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Patriots, Jammers & a Very Long Skirt 👗 (opens the original)
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Swedish police have a new message for the country’s pensioners: stop being so polite. Fraudsters took around 5.7 billion kronor off Swedes last year, and most scams aimed at the over-60s start with a friendly phone call or a fake officer at the door. The “dare to be rude” campaign has celebrities telling people to hang up and shut the door, with one 74-year-old actor admitting her generation was raised never to do either. So next time you cut a cold caller off mid-sentence, you can tell your mum
Brain Cells, Broken Unions & Chokepoints (opens the original)
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Singapore just switched on a data centre rack that runs on actual human brain matter. NUS Medicine, the startup Cortical Labs and data-centre developer DayOne built it from 20 lab-grown biological computing units, each one 800,000 real neurons grown from stem cells and wired into microelectrode arrays that let them talk to the digital world. 16 million living neurons are doing the job silicon chips usually do, on a fraction of the power. In near future, somewhere in Singapore, a chunk of grey ma
Bombs, Books & Maps 🗺️ (opens the original)
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For almost 500 years, most world maps have relied on a 16th-century navigation trick that badly distorts the true size of countries, and Africa ends up getting the worst of it: on a Mercator map, Greenland looks about the same size as Africa, even though Africa is actually 14 times larger. This week, 164 UN member states voted to encourage classrooms and cartographers to use equal-area alternatives, such as Equal Earth. The vote was 164 to 1, with the United States casting the only no and callin
Madonna’s AI Song, Tinned Food and AI Drones 𖥂 (opens the original)
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One song in Australia got millions of views and streams, and people loved it, but then people started to hate it. What happened was that a DJ in Brisbane created an AI-generated cover of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer.” It got 48.5 million Spotify streams before fans realized it was AI-generated and not made by a human. The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) moved forward to ban wholly AI-generated tracks from its charts and music awards, effective from 25 August. Now th
Heartbeat, Gamers and Boiled Potatoes 🥔 (opens the original)
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has hired around 2,000 air traffic controllers this year, but the majority of them are video gamers. This sounds stupid at first, but FAA leadership has said they hired these video gamers because what they do while playing video games is exactly the same as what an air traffic controller does: managing multiple objects on the screen and staying calm under pressure. Not sure, honestly, how good this idea is, because playing a video game where there’s no re
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