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Planet Fitness stock dramatically dropped after controversy ensued over membership cancellation following an incident where a female gym-goer photographed a transgender woman using the women’s locker room.Planet Fitness, an American chain of fitness centers, underwent a financial blow earlier this week after one of its gyms located in Alaska canceled the membership of angered customer Patricia Silva.The company’s stock price, which traded at a monthly high of $66.92 on March 7, plummeted to a low of $56.46 on Tuesday…

Language processing in humans and computers: Part 2Tidying up the zoo in the morningThe first elephant in the room: The WebJust like search engines, language models process data scraped from the web. Both are built on top of web crawlers. Chatbots are children of the Web, not of expert systems.A search engine is an interface of a source index sorted by reputation. A chatbot is an interface of a language model extrapolating from the sources. Google was built on the crucial idea of reputation-based search and the crucial…

Quantum computing is advancing, with giants like Google and IBM providing services, yet challenges remain due to insufficient qubits and their susceptibility to external influences, requiring complex entanglement for reliable results. Photonic approaches offer room temperature operation and faster speeds, but face loss issues; however, a novel method demonstrated by researchers uses laser pulses to create inherently error-correcting logical qubits, simplifying quantum computing but still needing improvements in error…

Godzilla fans are riding high at the moment, between Godzilla Minus One’s recent Oscar triumph and the imminent release of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. And you can count directors Takashi Yamakazi and Adam Wingard among those happy fans; as this conversation between the pair clearly shows, these guys both really love and understand their scaly star.Reservation Dogs | First FandomsIt’s worth watching the full six-minute chat between Godzilla Minus One’s Yamakazi and Godzilla x Kong’s Wingard (he also made 2021's…

Zayn is heading a new direction with his new music and he’s announced that his fourth studio album ‘Room Under the Stairs’ will be released on 17th May 2024 via Island Records UK / Mercury Records. The first teaser from the record is ‘What I Am’, a self-penned soulful song that sounds completely different from anything fans have heard from Zayn before. Zayn has been working on ‘Room Under the Stairs’ for the past six years in rural Pennysylvania and the collection is his most personal to date. Themes on the record…

Starship Home, a cozy mixed-reality game for the Meta Quest 3, is trying to get to the heart of “what makes a game meaningful in mixed reality.” That’s according to developer Doug North Cook, who wrote on Reddit that the game, which turns your environment into a custom spaceship and you into an intergalactic horticulturist, is indie studio Creature’s “first answer to that question.”A Meta Quest blog post says players will customize their starship by “strategically placing virtual windows, control panels, and other…

A 31-year-old man with dual developmental disabilities, autism and Prader-Willi Syndrome, was informed that he could not be in the children’s area of the West Harrison Library.During a visit to the children’s room at West Harrison, New York, a librarian approached Matt Maillet’s supporter, Kayla Brown, and told her that Matt would need to go to the adult section. They also informed Kayla that the library would provide children’s books for Matt to browse there.“I called the director and explained the issues,” Daniel…

Researchers have achieved quantum coherence at room temperature by embedding a light-absorbing chromophore within a metal-organic framework. This breakthrough, facilitating the maintenance of a quantum system’s state without external interference, marks a significant advancement for quantum computing and sensing technologies.Researchers observe the quantum coherence of a quintet state with four electron spins in molecular systems for the first time at room temperature.In a study published in Science Advances, a group of…

As temperatures continue to soar with summer fast-approaching, your need for comfort will feel more paramount than ever. This makes choosing the right room cooler an essential need to ensure that you can create a refreshing oasis amidst the summer heat.  In our curated selection of room coolers from best brands, we showcase the best room coolers that can significantly transform your living spaces into comfortable retreats. Each cooler pick has been selected owing to its…

Bringing you another episode of “the future is here,” an Italian designer has debuted plans for a $1 billion superyacht that is not only a floating marvel but also has its own detachable airship.The 699-foot-long cruiser is a combination of luxury and advanced technology, and it is slated to not only dominate the seas but also the skies, thanks to the airship that is mounted on top of the main yacht’s structure.While showing the world a glimpse of their project, the company also made a cheeky plea to Tesla founder Elon…