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December 9, 20232 min readBurials holding mummies with false heads have been discovered from the Wari Empire in PeruBy Owen Jarus & LiveScienceThe ruins of Pachacamac, an ancient archaeological site on the Pacific coast just south of Lima, Peru. Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed the burials of at least 73 people dating to around 1,000 years ago, a few hundred years before the Inca took over parts of western South America. Each of the 73 individuals was bundled in fabric — some of it colorful — and rope. Some of…

Can my Frankenstein of a time series regression model — inspired by Prophet — compete with the real deal?Photo by Piret Ilver on UnsplashIn what’s likely to be the last installment in my journey to build on Meta’s great forecasting package Prophet, I’ll be taking a look at how my homemade version stacks up against the original.It’s going to be a quick one: we’ll first take a look at the data before visualising how the two approaches forecast on out-of-time data. We’ll then more formally determine which is the better…

A Tesla owner in the UK challenged Tesla over its failure to deliver on its full self-driving claims and won a settlement representing a refund of his purchase cost of FSD, with interest, after filing a claim in small claims court. Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system has been available since 2016, with Tesla stating at the time that all Teslas now have the hardware to fully drive themselves. The system went on sale that year as a $3,000 option, though prices have shifted up and down over time. But…

Now that the new DLC for Risk of Rain 2 has been officially revealed under the title Seekers of the Storm, Gearbox has begun its pre-release promotional campaign for it. Its first major checkpoint? A short discussion of Seekers of the Storm‘s main villain, the ominous-sounding False Son. More specifically, Gearbox’s first official Risk of Rain 2: Seekers of the Storm developer diary is about the DLC’s all-new final boss and the lore behind its existence. Though lore hasn’t historically been a huge draw in Risk of Rain or…

Live Nation Middle East asserted Tuesday that “no changes” had been made to Travis Scott’s upcoming concert at the Egyptian pyramids despite reports that officials in in the country had canceled the hip-hop star’s permit to perform there.“PSA There have been no changes to Travis Scott’s show in Egypt; any reports to the contrary are false. We can’t wait to celebrate ‘Utopia’ with you in Egypt,” the concert promoter and ticketing service Ticketsmarche said in a Tuesday tweet. 🚨PSA 🚨There have been no changes to…

OpenAI's Sam Altman and ChatGPT are being probed by the FTC over false and harmful statements about real people. AI hallucinations have been a major concern for OpenAI as well as govts. all across the world, which is why regulating it is important…

Since Meta Platforms Inc. launched Threads on Wednesday, millions of users have joined the new social platform that promises “positive, productive conversations” — an apparent swipe at the divisive rhetoric that is common on Twitter and other sites.That promise will be more difficult to keep as the app's popularity grows — it's so far drawn 70 million users. That early adopter list includes some connected to the spread of misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech on other sites, according to checks by Bloomberg,…

If you happened to miss the chilling moment when Geralt (played by Henry Cavill) came across Teryn (portrayed by Frances Pooley) in episode 2, it's understandable. The Witcher Season 3 Part 1 is currently streaming on Netflix. (Photo: Twitter)(MINT_PRINT) The captivating scene was dominated by the gruesome fusion of mangled mages, who took center stage in their nightmarish state. The dismembered heads, dripping with audible goo, peeling from the walls, and the creaking Megazord-like bodies emerging from the…

Smartphones today have several potentially life-saving features with emergency SOS at the forefront. It can save your life in dire situations by allowing you to call emergency services with just a couple of presses. While this feature can be essential in certain situations, it has also created trouble for police. In the most recent case reported by Devon and Cornwall Police in the UK, there was a huge surge in iPhone crash detection false alarms from people who were just dancing and not crashing in cars! It seems the…

There’s bound to be a few extra emergency calls when 80,000 people descend upon your city for a weekend music and arts festival, but according to authorities in Coffee County, Tennessee, the iPhone 14's automatic crash detection was responsible for a spike in false 911 calls at Bonnarooas it mistook revelers’ enthusiastic dancing for car crashes.Is USB-C Finally Coming To iPhone?As Apple continues to push its smartphones and wearables as health and safety devices, the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro, Apple Watch Series 8, Apple…