🔗 Articles: Tuesday 09.Jul.2024


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TorStar: Pedneault stepping down from bid to co-lead Green Party

Jonathan Pedneault is stepping down from his bid to co-lead the federal Green Party after internal debate and numerous delays impeded those plans.

The Green Party has operated under a de-facto co-leadership since November 2022 when May won on a ticket to co-lead with Pedneault in hopes of reviving the party. That followed a tumultuous period that included allegations of racism, antisemitism, misogyny and poor leadership, and led to the ouster of Annamie Paul, the first Black leader of a federal political party.


Wired: How to Take a Long, Scrolling Screenshot on Android, iOS, and Desktop

You can capture scrolling screenshots on iOS too. The standard button shortcut combination for a screen capture is Power+Volume Up if your iPhone has Face ID or Power+Home if your iPhone has Touch ID.

That takes care of a standard screenshot, but if you want a scrolling one, you need to tap on the thumbnail that pops up in the lower left corner. The next screen will show the capture, and if there’s content that stretches beyond the display (like a webpage or long document), you’ll be able to switch between Screen and Full Page views.


UPI: Noninvasive urine test might help detect cervical cancer

“Our new urine test can detect HPV16 E7 proteins, which are critical markers of cervical cancer risk, at extremely low levels,” said lead researcher Etsuro Ito, a professor of biology at Waseda University in Japan. “This means that women may be able to screen for cervical cancer without the discomfort and inconvenience of a traditional Pap test.”


TechCrunch: Alexa co-creator gives first glimpse of Unlikely AI’s tech strategy

TechCrunch can exclusively reveal Unlikely is taking a “neuro-symbolic” approach to its AI. In an additional development, it’s announcing two senior hires — including the former CTO of Stability AI, Tom Mason.

Neuro-symbolic AI is a type of artificial intelligence that, as the name suggests, integrates both the modern neural network approaches to AI — as used by large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s GPT — and earlier Symbolic AI architectures to address the weaknesses of each.


TechCrunch: Watch: What happens when you shoot down a delivery drone?

Florida man is back with a vengeance, and this time, he’s going after Walmart delivery drones.

Yes, really. Walmart was demonstrating its delivery drone technology in Clermont, Florida — about 25 miles outside of Orlando — and a man allegedly shot the drone out of the sky when it flew near his house. Apparently, he thought it was spying on him.

But he doesn’t shoot at cars that drive by a second time?


SportBible: Novak Djokovic storms out of BBC interview after snapping at reporter over question

But the third question about the crowd, quizzing Djokovic on his mindset when the crowd are disrespecting, was not received well and the seven-time Wimbledon champ had enough.

He fired back: “Do you have any other questions other than the crowd? I mean, are you focused only on that or do you have any questions about the match or something like that, or is it solely focused on that?”.


Daily Mail: Suspect is shot by Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s bodyguards in DC

Flowers, 18, was arrested and charged with armed carjacking, carrying a pistol without a license, and possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device.

He attempted to carjack the bodyguards’ vehicle?!


pv magazine: The Hydrogen Stream: Hydrogen power plants feasible but inefficient, says CATF

The Clean Air Task Force (CATF) says in a new report that dedicated clean hydrogen production and use is often a costly, inefficient decarbonization strategy for the power sector, while American Airlines says it has signed a deal with ZeroAvia for 100 hydrogen-electric engines.


Last Updated: 09.Jul.2024 17:04 EDT

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