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AI? They are quoting Wikipedia articles in those little pop-ups.

Well said. :D

The older you are when you smoke, the worse it is for you. Smoking in your twenties is far less harmful in terms of its likelihood to cause cancer than smoking in your forties, fif…

It's professinalized American-style fundraising. It's an accepted part of US culture. The whole system of US politics works like that. People in the rest of the world often don't u…

Might as well search in Wikimedia Commons directly ... at least you know that you can use whatever you find there (even if attribution may be required in some cases) ...

The title sounds hopeful, and nature's resilience is indeed amazing, but the article also explains how the plastic debris enables coastal dwellers to cross oceans and become invasi…

The endowment is $100 million the other $200 million is foundation assets – including (these are last years June 2020 figures) $71 million cash $95 million short term investments h…

Yeah. Absolutely infuriating if you specifically use quotes and you get all sorts of dross not containing what you're looking for. Clearly they have figured out in some way that gi…

This is like Gresham's law, only for information: bad info driving out good. The same applies to Wikipedia sometimes, which, being free, achieves a degree of visibility and ubiquit…

The Twitter account in question is https://twitter.com/yassifybot -- pictures generated thru multiple applications of FaceApp "beauty filters". AI photoediting in practice.

The art forgery case discussed in that blog post was covered last month in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/nyregion/raymond-pettibon... The New York Times wr…

You're right about people simply acting in a way they think will serve their personal interests, and it's a nice distinction. Thank you. Another aspect of legacy holding companies …

Exactly. It's surely significant that Tesla has overtaken all the incumbents and now has the greatest market share in plug-in electric vehicles (i.e. plug-in hybrids and battery-el…

"DuckDuckGo says its analysis of popular free Android apps shows more than 96 percent of them contain trackers. Blocking these trackers means Facebook and Google, whose trackers ar…

One of the quoted experts opines that while some of the big established car manufacturers will survive, most “are running an uphill race with a parachute behind them while EV-first…