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Escaped cow found trapped on neighbor’s trampoline
Tesla owner says he butt-dialed a $4,280 Autopilot upgrade — and is still waiting on a refund
A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data — a process the researchers call “less than one”-shot, or LO-shot, learning.
We assume we choose things that we like, but research suggests that’s sometimes backward: We like things because we choose them, and we dislike things that we don’t choose
We study the diffusion of a true and a false message (the rumor) in a social network. Upon hearing a message, individuals may believe it, disbelieve it, or debunk it through costly verification. Whenever the truth survives in steady state, so does the rumor. Our model highlights that successful policies in the fight against rumors increase individuals’ incentives to verify. [PDF]
How do we know that knuckle cracking is harmless?
Snapchat has turned London into an augmented reality experiment — a proof of concept for a 1:1 digital copy of everything on the planet
Just 3% of Netflix’s most-watched content over the last six weeks was actually produced by Netflix
removing body hair was something both men and women did — as far back as the Stone Age, then through ancient Egypt, Greece and the Roman Empire — using seashells, beeswax and various other depilatories
the zeptosecond, the shortest unit of time ever measured
‘Person in jetpack’ spotted flying again near LA airport
The Royal Navy has been testing Jet Suit assault teams
