Comment Re:Anyone using this? (Score 1) 19
Thanks!
Comment Re:Anyone using this? (Score 1) 19
Interesting. Thanks!
Comment Anyone using this? (Score 1) 19
I can only find demo code. Is anyone using this now or working on anything?
Comment Re:small business (Score 1) 78
Small businesses that get a lot of these calls will revolt quickly. Google can try to force them to feed the machine but its not going to work well.
#2 Google AI answering machine
#3 Profit!
Comment Re:small business (Score 1) 78
Also, how anti-social do you have to be to want this feature?
My anecdotal evidence tells me there's a non negligible amount of people who don't like to talk to strangers on the phone. However I'm likewise assured there's a negligible amount of businesses that don't have an email address or a webform so I'm a bit puzzled as to why someone would opt to use an AI caller.
Comment Re:50% of misogynist tweets from women - BBC (Score 1) 146
https://www.bbc.com/news/techn...
Twitter abuse - '50% of misogynistic tweets from women' - 26 May 2016 - BBC
Half of all misogynistic tweets posted on Twitter come from women, a study suggests.
Over a three-week period, the Demos think tank , external counted the number of uses of two particular words as indicators of misogyny.
It found evidence of large-scale misogyny, with 6,500 unique users targeted by 10,000 abusive tweets in the UK alone.
Twitter boss Jack Dorsey has said that tackling abuse is a priority.
The research comes as UK MPs - Yvette Cooper, Maria Miller, Stella Creasy, Jess Philips - alongside former Liberal Democrat minister Jo Swinson, launch their Reclaim the Internet campaign, in response to growing public concern about the impact of hate speech and abuse on social media....
The article you linked to says:
Correction 27 May 2016: This article originally linked to the wrong Demos study. This has now been corrected to the relevant press release. The think tank has not published its latest data in full.
But all the links are dead.
The closest I can find on Demos is this two years previous, 2014 study http://demos.co.uk/wp-content/...
Is that the study or is there something else I can't find (perhaps it was a follow up that was revoked)?
Submission + - Chinese Firms Rush For Nvidia Chips As US Prepares To Lift Ban (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Chinese firms have begun rushing to order Nvidia's H20 AI chips as the company plans to resume sales to mainland China, Reuters reports. The chip giant expects to receive US government licenses soon so that it can restart shipments of the restricted processors just days after CEO Jensen Huang met with President Donald Trump, potentially generating $15 billion to $20 billion in additional revenue this year. Nvidia said in a statement that it is filing applications with the US government to resume H20 sales and that "the US government has assured Nvidia that licenses will be granted, and Nvidia hopes to start deliveries soon." [...]
The H20 chips represent Nvidia's most capable AI processors legally available in China, though they contain less computing power than versions sold elsewhere due to export restrictions imposed in 2022. Nvidia is currently banned from selling its most powerful GPUs in China. Despite these limitations, Chinese tech giants, including ByteDance and Tencent, are reportedly scrambling to place orders for the lesser chip through what sources describe as an approved list managed by Nvidia. "The Chinese market is massive, dynamic, and highly innovative, and it's also home to many AI researchers," Reuters reports Huang telling Chinese state broadcaster CCTV during his visit to Beijing, where he is scheduled to speak at a supply chain expo on Wednesday. "Therefore, it is indeed crucial for American companies to establish roots in the Chinese market."
The resumption of H20 sales marks a shift in US-China technology relations after the chips were effectively banned in April with an onerous export license requirement, forcing Nvidia to take a $4.5 billion write-off for excess inventory and purchase obligations. According to Reuters, Chinese sales generated $17 billion in revenue for Nvidia in the fiscal year ending January 26, representing 13 percent of total sales. Nvidia also announced it will introduce a new "RTX Pro" chip model specifically tailored to meet regulatory rules in the Chinese market, though the company provided no details about its specifications or capabilities.
The H20 chips represent Nvidia's most capable AI processors legally available in China, though they contain less computing power than versions sold elsewhere due to export restrictions imposed in 2022. Nvidia is currently banned from selling its most powerful GPUs in China. Despite these limitations, Chinese tech giants, including ByteDance and Tencent, are reportedly scrambling to place orders for the lesser chip through what sources describe as an approved list managed by Nvidia. "The Chinese market is massive, dynamic, and highly innovative, and it's also home to many AI researchers," Reuters reports Huang telling Chinese state broadcaster CCTV during his visit to Beijing, where he is scheduled to speak at a supply chain expo on Wednesday. "Therefore, it is indeed crucial for American companies to establish roots in the Chinese market."
The resumption of H20 sales marks a shift in US-China technology relations after the chips were effectively banned in April with an onerous export license requirement, forcing Nvidia to take a $4.5 billion write-off for excess inventory and purchase obligations. According to Reuters, Chinese sales generated $17 billion in revenue for Nvidia in the fiscal year ending January 26, representing 13 percent of total sales. Nvidia also announced it will introduce a new "RTX Pro" chip model specifically tailored to meet regulatory rules in the Chinese market, though the company provided no details about its specifications or capabilities.
Submission + - FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out (wired.com)
fjo3 writes: Newly uncovered metadata reveals that nearly three minutes of footage were cut from what the US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation described as “full raw” surveillance video from the only functioning camera near Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead. The video was released last week as part of the Trump administration’s commitment to fully investigate Epstein’s 2019 death but instead has raised new questions about how the footage was edited and assembled.
Comment Re:if u want 2 kill dolphins (Score 1) 74
It will definitely attract protesters, just like every other energy source.
It will definitively attract naysayers https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa...
Comment Re:if u want 2 kill dolphins (Score 1) 74
I can't think of any protests against solar in general. Although I'm sure there must have been some conflict about developing particular sites, same as if they were going to build apartments or anything else.
Surprise!
But we don't want wind and we don't want solar because they're a blight on our country. They hurt our country very badly and smart countries don't use it.
Comment Re:Tier 2 time. (Score 4, Informative) 240
Hopefully the NTSB's tier 2 people are ready; since they did in fact try turning it off and turning it on again and there's still more to the situation.
I don't think the NTSB will be handling this investigate since it happened outside their jurisdiction. They'll be very interested in the investigation results I'm sure.
From TFA:
The Initial notification of the accident as per ICAO Annex 13 was sent to National
Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), USA which represented the State of Design &
Manufacture. As per the information notified to AAIB, the fatalities amongst passengers also
included citizens from United Kingdom, Portugal and Canada. The initial notification of the
accident as per ICAO Annex 13 was also sent the AAIB-UK, GPIAAF-Portugal and
Transportation Safety Board (TSB)-Canada which represented the other States whose
citizens suffered fatalities in the accident.
NTSB, USA appointed an Accredited Representative and Technical Advisers from Boeing,
GE and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to assist in this Investigation. A team led
by the NTSB Accredited Representative comprising of representatives from Boeing, GE and
FAA arrived at Ahmedabad on 15.06.2025 and participated in the Investigation. A team of
officials from AAIB, UK also arrived at Ahmedabad and visited the site with DG, AAIB.
Submission + - Record-Setting Dark Matter Detector Comes Up Empty -- and That's Good News (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) are one of the most serious contenders for dark matter—the “missing” mass supposedly constituting 85% of our universe. Given its elusiveness, dark matter tests the patience and creativity of physicists. But the latest results from LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), the South Dakota-based detector, may have brought scientists a small step closer to catching WIMPs in action. In a recent Physical Review Letters paper, scientists analyzed 280 days’ worth of data from LUX-ZEPLIN, reporting the tightest ever upper limit on the interaction strength of WIMPs. The result—a near fivefold improvement—demonstrates how physicists are increasingly getting better at circumventing the problem that dark matter is, well, dark; the elusive stuff evades any detection method that depends on materials interacting with visible light or other types of radiation.
The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, located one mile underground in a decommissioned South Dakota gold mine, employs nearly 15,000 pounds (7 tons) of liquid xenon. The chemical element’s high atomic mass and density make it potentially easier for scientists to detect any unknown particles that may pass through the detector. Also, liquid xenon is transparent, preventing any unwanted noise — usually arising from radioactive matter around the detector—from spoiling an experiment. “These results firmly establish that LZ is the world’s most sensitive search for dark matter heavier than 10 GeV, that’s about 10 times heavier than a proton,” explained Scott Haselschwart, a physicist at the University of Michigan and LZ physics coordinator, in an email to Gizmodo. “To put our result in perspective: we have ruled out dark matter that would interact only once in a single kilogram of xenon every four millennia!”
The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, located one mile underground in a decommissioned South Dakota gold mine, employs nearly 15,000 pounds (7 tons) of liquid xenon. The chemical element’s high atomic mass and density make it potentially easier for scientists to detect any unknown particles that may pass through the detector. Also, liquid xenon is transparent, preventing any unwanted noise — usually arising from radioactive matter around the detector—from spoiling an experiment. “These results firmly establish that LZ is the world’s most sensitive search for dark matter heavier than 10 GeV, that’s about 10 times heavier than a proton,” explained Scott Haselschwart, a physicist at the University of Michigan and LZ physics coordinator, in an email to Gizmodo. “To put our result in perspective: we have ruled out dark matter that would interact only once in a single kilogram of xenon every four millennia!”
Submission + - The terrifying truth about why Tesla's cars keep crashing (theguardian.com)
Alain Williams writes: Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles. But a series of shocking incidents – from drivers trapped in burning vehicles to dramatic stops on the highway – have led to questions about the safety of the brand. Why won’t Tesla give any answers?
Comment Re:Great loss; could have been worse (Score 3, Informative) 117
I only see the constant last-minute fixes it seems to need and that user space tooling is dropped from Debian for being unmaintainable, which tells me that - regardless what technological wonder it may be - it is certainly not a filesystem I would use.
Blog post from the debian maintainer https://jonathancarter.org/202... debian bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bi... I can only concur with your conclusion.
Submission + - Defense Department to stop sharing satellite weather data. (npr.org)
Dustin Destree writes: Maybe it's conspiracy theory, maybe it's connected, but I remember something about AccuWeather wanting this to happen so only they could get the data, and then sell it to others. No more hurricane data, and it'll be so much easier to deny climate change when you can no longer see the sea ice retreating, or can't afford (if they sell it) access to the data proving so!
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