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A seven-day plan for learning AI at ten minutes a day — and the three things it leaves out
The plan is sound and the safety warning is the right one. Wednesday is the day that matters, and the article is too modest about why.
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Jack Dorsey’s Block built a speech model that learned from recordings of people talking — and never read a word of text
It listens and speaks at the same time, laughs mid-sentence, and holds the thread when you pause. The interesting claim is about how it was…
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Gigabyte has put a Tk 14 lakh AI workstation on sale in Dhaka — here is the arithmetic on whether buying beats renting
On-device AI does cut cloud dependence, as the distributor says. Whether it cuts cost depends entirely on how many hours a month the…
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When did you last remember a phone number? The quiet cost of letting AI do the thinking
Handing a mental task to a machine is convenient. Done often enough, experts warn, the judgement you were exercising stops getting…
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The Amazon has lost 240 million acres of primary forest — the size of Texas and California together
Fifteen per cent of the Amazon’s primary forest is permanently gone. The researchers say the real story is not a looming tipping point but…
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More than 80 per cent get a fake message every week, and the volume itself is what makes the next one work
The research finding that matters is not how many scams arrive. It is that being alerted constantly erodes the ability to tell a real…
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A camera in the milking parlour spots a lame cow before the farmer can, and the farmer has been watching cows for fifty years
Northern Irish dairy farms are running cameras, robotic milking and record-keeping apps. What made it possible was not the AI — it was…
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A software developer got sick of roadside rubbish and built a dashcam that counts it — 28,000 reports later
One phone on a dashboard, a photo every ten seconds, and a complaint turned into a dataset. The interesting part is not the AI — it is what…
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Astronomers say they have found the exact dawn Van Gogh painted in The Starry Night — and the museum disagrees
The moon above Venus, with the Hyades cluster nearby, occurs on only three dawns in the summer of 1889. One of them is a very good match…
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The PHP panic produced millions of attack attempts, no confirmed breach, and a lot of intelligence that turned out to be rubbish
The flaws were real and serious. The reports that criminals already had working attacks were not — and the people who lost a week of sleep…
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One volunteer turned the PHP fix into something you could actually install — and earned a year’s donations in a week
The PHP Foundation published source code. Someone still had to turn it into packages a hosting company could install without expertise. For…
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Webb has found a reservoir of metals around the Milky Way’s black hole — and it may explain why ours eats so slowly
Our galaxy’s supermassive black hole feeds far more slowly than others of its kind. Knowing what the surrounding gas is made of is a step…