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Almost all of these new donors are connected to a group that indicted Chinese financier Guo Wengui created with right-wing agitator and ally Steve Bannon, called the New Federal State of China (NFSC). The Hark Herald singled out a number of these donors, almost all of whom contributed the maximum amount to Santos—$3,300 per election—despite never previously giving money to any federal candidate.

 

The Element drives itself continuously at around two miles per hour over farmland, using an advanced computer vision system to identify crops and unwanted botanical invaders. With two-axis robotic arms positioned close the ground, it can flick weeds out of the way where they’ll dry out before they can grow seeds and spread.

 

US Air Force colonel Matthew Strohmeyer says they have fed the models with classified operational information to inform sensitive questions. The long-term aim of such exercises is to update the US warhorse so it can use AI-enabled data in decision-making, sensors and ultimately firepower.

 

Better farming techniques across the world could lead to storage of 31 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide a year, data shows. That amount is not far off the 32 gigatonnes gap between current planned emissions reduction globally per year and the amount of carbon that must be cut by 2030 to stay within 1.5C.

[–] haddockseyes@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a pretty famous thought experiment about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument

 

Thanks to gene therapy, people who could previously only detect shades of grey can now distinguish red objects from a darker background

 

Talks to combine two of the biggest newspaper publishers in Canada have fallen apart.

 

Beijing bolstering position as global renewables leader with solar capacity more than rest of world combined

 

Insilico Medicine says trial of lung disease therapy is milestone for generative AI in drug development

[–] haddockseyes@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just because they're inland, I think.

 

ChatGPT 'drinks' the equivalent of a 500ml bottle of water for a simple conversation of 20-50 questions and answers. Which may not seem like much... until you consider that it has more than 100 million active users.

 

Researchers have discovered the first programmable RNA-guided system discovered in eukaryotes. The technology, known as Fanzor, has the potential to be more easily delivered to cells and tissues than CRISPR-Cas systems, and further refinements could make them a valuable new technology for human genome editing.

[–] haddockseyes@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

As a kid, the big twist in Hordes of the Underdark blew my mind.

 

A study conducted by scientists at the Queen Mary University of London involved the analysis of 2.6 million posts on the well-known social networking site, Nextdoor. Surprisingly, they were able to predict a user's income accurately, using only the content of their posts.

 

As of June 25, the LPC had an estimated 51% chance of taking another plurality, with 145 seats compared to 133 for the CPC.

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