The agents searched her heavy duffle bag and found 29 live eastern box turtles individually wrapped in socks.
No word on what kind of socks.
(Eastern box turtles apparently sell for up to $1,000 each in China.)
When I ask whether we should be afraid that AIs will soon grow so powerful that they pose a hazard to us, he quips: “You’re going to have to pardon my French, but that’s complete B.S.”
…the sci-fi is still fi.
Way back in the 1970s there was a flurry of excitement for something called expert systems. It was an attempt to make a database of questions and answers so that, for example, a washing machine repairman who encountered a problem on the job could describe that problem to a computer and get advice on fixing it.
I was doing some work for an office machine manufacturer at the time. They thought it would revolutionize their repair service. It didn't. They gave up. Everybody else gave up too.
Today's AI is basically the same thing but with an order of magnitude more answers. And not all of them, by any measure, from experts. It seems to work a little better. But take over the world?
Bet on the cat.
The drones headed south, across Chesapeake Bay, toward Norfolk, Va., and over an area that includes the home base for the Navy’s SEAL Team Six and Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval port.
And more.
Maybe just some crazy hobbyist, ya think?Last month alone, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said a Chinese state-linked firm hacked 260,000 internet-connected devices, including cameras and routers, in the U.S., Britain, France, Romania and elsewhere. A Congressional probe said Chinese cargo cranes used at U.S. seaports had embedded technology that could allow Beijing to secretly control them. The U.S. government alleged that a former top aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was a Chinese agent.
But maybe it shouldn't. Happen. Or seem.
The sport’s origin story isn’t exactly politically correct.
The outcome of the election could have profound consequences for both conflicts given the broad disagreements between Trump and Harris on how they should be resolved.
CBS said the need to make the “60 Minutes” interview segment concise prompted the editing. The full interview with Harris took 45 minutes, and it was fit into a 20-minute slot on the broadcast.
OK so far, if "concise" means "short." But neither of Harris's two answers presented by CBS was especially concise if concise means, well, concise, in my redoubtable opinion. They kinda blew this one.
But.
We all know that newspaper stories are edited, right? Edited for clarity, edited for available space, blah blah. TV news stores are edited too, for much the same reasons. I've participated in doing that myself from both sides of the camera.
There's something about TV and actually seeing people talking that makes a story seem more real than the same story in print. But it's not. Unless it's live. And live means televised directly as it happens. (And there's still some wizardry to contend with, but it's managable.)
If it's live, it's real. If it's not, it's Memorex.*
If wind can be owned, it can also be stolen. Wind theft occurs when one entity, typically a nation, builds a wind farm close to and upwind of an existing wind farm. Those new turbines, especially when built offshore, can slow wind speeds and decrease power generation at the old turbines.Also if wind can be owned…I'm just wondering here…can the owner of such wind be sued for damages if the wind gets out of hand?
Two decades, hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of cameras later, an Illinois Answers Project and Chicago Tribune investigation has found that reality has fallen far short of those early promises. While installing thousands of police surveillance cameras has undoubtedly helped catch criminals and solve crimes, Chicago’s ever-growing system has yet to become the crime-fighting panacea Daley predicted.
Increasingly it appears surveillance technologies employed by law enforcement are not worth the price of the privacy they invade and the mistrust they breed.
…we really need to be doing something about this rickety electric grid.
PowerOutage.us reports, at the moment, 63,000 customers still without power in North Carolina due to Hurricane Helene and more than 3,000,000 in Florida due to Milton.
And wait…NOAA reports a strong solar radiation storm in progress now which may disrupt communications and the power grid. (Also possibly produce Northern Lights as far south as Alabama.)
