A new app in Russia shows road accidents from the past in augmented reality

When it comes to road safety we are used to seeing TV adverts that aim to shock drivers into taking more care on the roads but a new campaign in the Russian capital of Moscow is using a clever smartphone app as an alternative channel to improve road safety. The idea behind the app is even though there are hundreds of accidents every single day of the week on the very roads we travel, we very rarely see these accidents and by the time we are driving past the scene of an accident the debris and any bodies have long been cleaned up....

2 min · 354 words · Emily Houston

A New iPhone Stand Designed for Video Calling

Vyne,designed by Clint Spencer and Ryan Eder, aims to make the business of video calling on the iPhone more comfortable. The Vyne is a concept design and it appears to wrap around your neck like a snake, making it hands-free so you’re able to chill back on the couch. It’s an interesting design and it might be helpful to use while watching media, specifically when you’re in a confined place such as a plane seat....

2 min · 241 words · Tyler Taylor

A new tool to help Internet Beginners and Seniors use the Web

As the number of seniors using the internet slowly increases services that make the internet easier to understand and operate are also growing. Undoubtedly the need to make operating and understanding the Internet should decrease as Generation Zuckerberg matures. However till that happens there are a number of services that exist to help the non-tech savvy elderly jump into the glorious world of the internet. Internet Buttons, is a website launched by the very wonderful,We Are What We Doa British charity....

2 min · 413 words · Paul Harvey

A new Twitter user is revealing more celebrity gagging orders

Reportsabound that a new Twitter user going by the name of@Legal_Aidshas been publishing yet more claims about High Court gagging orders taken out by high-profile celebrities and politicians. At the time of writing, the Twitter account in question has well over a thousand followers. The user has been posting fresh claims about supposed gagging orders, with links to news articles and court documents, though many of the ‘revelations’ link to old, existing stories and court documents that don’t name the celebrities in question....

2 min · 368 words · Brittany Collins

A notorious GPT-3-generated blog shows AI still can’t imitate human writing

A notorious GPT-3-generated blog shows AI still can’t imitate human writing The AI-generated blog In case you haven’t read the stories, a computer science student at the University of California, Berkeley, set up a blog on Substack under the pseudonym Adolos. OpenAI has currently made GPT-3 available to a limited audience of developers, and Liam Porr, the student, was not one of them. So he asked a Ph.D. student who already had access to the AI to run his queries on GPT-3....

14 min · 2878 words · Angela Thomas
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