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Chris Stokel-Walker

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Female porters, known as 'kayayei', carry bales of second-hand garments on their heads at the Kantamanto textile market in Accra, Ghana, on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022. The rise of fast fashionand shoppers preference for quantity over qualityhas led to a glut of low-value clothing that inordinately burdens developing countries. Photographer: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Wasteland review: An uncomfortable look at the real cost of waste

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The Power of One review: The woman who blew the whistle on Facebook

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Videograb from Seeing the World through Your Eyes. Computer vision technology can reconstruct a 3D image of a scene displayed in the reflection of a person?s eyeball. Jia-Bin Huang and colleagues at the University of Maryland, College Park developed a computer vision model which takes between 5 and 15 photographs from different angles of an individual?s face while they look at a scene, and reconstructs the scene from the reflection in their eyeball using computer vision, a branch of machine learning. https://world-from-eyes.github.io/

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Eyeball reflections can reveal a 3D model of what you are looking at

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2NMX51D This satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows a tropical storm east of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, at 7:50am EST, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021. The National Hurricane Center issued tropical storm warnings for the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, where forecasters expected the potential cyclone to strengthen Tuesday into the sixth named storm, Fred, of the Atlantic hurricane season. (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR GOES via AP)

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The Universe in a Box review: Why all cosmic quests start on laptops

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Capital letter test is a foolproof way of sorting AIs from humans

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What is the future of AI? Google and the EU have very different ideas

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What is going on with Twitter and should I move to Bluesky instead?

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ChatGPT seems to be trained on copyrighted books like Harry Potter

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Fluent answers from AI search engines are more likely to be wrong

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Tools to spot AI essays show bias against non-native English speakers

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AI Pope images

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Should you be worried that an AI picture of the pope went viral?

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