Paragraphica is an AI-powered camera without a lens. It uses your location data and data from various APIs (weather, time of day, nearby places) to construct a text prompt that's used to generate an image.
Almost 800,000 Maryland licence plates include a URL that now points to an online casino in the Philippines because someone let the domain registration lapse.
India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks, along with "certain pollution- and climate-related topics". The changes are said to be driven by an increasingly authoritarian and conservative political environment.
Life expectancy in the US is dropping and Covid is only one factor. "In a change never recorded in the past century, the probability that children and adolescents will live to age 20 is now decreasing." My god, what a catastrophe.
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