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Pacemakers are used to stimulate a regular heartbeat when the body's natural electrical pacing system is irregular or not transmitting properly. Over the years, various power sources have been used for pacemakers, including thermoelectric batteries containing 2 to 4 curies of plutonium-238 (88 year half-life). As the term "thermoelectric" implies, the heat from the decaying plutonium is used to generate the electricity that stimulates the heart. At present (2003), there are between 50 and 100 p
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It's no secret that 28 Years Later used iPhones to shoot parts of the film. Now its director, Danny Boyle, has discussed the use of iPhones for the film in more detail with IGN. The first film in the franchise, 28 Days Later, was shot on digital video, giving it a homemade feel. Boyle explained that he and writer Alex Garland got the idea from the fact that home video cameras were common at the time, and people would've shot videos with them if an apocalypse had indeed happened. Those cameras, o
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pckb -- PunchCard Key Backup About This small project -- available live at https://volution.ro/pckb (or https://purl.org/999 for long term permanence) -- allows one to take any 128 bits of information, and easily create (and especially easily recover) a backup of it into a physical medium, by using the old and tried method of punched cards (hence the project's name). For example, the 128 bit number represented in hexadecimal as d74ae47dc6f599d3f9cb847bd77d6b7c , can be backed up as the follow
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A human reading dest-igmat-ize would have trouble understanding it until they recognized that the st belongs in the next group. Indeed, hyphenation dictionaries for e-readers disallow hyphens that break syllables for exactly this reason. Byte pair encoding (BPE) The tokenizer used by GPT-2 (and most variants of Bert) is built using byte pair encoding (BPE). Bert itself uses some proprietary heuristics to learn its vocabulary but uses the same greedy algorithm as BPE to tokenize. BPE comes from
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This research complies with relevant ethical regulations. The study protocol was approved by the Broad’s Institutional Biosafety Committee, the Broad’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and relevant IACUC compliance committees at Massachusetts General Hospital. Cell culture Culture of mESCs and HEK293T cells was performed according to previously published protocols100. Undifferentiated 129P2/OlaHsd mESC (male) lines125 were maintained on 0.2% gelatin-coated plates feeder-free
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This research complies with relevant ethical regulations. The study protocol was approved by the Broad’s Institutional Biosafety Committee, the Broad’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and relevant IACUC compliance committees at Massachusetts General Hospital. Cell culture Culture of mESCs and HEK293T cells was performed according to previously published protocols100. Undifferentiated 129P2/OlaHsd mESC (male) lines125 were maintained on 0.2% gelatin-coated plates feeder-free
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Alarming Spy Device Can Read Text in an Open Book From Nearly a Mile Away Enhance! Dark Lord's Spy Scientists say they've developed a ludicrously keen-eyed laser device that can read the text in a book from a whopping 0.85 miles away. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the team used interferometry, a commonly used technique in the world of astronomy that uses superimposed waves of light to create interference patterns, to develop the spy system. How
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Lisping at JPL Copyright (c) 2002 by Ron Garret (f.k.a. Erann Gat), all rights reserved. This is the story of the rise and fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab as told from my personal (and highly biased) point of view. I am not writing in my official capacity as an employee of JPL, nor am I in any way representing the official position of JPL. (This will become rather obvious shortly.) 1988-1991 - The Robotics Years JPL at the time was in the early planning stages for a Mars rover mission
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This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. New research shows that penguin guano in Antarctica is an important source of ammonia aerosol particles that help drive the formation and persistence of low clouds, which cool the climate by reflecting some incoming sunlight back to space. The findings reinforce the growing awareness that Earth’s intricate web
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In the latest phase of Operation Endgame, an international law enforcement operation, national authorities from seven countries seized 300 servers and 650 domains used to launch ransomware attacks. "From 19 to 22 May, authorities took down some 300 servers worldwide, neutralised 650 domains, and issued international arrest warrants against 20 targets, dealing a direct blow to the ransomware kill chain," according to the joint action's official website. "In addition, EUR 3.5 million in cryptocu
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An outdated Meta AI model was apparently at the center of the Department of Government Efficiency's initial ploy to purge parts of the federal government. Wired reviewed materials showing that affiliates of Elon Musk's DOGE working in the Office of Personnel Management "tested and used Meta’s Llama 2 model to review and classify responses from federal workers to the infamous 'Fork in the Road' email that was sent across the government in late January." The "Fork in the Road" memo seemed to cop
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The hacker ecosystem in Russia, more than perhaps anywhere else in the world, has long blurred the lines between cybercrime, state-sponsored cyberwarfare, and espionage. Now an indictment of a group of Russian nationals and the takedown of their sprawling botnet offers the clearest example in years of how a single malware operation allegedly enabled hacking operations as varied as ransomware, wartime cyberattacks in Ukraine, and spying against foreign governments. The US Department of Justice t
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A Russian state-sponsored cyberespionage campaign attributed to APT28 (Fancy Bear/Forest Blizzard) hackers has been targeting and compromising international organizations since 2022 to disrupt aid efforts to Ukraine. The hackers targeted entities in the defense, transportation, IT services, air traffic, and maritime sectors in 12 European countries and the United States. Additionally, the hackers have been tracking the movement of materials into Ukraine by compromising access to private camera
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The U.S. Department of Justice then took control of Lumma's "central command structure" and squashed the online marketplaces where bad actors purchased the malware. Microsoft said its digital crimes unit was able to dismantle the web domains underpinning Lumma's infrastructure with the help of a court order from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Microsoft said Wednesday that it broke down the Lumma Stealer malware project with the help of law enforcement officials a
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Despite the fact that billions of dollars are being poured into reshaping energy infrastructure around the needs of AI, no one has settled on a way to quantify AI’s energy usage. Worse, companies are generally unwilling to disclose their own piece of the puzzle. There are also limitations to estimating the emissions associated with that energy demand, because the grid hosts a complicated, ever-changing mix of energy sources. It’s a big mess, basically. So, that said, here are the many variables
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Cairo-based Sylndr has raised $15.7 million as it expands beyond online used car sales into auto financing, servicing, and tools for dealers. Development Partners International’s Nclude Fund led the round. The company, which operates in Egypt’s fast-growing but under-digitized vehicle market, said the latest round includes both fresh equity and previously unannounced seed financing. Sylndr also raised nearly $10 million in debt financing from local banks in the past year, bringing its total ra
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New Orleans' police force secretly used constant facial recognition to seek out suspects for two years. An investigation by The Washington Post discovered that the city's police department was using facial recognition technology on a privately owned camera network to continually look for suspects. This application seems to violate a city ordinance passed in 2022 that required facial recognition only be used by the NOLA police to search for specific suspects of violent crimes and then to provide
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"We’ve crushed fascism before and we’ll crush it again." Crushing Fascism A 98-year-old World War II veteran, who served in the British Army, absolutely destroyed a Tesla vehicle with the license plate "FASCIM" in a recently shared YouTube video. As first spotted by Gizmodo, veteran Ken Turner used a Sherman tank, one of the most widely used tanks used by the US and its western allies against the Nazis in World War II, to turn a navy blue Tesla into a pancake. The video was uploaded by the B
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A new startup claims it can mass-produce "Superwood," a material that's stronger and lighter than steel, with 90 percent lower carbon emissions compared to the widely used alloy. InventWood, the company behind the material, says its new product "has the capacity to substitute up to 80 percent of steel used globally," and "reduce greenhouse gas emissions by over 2 gigatons." According to the firm, its Superwood has up to 50 percent more tensile strength compared to steel, has "minimal expansion
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During a recent cabinet meeting, President Donald Trump’s then national security adviser, Mike Waltz, must have been bored. Apparently unaware of the photographer behind him, he was caught clandestinely checking his Signal messages under the table. Only he wasn’t using the official Signal app, which is widely considered to be the gold standard of encrypted messaging apps. He was actually using a clone of Signal called TeleMessage Signal, or TM SGNL. This app, made by TeleMessage (which was rece
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The bright, glitched-out, typography-forward look of Bungie's upcoming extraction shooter Marathon is one of its defining features. As it turns out, it's also partially plagiarized, according to posts shared on the official Marathon X account. The announcement comes after artist Fern Hook, who goes by @4nt1r34l on X, initially accused Bungie of using in-game textures that looked similar to her original artwork on May 15. "Bungie is of course not obligated to hire me when making a game that draw
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Anthropic has responded to allegations that it used an AI-fabricated source in its legal battle against music publishers, saying its Claude chatbot made an “honest citation mistake.” An erroneous citation was included in a filing submitted by Anthropic data scientist Olivia Chen on April 30th, as part of the AI company’s defense against claims that copyrighted lyrics were used to train Claude. An attorney representing Universal Music Group, ABKCO, and Concord said in a hearing that sources refe
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A 2024 update that slid under the radar says content 'may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to' AI. Following backlash about a quietly added clause to SoundCloud's Terms of Use that says users' content may be fed to AI, the company says it's "never used artist content to train AI models," and insists it "has always been and will remain artist-first." The outrage came after tech ethicist Ed Newton-Rex (via TechCrunch) spotted a change to SoundCloud's terms that was made in Febr
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As sci-fi fans well know by now, it wouldn’t be the Hugo Awards without some spice on the side. In recent years, the esteemed prize—handed out annually at the World Science Fiction Society convention, also known as Worldcon, whose members vote on the honorees—has weathered its share of controversies, with negative headlines (take your pick: geographical censorship; racism; ties to defense manufacturers; anti-“woke” backlash before anti-“woke” was even a thing) sometimes getting more attention th
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What just happened? We've seen stories in the past of people using artificial intelligence to have conversations with deceased loved ones – or at least the system's interpretation of their personality. Now, AI technology has been used so a man who was murdered in a road rage incident in 2021 could address his killer in court. 37-year-old army veteran Christopher Pelkey was killed by Gabriel Horcasitas at a red light in 2021 in Chandler, Arizona. Pelkey had left his vehicle and was walking back
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The vocal effects of Daft Punk Daft Punk have used a wide variety of vocal effects in their songs. A May 2001 interview in Remix magazine provided a rare insight from Daft Punk themselves on the topic. The quote delivers some vital clues, but it’s incomplete, covering only their first two albums. There’s no mention of using a talk box, despite Around The World almost certainly using one. The quote makes it sound like the DigiTech Vocalist is a vocoder, but it’s not. And for that matter, which
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You may have seen that Nintendo recently filed a lawsuit against us. We’re taking it seriously and working with legal counsel to respond thoughtfully. What we can say is this: Genki has always been an independent company focused on building innovative gaming accessories for the community we love. We’re proud of the work we’ve done, and we stand by the quality and originality of our products. While we can’t comment in detail, we’re continuing preparations to fulfill orders and showcase our newe
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It would be really funny if those iconically preachy "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" anti-piracy ads turned out to use pirated — sorry, stolen — materials, huh? Like, really really funny. Who could ask for a richer pièce de résistance to highlight just how outrageous its central thesis is: that downloading something from the internet is somehow just as serious or harmful an offense as grand theft auto? Well, readers, have we a plot twist for you. As TorrentFreak reports, there's a very high chance t
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A hot potato: Once again, the problem of AI being used by students to cheat on exams has reared its head. On this occasion, the University of Waterloo's Canadian Computing Competition (CCC) has decided not to publish its official results, which it usually does, over the belief that AI was used by some participants to write code. Those who do well in the University of Waterloo's CCC are often accepted into the University's prestigious computing and engineering programs, or are even selected to r
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A hot potato: Once again, the problem of AI being used by students to cheat on exams has reared its head. On this occasion, the University of Waterloo's Canadian Computing Competition (CCC) has decided not to publish its official results, which it usually does, over the belief that AI was used by some participants to write code. Those who do well in the University of Waterloo's CCC are often accepted into the University's prestigious computing and engineering programs, or are even selected to r
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