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ScienceAlert: Caffeine Has an Intriguing Effect on The Brains of Parkinson’s Patients
A new study highlights how drinking more than three cups of coffee a day affects dopamine levels in the brains of people with Parkinson’s, a finding that potentially influence how we monitor and perhaps one day treat the disease.
Wired: AI Is Apple’s Best Shot at Getting You to Upgrade Your iPhone
Apple’s new AI strategy might also play a key role in its upgrade-your-iPhone strategy.
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Apple’s approach is an additive one, relying on the influence and footprint of its existing apps rather than spinning up a new chatbot or search engine that spits out humanlike responses. Once Apple Intelligence rolls out to iPhones, Macs, and iPads later this year, it’s supposed to turn sketches into images, sort through photos and videos, rewrite emails, change the tone of messages, and allow the voice assistant Siri to tap into different apps to string together smarter responses.
There’s just one catch: It won’t work on your old iPhone.
Apple is limiting these AI features to the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, which run on Apple’s A17 Pro chip; the iPads Pro and Air, which run on Apple’s M1 chip or later versions; and various Mac computers that run on the M1 chip or later.
Dave Winer (Scripting News): MySQL and ChatGPT
A very simple example where ChatGPT saves programmer time. MySQL has awful error messages. Rather than try to figure out what they mean, I paste the message into ChatGPT and say nothing. It tells me what the error was and even fixes it for me. I copy the result, paste it into MySQL and I’m back on the road. One can imagine where they build that into the MySQL app and I converse with it instead of the app with the awful error messages.
Ask a Manager: update: I was rejected because I told my interviewer I never make mistakes
Remember the letter-writer who wondered if he was rejected because he told his interviewer he never makes mistakes? Here’s the update.
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NYT: Thomas B. Edsall: Trump Would Be Long Gone if Only We Could…
A central predicament of President Biden’s campaign is how to persuade voters to abandon Donald Trump.
“In 2012 the Obama campaign turned a nice guy, Mitt Romney, into a piece of crap,” Steve Murphy, a co-founder of the Democratic media firm MVAR Media, told me. “You can’t do that to Trump because everybody already knows he’s a piece of crap.”
Canadian Geographic: Wreck of Quest, famed Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s last ship, found in Labrador Sea
A Royal Canadian Geographical Society-led expedition has discovered the wreck of the famed exploration vessel Quest in the Labrador Sea. Celebrated polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton died aboard Quest in 1922 while en route to Antarctica, marking the end of what some historians call the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. The wreck lies upright and intact on the seabed in 390 metres of water northwest of St. John’s and east of Battle Harbour, Labrador.
Quest was damaged by ice while on a seal hunt off the Labrador coast in the traditional waters of the Mi’kmaq, Innu and Inuit, and sank on May 5, 1962. The vessel’s ultimate resting place is poignant given that Shackleton originally intended to use Quest for a Canadian Arctic expedition before the government of then-Prime Minister Arthur Meighen pulled the plug. Forced to change plans at the eleventh hour, Shackleton then headed south to Antarctica. The find creates a tangible link between Canada and a towering figure in polar exploration.
Big Nerd Ranch: Finding New Pastures: Big Nerd Ranch’s Next Chapter
It is with a mix of emotions that we announce the upcoming sunsetting of some key aspects of Big Nerd Ranch and the transition of others. For over 23 years, we’ve had the privilege of empowering aspiring programmers through our immersive bootcamps and books. From the iconic ranch in south Georgia to the late-night coding sessions, Big Nerd Ranch has fostered a unique and beloved community for anyone looking to grow and learn new technology.This decision hasn’t been an easy one. The landscape of tech education has evolved significantly since our inception. While Big Nerd Ranch has always strived to adapt, the current environment necessitates a more substantial shift.
NYT: Southern Baptists Vote to Oppose Use of I.V.F.
Southern Baptists, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, voted on Wednesday to oppose the use of in vitro fertilization. The vote was an indication that evangelicals are increasingly open to arguments that equate embryos with human life, and that two years after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, “fetal personhood” may be the next front for the anti-abortion movement.
More than 10,000 delegates, called “messengers,” have gathered in Indianapolis for the denomination’s annual meeting, which is closely watched as a barometer of evangelical sentiment on a variety of cultural and political issues. The vote on Wednesday was the first time that attendees at the Southern Baptist meeting have addressed the ethics of in vitro fertilization directly.
The resolution proposed on Wednesday called on Southern Baptists “to reaffirm the unconditional value and right to life of every human being, including those in an embryonic stage, and to only utilize reproductive technologies consistent with that affirmation, especially in the number of embryos generated in the I.V.F. process.”
9to5Mac: Fan of House of the Dragon? Time to buy a Vision Pro
This Sunday, June 16, HBO’s House of the Dragon season two debuts. Apple Vision Pro owners may be unaware that there’s a immersive environment available inside the visionOS Max app that’s perfectly suited for all things Game of Thrones—and it just got updated in time for the big premiere.
Since the launch of the Vision Pro back in February, one way that video streaming apps have been able to offer unique experiences on visionOS is through immersive environments.
The Max app offers an immersive environment that’s ideal for watching House of the Dragon. It takes you out of your living room or bedroom and drops you—for better or worse—into the Iron Throne Room from Game of Thrones.
SMH: Health minister intervenes in chiropractors' decision to allow spinal manipulation of babies
Mark Butler is seeking an urgent explanation from the Chiropractic Board of Australia about its controversial decision to allow practitioners to recommence spinal manipulations on babies.
ScienceAlert: Emergency on The ISS? Leaked Audio of Training Exercise Triggers Brief Earth Panic
Audio of a flight surgeon dealing with an emergency on the International Space Station while she was stuck in traffic triggered a brief panic on the evening of June 12 CDT.
The unnamed speaker appeared to be conducting a phone call with an unheard conversant, discussing a situation in which an unnamed commander would require hyperbaric treatment after an event that left them with decompression sickness.
SMH: Monster utes: Wait, they’re making parking spaces bigger? I say shrink the cars!
I love Harris Farm Drummoyne, but the car park terrifies me. Each visit, I drive around it praying to the parking gods that all the SUVs have left so I don’t have to shoehorn my car into the narrow gap between two three-tonne megafauna.
In the past, sandwiched between two Balmain tanks, I’ve often had to open the door a crack and wriggle one arm and leg out of the car before levering my torso through the space. Then, like a re-enactment of the Thai cave rescue, I slide along the door panel, shut the door and flick in the side mirror in order to squeeze out. And my car is a tiny Kia Picanto. Anything bigger, and I’d have to grease its sides to make it fit.
NYT: Hitler and the Nazis Review: Building a Case for Alarm
Hitler’s project: “Making Germany great again.” The Nazis’ characterization of criticism from the media: “Fake news.” Hitler’s mountain retreat in Berchtesgaden: “It’s sort of like Hitler’s Mar-a-Lago, if you will.”
Donald Trump’s name is not mentioned in the six episodes of “Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial,” a new historical documentary series on Netflix. But it dances just beneath the surface, and occasionally, as in the examples above, the production’s cadre of scholars, popular historians and biographers can barely stop themselves from giving the game away.
Last Updated: 12.Jun.2024 23:59 EDT
