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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain After a spirited election campaign, the people of Timor-Leste voted for a new parliament on May 21. The vote was free, fair and largely uneventful. The results were accepted. This is a remarkable accomplishment for democracy. With roughly 40% of the vote and 31 out of 65 seats, Xanana Gusmão's…

To make the United States self-sufficient in rare exotic elements, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a latest generation electromagnetic isotope separator (EMIS) to harvest stable isotopes across the entire periodic table.During the Second World War, the scientists working on what became the Manhattan Project to develop the world's first atomic bomb for the allies needed a way of separating the fissile isotope uranium-235 from non-fissile isotope uranium-238. With what were essentially unlimited…

How to Generate NSFW Images with Stable Diffusion and Its Alternatives Stable Diffusion is an AI text-to-image deep learning model that can produce highly detailed images from text descriptions. However, like most AI, Stable Diffusion will not generate NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content, which includes nudity, porn content, or explicit violence. The model’s creators imposed these limitations to ensure the ethical and responsible use of the technology. However, some users may seek to bypass these limitations and generate…

Nokia G11 Plus, which was launched last year, is reportedly receiving an update to Android 13. The latest update is arrives with the April 2023 Android security patches and a handful of new features as well as visual changes and system improvements. The phone debuted with Android 12 out-of-the-box and the company has promised two OS version upgrades, which means the phone will also receive an update to Android 14 in the future. The Android 13 update for the Nokia G11 Plus bears the build number V2.420 and is a 2.4GB…

Plant sampling locations in this study and the geological map of Angola modified after Garzanti et al. (2018) and Dinis et al. (2017) (CB: Congo Basin; KB: Cuanza Basin; BB: Benguela Basin; NB: Namibe Basin). Credit: Journal of Archaeological Science (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2023.105775 Archaeologists at UC Santa Cruz used predictive modeling to map strontium isotope ratios across all of modern-day Angola, a region in…

Greenland’s Steenstrup Glacier has retreated 5 miles, thinned by 20%, doubled its ice discharge, and quadrupled in velocity between 2018 and 2021, according to a study led by The Ohio State University. The rapid change places Steenstrup in the top 10% of glaciers contributing to the region’s total ice discharge, highlighting the vulnerability of even stable glaciers to sudden retreat due to warmer waters, with potential consequences for global sea level rise.A recent study has revealed that the rising temperatures of the…

CLIMATEWIRE | For decades, the Steenstrup Glacier was one of Greenland’s most stable swaths of ice. Then it suddenly began to retreat inland in 2018, dumping ice into the sea as it shrank. By 2021, it had quadrupled its rate of retreat and doubled the amount of ice that it was pouring into the ocean. It was one of the fastest accelerations of melting ice that scientists had ever observed from a Greenland glacier. And it may be a warning sign for the future. A new study suggests that an influx of warm, deep ocean water…

Image: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNETThe popularity of AI has led to a host of websites and services that are able to create an image from a text description or prompt. One option worth trying is Stable Diffusion. An effective and versatile tool, Stable Diffusion is available through a range of websites and as a standalone application. Simply type your description, and it generates corresponding images. Here's how it works.Using the various Stable Diffusion websitesAs a text-to-image model, Stable Diffusion is…

The newest challenger to OpenAI’s ChatGPT comes from the company that makes the popular AI image generator Stable Diffusion. Known as StableLM, Stability AI developed this open-source chatbot to democratize access to advanced language models. Stability AI recently announced the alpha version of StableLM, noting that it is a smaller and more efficient solution than most others. StableLM uses just three billion to seven billion parameters, 2% to 4% the size of ChatGPT’s 175 billion parameter model. Stability AI Just…

It seems like everybody and their mother has a large language model these days. Stability AI, one of the companies that made a name for itself early in the AI rat race, was slower than its contemporaries to enter the realm of LLMs—until now, that is. On Wednesday, the company announced it was launching StableLM, a “suite” of language models meant to compete with alphabet soup AI like OpenAI’s GPT-4, Meta’s LLaMA, and Google’s LaMDA.Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor PicksStability AI…