Even as a frequent flyer, I still find the views from an airplane during takeoff and landing pretty surreal. But the view doesn’t change once in the air, save for sunsets, sunrises, and passing clouds. That’s not the case on a train. Instead, passengers can see every inch of the route as the train passes
You probably know by now that the AI models powering ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other chatbots are trained on seemingly infinite databases of published works, containing hundreds of millions of books, online articles, academic papers, and basically anything you can find on the internet. Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to
Four workers in Japan have died after being struck by a train at Shin-Kanuma Station, north of Tokyo, authorities say. The collision happened around 10:46 local time (01:46 GMT) while the workers were removing weeds from the train tracks, local media reported. When emergency services arrived at the scene three workers were trapped under the
The streaming platform Twitch will now use creators’ content to help train generative AI models for its parent company, Amazon. This move has inspired swift and concentrated backlash from the Twitch community, especially because creators are opted in to having their content used for this AI training by default. For Amazon, these stream recordings are
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Finland uses the same track widths as Russia, which are wider than the European standard – a holdover from when the Nordic nation was part of the Russian Grand Duchy in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is currently in the process of updating its track widths to match the European standard. The new,