Archive for January, 2023
AI-Powered Lawyer Will Represent Defendant in Court
January 10th, 2023Via: CBS: A “robot” lawyer powered by artificial intelligence will be the first of its kind to help a defendant fight a traffic ticket in court next month. Joshua Browder, CEO of DoNotPay, said the company’s AI-creation runs on a smartphone, listens to court arguments and formulates responses for the defendant. The AI lawyer tells […]
Michai Morin: “A Presentation on Historical & Modern UAP Trends”
January 9th, 2023This is an interesting high level overview of the UFO phenomenon. There’s probably not a lot of information here that’s new for Cryptogon readers, but you might like to pass it along to someone who is new to this area of inquiry. Via: Project Unity:
James Webb Telescope Reveals Milky Way–Like Galaxies in Young Universe
January 9th, 2023Via: Phys.org: New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars—elongated features of stars stretching from the centers of galaxies into their outer disks—at a time when the universe was a mere 25% of its present age. The finding of so-called barred galaxies, similar to our […]
VALL-E: Microsoft’s New Speech Synthesis AI Can Mimic A Speaker’s Voice From A Three Second Sample
January 9th, 2023Many audio examples are at the link. Via: Microsoft – Github: We introduce a language modeling approach for text to speech synthesis (TTS). Specifically, we train a neural codec language model (called VALL-E) using discrete codes derived from an off-the-shelf neural audio codec model, and regard TTS as a conditional language modeling task rather than […]
John Deere Will Allow U.S. Farmers to Repair Their Own Equipment
January 9th, 2023Via: Engadget: John Deere has been one of the stauncher opponents of right to repair regulation, but it’s now willing to make some concessions. Deere & Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) that lets US farmers and independent repair shops fix equipment, rather than requiring the use […]
Thousands of People Stormed Brazil’s Congress on Sunday in Protest of Left-Wing President Lula’s Win
January 9th, 2023Via: Daily Mail: The supporters of far-right ex-President Bolsonaro invaded Brazil’s National Congress building, the Supreme Court, presidential palace on Sunday, and called for the military to overthrow newly elected President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after Bolsonaro questioned the integrity of the election.
WHO: Anti-Vaccine Activism is Deadlier Than Global Terrorism
January 8th, 2023Mmm hmm. Via: Summit News: The World Health Organization shared a video on Twitter promoting the claim that anti-vaccine activism is deadlier than global terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and gun violence. Yes, really. The video quoted Baylor College of Medicine’s Dr. Peter Hotez, who stated, “We have to recognize that anti-vaccine activism, which I actually call […]
U.S. to Send Ukraine Bradley Fighting Vehicles
January 8th, 2023Via: Antiwar: The US is going to send Ukraine Bradley Fighting Vehicles for the first time in a new weapons package worth nearly $3 billion, US officials told The Associated Press on Thursday. The officials said the $2.85 billion aid package will be formally announced on Friday, and it will mark the single largest arms […]
Academia Will Never Account For Misguided COVID Policies
January 8th, 2023Via: American Thinker: Academia will never account for its misguided COVID policies, and it will never back out of its commitment to consensus explanations or opportunities. Indeed, these people will help accelerate the entire COVID complex. COVID is a new social engineering program, and universities will make biosecurity, including molecular engineering and tracking technology, into a permanent research activity that […]
