This month, Jeremy Howard, an artificial intelligence researcher, introduced an online chatbot called ChatGPT to his 7-year-old daughter. It had been released a few days earlier by OpenAI, one of the world’s most ambitious AI labs. He told her to ask the experimental chatbot anything that came to mind. She asked what trigonometry was used …
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Ninety-nine percent of infants in the United States are screened for hearing loss at birth. But when you look around the world, that number drops to just 40%. Failure to diagnose hearing problems early on can have major implications for these children. But a team of scientists from the University of Washington has created a …
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After being diagnosed with infertility, a Dixon couple invented a device to help: PherDal. It costs just $149 and claims to be safe, sterile, and intended for home use. DIXON, Ill. — When you enter the Hintzsche-Westphal house, the family is at the center of everything. The branches of the Christmas trees bend under the …
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Hello. FortuneThe Brainstorm AI conference kicked off yesterday in San Francisco, providing a dramatic testament to the advances in AI technology that have been made over the past year. (If you haven’t followed these advances, check out this article on Open AI’s new chatbot or play with its sibling, Dall-E, which creates images from text.) …
It’s now much easier — and cheaper — for many hearing-impaired Americans to get help. Hearing aids can now be sold without a prescription from a specialist. Over-the-counter, or OTC, hearing aids began hitting the market in October at prices that can be thousands of dollars lower than prescription hearing aids. About 30 million people …
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Tuvalu’s defining attribute on the world stage is the precarious nature of its existence – in less than a hundred years it will disappear. But, in an effort to preserve Tuvalu’s maritime borders, culture and sovereignty in the face of stochastic events and rising sea levels, Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Kausea Natano announced he was leading …
This story is part Tips for the houseCNET’s collection of handy tips for getting the most out of your home, inside and out. I would bet when you moved into your house or rental propertyyou configure your router with a name and password, and haven’t thought about it yet. Am I right? Well, I’m here …
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This story is part Tips for the houseCNET’s collection of handy tips for getting the most out of your home, inside and out. Whether you just bought a new Amazon Echo device during the Cyber Week sale or got your trusty echo dot for years you may have already understood the basics of using Alexa, …
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This story is part Tips for the houseCNET’s collection of handy tips for getting the most out of your home, inside and out. Whether you just bought a new Amazon Echo device during the Cyber Week sale or got your trusty echo dot for years you may have already understood the basics of using Alexa, …
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IIn mid-November, several striking monuments rose from the ground in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. One paid homage to Gaspar Yanga, a slave-turned-liberator who led a successful uprising against Spanish colonizers in the 16th century. Yanga does not appear in many American textbooks, and the Los Angeles City Council did not pay for the …
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