OpenAI DALL-E 3 Screen Capture: Sky Dachshund! (www.youtube.com)
A speech jammer would be cool on some of our politicians 🤭 (www.youtube.com)
Amazon Plans Commercial Breaks for Prime Video (variety.com)
Amazon Plans Commercial Breaks for Prime Video::Amazon plans to add commercial breaks to its Prime Video service, the latest streamer to embrace advertising after previously shunning it
Dream Screen: Text to video feature for Youtube shorts (storage.googleapis.com)
Source: blog.youtube/…/made-on-youtube-2023/
Fact-checking some dull bits of Elon Musk’s biography - FT Alphaville (archive.ph)
Twitter was a clown car that fell into a gold mine, then a gold mine that fell to a car clown....
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The essential oil extracted by hydrodistillation from the flowering twigs of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni (Asteraceae) was fractioned by chromatography. Forty-three constituents were characterized with the help of GC, GC-MS and other spectroscopic techniques. The essential oil was found to be a complex mixture of mono- and...
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Steviol glycosides (SGs) in Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni) leaves are important due to their high sweetness and low calorific value. The yield of SGs is dependent on fertilization regimes, but the relationship between nitrogen (N) administration and SGs synthesis is still unclear. In this study, we investigate the effects of...
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Plant growth and secondary metabolism are commonly regulated by external cues such as light, temperature and water availability. In this study, the influences of low and high temperatures, dehydration, photoperiods, and different growing stages on the changes of steviol glycosides (SGs) contents and transcription levels of...
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Stevia, a zero-calorie sugar substitute, is recognized as safe by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). In vitro and in vivo studies showed that stevia has antiglycemic action and antioxidant effects in adipose tissue and the vascular wall, reduces blood pressure levels and hepatic...
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Plant growth and secondary metabolism are commonly regulated by external cues such as light, temperature and water availability. In this study, the influences of low and high temperatures, dehydration, photoperiods, and different growing stages on the changes of steviol glycosides (SGs) contents and transcription levels of...
Cruise CEO says SF ‘should be rolling out the red carpet’ for robotaxis, threatens to maybe leave town (sfist.com)
Cruise CEO says SF ‘should be rolling out the red carpet’ for robotaxis, threatens to maybe leave town::In his first major public interview since the DMV cut their San Francisco fleet in half, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said “we cannot expect perfection” from the self-driving cars, and vaguely threatened to leave town if...
The great AI "pause" that wasn't (www.axios.com)
The organizers of a high-profile open letter last March calling for a "pause" in work on advanced artificial intelligence lost that battle, but they could be winning a longer-term fight to persuade the world to slow AI down.
Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art (arstechnica.com)
Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series and Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee (deadline.com)
'Power, influence, notoriety': The Gen-Z hackers who struck MGM, Caesars (www.reuters.com)
The Age of the Grift Shift (tante.cc)
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Amazon to introduce ads on Prime Video in 2024 (www.breakingthenews.net)
Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts (www.popsci.com)
Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts::A medical ethics committee responded to Elon Musk’s brain-interface startup issuing an open call for patients yesterday.
Meta Adopted Policy to Censor Canadian Facebook Posts About Assassinated Sikh Leader, Emails Show (pressprogress.ca)
Meta Adopted Policy to Censor Canadian Facebook Posts About Assassinated Sikh Leader, Emails Show::Emails show Meta executives confirmed company-wide policy to take down posts mentioning assassination of Canadian Sikh leader
Microsoft’s big Windows 11 update drops on September 26 with Copilot AI baked in (www.engadget.com)
Microsoft is releasing a big Windows 11 update on September 26. Update 23H2 includes the new AI-powered Windows Copilot feature, a native RAR app, a new volume mixer and a lot more.
Apple reduces raises given to retail employees after weak iPhone quarter (appleinsider.com)
Apple reduces raises given to retail employees after weak iPhone quarter::The smartphone market and general economy have slowed down post-pandemic, and Apple is reacting with a lower raise for employees in 2023 versus 2022.