Except:
A) we are talking about sea temps 10m below the surface across a global data set. Some Enlightenment polymaths taking readings with their home made thermometers in Europe wouldn't impact that data set at all.
B) "guestimates" would be hilarious to include in a conclusion being reached based on HUNDREDTHS of a degree (0.10 vs 0.09)

My supposition would be this is modem data only, eg since the 1990s MAYBE.

Comic Tropes just released a video about this sort of thing.

Two Japanese manga artists, one accused of plagiarism and the other not. Both copy poses from fashion magazines and photos of famous artists, but one traces them directly while the other takes inspiration from them and then draws his own version from scratch.

A subtle distinction, but an important one.

To be fair he has developed a lot of other people in the industry, and created the Beats brand that was sold to Apple.

There is always an element of luck - right place, right time, or born to wealthy parents - but he does seem to have some talent and understanding of the industry.

Arguably this is a demonstration of that. In the end people won't care if the bass line was made with AI, that's not why they listen to the kind of music he produces.

There's nothing particularly interesting or surprising about it. The barrier is there to protect the robots from damage, and to protect the spectators and the stadium from damage. These are experimental machines and weigh enough that they could cause damage or injure someone.

The stretchers are for the same reason, basically. The robots have to be autonomous, with the only remote control being a kill switch to make them inert, for safety reasons. To prevent the teams having to go onto the track to recover their robots, they simply stretcher them off. Saves time, and helps control human access to the track. Similar to motor racing where cars are recovered by track staff, not the teams.

These are all long established safety rules for any kind of event involving machines, or even equipment like swords and javelins used by human competitors.

There isn't any reason for them to rush. They are on track, and the manned missions aren't affected by the delay. They certainly would be affected if it failed though, as they would need to build new hardware and repeat the mission to find a suitable landing spot.

First, I thought everyone knew about this, the same as using the HTML canvas and CSS to do fingerprinting. I'm sure they aren't the first to do it. That's one reason why audio permission has defaulted to off in my browsers for as long as I can remember.

Second, even if you for some reason trust Amazon and the like more, AliExpress is how you avoid getting shafted by middle men. 90% of the stuff on Amazon is just AliExpress resellers and a 1000% mark-up. Boycotting them is going to be very, very expensive.

Walking on two legs is not a smart mode of locomotion for a machine.

If you do not find fun as an adult, you are doing it wrong. Here is a hint: Regressing yourself to a mental child is not the way to do it.

Linkedin (like Facebook) has evolved to one of those sites that it feels like the digital equivalent of shopping a wet-market in Wuhan.

Nope. But idiots incapable of learning, like you, are still expecting the golden age tomorrow when it has been announced to manifest very soon for 30 years now.

QCs are not going to happen. Deal with it.

I agree. But what this means is the death of low and medium expertise levels. People that get high expertise have always found ways to do it. They are just pretty rare (maybe 10% of all CS/IT people), and that makes them expensive. On the plus-side, we have been producing way too much (mostly crappy) software anyways and we have used way too high-maintenance server and software systems in addition. The 10% are quite enough to keep things running and maintained once all the cruft and crap is removed from service. Obviously, AI will not play a role in that, because it cannot and will never be able to perform on that level.

On the one hand, ai is indeed getting better at writing banal fluff pieces that fill the Internet.

On the other, human writing is growing so awful in both subject and quality (this morning's bbc contains an article where one of their interns sprightly explains she's been able to train her self to wake without an alarm clock, golly!) that little of value is being supplanted.

Hell, I expect an ai editor of slashdot would post fewer dupes and likely be better at summarizing the point rather than cnp'ing whole 1000-word articles for the front page.

The descendants of Ogg have renewed the ongoing lawsuit against the descendants of Zogg alleging that Ogg dropped a rock on Zoggs foot in a cave one fine day and it was really ouchie! Anthropologists are working around the clock trying to restore the cave paintings documenting the original complaint made to the tribal chief in 30,001 BCE.