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Ditch the antibacterial soap this cold and flu season
You still need to wash your hands with soap and warm water though. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The most dreaded time of year rolls around every winter like clockwork: cold and flu season. The time when hand washing increases, sanitizing surfaces intensifies, and old and young schedule regular seasonal vaccines in an attempt to prevent sickness from descending on their households. But there's one piece of ammunition you should absolutely skip this season--and all year-round--because it does more harm than good: antibacterial hand soap.
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Conspiracy Thinking Is Flourishing. Some of Our Most Popular Franchises Aren't Helping.
Gaming may be turning players into conspiracy theorists, but so is everything else. For nearly 20 years, the video games have presented themselves as sprawling works of historical fiction. They cast players as noble assassins during big inflection points in history--the French Revolution, Ptolemaic Egypt, the end of Japan's Sengoku era--and give them freedom to romp around stunning re-creations of these eras, interacting with historical figures along the way. You can do secret missions for Cleopatra, you can get Socrates out of a jam after he pisses a mob off, that sort of thing. They're extremely popular to the point of being taken for granted, the way a ubiquitous CBS procedural might be.
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3D Is Back. This Time, You Can Ditch the Glasses
If there's one thing that turns people off from adopting new tech, it's being forced to look silly and feel uncomfortable for extended lengths of time. It was always the Achilles' heel for 3D in the past, and it remains the primary hurdle for VR headsets and goofy-looking smart glasses. Laptops, tablets, and even computer monitors have started embracing a new form of 3D technology that solves this problem entirely, without giving up just how compelling 3D can look. I've used the latest iteration of the technology and spoke with the creators--this might finally be the version of 3D that sticks. I was skeptical when I first saw this next generation of 3D technology. Interest in 3D comes in waves.
Nvidia's 3,000 'Personal AI Supercomputer' Will Let You Ditch the Data Center
Nvidia already sells boatloads of computer chips to every major company building proprietary artificial intelligence models. But now, at a moment when public interest in open source and do-it-yourself AI is soaring, the company announced it will also begin offering a "personal AI supercomputer," later this year starting at 3,000 that anyone can use in their own home or office. Nvidia's new desktop machine, dubbed Digits, will go on sale in May and is about the size of a small book. It contains an Nvidia "superchip" called GB10 Grace Blackwell optimized to accelerate the computations needed to train and run AI models, and comes equipped with 128GB of unified memory and up to 4TB of NVMe storage for handling especially large AI programs. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, announced the new system, along with several other AI offerings, during a keynote speech today at CES, an annual confab for the computer industry held in Las Vegas (you can check out all of the biggest announcements on the WIRED CES live blog). "Placing an AI supercomputer on the desks of every data scientist, AI researcher and student empowers them to engage and shape the age of AI," Huang said in a statement released ahead of his keynote.
Ditch the stock images and let this AI-powered tool generate unique content for you
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Ditch the selfie stick! Tourists can now use an AI drone to follow them around and take pictures
Tourists can now use an AI drone to follow them around and take pictures. Taking off from the palm of your hand, the HOVERAir X1 can record you from 50ft in the air or chase after you at 15mph. The lightweight device uses AI to keep focused on you and can be directed where to go with simple arm movements. It might not be for budget travellers however costing 419 for the basic package compared to around 10 for the humble selfie stick. The device was shown off at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which is known for unveiling the future tech trends about to hit the mainstream.
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Model Predictive Control for Aggressive Driving Over Uneven Terrain
Han, Tyler, Liu, Alex, Li, Anqi, Spitzer, Alex, Shi, Guanya, Boots, Byron
Terrain traversability in off-road autonomy has traditionally relied on semantic classification or resource-intensive dynamics models to capture vehicle-terrain interactions. However, our experiences in the development of a high-speed off-road platform have revealed several critical challenges that are not adequately addressed by current methods at our operating speeds of 7--10 m/s. This study focuses particularly on uneven terrain geometries such as hills, banks, and ditches. These common high-risk geometries are capable of disabling the vehicle and causing severe passenger injuries if poorly traversed. We introduce a physics-based framework for identifying traversability constraints on terrain dynamics. Using this framework, we then derive two fundamental constraints, with a primary focus on mitigating rollover and ditch-crossing failures. In addition, we present the design of our planning and control system, which uses Model Predictive Control (MPC) and a low-level controller to enable the fast and efficient computation of these constraints to meet the demands of our aggressive driving. Through real-world experimentation and traversal of hills and ditches, our approach is tested and benchmarked against a human expert. These results demonstrate that our approach captures fundamental elements of safe and aggressive control on these terrain features.
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Let's ditch the tired tropes about video games – and research their impact properly Pete Etchells
Over the past few years, it feels as if there has been a subtle shift in the way that we view video games. That classic trope of games being a socially isolating experience, primarily within the purview of angry, pallid teenage boys, seems increasingly tired and outdated – because it is. Video games are no longer a niche, nerdy pastime. Much the opposite: they are one of, or perhaps the defining entertainment medium of the 21st century. One estimate puts the total number of people across the globe who play video games at 3.09 billion, with data from the US suggesting that two-thirds of American adults play them, with a fairly even split between men and women.
ChatGPT, Chatbots and Artificial Intelligence in Education - Ditch That Textbook
These are some of the important things to understand as we wrap our brains around what this is and how to navigate it in the classroom. I'll do plenty of my own human thinking and reasoning, but for the purposes of information, I'm going to let ChatGPT give us working definitions to use: I am an artificial intelligence assistant trained by OpenAI to help answer questions and provide information on a wide variety of topics. I am not a physical being, but rather a program that is designed to process and generate text based on the input I receive. My primary function is to assist users like you by providing information and answering questions to the best of my ability. I have been designed to have a conversational style and can understand and respond to natural language input.
Ditch These 7 Habits to Become a More Productive Data Scientist
When it comes to planning a wedding, there are so many details that need to be taken care of. From picking the perfect dress to finding the right venue, there is a lot to consider. When it comes to choosing the right flowers, there are a few key tips to keep in mind. The first thing to consider is the season. Different flowers are in season during different times of the year, so it is important to keep this in mind when making your selection.