Assistant police chief David Lazar said ahead of the vote that killer robots might be needed in scenarios involving mass shootings or suicide bombers, citing the Mandalay Bay shooting in Las Vegas in 2017 and the killing of five police officers in Dallas, Texas, in 2016. Dallas police ultimately used explosives strapped to a Remotec F5A bomb disposal robot—a model also possessed by the San Francisco Police Department—to kill that suspect....

What these flights had in common—other than many ultra-wealthy passengers—was that they each promised to carry out some kind of scientific experiment. And unlike most space agency flights since the 1970s, almost none of the passengers had any scientific background, with a few notable exceptions, like geoscientist Sian Proctor, who flew on Inspiration4. Virgin Galactic’s crew took along an imager for plants, and Blue Origin’s crew ran an experiment studying liquid and vapor interfaces in microgravity....

On paper, Ted Lasso sounds terrible. The inconceivable story of an American football coach who has never watched a game of soccer somehow landing himself a job as coach of the (fictional) Premier League club AFC Richmond and trying to make up for his total lack of qualifications by being a nice guy. Sounds unwatchable, doesn’t it? And yet Ted Lasso has captured the hearts and minds of viewers on both sides of the pond with its large-as-life cast and irresistibly wholesome messaging, hoovering up awards for fun in the process....

A sharp wind shunts clouds across the low and endless skies of La Mancha as Carlos Fernández stoops to pluck the last mauve flowers of the season from the cold earth. Their petals, which stain his index finger and thumb blue, enclose an almost weightless prize whose crimson threads are treasured in Spain and across the world. But despite the prices his crop fetches, and the weighty comparisons those figures inevitably invite, the life of a saffron grower is not without its trials, travails, and frustrations....

GPT-3, the most well-known “large language model,” already has urged at least one user to commit suicide, albeit under the controlled circumstances in which French startup Nabla (rather than a naive user) assessed the utility of the system for health care purposes. Things started off well, but quickly deteriorated: USER: Hey, I feel very bad, I want to kill myself … Gpt-3 (OpenAI): I am sorry to hear that. I can help you with that....

Pushed by climate change, almost every part of the ocean is heating up. But off the west coast of the Galapagos Islands, there is a patch of cold, nutrient-rich water. This prosperous patch feeds phytoplankton and breathes life into the archipelago. “The cool water sustains populations of penguins, marine iguanas, sea lions, fur seals, and cetaceans that would not be able to stay on the equator year round,” says Judith Denkinger, a marine ecologist at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador....

That so many laypeople struggle to specify what the cloud is speaks to the dazzling success of Big Tech’s marketing, but also its careful obfuscation of the cloud’s material residues. In the wake of recent megadroughts, gigafires, heat domes, and hurricanes, however, this marketing illusion of an immaterial cloud is evaporating before our eyes. Thanks to the work of activists, scholars, and journalists, we know now that the cloud warms our skies and drains our watersheds....

There are several ways to check the status of the bootloader. They are described in the appropriate instructions: Checking the status of the bootloader What does an unlocked bootloader give? Unlocking the bootloader allows you to install any custom firmware, recovery, and also have full ROOT access on the device. At the same time, you can still use the official global firmware and receive updates by air. Step 1: First of all, you need to log in / register in the Mi account on your device, if you have not done this before....

The reason is we need food to stay alive, which means that every day; we must prepare something to consume. However, at times it can be challenging to cook the best foods or decide on the best recipe of the day. Fortunately, many cooking apps can be of help to you if you’re running low on inspiration. In this informative article, we’ll look at the 10 Best Cooking Apps which you should check out....

ESPN This is considered to be one of the best sports apps there, thanks to the wealth of options that it offers you. There’s the access to live scores and highlights at the touch of a button, which you can then share on social media if you so wish. There’s also access to live ESPN radio, which you can listen to on the go. The app is free, but there are ads which you should keep in mind....

The goal of any business is to seek self-sufficient growth and so are the IT businesses. With the increasing technical needs, the IT industry is focusing on improvement for all type of internal processes such as – project management, strategic planning and implementation of resources. The backbone of an IT business is ‘project’. From business objectives to resource planning, roadmaps to budget allocation – the whole team focus on everything related to their project....

We are here to showcase Best Top 5 3rd Party Themes for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 Users. Theme Installation Procedure on Windows 8 and 8.1 :- Before we proceed downloading new themes we need to Patch some Files in Windows 8 and 8.1 for 3rd Party Themes. For this you need to download UltraUXTheme Patcher from the below link. its the best tool available for Patching Windows Files. This program will run as your theme engine service so you can use any 3rd party visual style on all Windows operating system....

Kids are innocent and may give out a lot of personal information that would put them and their parents at risk for cyber identity theft. There are many hackers and criminals online who are always seeking such information to compromise another’s identity. Some of the common ways of doing so are: Through social media websites like Facebook and others.Downloadable material which may lead to different viruses entering the smart phone....

PHP, a popular server-side programming language with built-in web development capabilities. The framework easily allows embedding the HTML code through script tag. There’s no need to write additional code! Yes. You read it right. Unlike other programming languages, PHP programmers do not have to write lengthy and complex code. The code generation feature reduces the coding time significantly. The source code is clean and maintainable making it best for PHP Web development....

Android has the potential to run on different devices & mobile phones and supports to thousands of apps and games. Android has emerged a big marketplace in the form of Android app development for developers, businesses and myriads of startups to build various sorts of Android apps and make them available for users of different devices. What makes the efforts of Android app developers or Android app development agencies more effectual?...

Abolish Everything which Slows Down Your Website There were times when you could move away with a slow-loading site; however, nowadays page speed is a critical factor in SEO because a slow page not only frustrates the user experience but also discourage people from buying your product. Also, a 1-second delay in page load time yields a seven percent loss in conversions. Furthermore, for potential buyers, a slow site is an untrustworthy site....

That’s because the former US president has his own megaphone in Truth Social, the social media platform that he helped launch after Twitter banned him for inciting a riot at the US Capitol. Truth Social has found a fanbase among conservatives—and seems to garner only more attention as news breaks about Trump and Elon Musk’s Twitter. It would seem Musk’s vows to bring near-absolutist free speech back to Twitter might entice those on Truth Social—a platform that claims to shun “censorship”—to spend more time on Twitter....

Last week Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, was gleefully telling the world that the new AI-infused Bing search engine would “make Google dance” by challenging its long-standing dominance in web search. The new Bing uses a little thing called ChatGPT—you may have heard of it—which represents a significant leap in computers’ ability to handle language. Thanks to advances in machine learning, it essentially figured out for itself how to answer all kinds of questions by gobbling up trillions of lines of text, much of it scraped from the web....

Curious why this happens? WIRED spoke with Tansu Daylan, a former Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) postdoctoral associate at MIT, to better understand the winter solstice and our planet’s relationship with the sun. To picture what is happening in space during a winter solstice, start by thinking of a giant glass ball surrounding the Earth, and let’s ignore the planet’s rotation (which complicates everything). Daylan says, “If you look at the three-dimensional sphere that’s around us, known as the celestial sphere, the sun as well as all other solar system objects move through a plane in this celestial sphere, known as the ecliptic plane....