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The Wyze Cam 4. | Image: Wyze Wyze is making it easier to find out which of your cats knocked over your planter while you were gone. It’s testing a new AI search feature for Cam Unlimited subscribers that lets you search through footage using keywords, rather than scrolling through all recorded events, as spotted by GeekWire. With the feature, you can search for things that might’ve been caught on camera, like “truck” or “delivery person.” You can even add more detail to your search by typing something like “show me my cat in the backyard” or “woman under an umbrella.” Wyze will then pull up relevant scenes using AI. However, Wyze notes that the feature isn’t perfect and you may “get some wonky results at times.” Still, it sounds like it could save you from having... Continue reading…

Image: The Verge OpenAI and Anthropic have agreed to let the US government access major new AI models before release to help improve their safety. The companies signed memorandums of understanding with the US AI Safety Institute to provide access to the models both before and after their public release, the agency announced on Thursday. The government says this step will help them work together to evaluate safety risks and mitigate potential issues. The US agency said it would provide feedback on safety improvements, in collaboration with its counterpart agency in the UK. Sharing access to AI models is a significant step at a time when federal and state legislatures are considering what kinds of guardrails to place on the technology without stifling... Continue reading…

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Jools Lebron At this point, you either already know about the “very demure, very mindful” meme that originated on TikTok, or you have neither the interest nor the capacity to understand. It is simply A Thing, a viral catchphrase that may become as ubiquitous in the 2020s as “eyebrows on fleek” was in the 2010s. And that is why every tabloid in America is running a story about a dispute over an application to register “Very Demure… Very Mindful…” as a trademark. The headlines go like this: Trademarks Are Very Demure, Very Mindful (TMZ) TikToker Jools Lebron Sobs Over Trademark Filing in Deleted TikTok (also TMZ) Who is Jefferson Bates and when did he trademark Jools Lebron’s very mindful very demure TikTok trend? (The Sun) Newest internet villain?... Continue reading…

A rendering of Sage Geosystems’ geothermal energy project. | Image: Sage Geosystems Meta announced a new partnership this week in the hopes that geothermal energy can help it reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Meta and startup Sage Geosystems struck up a deal to develop new geothermal power plants. If they make it to the finish line, the plants would provide carbon pollution-free energy that Meta needs for new data centers in the US. The company has struggled to keep its carbon pollution down since it pledged in 2020 to reach net zero emissions by the end of the decade, its latest sustainability report published yesterday shows. The race to develop more powerful AI tools has raised the stakes, triggering the development of new energy-hungry data centers. So, Meta is putting its faith in next-generation geothermal... Continue reading…

Image: Apple The Apple Sports app is gearing up for football season with an update that brings live scores and play-by-play information for NFL and college football games to your iPhone’s lock screen. With Live Activities support “for all teams and leagues available in the app for the first time ever” in iOS 18 and watchOS 11, now you can keep tabs on your team’s scores from the lock screen on your iPhone or Apple Watch. In addition to North American football, Apple Sports is adding UEFA Champions League and Europa League next month. For pro and college football fans in the US, the app is also adding a new “dynamic drive tracker” visual to show the ball's current position on the field. Image: Apple Live Activities will let you... Continue reading…

In the first few thousand years after the end of the last Ice Age, humanity experienced some curious and surprisingly rapid population crashes. While population crashes in ancient times have often been linked to epidemics, environmental changes and natural disasters, scientists are certain there were other causal factors that contributed to population fluctuations. In a new study just published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, a team of scientists led by experts from the Complexity Science Hub (CSH), a research institute in Vienna, presents evidence that exposure to warfare and other types of societal conflict played a major role in causing population losses in Europe during the Mid-Holocene era (between 5,000 and 3,000 BC). Factoring in Fear This new research did not focus on the loss of life associated with combat. It instead looked for evidence to show that the fear of conflict’s effects was enough to provoke large-scale ancient population movements across the vast Eurasian landscape, which in turn had a longer-term impact on the overall level of the human population. The study authors wrote in their journal article: Read moreSection: NewsHistory & ArchaeologyHistoryImportant EventsRead Later 

REHOBOTH BEACH, DE — Sources close to President Joe Biden report that he had recently decided to "take a break" from the pressures and demands of life on the beach by taking a brief vacation to the White House.