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Mar 3, 2023

Microsoft rolls out personality options for its Bing AI chatbot

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Users can now pick if they want “creative” or “precise” responses.

Even as users make a beeline to get access to Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered Bing chatbot, the company is adding on more features, such as giving the users the power to pick what personality type they would prefer to interact with.

Microsoft has partnered with ChatGPT-creator OpenAI to bring the conversational chatbot to its Bing search engine, among its other products. Given that the chatbot is still largely experimental, Microsoft is slowly making the service available to users. Yet, in a short span of time, it has amassed over a million users already.

Mar 3, 2023

Novel technology can process real-time data from 30 million connected cars

Posted by in category: internet

The Connected Car Data Initiative aims to reduce traffic congestion & CO2 emissions.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) is planning to commercialize its Connected Car Data Initiative to reduce traffic congestion & CO2 emissions. The initiative was developed by its subsidiary firm named NTT Data, which is a global digital and IT services provider based in Japan.

As a trusted global innovator, NTT DATA is leading the way for our retail and automotive clients to unlock the full potential of connected car data.

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Mar 3, 2023

Unbiased reporting? New media outlet claims AI-produced news a ‘game changer’

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The outlet claims to provide balanced reporting free of the “hidden agendas and biases” plaguing traditional news.

ChatGPT frenzy grows, following Buzzfeed and CNET, NewsGPT, the purportedly “world’s first” AI-generated “news channel,” has debuted.

NewsGPT aims to provide “unbiased” and “fact-based” news to viewers worldwide, with no reporters, according to Alan Levy, CEO of NewsGPT.

Mar 3, 2023

Time travel might be possible using spinning lasers, according to a physicist

Posted by in categories: physics, time travel

Physicist Ronald Mallett believes that a spinning laser loop can bend time, leading to time travel. He even has a prototype to test the idea.

Ronald Mallett is on a mission to develop a real-life working time machine.

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Mar 3, 2023

By 2035, over 50% of the global population will be overweight or obese

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

That’s if no ‘significant actions’ are taken.

According to a recent report, if no significant actions are taken, half the world’s population will be obese or overweight by 2035. Globally, 38 percent of the Earth’s population— almost 2.6 billion people —are overweight or obese. If situations do not alter in the future, the rate is expected to rise to 51 percent in just twelve years’ time, as per new reports published by World Obesity Federation.

Furthermore, the obesity rate is particularly rising among children and countries with low-income rates.

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Mar 3, 2023

China denting US tech dominance, leads in 37 of 44 fields, claims report

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Beijing is also in a position to maintain a monopoly in some of these areas, the report warned.

Mar 3, 2023

Billions of Android and iPhone users told to search texts over ‘bank blitzkrieg’

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, mobile phones

WHETHER you’re an Android fan or an iPhone lover, you should be wary of a common text message scam.

It’s called “smishing” and has been flagged by the experts at Security Intelligence as a growing problem.

Smishing is essentially the same as phishing, the common email scam technique that tries to get you to give away personal data.

Mar 3, 2023

New Findings About What Lies Beneath Our Feet

Posted by in category: futurism

Both discoveries may play roles in first how plate tectonics got started, and the dynamics that continue to make it happen.

Mar 3, 2023

Here comes Bard, Google’s version of ChatGPT

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The new AI chat bot is available to ‘trusted testers’ for now and will be released to the public in the ‘coming weeks.’

Mar 3, 2023

NASA Prepares To “Take the Plunge” and Explore Venus With DAVINCI

Posted by in categories: government, physics, space

Inspired by the Renaissance vision of Leonardo da Vinci, NASA

Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). It is responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. Its vision is “To discover and expand knowledge for the benefit of humanity.” Its core values are “safety, integrity, teamwork, excellence, and inclusion.” NASA conducts research, develops technology and launches missions to explore and study Earth, the solar system, and the universe beyond. It also works to advance the state of knowledge in a wide range of scientific fields, including Earth and space science, planetary science, astrophysics, and heliophysics, and it collaborates with private companies and international partners to achieve its goals.