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Parties and celebrations across the world ring in 2024

Parties and celebrations across the world ring in 2024

Thanks for joining us on our whistle-stop tour of new year celebrations around the world. We’ve covered the major displays from Auckland in New Zealand, and the 12-minute extravaganza’s in Sydney and Hong Kong. Hundreds of thousands of people in Paris converged on the Champs Elysees for an Olympic-themed party ahead of the 2024 Games…
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Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child

Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child

The founder of the MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte pushed the edge of the information revolution as an inventor, thinker and angel investor. He’s the driving force behind One Laptop per Child, building computers for children in the developing world.

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eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, nov 30th 2023– Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) issued a ruling opening the door to criminalizing journalistic work, according to sources in Brasilia. As per the new rationale, the media can be held legally responsible for the publication of interviews with people who falsely attribute crimes to third parties and such a doctrine is to…
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Eternal Equipoise: millennia at Eurasia’s heart

Eternal Equipoise: millennia at Eurasia’s heart

How Xinjiang’s Uyghurs perennially bridge east and west Razib Khan On March 1, 2014, eight knife-wielding ethnic Uyghur assailants attacked passengers at a Kunming railway station in the province of Yunnan, China, killing 31 and wounding 143 others. Occurring deep in southern China, where Han are the overwhelming majority, the terror attack shocked the nation.…
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Meta’s AI leaders want you to know fears over AI existential risk are “ridiculous”

MIT Technology Review It’s a really weird time in AI. In just six months, the public discourse around the technology has gone from “Chatbots generate funny sea shanties” to “AI systems could cause human extinction.” Who else is feeling whiplash? My colleague Will Douglas Heaven asked AI experts why exactly people are talking about existential…
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ChatGPT Tutorial – A Crash Course on Chat GPT for Beginners

This ChatGPT Tutorial is a Crash Course on Chat GPT for Beginners. With the increase in popularity, ChatGPT is still unknown to many people. In this video, I will provide a crash course on different ways to use ChatGPT.

That Dot. Look once more.

And again Pale Blue Dot. eyesonbrasil That’s what they named the photograph the Voyager took of our Earth in 1990 from a distance of six billion ( 6.000.000.000.000 ) kilometers away, the moment it was just about to leave our galaxy. Why this old news now and why here? Because it may be too late…
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Bob Nadkarni: 1943-2023

by Gabe Ponce de Leon The first time I walked through its doors, back in 2005, the Maze was just a family home. Its main claim to fame, at that point, was having been featured in the Snoop Dog video “Beautiful.” But I was completely blown away by the setup: The idiosyncratic design of the…
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Internetworking Edition 2023 & Potsdam Cyber Games

Internetworking Edition 2023 & Potsdam Cyber Games Dear Learning Community, Around five billion people worldwide use the Internet – more than half the world’s population. It has revolutionized our everyday lives. Banking transactions, sending e-mails, ordering products online – all this can be done easily and quickly via the network of networks. If you want…
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