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Oct 3, 2023

TikTok testing out advert-free monthly subscription

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The BBC understands the Chinese firm is trying out the service in an English-speaking market outside the US, but has declined to comment on exactly where.

The subscription is being tested at $4.99 (£4.13).

Meanwhile, Meta is reportedly mulling ad-free subscriptions for people in the EU to navigate the bloc’s advertising rules.

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Oct 2, 2023

The Future of Physics

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John Baez University of California, Riverside The 20th century was, arguably, the century of physics. While there was immense progress on so-called fundam…

Oct 2, 2023

Arrow of Time. Time as a Fractal Flow

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What is TIME and from where it’s originates? What is the “Arrow of Time”?

Why time flows from the past towards the future? Why Time is a Fractal Flow?

Oct 2, 2023

Huang’s Law Is The Catalyst That Drove NVDIA’s 1000x Chip Speedup In Less Than A Decade

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NVIDIA “Huang’s Law” is the primary catalyst for driving chip performance and efficiency to over 1000x in less than a decade. For NVIDIA, Huang’s Law is the fundamental approach that moves beyond traditional chip speedup fundamentals such as Moore’s Law which had dominated the tech industry in the past.

Huang’s Law To Dominate The Future For NVIDIA, Chip Shrinking In No Way Defines The Increment in Performance

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Oct 2, 2023

Possible New Human Species Found through 300,000-Year-Old Jawbone Fossil

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The discovery has enabled a more detailed analysis of where the Hualongdong people fit on the human family tree. The mandible has a mixture of both modern and archaic features. For example, the bone along the jawline is thick, a feature shared with early human species, such as Homo erectus. It also lacks a true chin, the presence of which is a key feature of Homo sapiens. But the side of the mandible that attaches to the upper jaw is thinner than those of archaic hominins and more reminiscent of that of modern humans.

Oct 1, 2023

ChatGPT’s New Upgrade Teases AI’s Multimodal Future

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ChatGPT isn’t just a chatbot anymore.

OpenAI’s latest upgrade grants ChatGPT powerful new abilities that go beyond text. It can tell bedtime stories in its own AI voice, identify objects in photos, and respond to audio recordings. These capabilities represent the next big thing in AI: multimodal models.

“Multimodal is the next generation of these large models, where it can process not just text, but also images, audio, video, and even other modalities,” says Dr. Linxi “Jim” Fan, Senior AI Research Scientist at Nvidia.

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Oct 1, 2023

The MOST LIKELY reason that we haven’t found alien

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p4Z32SZPTug

Oct 1, 2023

Did Aliens put Synthetic Elements in Did Aliens put Synthetic Elements in Przybylski’s Star?

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/asw3yu9jym8

Oct 1, 2023

Microsoft blames Google for Apple rejecting offer to buy Bing

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Microsoft boss Mikhail Parakhin claims that despite offering more money than Google, the company was still turned down by Apple.

Oct 1, 2023

Facebook Proud of New Glasses That Let You Record People Without Them Knowing

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The new Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses look like regular shades, but can record and livestream video with little warning to those around it.

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