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Stone Age women were buried with as many tools as men

Popular Science

Prehistoric graves show women wielded more than early archeologists gave them credit for. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Some 6,000 years ago in the northern reaches of modern Latvia, a young woman died. Afterwards, a group of early humans buried her in an ancient, sacred place along a lakeshore. They carefully lowered her small teenage frame into the ground, gently placing a stone ax, 28 flint flakes, 15 blades, and a stone scraper beside her.


Senate DOGE Republican pushes bill to bring government computer systems 'out of the stone age'

FOX News

'Special Report' anchor Bret Baier discusses Democrats' backlash over Elon Musk's effort to rid the government of wasteful spending, the USAID and CIA's alleged connections to the Trump impeachment and the president's plan for Gaza. As the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) works to slash government waste, a bipartisan bill in Congress is aiming to bring the federal government's computer systems "out of the Stone Age." The bipartisan Strengthening Agency Management And Oversight Of Software Assets (SAMOSA) Act passed the House in December, and Sen. Joni Ernset, R-Iowa, is leading efforts to get it passed in the upper chamber. Ernst, the chair of the Senate DOGE Caucus, said the SAMOSA Act will "bring Washington out of the Stone Age and into the 21st century." Fox News Digital is told the bill could potentially save 750 million annually for taxpayers by consolidating federal agencies' cloud computing software licenses.


Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari review – rage against the machine

The Guardian

What jumps to mind when you think about the impending AI apocalypse? If you're partial to sci-fi movie cliches, you may envisage killer robots (with or without thick Austrian accents) rising up to terminate their hubristic creators. Or perhaps, a la The Matrix, you'll go for scary machines sucking energy out of our bodies as they distract us with a simulated reality. For Yuval Noah Harari, who has spent a lot of time worrying about AI over the past decade, the threat is less fantastical and more insidious. "In order to manipulate humans, there is no need to physically hook brains to computers," he writes in his engrossing new book Nexus.


Chatbots Are Entering the Stone Age

WIRED

For all the bluster about generative artificial intelligence upending the world, the technology has yet to meaningfully transform white-collar work. Workers are dabbling with chatbots for tasks such as drafting emails, and companies are launching countless experiments, but office work hasn't undergone a major AI reboot. Perhaps that's only because we haven't given chatbots like Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT the right tools for the job yet; they're generally restricted to taking in and spitting out text via a chat interface. Things might get more interesting in business settings as AI companies start deploying so-called "AI agents," which can take action by operating other software on a computer or via the internet. Anthropic, a competitor to OpenAI, announced a major new product today that attempts to prove the thesis that tool use is needed for AI's next leap in usefulness.


Why AI needs a steady diet of synthetic data

#artificialintelligence

Check out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers. Artificial intelligence (AI) may be eating the world as we know it, but experts say AI itself is also starving -- and needs to change its diet. One company says synthetic data is the answer. "Data is food for AI, but AI today is underfed and malnourished," said Kevin McNamara, CEO and cofounder of synthetic data platform provider, Parallel Domain, which just raised $30 million in a series B round. "That's why things are growing slowly. But if we can feed that AI better, models will grow faster and in a healthier way. Synthetic data is like nourishment for training AI." Research has shown that about 90% of AI and machine learning (ML) deployments fail.


Ad Creatives: Are you still in stone age? - Politics Watch

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Creating the ads is the first step to marketing success. A creative is the ad served to users on a webpage, app, or other digital environment. Creatives can be images, videos, audio, and other formats that get delivered to users. If you are a company that releases Ad Creatives or an ad agency that caters to the advertisers then you should read this article. For, it will not only save huge amount of money but also precious time for you?


The universe is going in Circles -- Stone age, then Machine Age, then Stone Age…

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We get fascinated these days by looking at the output from Machine learning and AI-driven models, but after spending close to a decade in this field, my reaction to this is getting more apparent, and it just recalls me of my childhood days when our super hero's use to be the character of Ramayan and Mahabharat:) One of my favorite part of Ramayan is the "Sundar Kand" of Ramayan. I always feel that this Kand could have been named "Bhishan Agni kand" or "Jwala Kand," but it was named "Sundar Kand" and the reason could be due to the very first line with which it got started .. line goes as - The true lesson for any management firm that as soon as leadership decides or commits delivery i.e. soon, you get the go-ahead from your senior leadership like "Jamwant Ji" in this case, you should start taking the project and deliverables ahead with full force and best of your capability. The biggest disasters like "Lanka Dhen", Major fights between both armies happened during this Kand but given employees are moving ahead with full trust in Senior management and with a go-getter attitude that made this Kand to be named "Sundar Kand". Veda's, Upanishad, and Puran used to be taught at Gurukul by great saints of that time. This teaching material is similar to modern-day Machine learning libraries, which were crafted as a single package for anyone with an interest can use them to perform data science.


Motivational music like 'Eye of the Tiger' DOES boost performance, study claims

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Listening to motivational music like'Eye of the Tiger' by Survivor does actually help runners combat mental fatigue, a new study has claimed. University of Edinburgh experts found that a motivational playlist that included the 1982 smash hit improved performance on running tests after a mentally-draining cognitive test. As well as'Eye of the Tiger', the playlists included'No One Knows' by Queens of the Stone Age, as well as'Run This Town' by Jay-Z and'Power' by Kanye West. 'Eye of the Tiger' was famously featured throughout the 1982 film'Rocky III', starring Sylvester Stallone as the titular character. Listening to music while running might be the key to improving people's performance when they feel mentally fatigued, a University of Edinburgh study suggests (stock image) Arguably, the song, which reached number one on the UK singles chart, has become a quintessential motivational tune for sportspeople and gym-goers alike – but researchers were intrigued to find out if it actually helped performance.


Extinction of larger animals led to the human brain doubling in size around 30,000 years ago

Daily Mail - Science & tech

The extinction of large animals led to the human brain growing, a new study reveals. When humans first emerged in Africa 2.6 million years ago the average animal size was more than 1,000 pounds, making them easy prey. Throughout the Pleistocene era, creatures' sizes decreased by 90 percent, which forced our ancient ancestors to developing cunning and bold methods to capture their next meal. As they shifted to hunting small, swift prey animals, humans developed higher cognitive abilities and experienced a growth of brain volume from 650cc to 1,500cc. When humans first emerged in Africa 2.6 million years ago the average animal size was more than 1,000 pounds, making them easy prey Previous research shows that early humans survived by hunting large game, which provided them with the necessary fat and sources of energy to survive.