Stafford Middle School 6th graders displaying creative eclipse projects to educate their community
Stafford Middle School 6th graders displaying creative eclipse projects to educate their community
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Let’s break down some of the common conspiracy theories around the April 8 solar eclipse.
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Humanoid robots are learning to fall well
The savvy marketers at Boston Dynamics produced two major robotics news cycles last week. As I write this, the sub-40 second video is steadily approaching five million views. The accompanying video was a celebration of the older Atlas’ journey from DARPA research project to an impressively nimble bipedal ’bot.
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How RPA vendors aim to remain relevant in a world of AI agents
If you ask the tech giants, it's agents — driven by generative AI. "However, RPA bots have limitations when it comes to handling complex, creative or dynamic tasks that require natural language processing or reasoning skills."
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2024 NFL Draft grades: Indianapolis Colts have good first two rounds as part of solid class
Yahoo Sports' Charles McDonald breaks down the Colts' 2024 draft.
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2024 NFL Draft grades: Kansas City Chiefs get even richer with one of the best hauls this year
Yahoo Sports' Charles McDonald breaks down the Chiefs' 2024 draft.
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2024 NFL Draft: Texas sets program record with 11 players picked
Texas had multiple first-round picks for the first time in 17 years.
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Creators of Sora-powered short explain AI-generated video's strengths and limitations
OpenAI's video generation tool Sora took the AI community by surprise in February with fluid, realistic video that seems miles ahead of competitors. Shy Kids is a digital production team based in Toronto that was picked by OpenAI as one of a few to produce short films essentially for OpenAI promotional purposes, though they were given considerable creative freedom in creating "air head." In an interview with visual effects news outlet fxguide, post-production artist Patrick Cederberg described "actually using Sora" as part of his work. Perhaps the most important takeaway for most is simply this: While OpenAI's post highlighting the shorts lets the reader assume they more or less emerged fully formed from Sora, the reality is that these were professional productions, complete with robust storyboarding, editing, color correction, and post work like rotoscoping and VFX.
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Mortgage rates today, April 27, 2024: 30-year and 15-year rates inch up
These are today's mortgage rates. If you can comfortably afford a mortgage with today's rates, you may want to start looking at homes. Lock in your rate today.
- Engadget
Wacom's first OLED pen display is also the thinnest and lightest it has ever made
Wacom's latest pen display model is called Movink, and it's the company's first with a OLED screen. It's also Wacom's thinnest and lightest option ever, while still offering 13 inches of work space.
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Photos show week of antiwar protests at USC, Columbia, Emerson and other schools across U.S.
Protests are currently happening at college campuses around the country as students show support for Palestinians in Gaza.
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Zomato's quick commerce unit Blinkit eclipses core food business in value, says Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs said in a report late Thursday that Indian food delivery giant Zomato's quick commerce arm Blinkit is now more valuable than its core food delivery business, as per the bank's sum-of-the-parts analysis. The investment bank estimates Blinkit's implied value at 119 Indian rupees per share ($1.43) or about $13 billion, while Zomato's food delivery business is valued at Rs 98 per share. Goldman previously pegged Blinkit's valuation at $2 billion in March 2023.
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These are the slowest-selling new cars of 2024
iSeeCars cited value and compelling products as drivers for fast-selling car brands' success, and some are doing much better than others.
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Investors are more worried about inflation than a weakening economy
Fresh data on Thursday showed further signs of sticky inflation, pushing bond yields higher and weighing on stocks.
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Bluesky backs a project that would let Mastodon apps, like Ivory, work with its network
The new decentralized social network, originally incubated inside Jack Dorsey-run Twitter, is backing a project that would connect — or "bridge" — Mastodon requests into Bluesky requests so that consumer apps, like Ivory, would be compatible with Bluesky, too. The project, dubbed SkyBridge, was among the recipients of a small distribution of $4,800 in grant funding from Bluesky, distributed across projects.
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NFL Draft: Giants pass on QB in first round, select LSU WR Malik Nabers
The Giants didn't select Daniel Jones' replacement in the first round.
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American workers are slowly regaining power
New worker protections, expanding labor unions, and a strong job market are finally helping the typical worker get ahead. Americans aren't feeling it.
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Boeing's Starliner set to fly astronauts for the first time on May 6
Boeing’s Starliner is a go for launch. Leaders from NASA and Boeing told reporters that the first crewed Starliner mission, which will see the capsule carry two astronauts to the International Space Station, is moving ahead toward its historic May 6 launch date. NASA and Boeing concluded that the capsule is ready for launch after completing a critical flight test review on Thursday.
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Genesis G80 EV Magma Concept comes in hot at Beijing Auto Show
The Genesis G80 EV Magma Concept just sprang to life at the 2024 Beijing Auto Show.
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Stock market today: Stocks slide after GDP report prompts inflation, growth concerns
Meta's AI reality check has dented hopes for a Big Tech revival for stocks, with a GDP update showing the US economy grew slower than expected in the first quarter.
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After 6-year hiatus, Stripe to start taking crypto payments, starting with USDC stablecoin
Stripe, the fintech giant, continues to inch its way back into the cryptocurrency market. On Thursday the company announced that it would let customers accept cryptocurrency payments, starting with just one currency in particular, USDC stablecoins, initially only on Solana, Ethereum and Polygon. This will be the first time that Stripe has taken crypto payments since 2018, when it dropped support for Bitcoin due to it being too unstable.