is interviewing guests unfiltered by the corporate media and will now be stealing the show from Fox News next week by interviewing Trump during the GOP debate. Legend 🔥

An institution has offered a $1 million prize to anyone who can solve a famous math problem that has puzzled mathematicians for more than a century. The Riemann hypothesis, first proposed by German mathematician Bernhard Riemann in 1859, is considered to be one of the hardest and most important unsolved problems of pure mathematics — the study of thinking about maths, rather than applying it to the real world. The hypothesis is based on the Riemann zeta function, also attributed to Bernhard Riemann. It states: “The real part of every nontrivial zero of the Riemann zeta function is 1/2”. The...