Early last decade, Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow, web designers based in Auckland, New Zealand, were seeking a passion project. Their business, a boutique web design studio called Cactuslab, developed apps and websites for various clients, but they wanted a project of their own that their team could plug away at when there wasn’t much else to do. From a…
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Can Chatbots Simulate Conversations with Dead People?
The author of the book Online Afterlives describes the unusual projects of people like Eugenia Kuyda, co-founder of Luka, an AI-powered chat simulator that books restaurant reservations and makes recommendations. Kuyda worked with computer scientists to convert several thousand text messages between deceased tech entrepreneur Roman Mazurenko and his friends and relatives into a chatbot simulation: “How are you there?” asks…
Disney Will Test the Limits of ‘Franchise Fatigue’ in 2021 and 2022
An anonymous reader shares a report: In November 2019, just a few days after Disney+ launched, Netflix (NFLX) content chief (now co-CEO) Ted Sarandos, speaking at a Paley Center for Media event, said that Disney (DIS) is “bound by” its content universes, a reference mostly to Marvel and Star Wars. He continued: “I do think the risk of being bound in…
Doctor’s diary: Inside the first covid-19 vaccine clinics
Coronavirus vaccinations have begun in the UK, but it will be a huge challenge to deliver the vaccine more widely through local practices, writes one doctor working on the front line Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2262603-doctors-diary-inside-the-first-covid-19-vaccine-clinics/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Mysterious black spot in polar explorer’s diary offers gruesome clue to his fate
In 1907, explorer Jørgen Brønlund died during an expedition in Greenland. Scientists recently gleaned new details about Brønlund’s death from a mark in his diary. Source: https://www.livescience.com/greenland-explorer-diary-black-spot.html
Covid-19 doctor’s diary: I hope we got the winter flu vaccine right
Inadequate coronavirus testing and uncertainty over the success and supply of flu vaccines will leave doctors in the England poorly prepared to cope this winter Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833033-300-covid-19-doctors-diary-i-hope-we-got-the-winter-flu-vaccine-right/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Doctor’s diary: How can we deal with the long covid-19 symptoms?
The coronavirus has handed doctors many challenges, writes Selma Stafford, the latest being previously healthy young people debilitated by covid-19 Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24733014-000-doctors-diary-how-can-we-deal-with-the-long-covid-19-symptoms/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Diary reveals location of hidden Nazi gold stash
A mysterious diary kept for decades by a Masonic lodge could lead to the whereabouts of 30 tons of Nazi gold. The diary, which was written 75 years ag… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/337396/diary-reveals-location-of-hidden-nazi-gold-stash…
Nazi diary reveals secret location of WWII treasure under a palace in Poland
A long-hidden diary written by a Nazi officer may point to the location of a treasure stash that includes more than 30 tons of buried gold. Source: https://www.livescience.com/nazi-diary-buried-gold.html
What has China’s rover found on the moon’s far side?
Chinese media have reported that the Yutu-2 rover has discovered a “gel-like” substance in a crater on the far side of the moon. It sounds intriguing, but details are still scarce. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/what-has-chinas-rover-found-on-the-moons-far-side…