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via Universal We’ve all been through the traumatizing experience of watching a movie that kicks off with a such a spectacular bang, hopes for a top-quality time at the theater or at home are instantly and exponentially raised. It’s one of the worst feelings in the world when things fall off a cliff immediately afterwards, something that blighted 1996’s disaster epic Daylight. To be fair, anything after 1993 wasn’t exactly the high point of Sylvester Stallone’s career at the time, so maybe being quietly excited…

Google reached a settlement with Texas Attorney General Paxton on Friday for allegedly falsely advertising its Google Pixel 4 smartphone. The advertisements aired on iHeartMedia using radio DJs to promote the devices by broadcasting detailed testimonials, although Google reportedly never provided a phone for them to test. Paxton filed the lawsuit against the company in January of last year.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIPaxton announced Texas has reached an $8 million settlement with…

PoliticsElection 2024Former president defends himself on live TV a day after jury found him liable and ordered him to pay E. Jean Carroll $5 million PoliticsElection 2024Former president defends himself on live TV a day after jury found him liable and ordered him to pay E. Jean Carroll $5 million FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All…

Editor’s Note (5/3/23): The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved GSK’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for adults age 60 and older—the first approved vaccine for this disease. The road to its development was long and bumpy but ultimately successful, as detailed in this story published on March 20. Megan Smith was especially conscious of the threat COVID posed to her six-week-old daughter in October 2021. The now 36-year-old from Buffalo, N.Y., was “doing everything we could to protect her,” Smith…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Understanding how beliefs are formed and why they can be resistant to counter evidence is important in today's polarized world, as views sharply diverge on issues ranging from vaccines to climate change. To debunk a false belief, it may be better to target a person's system of beliefs rather than…

(This story originally appeared in on Apr 22, 2023)The Centre’s affidavit before the Bombay high court has justified its new ‘fact check panel’ rule saying false information on social media has “potential to fan separatist movement, intensify social and political conflict, while weakening public trust in democratic institutions.”In response to a petition by stand-up comic Kunal Kamra against the constitution of a government-run fact-checking unit, it pointed to emerging tech like AI and sophisticated tools that have…

This article discusses a mindset on building production-ready machine learning solutions when applied to cyber-security needsFigure 1. Anomalies on NL2Bash data. Code. Security analysts want to avoid seeing this picture in their dashboards. Image by the author.Even today, in a world where LLMs compromise the integrity of the educational system we used for decades, and we (finally) started to fear an existential dread from AGI, the applicability of artificial intelligence (AI) systems to non-conventional data science…

Research suggests people can generate false memories within the blink of an eye.In a series of four experiments led by the University of Amsterdam, researchers showed 534 people letters of the Western alphabet in actual and mirrored orientations.After some participants were shown an interference slide with random letters designed to scramble the original memory, all participants were asked to recall a target letter from the first slide.Half a second after viewing the first slide, almost 20 percent of people had formed an…

Human memory might be even more unreliable than currently thought. In a new study, scientists found that it’s possible for people to form false memories of an event within seconds of it occurring. This almost-immediate misremembering seems to be shaped by our expectations of what should happen, the team says.Over the past few decades, it’s become clear that our process of rememberingis deeply flawed. Studies time and again have shown that our memory is routinely inaccurate, while others have found that you can easily…

Piano in Kyiv, 2017. In Ukrainian above: ‘Glory to the nation. Death to the enemies.’ Below: ‘Peaceful meeting for winning the information war.’. Credit: Dimiter Toshkov, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) In a 2020 survey, Ukrainians who perceived a higher level of conflict between Ukraine and Russia were less inclined to endorse false, negative news about the European Union, but were more likely to endorse…