Title: Vaccinating Oldest First for COVID Saves the Most Lives: Study
Category: Health News
Created: 3/1/2021 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 3/1/2021 12:00:00 AM
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A computer artist has created a fittingly futuristic homage to Daft Punk, following the iconic duo’s announcement last week that they were splitting up. Composer Glenn Marshall paid homage to the group by using AI to generate a music video for their 2001 track “Voyager.” Marshall produced the film with a program called Story2Hallucination, a modification to the text-to-image generator Big Sleep. Story2Hallucination uses Big Sleep to convert text inputs into continuous animations. It enables users to divide entire paragraphs into short phrases and then animate the footage piece-by-piece. [Read: How do you build a pet-friendly gadget? We asked experts and animal owners] Marshall created his…
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Every day, digital advertisement agencies serve billions of ads on news websites, search engines, social media networks, video streaming websites, and other platforms. And they all want to answer the same question: Which of the many ads they have in their catalog is more likely to appeal to a certain viewer? Finding the right answer to this question can have a huge impact on revenue when you are dealing with hundreds of websites, thousands of ads, and millions of visitors. Fortunately (for the ad agencies, at least), reinforcement learning, the branch of artificial intelligence that has become renowned for mastering board and…
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When I saw the news that Apple would be releasing 217 new emojis into the world, I did what I always do: I asked my undergraduates what it meant to them. “We barely use them anymore,” they scoffed. To them, many emojis are like overenthusiastic dance moves at weddings: reserved for awkward millennials. “And they use them all wrong anyway,” my cohort from generation Z added earnestly. My work focuses on how people use technology, and I’ve been following the rise of emoji for a decade. With 3,353 characters available and 5 billion sent each day, emojis are now a significant language…
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Title: As Climate Change Lengthens Allergy Season, Pollen Travels Farther
Category: Health News
Created: 2/25/2021 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 2/26/2021 12:00:00 AM