Leben (Life aka misc)
Why Europe Keeps Being Pummeled by Heat Waves
Europe is facing its fifth round of dangerously high temperatures this summer. Now climate scientists wonder if global warming is doing more than raise temperatures… The weather patterns that create heat domes aren’t new, but today they arise on top of the warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions. That makes Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc)
AI Fails to Deliver a 4-Day Work Week – Especially at AI Companies
An engineering director at Google said four years ago that AI would deliver a four-day work week by 2025, and earlier this year OpenAI formally urged companies to start testing out a four-day work week (with no change in pay), claiming that AI will soon be able to speed up Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
Europe’s Record Heatwave Kills 25,000, Dries Rivers, Shuts Nuclear Plant, Exposes Submerged Warships
The European Union’s Copernicus climate monitoring service confirmed Monday that June and July were the hottest on record in western Europe. The period saw an estimated 25,000 heat-related deaths. CNN has before-and-after photos of Europe’s dried rivers, calling it “a crisis so dire it can be seen from space” River Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc)
Disneyland Announces Star Wars/Fortnite Collaboration, ‘Avatar’ Attraction, and a Newer Tomorrowland
Saturday Disneyland announced a special Star Wars-themed collaboration with third-person shooter game Fortnite — including a slick new trailer for its Star Wars: Smuggler’s Gambit quest. Visitors to Disneyland’s Smuggler’s Run attraction at Disney’s theme parks in Orlando and in Anaheim can accept a special mission while waiting in line Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
Robots That Walk and Talk Are Coming To Car Factories
At a BMW factory in South Carolina, a human-shaped robot with a screen for a face recently stepped from a charging station toward a stack of green plastic boxes. It grasped an auto part from one of the boxes, pivoted, placed the part in a trolley, then pulled the trolley Read more…