Ethical AI Isn't to Blame for Google's Gemini Debacle

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  980 words  |  Tandra Barner

Earlier this month, Google released its long-awaited system "Gemini," giving users access to its AI image-generation technology for the first time. While most early users agreed that the system was impressive, creating detailed images for text prompts in seconds, users soon discovered that it was difficult to get the system to generate images of white people, and soon viral tweets displayed head-scratching examples such as racially diverse Nazis. Some people faulted Gemini for being " [Read More]

Evolution | Time

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  37 words  |  Billy Koelling

The Scientific Reason Men Like Sports More Than Women

For both males and females, spectators and players, love of sports is deep in the genes—but in the men it's deeper

By Jeffrey Kluger May 9, 2016

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Flash Floods Smash the Southwest: Arizona, Nevada Submerged

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  54 words  |  Billy Koelling

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Former TV Content Chief Cindy Holland Named CEO of Sister

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  660 words  |  Tandra Barner

Cindy Holland has been named the CEO of Sister, the production company started by media mogul Elisabeth Murdoch and “Chernobyl” producer Jane Featherstone. The veteran executive oversaw Netflix’s move into producing its own in-house content until she left the streamer in 2020. [Read More]

Global Temperatures Don't Tell The Whole Climate Story

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1174 words  |  Tandra Barner

On April 22 (Earth Day) of 1998, the warmest year that had yet been observed, my co-authors and I published the now famous “hockey stick” curve. It was featured on the pages of the New York Times and other leading newspapers, helping it garner worldwide attention. Here was a simple graph, derived from sources of “proxy” climate data such as tree rings, ice cores, coral, and lake sediment, depicting the average temperature of the northern hemisphere over the past six centuries. [Read More]

Gluten-Free Bread: Gluten-Free Diet Nutrition Celiac

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  418 words  |  Kelle Repass

Welcome to Should I Eat This?—our weekly poll of five experts who answer nutrition questions that gnaw at you. 5/5 experts say no. For people who don’t have Celiac disease or a gluten allergy, leave the GF stuff on the shelf, say all five experts. And even the gluten-averse might be better off without it. Gluten-free bread ditches wheat, rye and barley, and typically uses four main starches in their stead—cornstarch, rice flour, tapioca starch and potato flour, says William Davis, MD, author of Wheat Belly Total Health. [Read More]

Hint Water: Out to Conquer Vitaminwater and Obesity Too

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1371 words  |  Billy Koelling

Growing up, Kara Goldin’s house was filled with the most recently released modern foods. But Ho Hos weren’t snacked upon; they were studied. Stouffer’s wasn’t served; its ingredients were examined. A Twinkie sat on a shelf for observation. (It remained there, undecaying, for a year and a half.) Such was life as a daughter of Bill Keenan, a food exec who believed popular convenience foods could taste better and be better for you. [Read More]

How Everests Director Scaled Technical Hurdles in Tough Shoot

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  987 words  |  Billy Koelling

Baltasar Kormakur’s “Everest,” which opens Sept. 25, is a fact-based account of two 1996 expeditions that faced the immense physical dangers of climbing the iconic peak — their difficulties compounded by a furious storm. [Read More]

How, Exactly, Is Palpatine Still Alive in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker?

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  475 words  |  Tandra Barner

Of course, maybe that was naive. This is, after all, a fictional universe in which clones and glowy blue Force Ghosts exist. Palpatine wastes no time in making an entrance in The Rise of Skywalker, and while he remains somewhat frustratingly vague about how he is still walking and talking and cackling after all these years, he drops enough details for the viewer to be able to infer what happened. [Read More]

Inside Job | TIME

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  163 words  |  Patria Henriques

TIME February 14, 1983 12:00 AM EST Arrests made in Sentry heist Like many New Yorkers tired of winter, Cristos Potamitis, 25, a former security guard for the Bronx-based Sentry Armored Car Courier Co., went to Puerto Rico late last month for a vacation. What he got instead was a surprise. While sunning himself by the pool at the Holiday Inn in San Juan last week, he was arrested by FBI agents for allegedly stealing $11 million—widely regarded as the largest cash heist in U. [Read More]