A new Apple-supported study argues that your behavior data (movement, sleep, exercise, etc.) can often be a stronger health signal than traditional biometric measurements like heart rate or blood oxygen. To prove it, the researchers developed a foundation model trained on behavioral data collected from wearables, and it performed surprisingly well.
“We’re so grateful for the response that ‘Murderbot’ has received, and delighted that we’re getting to go back to Martha Wells’ world to work with Alexander, Apple, CBS Studios and the rest of the team,” the Weitz brothers said in a statement.
So Murderbot is fiction, because machine intelligence right now is fiction.
A large language model that pattern matches words, sometimes sort of sounds vaguely like it might be talking to you and sometimes sounds like it’s just putting patterns together in ways that look really bizarre—that’s not anywhere close to sentient machine intelligence.
Chris and Paul Weitz adapt the hero of Martha Wells’ book series “The Murderbot Diaries” with keen awareness of everything their audience has been taught to know and fear about artificial intelligence. We’ve long been sold fables about robots yearning to be more human — to love us, guard us and sympathize with us before replacing us.
Instead of speaking to that anxiety, however, the show floats an alternate and infinitely more entertaining possibility: What if machines simply didn’t care enough about humans to deal with us at all?
Here's a bunch of apps I regularly use that track your TBR (to be read) pile, the books you DNFed (did not finish), and offer suggestions for your next read. Some are prettier than others, most will allow you to import your Goodreads data.
Belkin has announced that it is ending support for most of its Wemo smart home products. Customers will lose access to the Wemo app, any features that rely on cloud connectivity, customer support, and more. It’s effectively the end of the Wemo smart home brand.
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For Apple users, however, there’s at least one piece of good news. “Wemo products configured for use with Apple HomeKit will continue to function via HomeKit in the absence of Wemo cloud services and the Wemo app,” Belkin says.
Apple, Visa and Mastercard have persuaded a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to suppress competition in the payments network market and causing merchants to pay inflated transaction fees.
U.S. District Judge David Dugan in Illinois ruled on Wednesday that the merchants had not provided enough evidence to support their claim that Apple illegally declined to launch a competing payment network to rival Visa and Mastercard.
I saw a reference to "M5 MacBook Pro", and my old eyes mistaken M5 as MS, and I was very confused for a few seconds.
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