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Samsung's new 5K gaming monitor makes me feel so old

PCWorld

The Dell Laptop Buying Guide UK: Which Dell Laptop Should You Buy? When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Samsung's new 5K gaming monitor makes me feel so old This 5K2K monitor has more pixels than I can see. It can half the resolution to double the speed. Now it has more frames than I can see.


Dressmaker players are designing gowns fit for fantasy balls

Mashable

Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable @Home Look Up Trending Now Mashable Selects Say More Top creators, ranked Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Creator Playbook In My Bag AI at School Safety Net All Series'Dressmaker' players are designing gowns fit for fantasy balls Here are some of the most gorgeous designs players have shared. Amanda Yeo is an Assistant Editor at Mashable, covering entertainment, culture, tech, science, and social good. Based in Australia, she writes about everything from video games and K-pop to movies and gadgets. Developed by Cozy Lives, is an indie game that has players design and sew custom gowns for a variety of different clients with varying needs. Players must listen to customers' requests, then take their measurements, sketch a design, select materials, cut the cloth, and sew it all together on a mannequin.


Using AI to 'talk to animals' might make us feel clever – but what, if anything, does it do for them?

The Guardian

Using AI to'talk to animals' might make us feel clever - but what, if anything, does it do for them? The motor is off, the turquoise sea is glassy, and Stephanie King and I are motionless, transfixed by the whistles, clicks and squeezy, whirring noises made by the dolphins swimming below us. If anyone could tell me what these big-brained social mammals are saying, it would be her. Based at the University of Bristol, she co-leads Shark Bay Dolphin Research, one of the longest-running wild dolphin research projects in the world. She has spent thousands of hours watching and listening to this population.


Will A.I. Overwrite Our Sense of Shame?

The New Yorker

The tech world has long been run by iconoclasts whose ideas about right and wrong are self-consciously different from those of most people. In the first installment of this series, I wrote about shame as one way that groups of people can mediate and enforce social norms without explicit state intervention. But there is an emergent Silicon Valley gospel that has challenged both the boundaries and the mechanisms of shame in America. What happens when millions of humans across the globe spend hours a day talking to a robot? Who taught that robot right from wrong?


We Must Defend the Refugee Convention

TIME - Tech

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Robert Waldinger Knows the Secret to a Happy Life

TIME - Tech

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Dr. Robert Waldinger didn't believe it at first. The idea that loneliness could break down the body--that the quality of your relationships might help decide whether you get coronary artery disease, arthritis, or Type 2 diabetes--struck the psychiatrist as far-fetched.


Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte Believes Aging May Come Down to a Cell's Identity Crisis

TIME - Tech

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte Believes Aging May Come Down to a Cell's Identity Crisis Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. For decades, Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte focused on unlocking the secrets of human life at its earliest stages. A pioneer in developmental biology and a long-time professor at the Salk Institute, he used Shinya Yamanaka's game-changing discovery of four genes that can essentially rewind the clock--turning adult cells to a younger state--to better understand how a fertilized egg turns into a human. Izpisua Belmonte's groundbreaking studies include creating the first embryo containing both human and monkey cells in 2021 to better study the steps that occur well before birth.


Disability campaigners call for Burnham to delay assisted dying bill

BBC News

Disabled and terminally ill campaigners have written to Prime Minister Andy Burnham urging him to reform social and palliative care before assisted dying legislation is introduced in England and Wales. The Assist Us To Live group says people are currently being failed by society and introducing assisted dying in these circumstances will put sick and disabled people's lives at risk. Burnham believes the funding of palliative and social care should be fixed before assisted dying is considered. The government is likely to remain officially neutral, but the PM's remarks suggest he personally will not back the bill proposed by Labour MP Lauren Edwards. Bill supporters argue improving care services and giving terminally ill people autonomy over their final weeks must go hand in hand.


'Men of a Certain Age' Is One of TIME's 50 Most Underappreciated TV Shows

TIME - Tech

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Won't somebody think of the middle-aged men? In truth, the friendships and inner lives of men young, old, and in between are chronically ignored by Hollywood, which would rather see even the elderly among them blow up bad guys than admit to having feelings.


New Scientist recommends an excellent look at the future of work

New Scientist

Sarah O'Connor's We Are Not Machines explores how we are contorting ourselves to fit AI into our working lives - and what to do about it, finds Tom Knowles Employers wanting staff to be more like machines isn't new, says O'Connor If you are a fan of translated films, you may have noticed the subtitles on streaming platforms have changed in recent years. They aren't wrong exactly, but they can come across as a bit, well, flat. "You get the meaning, but the language? It's not as rich," Petr Čermoch, a translator in the Czech Republic, tells Sarah O'Connor in We Are Not Machines, which explores how artificial intelligence is changing the way we work. That lack of richness is usually because the streaming platform has used AI to translate a script, then had a professional translator like Čermoch finesse it.