🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared someway or another on television.
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Colossal Biosciences created "wooly mice" with long fur similar to woolly mammoths by editing up to seven genes simultaneously. This achievement demonstrates advanced gene-editing techniques crucial for their de-extinction projects, despite significant challenges ahead in achieving mammoth-like changes in elephants.
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Scientists at Colossal Biosciences have created genetically modified "woolly mice" with cold tolerance traits, resembling mammoth characteristics. This step aims to inform the de-extinction of woolly mammoths by genetically modifying Asian elephants, with the first calf expected by 2028.
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Archaeologists discovered a significant carved waka (canoe) in the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Found with over 450 artefacts, this Moriori ancestral boat is expected to offer groundbreaking insights into Polynesian voyaging and boat-building practices.
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Stanford researchers found AI writing tools are increasingly used in less-educated areas and rural regions in the U.S., contradicting typical tech adoption patterns. The study analyzed millions of texts from 2022-2024, revealing AI's growing influence in professional and consumer communications.
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Researchers at the University of California San Diego's Hao AI Lab tested AI models in Super Mario Bros., finding that real-time gameplay challenges traditional step-by-step reasoning models. Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 excelled, while Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro and OpenAI’s GPT-4o struggled, highlighting an evaluation crisis in AI benchmarking.
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The LA Times, under owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, has introduced AI-generated "Voices" labels and insights for detecting bias in articles. This move faces union criticism for lack of editorial oversight, resulting in controversial and flawed outputs.
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Cohere For AI's lab released Aya Vision, a multimodal AI model excelling in tasks like image captioning and text translation in 23 languages. Available for free on WhatsApp and licensed non-commercially, it's trained with synthetic annotations to boost efficiency and accessibility for researchers.
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Sergey Brin encourages Google employees to work 60-hour weeks to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI), despite no immediate changes to work-from-home policies. Google remains committed to AGI, though its profitability in AI lags behind competitors.
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Microsoft's new Dragon Copilot is an AI assistant designed for healthcare, offering features like dictation and ambient listening to reduce clinicians' administrative tasks. It aims to enhance patient care and alleviate clinician burnout, leveraging Nuance's voice technology.
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⭐ 2014, 🖖 423
Browser-based management platform of machine, database (mysql pgsql oracle sqlserver Gauss sqlite), redis(standalone sentinel cluster), mongo unified management and operation platform. (web版linux(终端 文件 脚本 进程)、数据库(mysql pgsql oracle sqlserver 高斯 达梦 sqlite)、数据同步、redis(单机 哨兵 集群)、mongo统一管理操作平台)
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⭐ 2954, 🖖 123
Simple macOS menu bar application to view and interact with reminders. Developed with SwiftUI and using Apple Reminders as a source.
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⭐ 3743, 🖖 111
Open source distributed Platform as a Service (PaaS). A self-hosted Vercel / Netlify / Cloudflare alternative.
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⭐ 6708, 🖖 1214
Use LLMs to dig out what you care about from massive amounts of information and a variety of sources daily.
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⭐ 37, 🖖 1
Vidformer – Drop-In Acceleration for Cv2 Video Annotation Scripts
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