I am, admittedly, a big flirt. I love everything about the exchange of getting to know another person. The playful banter. The rush of dopamine. The sexual subtlety and subtext of everything not said. Flirting, to me, remains one of the last human endeavors where people are intentionally trying to find common ground. It’s pure…
Contributed Edward was one of the first children in England to be given the gene therapy Zolgensma through the NHS A five-year-old boy who received the world’s most expensive drug as a baby has made “incredible progress” and can walk independently, his mother said. Edward, from Colchester, has spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) which means he…
A woman says she felt “so guilty” for having skin cancer while pregnant with her son. Emma Giannuzzi, 36, from Rogerstone, Newport, used sunbeds regularly in her late teens and was diagnosed with melanoma twice – first at 23, and again during pregnancy after noticing a mole on her stomach, with tests after giving birth…
AI therapists could flatten humanity into patterns of prediction, and so sacrifice the intimate, individualized care that is expected of traditional human therapists. “The logic of PAI leads to a future where we may all find ourselves patients in an algorithmic asylum administered by digital wardens,” Oberhaus writes. “In the algorithmic asylum there is no…
The Food Chain’s Ruth Alexander on what helps – and what doesn’t – if you’ve overindulged. Source link
Take yourself back to 2017. Get Out and The Shape of Water were playing in theaters, Zohran Mamdani was still known as rapper Young Cardamom, and the Trump administration, freshly in power, was eager to prop up its favored energy sources. That year, the administration introduced a series of subsidies for struggling coal-fired power plants…
We announced a new experiment to improve browsing and manage complex online tasks. We’ve all felt the friction of juggling dozens of tabs to research a topic or plan a trip. Enter Disco, a new browsing experience from Google Labs designed to tame that complexity. Disco features GenTabs, an experiment that proactively synthesizes your open…
Businesses face a growing challenge: customers need answers fast, but support teams are overwhelmed. Support documentation like product manuals and knowledge base articles typically require users to search through hundreds of pages, and support agents often run 20–30 customer queries per day to locate specific information. This post demonstrates how to solve this challenge by…
Operating a self-managed MLflow tracking server comes with administrative overhead, including server maintenance and resource scaling. As teams scale their ML experimentation, efficiently managing resources during peak usage and idle periods is a challenge. Organizations running MLflow on Amazon EC2 or on-premises can optimize costs and engineering resources by using Amazon SageMaker AI with serverless…
Gemini Live is the more conversational, natural language way of interacting with the Google Gemini AI bot using your voice. The idea is you chat with it like you would chat with a friend, interruptions and all, even if the actual answers are the same as you’d get from typing your queries into Gemini as…
