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What kind of sexual expression do users engage in on dating apps?
A survey on how dating app users express themselves in their profiles and photos revealed that more than half included 'sexual self-expression.' Femke Konings and her colleagues at the Catholic ...
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Chinese AI company DeepSeek releases 'DeepSeek-V3', an AI model comparable to GPT-4o, with an astounding 671 billion parameters
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, announced the large-scale language model ' DeepSeek-V3 ' on December 26, 2024. DeepSeek-V3, which has 671 billion parameters, is comparable to OpenAI's multimodal ...
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Astronomers calculate Santa's speed, so fast it causes reindeer noses to redshift
Laura Driessen verified the speed at which Santa moves and found that the color of the reindeer's nose appears to change due to Santa's incredible speed. I've Santa's speed on Christmas Eve ...
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Alibaba's Qwen team releases 'QVQ', an open-source AI model that can recognize images
The research team behind Alibaba's large-scale language model 'Qwen' has released 'QVQ-72B-Preview' as an experimental research model focused on enhancing visual reasoning capabilities. The QVQ ...
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Compilation of footage of plane crash in Kazakhstan, killing 38; reports also suggest Russian missile was fired in error
On December 25, 2024, an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane en route to Grozny, the capital of the Chechen Republic of Russia, crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan, killing 38 of the 67 ...
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US government to spend $3 billion to remove Chinese-made telecommunications equipment
Dec 26, 2024 14:00:00 US government to spend $3 billion to remove Chinese-made telecommunications equipment On Monday, December 23, 2024, US President Joe Biden signed the National Defense ...
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South Korea considers establishing 'KSMC,' a contract chipmaker to rival TSMC
It has been learned that South Korean industry and academia have proposed the establishment of the Korea Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (KSMC), modelled on Taiwan's TSMC, to address the ...
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Mathematicians talk about the shock of OpenAI's o3 model scoring 25.2% on the ultra-difficult math dataset 'FrontierMath'
Kevin Buzzard, a mathematician and professor of pure mathematics at Imperial College London, posted a blog post explaining how OpenAI's o3 model scored 25.2% on the FrontierMath problem dataset.
ハブやドックを経由するとSSDの速度はどうなる？
外付けSSDをUSBハブやドッキングステーションに接続してPCのストレージ拡張を行っている人は多いはず。その際、PCがThunderboltに対応していると高速なデータ転送などが可能です。しかし、複数の規格があるThunderboltでは、適切なデバ ...
「フッ素」はどうやって虫歯を予防するのか？
多くの歯磨き粉には、虫歯を予防する有効成分としてフッ素が使われているほか、国や地域によっては虫歯予防のために水道水にフッ素が入れられています。虫歯ができる原因や、それをフッ素が予防するメカニズムについて、科学系ニュースサイト・Live ...
ボードゲームの説明書はなぜわかりにくいものが多いのか？
ボードゲームには必ずルールを掲載した説明書がついています。しかし、ゲームが複雑になるほど説明書を読み込むのに時間がかかってしまい、「実際にプレイした方が早く理解できた」という人もいるはず。なぜボードゲームの説明書は難しいのかについて、ボードゲームの説 ...
親子関係の質で大人になってからの幸福度を予測できることが判明
子育て期間中の親と子の関係については多数の研究が行われていて、「子育てにユーモアを持ち込むことが子どもと良好な関係を築く上で役に立つ可能性がある」などの報告もあります。親子関係はなるべく良好でありたいものですが、こうした親子関係は、子どもが小さい間だ ...