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Virginia Norwood sits at the Storm Detector Radar Set at the Army Signal Corps Laboratories in New Jersey in a photo displayed at the Institute for Radio Engineers Convention, Spring 1950.
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Google raters get ready for a rally at the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters on Feb. 1, 2023.
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Google’s ‘Ghost Workers’ are demanding to be seen by the tech giant
Tchia, Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon, and Destiny 2: Lightfall
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The rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence made by OpenAI have led some tech industry leaders to call for a pause on AI research.
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Teens share the joy, despair and anxiety of college admissions on TikTok
The all time great Jackie Robinson, featuring his classic Monarchs uniform for MLB The Show 23‘s Storylines mode.
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Electric cars charge at a hub in downtown Milan on March 23. Starting in 2035, all cars sold in the European Union will be zero-emission vehicles.
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The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT on March 21, in Boston. A group of prominent computer scientists and other tech industry notables are calling for a 6-month pause to consider the risks of powerful artificial intelligence technology.
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Panera has piloted handprint scanners in two locations so far. The company plans to roll out the technology in additional locations across the country in the coming months.
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The perennial rice ‘Yunda 107’ is harvested in the Yunnan Province of China. Perennial rice can be harvested for successive regrowth seasons, maintaining a relatively stable yield and greatly reducing labor input.
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Perennial rice: Plant once, harvest again and again
The Twitter splash page is seen on a digital device in 2022 in San Diego. Some parts of Twitter’s source code, the fundamental computer code on which the social network operates, were leaked online, the social media company said in a legal filing on Sunday.
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Books line the shelves at the Rice University Library in April 2022 in Houston.
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Gordon Moore, the legendary Intel Corp. co-founder who predicted the growth of the semiconductor industry, smiles during a news conference in 2001.
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Nintendo will soon close the digital storefronts for the Wii U and 3DS.
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Gov. Spencer Cox signs two social media regulation bills during a ceremony at the Capitol building in Salt Lake City on Thursday, March 23, 2023. Cox signed a pair of measures that aim to limit when and where children can use social media and stop companies from luring kids to the sites.
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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill on March 23, 2023. The hearing was a rare opportunity for lawmakers to question the leader of the short-form social media video app about the company’s relationship with its Chinese owner, ByteDance, and how they handle users’ sensitive personal data.
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The Terran 1 rocket, made largely of 3D-printed metal parts, launched successfully but failed to reach orbit on Wednesday.
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Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, pictured at her April 2021 confirmation hearing, spoke to Morning Edition on Thursday about the new “Click to Cancel” proposal.
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Still trying to quit that gym membership? The FTC is proposing a rule that could help
Ethan Mollick, a business professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, used a photo of himself (left) in an artificial intelligence platform where he generated a deepfake video of himself (right).
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It takes a few dollars and 8 minutes to create a deepfake. And that’s only the start
Lindsay Lohan attends the Christian Siriano Fall/Winter 2023 fashion show at Gotham Hall on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, in New York.
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TikTok has become baked into the culture.
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This Wednesday, April 14, 2016, file photo, shows a push-button landline telephone, in Whitefield, Maine.
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The social media application logo, TikTok is displayed on the screen of an iPhone on an American flag background. With the TikTok CEO set to testify on Capitol Hill on Thursday, influencers and lobbyists are pressing the government not to ban the app.
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Armed with influencers and lobbyists, TikTok goes on the offense on Capitol Hill
When Geoff Brumfiel asked an AI software for rocket schematics, he got interesting results. Like these Saturn V-inspired renderings.
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If ChatGPT designed a rocket — would it get to space?
