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This clip from 2000 of someone creating a digital doppelganger is weird.

This episode of BBC's Tomorrow's World features people weirdly excited about internet radio and online gaming. But it's this bit about creating a digital avatar and trying to capture your personality in code that feels oddly prescient in the age of AI chatbots, but also deeply dystopian.

An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country

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The AI boom is creating data center jobs that pay more

Data centers are driving demand for electricians, installers, and maintenance workers, with some jobs paying $10 more an hour than similar roles.

Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true?

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The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success

About 90 percent of the distance driven by Perseverance has been autonomous.

DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists

Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.

He Joined OpenAI. Here’s His Advice for Those Who Want a Job at the Lab.

OpenAI product manager Ty Geri told Business Insider that the AI lab hires people who are passionate about the mission and experiment.

Suspected AI use is the entertainment industry's scarlet letter

Disclosure or denial both won't help you.

Arena AI CEO says enterprises don’t know which AI models to trust

Arena CEO Anastasios Angelopoulos said companies are "terrified" of working with frontier AI companies and China-based open models.

Replit CEO's surprising take: AI is making software engineering more human

Replit CEO Amjad Masad said his company's office has become "more vibrant" since his software engineers started vibe coding.

Nitecore's latest power bank is the lightest and most compact yet

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The Exciting Boring Decade

Why hasn’t all the chaos in the real world inspired more interesting art?