- newExtended trailer for Christopher Nolan's Odyssey
Chris Nolan may be done making Batman movies, but you could be mistaken for thinking otherwise with how dark, gritty and full of black armor his upcoming The Odyssey movie is shaping up to be. Better-informed historians than I have torn into this mov…
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- newThe case for thinking of yourself as a meat-based language model
Are humans just LLMs in meat suits? Arturo Nereu doesn't quite think so, but in a recent essay, he lays out the uncomfortable parallels between how large language models work and how he experiences his own thinking. The more he interacts with AI tool…
- 13 hours ago 5 May 26, 9:22pm -
- newKeep your projects on track with Microsoft Project Professional 2024
TL;DR: The ultimate project management tool, Microsoft Project Professional 2024: Lifetime License for Windows, is available now for $54.97 (MSRP $1,129.99) until May 10 at 11:59 p.m. PT.Level up in the workplace with prime project management soft…
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- newWhy the "It's not X, it's Y" AI tic backfires on its writers
Try to keep the idea of a white bear out of your head. Daniel Wegner's 1987 experiment is now showing up in a critique of one of the most recognizable AI writing tics, the LinkedIn-saturated "It's not X, it's Y," by University of Guelph linguistics…
- 14 hours ago 5 May 26, 8:44pm -
- newOne psilocybin dose may reshape brain wiring a month later
A new paper in Nature Communications, covered by Ian Sample at the Guardian, claims a single 25mg dose may leave behind anatomical changes in the wiring itself, still visible 30 days on.Researchers at UC San Francisco and Imperial College London rec…
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- newAfter Friday, Meta can read your Instagram DMs again
This Friday, May 8, Meta will turn off end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs. The feature, added as opt-in in 2023, is being yanked because almost nobody used it — or at least, that's the official explanation, according to MacRumors, citing a Met…
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- newStunning new scans reveal RMS Titanic debris field in eerie detail
Newly released 3D scans of the RMS Titanic wreck site reveal a sprawling debris field where everything from delicate tableware to massive machinery lies scattered across the ocean floor, presenting an unusually clear picture of how the ship broke apa…
- 17 hours ago 5 May 26, 5:35pm -
- newWhen your yacht is too big for Monaco, Italy, and reality
Jeff Bezos may be looking to unload his record-setting sailing yacht Koru after discovering that a 417-foot floating monument to excess is, inconveniently, too large to dock in many of the places billionaires like to show them off.Koru is one of th…
- 17 hours ago 5 May 26, 5:26pm -
- newHowToBasic goes vegan with extremely cursed burger recipe
I never thought I'd see the day when HowToBasic, the unhinged YouTube chef most famous for adding an artery-clogging amount of raw eggs to the smoldering detritus he calls his food, went vegan. Not a single one of his recipes ends without something o…
- 18 hours ago 5 May 26, 5:04pm -
- newThis destroyed Nintendo 3DS restoration is supernaturally relaxing
A nearly destroyed Nintendo 3DS gets a meticulous second life in this restoration video, and watching it is ASMR-level satisfying. The careful disassembly of wafer-thin circuit boards, the lineup of delicate specialized tools, the anti-yellowing wash…
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