Month: August 2020
Amazon’s back-to-school deals include a $75 Echo Plus
Amazon is joining the back-to-school sales rush, and like many companies its bargains reflect the learn-from-home reality of the pandemic. Its limited time sale is highlighted by smart speakers, in particular the Echo Plus — you can buy the upper-mid… Source
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A college student used GPT-3 to write fake blog posts and ended up at the top of Hacker News
College student Liam Porr used the language-generating AI tool GPT-3 to produce a fake blog post that recently landed in the No. 1 spot on Hacker News, MIT Technology Review reported. Porr was trying to demonstrate that the content produced by GPT-3 could fool people into believing it was written…
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White House budget proposal would hike AI and quantum funding by 30 percent
If the US is going to build a quantum internet and otherwise claim technical supremacy, it’s going to need appropriate funding — and that might be forthcoming. As the Wall Street Journal reports, The White House has proposed a 2021 non-defense budget… Source
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After Math: Everything is awesome
While the Trump administration spent this past week kneecapping the US Postal Service in an obvious effort to throw the upcoming November election in its favor, other events occurred as well. Here are five examples. Engadget USPS appears to be retir… Source
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Bald eagle takes out EGLE’s drone because it’s 2020 and irony is dead
A bald eagle beat the crap out of a government drone mapping the shoreline of Lake Michigan, ripping off its propeller and sending it plunging to the lake’s bottom, according to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. Yes. The agency operating the drone murdered by an eagle…
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‘Sims 4’ Packs Reviewed: Every Expansion Pack, Game Pack, Stuff Pack
We tried all 34 packs of stuff you can buy for your Sims. Here’s what we think of each one and the best ones to get for $200 or less. Source
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