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  • Google's 'Bard' chatbot completely botches first demo

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    DarkMouze said:
    waveparticle said:
    The nearest star is four light years away. There is no way any telescope will be able to see a planet of any star so far away. 
    As noted in the NASA link in the article itself, the first planet directly imaged by a telescope was in 2004, when the VLT telescope pictured one in a system 230 light years away. The mistake referenced in the article was not that they could see a planet using the telescope, but that they were nowhere near being the first to do so.
    I believe VLT (Chile) is the first land-based telescope to take an image of an exoplanet.
    lolliverDarkMouzeFileMakerFellerwatto_cobrajony0

  • Google's 'Bard' chatbot completely botches first demo

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    The nearest star is four light years away. There is no way any telescope will be able to see a planet of any star so far away. 
    The Hubble telescope did it 23 years ago with HD 209458 b. It's 159 light years away. It was also able to directly detect the exoplanet's atmosphere and survey its makeup. 
    mike1roundaboutnowdewmesphericlollivertmaybaconstangFileMakerFellerravnorodomwatto_cobra

  • New HomePod parts are 'decently replaceable' says YouTuber

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    StrangeDays said:
    Which no one is going to do. Still, we’re presented with stories like this every week as if the masses give a crack about DIY enthusiasts repair hobbies.ll.
    I find these teardowns to be quite informative and enjoyable. This one is especially good in the succinctness and explanation of what to disconnect and how.
    dewmewilliamlondonmuthuk_vanalingamkimberlywatto_cobragrandact73

  • 14-inch MacBook Pro review: A true spec bump to an existing powerhouse

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    eriamjh said:
    Xed said:
    Based on this review I don't agree with the title that it's "a true spec bump to an existing powerhouse".
    Based on the speed penalty one takes with the 256GB SSD configuration...

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    ...you are correct... if all you care about is SSD speed.

    But it is what it is.
    I was also using the CPU benchmarks.



    The GPU boost and some other upgrades are OK, but I wouldn't call it a "true spec bump". 
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondon

  • Apple's slower hiring allows it to avoid wave of big tech layoffs

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    mSak said:
    Rather than viewing human as "losses and costs", how about we view them as investments? That when days are not as sunny, cutting cost doesn't mean cutting some humans out of the picture. Capitalism has a yucky way to treating human beings like inanimate objects: take when you want, throw away when you want. With climate change, we too are learning that there is a cost in taking and throwing away as if the only "cost" to think about is the immediacy when there is a whole period of the future ahead that will have consequences. In fact, one should go so far as to argue that human beings LIKE animate or living things, and inanimate things (like minerals) are not just there to take willy nilly. We have to think long term not just grab madly and then throw away without thought.

    Is capitalism day-by-day looking like a long and tired way of doing things that we should be abandoning? Yeah, I say so.
    Investments always come with a cost.
    williamlondon