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We are entering an important era of technology — the rise of AI. Artificial intelligence has been among us for a long time, but recent developments have pushed its capabilities and intelligence to a level where it may start to leave humans behind. A prime example of this is OpenAI-build ChatGPT. Based on the GPT-4 language processing model, this AI chatbot is capable of processing vast amounts of data, analyzing it and thereafter generating content. In fact, it can answer just about any question asked of it. But this is…

Microsoft Corp. MSFT 1.39% patched a dangerous security issue in Bing last month just days before it launched a new artificial intelligence-powered version of the search engine. The problem was discovered by outside researchers at the security firm Wiz Inc. It was created by a mistake in the way that Microsoft configured applications on Azure, its cloud-computing platform, and could be used to gain access to emails and other documents…

Food scientists on Tuesday unveiled a giant meatball made from lab-grown flesh of an extinct woolly mammoth, saying the protein from the past showed the way for future foods.The glistening meatball was displayed under a glass bell jar by Australian-based cultivated meat firm Vow at the NEMO science museum in the Dutch capital Amsterdam.But it is not ready to be eaten just yet, with the thousands-of-years-old protein requiring safety testing before modern humans can tuck in.(Aico Lind/www.studioaico.nl)"We chose woolly…

Ride-hailing app Uber had a bug in its system that allowed users to take free rides across the world. The company was unaware of the bug until an Indian researcher pointed it out. Anand Prakash is an ethical hacker and founder of a cyber…

It's sometimes difficult to imagine how the planet we call home, with its megalopolis cities and serene farmlands, was once dominated by dinosaurs as big as buses and five-story buildings.But recent research has helped deepen our understanding of why dinosaurs prevailed: the answer may lie in their special bones, structured like Aero chocolate.Brazilian paleontologist Tito Aureliano found that hollow bones filled with little air sacs were so important to dinosaur survival, they evolved independently several times in…

We’ve now had expressions of protest from both the violent and non-violent wings of the anti-bad-review movement. The Hanover State Opera’s ballet director Marco Goecke confronted the Frankfurter Allgemeine ballet critic Wiebke Hüster in the theatre foyer and smeared dog excrement in her face. Now the comic and movie actor Seth Rogen has shared his views on criticism in an interview with Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO podcast, declaring how upset he was at bad reviews for his films The Green Hornet and The Interview. “I…

via Warner Bros. You’ve got to hand it to Dwayne Johnson for his ambition when it came to carving out his own corner of the DCU, but once the winds of change had blown through the studio to see James Gunn and Peter Safran installed as co-CEOs, the A-list superstar was almost immediately shown the door. It has to rank as the biggest embarrassment of The Rock’s Hollywood career when he couldn’t stop talking about changing the hierarchy of power, bringing back Henry Cavill’s Superman, launching various sequels and…

The Z Center held its second annual dog swim in December just before draining the pool for maintenance. Dogs able to go online to sign up (or convince their humans to do so for them) enjoyed a one-hour slot of swimming, socializing, ball retrieving, and, of course, dousing the people watching them with a satisfying shake. According to one Labrador retriever, the best part was that no humans were allowed in the pool. The Z Center held its second annual dog swim in December just before draining the pool for…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Given the death toll, it's important we consider the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle sensitively. But we must also begin looking into the history of land-use and planning decisions in areas worst hit by landslides. One such area is the beach community at Muriwai in West Auckland, where two volunteer…

On Wednesday, Twitter revised its advertising guidelines to permit the promotion of cannabis on its platform in states where it is legal, while following federal regulations. How it works. According to a policy update published on its website, Twitter will only allow a limited number of cannabis ads. CBD and THC firms are permitted to advertise their brands and provide cannabis-related information, but the ads must not sell or promote cannabis products, with the exception of topical (non-ingestible) hemp-derived CBD…