Almost all of these new donors are connected to a group that indicted Chinese financier Guo Wengui created with right-wing agitator and ally Steve Bannon, called the New Federal State of China (NFSC). The Hark Herald singled out a number of these donors, almost all of whom contributed the maximum amount to Santos—$3,300 per election—despite never previously giving money to any federal candidate.
Leading military contractors jacked up the price of several everyday products after receiving non-competitive contracts, costing taxpayers more than $1.3 million in apparently unnecessary markups, according to Pentagon contracting data acquired by Responsible Statecraft.
TaxPayers Alliance is key player in attempts to end trials of shorter working week in public sector
Carbon Brief explains the key sticking points at the 2023 IMO talks in London and what nations ultimately agreed on emissions targets.
The Element drives itself continuously at around two miles per hour over farmland, using an advanced computer vision system to identify crops and unwanted botanical invaders. With two-axis robotic arms positioned close the ground, it can flick weeds out of the way where they’ll dry out before they can grow seeds and spread.
Bonds linked to the world’s biggest oil company have ended up in ESG funds, highlighting a major flaw in how the sector is regulated.
US Air Force colonel Matthew Strohmeyer says they have fed the models with classified operational information to inform sensitive questions. The long-term aim of such exercises is to update the US warhorse so it can use AI-enabled data in decision-making, sensors and ultimately firepower.
Better farming techniques across the world could lead to storage of 31 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide a year, data shows. That amount is not far off the 32 gigatonnes gap between current planned emissions reduction globally per year and the amount of carbon that must be cut by 2030 to stay within 1.5C.
haddockseyes 1y ago • 100%
I think people on Twitter (especially on smartphones) and people watching TV have very different attention spans in the first place.
A new study found that a CEO’s political ideology was correlated with the decision of whether to leave or suspend operations in Russia following the 2022 invasion.
His first show brought in over 26 million “video views,” which is a Twitter metric that records a view as anyone who watches a video for more than 2 seconds. While the metric’s reliability has been questioned, it has nevertheless declined significantly since the show’s launch, with Carlson’s most recent show only getting 3.8 million video views, marking a drop of 86 percent.
haddockseyes 1y ago • 100%
There's a pretty famous thought experiment about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument
Thanks to gene therapy, people who could previously only detect shades of grey can now distinguish red objects from a darker background
Talks to combine two of the biggest newspaper publishers in Canada have fallen apart.
Beijing bolstering position as global renewables leader with solar capacity more than rest of world combined
The disease was diagnosed in the Australian rules footballer Heather Anderson, who died at age 28 in November, a paper outlining the postmortem analysis said.
Insilico Medicine says trial of lung disease therapy is milestone for generative AI in drug development
haddockseyes 1y ago • 100%
Just because they're inland, I think.
ChatGPT 'drinks' the equivalent of a 500ml bottle of water for a simple conversation of 20-50 questions and answers. Which may not seem like much... until you consider that it has more than 100 million active users.
Interpol, the world's largest international police organization, has 195 member states, but Russia alone is responsible for 38 per cent of extradition requests.
Researchers have discovered the first programmable RNA-guided system discovered in eukaryotes. The technology, known as Fanzor, has the potential to be more easily delivered to cells and tissues than CRISPR-Cas systems, and further refinements could make them a valuable new technology for human genome editing.
High temperatures could lead to 235,000 ER visits and 56,000 hospital admissions for heat-related conditions annually.
Tropical forests destroyed last year released 2.7 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, equivalent to the fossil fuel emissions of India. Brazil accounted for 43 percent of the loss, with Democratic Republic of the Congo and Bolivia responsible for about 13 and nine percent, respectively. Some positive news in the report found Indonesia and Malaysia managed to keep forest loss near a record low, continuing a multiyear streak of stamping down deforestation driven by oil palm plantations.
haddockseyes 1y ago • 100%
As a kid, the big twist in Hordes of the Underdark blew my mind.
haddockseyes 1y ago • 100%
Amazing game. I only have one complaint about it but unfortunately it's a huge spoiler.
haddockseyes 1y ago • 100%
Nice, picking up Disco Elysium.