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This AI Scouting Platform Puts Soccer Talent Spotters Everywhere

[colabot7] It was the biggest match of Andre Odeku’s career. A week earlier, the 18-year-old forward had been playing in the seventh tier of the English soccer pyramid. Now, he was lining up for Burnley’s Under-23 side in a trial game, with a view to signing for the then-Premier League club’s academy. “Their scouts invited …

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They Plugged GPT-4 Into Minecraft—and Unearthed New Potential for AI

[colabot7] The technology that underpins ChatGPT has the potential to do much more than just talk. Linxi “Jim” Fanan AI researcher at the chipmaker Nvidia, worked with some colleagues to devise a way to set the powerful language model GPT-4—the “brains” behind ChatGPT and a growing number of other apps and services—loose inside the blocky …

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Zojirushi Pressure Induction Heating Rice Cooker & Warmer NW-JEC10/18 Review: Perfect White Rice for a Price

[colabot7] For as big as the cooking industry is, most kitchen-product launches are modest affairs. There might be some trade show hoopla or a video, and lord knows my inbox is full of press releases, but a recent rice cooker event, of all things, stood out for its flashiness. Japanese manufacturer Zojirushi proposed an expense-paid …

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The Race Is On to Crack an Artist’s ‘Test’ Signal From Aliens

[colabot7] Humanity has sent its own simple outgoing messages, like Frank Drake’s message from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to the globular cluster M13, which included information about our solar system and DNA, or the Golden Records on the Voyager spacecraft, which include sounds and symbols showing the diversity of life and culture on …

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The Explosive Legacy of the Pandemic Hand Sanitizer Boom

[colabot7] A few weeks after the investigators in Carson published their report, the FDA reinstated its pre-pandemic regulations on hand sanitizer. Now that supply had caught up to demand, the agency said, the relaxed rules were no longer appropriate. Manufacturers were not allowed to sell or donate any sanitizer produced under the rules starting in …

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