Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
American Airlines To Turn 10K Tons of CO2 Into Buried Carbon Blocks
American Airlines today announced a deal with Graphyte to purchase “carbon removal credits” to help accelerate its long-term goal to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. According to the announcement, the airline will purchase credits equivalent to 10,000 tons of permanent carbon removal with delivery scheduled for early 2025. Graphyte uses Read more…
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Internet Use Does Not Appear To Harm Mental Health, Oxford Study Finds
A study of more than 2 million people’s internet use found no “smoking gun” for widespread harm to mental health from online activities such as browsing social media and gaming, despite widely claimed concerns that mobile apps can cause depression and anxiety. Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, who said Read more…
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Amazon Announces Q, an AI Chatbot for Businesses
Amazon on Tuesday announced a new chatbot called Q for people to use at work. From a report: The product, announced at Amazon Web Services’ Reinvent conference in Las Vegas, represents Amazon’s latest effort to challenge Microsoft and Google in productivity software. It comes one year after Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI Read more…
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Tech Conference Collapses After Organizer Admits To Making Fake ‘Auto-Generated’ Female Speaker
The founder of a software developer conference has been accused of creating fake female speakers to bolster diversity numbers — and some speakers are dropping out, with the event just nine days away. Devternity is an online conference for developers that’s invite-only for speakers. In the past, it reportedly drew Read more…
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New ‘Stable Video Diffusion’ AI Model Can Animate Any Still Image
On Tuesday, Stability AI released Stable Video Diffusion, a new free AI research tool that can turn any still image into a short video — with mixed results. It’s an open-weights preview of two AI models that use a technique called image-to-video, and it can run locally on a machine Read more…