The Videos You are About to Watch are Not Real
Creating video from text: Sora is an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.
TWO Quotable Quotes on Butterfly
If you spend your time chasing butterflies, they will fly away; but if you spend your time making a beautiful garden, the butterflies will come. “The flapping of the wings
2024 Solar Eclipse
The word “eclipse” actually comes from the Greek word meaning “abandonment”. A once-in-a-lifetime event, the total solar eclipse happens when the moon’s shadow illuminates a narrow stretch of land during
AI and the Future of Work
The new Claude that was just released defines itself as self-aware. Tomas Pueyo in Uncharted Territories: Of course, Claude and similar LLMs are just next-word predictors. They are not self-aware.
Why are So Many Young People Getting Cancer?
Heidi Ledford in Nature: Of the many young people whom Cathy Eng has treated for cancer, the person who stood out the most was a young woman with a 65-year-old’s disease.
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Will Today’s Tech Wave Drown Developing Countries?
Xiaolan Fu at Project Syndicate: We are living through humanity’s fourth industrial revolution, which is largely driven by breakthroughs in digital technologies. Some, like the internet and artificial intelligence, are
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Meanwhile in the PM House
Caretaker PM Kakar Sahib seen simulating his departure from the PM House, as the new setup prepared to grab the baton!
‘Election Heist’
The Economist, March 14, 2024: Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League party (PML-N) is back in power. Following elections last month, the thrice former prime minister’s younger brother, Shehbaz, has been
Fasting for Ramadan While Gaza Goes Hungry
How do you celebrate the holy month when you fear the suffering may not end? Zaina Arafat in The New Yorker: I believed in God and loved Islam, but my fasting
The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé
Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Grim, and Daniel Boguslaw at The Intercept: Anat Schwartz had a problem. The Israeli filmmaker and former air force intelligence official had been assigned by the New
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Family Drama in the Garden State
Two of New Jersey’s three statewide offices could be held by people living in the same mansion. by Tracey Tully at the NY Times: Bricks of gold bullion. Envelopes filled
The Voynich Manuscript (Video)
This manuscript from Middle Ages has not been decyphered since 400 years, and modern AI models can not understand it as well. It is an illustrated codex, hand-written in an