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‘I don’t want to be murdered by Chinese AI’: Is AI going to ‘kill everyone’ in ten years or is Big Tech conning us with ‘doomsday’ predictions? |

A still from Terminator 2: Judgement Day Marvel Studios is as good a metaphor for what happens when a company starts believing in its own infallibility. After the success of Endgame in 2019, Disney executives were thoroughly convinced that no matter what they produced, it would be lapped up by audiences if you stuck a…

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More than 100 years ago, crayfish were introduced into Oregon’s Crater Lake; today they occupy 95% of the shoreline and its unique newt is disappearing |

The Mazama newt is a salamander found only in Crater Lake (Image: Oregon Zoo) More than a century ago, people introduced signal crayfish into Oregon’s Crater Lake as food for nonnative trout and salmon. The decision was made in 1915, decades before scientists understood how dramatically the crustaceans could reshape the lake’s ecosystem. Today, the…

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Canadian tenant posts ‘harassment’ videos after clash with Indian landlady over barbecue, claims she was arrested by Surrey Police

Canadian tenant posts videos of alleged harassment by Indian landlady in Surrey. Purported videos of an Indian lady apparently harassing her Canadian tenants in Surrey have gone viral as the tenant started an Instagram account to document the harassment. There is no official confirmation of what happened, and the authenticity of the viral videos has…

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A 27-year-old Tennessee diesel mechanic wanted to farm full-time; solar sites gave his sheep 400+ acres to graze, letting him quit his job and build a 300-ewe flock

A 27-year-old Tennessee diesel mechanic has left his job to become a full-time livestock farmer after gaining grazing access to more than 400 acres of utility-scale solar farms. The arrangement, made through vegetation management contracts at solar sites, allowed the young farmer to expand his flock to more than 300 breeding ewes without having to…

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Thames Valley Police uncover £1.3 million cannabis factory inside abandoned BHS store in Slough with 1,700 plants and potential 150kg yield; two men jailed for 14 months

Police uncover £1.3 million cannabis factory inside former BHS store in Slough. (Photo: Thames Valley Police) Two men have been jailed after police uncovered a cannabis factory containing more than 1,700 plants inside a former BHS store in Slough, with the crop estimated to have a potential street value of nearly £1.3 million.According to details…

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49 days before 9/11, a businessman took Twin Towers’ lease; 25 years later, the rebuilding nears end

South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsing after the twin towers were hit by hijacked planes Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks destroyed the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, the redevelopment of the 16-acre site has entered its final commercial phase, with construction now under way on 2 World Trade Center, the last…

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