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New york flooding subway After Hurricane Sandy devastated New York and flooded its subway system in 2012, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) knew it needed to act. The storm caused an estimated $5 billion in damage, mostly from water getting in where it shouldn’t have. “Track, rails, signal cables, escalators—every piece of equipment that operates in the New York...

Adbe A recent viral moment highlights just how nervous the artist community is about artificial intelligence (AI). It started earlier this week, when French comic book author Claire Wendling posted a screenshot of a curious passage in Adobe’s privacy and personal data settings to Instagram. It was quickly reposted on Twitter by another artist and campaigner, Jon Lam, where it...

Interviews amazonyorktimes Those pee-bottle stories were just a whiff of how Amazon workers are treated. A blockbuster New York Times exposé, published on Tuesday morning, delves deep into many of the persistent problems plaguing Amazon’s workers, on multiple fronts, with a focus on how those problems reached a fever pitch during the pandemic. To report the story, journalists Jodi...

GPT-4 :The world has been exploring the possibilities of artificial intelligence (AI) since the 1950s, a period in which the mathematician Alan Turing laid the foundations of the discipline with his article ' Computing Machinery and Intelligence '.   Yet in seven decades of development, the widespread feeling that AI is advancing by leaps and bounds has never...

Should i stop drinking coffee I love coffee. Maybe too much. I used to drink up to four cups of Nespresso a morning—the darkest roast I could find. I looked forward to my first cup, and by the third, I knew I shouldn’t head to the kitchen to make the fourth, but I don’t always listen to my...

Avengers endgame ticket price Tickets to Avengers: Endgame in 3D with assigned seats on Friday night cost around $22 in New York City, one of the more expensive markets in the nation. Average prices for a ticket to a U.S. movie theater are just about $9. There are plenty of tickets available, too, according to a quick search on Google and...

What happened to kate spade When Kate Spade died by suicide in 2018, people around the world mourned the loss of the designer, who’d become famous through her eponymous brand. Spade sold her namesake company in 2006, but in the years before her death, she’d launched another label, Frances Valentine, that expressed her quirky, ebullient aesthetic. Today, Frances Valentine...

Gpt 3 In the old days, if you wanted to create convincing dialogue for a deepfake video, you had to actually write the words yourself. These days, it’s easier than ever to let the AI do it all for you. “You basically now just need to have an idea for content,” says Natalie Monbiot, head of strategy at...

How to change your personality We live in a world that celebrates “authenticity” and encourages us to “just be ourselves.” However, recent scientific research estimates that around 60% of people would not just like to change their personality, but are actively working on it. To be sure, some may feel deeply offended by the notion that their character could do with a...

What is coca cola getting rid of When you think of Coca-Cola, your mind probably immediately goes to the company’s biggest brands: Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Fanta, and Tab. However, the company actually has more than 500 brands worldwide. The bad news, if you’re a Coke fan, is Coca-Cola is taking a machete to its brand lineup and...