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Escaped lab monkey finds new home at New Jersey animal sanctuary
Forrest spent a week on the run in southeast Mississippi last October. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A rhesus macaque who spent a week on the lam in Mississippi in late October is finally settling into a new home over 990 miles from the original site of his escape. Popcorn Park Animal Refuge in Forked River, New Jersey, is now caring for Forrest, a young monkey from the Tulane National Primate Research Center in Covington, Louisiana. "The secret is out!" Popcorn Park posted to social media on December 2. Forrest's stressful saga began on October 28, 2025, when a transport truck crashed along Interstate 65 while carrying 21 monkeys from the Tulane Primate Research Center destined for a Florida biomedical research facility.
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Trafficked turtles get a second chance at life in New Jersey sanctuary
The Turtle Conservancy is rescuing reptiles, while preserving their precious DNA. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Nestled in rural New Jersey's rolling hills, a top secret animal sanctuary is keeping its occupants safe. The oasis is not for the official state animal (the horse) or even birds rescued from the Jersey shore. This hidden refuge belongs to turtles and tortoises.
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Abandoned America: AI images what famous US cities would look like after 100 years - if they were deserted by humans
What would American cities look like 100 years after human beings have left, with the streets devoid of human life - and beginning to be reclaimed by nature? While the chatbot put our future world in text, the AI photo generator Midjourney painted pictures of these abandoned metropolises, showing the concrete jungles transforming into jungles. Kieron Connolly, author of Abandoned Places and Abandoned Civilizations, says that visions of abandoned cities have a unique power. This isn't what city life is supposed to look like. Nature is allowed to reclaim the land,' Connolly said. ChatGPT writes, 'In the year 2123, the once-thriving metropolis of Chicago stands as a haunting testament to the passage of time and the resilience of nature.
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Diablo 4 interview: The inspirations that fueled Blizzard's epic action RPG
Diablo 4 is a massive success: Action RPG fans have already spent 10,000 years of gameplay in Blizzard's next masterpiece. PCWorld spoke to Art Director John Mueller and Game Director Joe Piepiora about the artworks, philosophers, and mindsets that formed the basis for the greatest Diablo of all time. PCWorld: Whenever we play Diablo 4, we think of a quote by Stanley Kubrick: "Every Frame a Painting." Diablo 4 seems very artistic, and has a lot of elements that in combination create a harmonious picture and make the game seem as if we were walking around in a work of art. What did you draw inspiration from?
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Hear a good Sunday sermon? AI ready to make preacher's words count all week long
'The Five' co-hosts discuss new AI bot ChatGPT and the impact artificial intelligence will have on future jobs. Church leaders and volunteers will soon have access to an artificial intelligence platform that aims to shave hours off their day-to-day tasks by generating content from sermons to engage fellow Christians when they are not in the pews. Upcoming platform Pulpit AI, founded by Michael Whittle, is expected to launch later this summer and will serve as a tool for Christian leaders looking to take the tedious work out of crafting religious blog posts, devotionals and prayer guides and social media posts. "We want to help pastors of small to medium-sized churches be able to make content for their congregations to interact with throughout the week and on social media," Whittle told Fox News Digital. "We think every pastor should, if they want, have a digital signal to their congregations beyond the sermon. "Most small to medium-sized churches have small or completely volunteer staff, so they have zero operational leverage when it comes to media and resources for their church," he added. "If we can help a church media team get past the blank page, we can not only save them crazy amounts of time, we can help every church become a resourcing church for their people." 'AI JESUS' TALKS DATING, RELATIONSHIPS, MORALS -- EVEN OFFERS VIDEO-GAMING TIPS A congregant reads a referred passage from her Bible during services at Highland Colony Baptist Church in Ridgeland, Mississippi, Nov. 29, 2020. Puplit AI "doesn't and never will" generate sermons, instead it serves as a tool where the user uploads a sermon or religious podcast in order to repurpose it into "social media highlights, blog posts, discussion questions, and the other content churches use to reach their congregations and communities day in and day out," Whittle said. "Pulpit AI analyzes long form audio and video, then repurposes that into various forms of content," Whittle said. "Pulpit AI's output is taken directly from the source material.
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David Sulzer's Wild World of Music
Luk Kop didn't seem to have the makings of a musical prodigy. He didn't hum made-up tunes to himself as a youngster or shake his head when someone sang flat. He didn't build instruments out of sticks and gourds or blow trumpet solos as a five-year-old. He had a brief moment of fame as a child actor, in the Disney film "Operation Dumbo Drop," but grew into a sullen and ungainly teen. When the composer and instrumentalist Dave Soldier first met him, in Thailand, in 2000, Luk Kop spent most of his time eating grass and hanging around with the other elephants.
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For Smarter Robots, Just Add Humans
Teleoperating a physical robot could become an important job in future, according to Sanctuary AI, based in Vancouver, Canada. The company also believes that this might provide a way to train robots how to perform tasks that are currently well out of their (mechanical) reach, and imbue machines with a physical sense of the world some argue is needed to unlock human-level artificial intelligence. Industrial robots are powerful, precise, and mostly stubbornly stupid. They cannot apply the kind of precision and responsiveness needed to perform delicate manipulation tasks. That's partly why the use of robots in factories is still relatively limited, and still requires an army of human workers to assemble all the fiddly bits into the guts of iPhones.
Sanctuary claims it's creating robots with human-level intelligence, but experts are skeptical
But it falls short of the definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI), which would be a machine capable of understanding the world as well as any human. In the 1950s, researchers including AI pioneer Herbert A. Simon were convinced that AGI would exist within the next few decades. Since then, AGI has proven to be a daunting, perhaps even impossible-to-achieve milestone. Writing in The Guardian, roboticist Alan Winfield claimed the gulf between modern computing and AGI is as wide as the gulf between current space flight and faster-than-light travel. Still, others insist that AGI is drawing close within reach.
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Diablo 4: everything we know so far
Publisher Activision Blizzard, responsible for the game this article refers to, is currently embroiled in ongoing litigation in regards to claims reporting a workplace culture that allegedly enabled acts of sexual harassment, abuse and discrimination. Diablo 4 is currently in development but it looks like its release is still a long way off. That hasn't stopped us from searching out the best rumors and the latest news about Blizzard's upcoming hack'n slash adventure. The Diablo series certainly is undergoing something of a resurgence right now. First announced at Blizzcon 2019, Diablo 4 development has supposedly been progressing since. Diablo 2 Resurrected, a remaster of the PC classic, has already been released and Diablo Immortal is expected to arrive on Android and iOS devices in 2022. Naturally, though, we're most excited about the release of Diablo 4 and thanks to Blizzard's quarterly development updates, we're learning more about it all the time. With the recent announcement that Microsoft has agreed to acquire Activision Blizzard, the landscape around Diablo 4's development is changing and it currently remains unclear what the acquisition could mean for the game if it goes through, especially as Diablo 4's release is so far down the line--we're not expecting it until at least 2023. While we wait, though, here's all the news, updates and rumors we've collated about Diablo 4 so far. What could this mean for Diablo 4's release? Read on to find out more.] Bad news here: Diablo 4 probably won't be released anytime soon. At a Blizzcon 2019 deep dive on the game, the game's director said that he doesn't expect the game to be finished anytime soon, "even by Blizzard's standards of soon." Fast-forward to the end of 2021, and that comment still stands after the announcement of an indefinite delay. During Activision Blizzard's Q3 earnings call in November 2021, it made the following statement: "While we are still planning to deliver a substantial amount of content from Blizzard next year, we are now planning for a later launch for Overwatch 2 and Diablo IV than originally envisaged".
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