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The 14th season of the enduringly popular series Call the Midwife, which follows the nurses, midwives and nuns in the East End of London, starts tonight on PBS’ Masterpiece. LONDON, ENGLAND – MAY 22: Laura Main, Stephen McGann, Heidi Thomas, Pippa Harris and Helen George attend the photocall for “Call the Midwife” during BFI & Radio Times Television Festival at BFI Southbank on May 22, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images)Getty Images Inspired by the “Call the Midwife” trilogy of Jennifer Worth, who was a midwife and nurse in London from 1953 to 1973, the series tells…
Stay up to date with everything that is happening in the wonderful world of AM via our LinkedIn community.A research team from MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed a new software tool that makes it easier to design and make cable-driven 3D printed objects. The tool, called Xstrings, can be used to produce a variety of products with embedded actuation, from robotic hands with gripping capabilities to interactive sculptures with animal-like movement.Cable-driven mechanisms are frequently used by engineers to create components that can move fluidly like a human or animal. This movement is generated by pulling…
The Tate recently announced it will return a painting by Henry Gibbs to the heirs of a Jewish Belgian art collector after initial claims it had been looted by Nazis. The painting being returned is by the Canterbury artist is Aeneas and his family fleeing Burning Troy (1654), a work initially purchased by Tate from Galerie Jan de Maere, Brussels in 1994. The Spoliation Advisory Panel resolves claims from people, or their heirs, who lost possession of cultural property during the Nazi era, now held in national collections in the UK. Related Articles A press release from the Tate said that…
The structure of Ghostbuster, our new state-of-the-art method for detecting AI-generated text. Large language models like ChatGPT write impressively well—so well, in fact, that they’ve become a problem. Students have begun using these models to ghostwrite assignments, leading some schools to ban ChatGPT. In addition, these models are also prone to producing text with factual errors, so wary readers may want to know if generative AI tools have been used to ghostwrite news articles or other sources before trusting them. What can teachers and consumers do? Existing tools to detect AI-generated text sometimes do poorly on data that differs from…
Marcia Marcus, a painter who spent decades making off-kilter portraits of herself and others in relative obscurity, only to gain positive notice during her final years, died at 97 on Thursday. Her passing was confirmed by her daughter, Kate Prendergast, who said she died of age-related complications. Until very recently, Marcus was a little-known figure, even though her work was featured in group exhibitions by closely watched galleries like Stable during the 1950s and ’60s. But recent shows have brought her art to a new audience, generating a small but growing following. Related Articles She was known for painting portraits…
FILE PHOTO: IBM is reportedly laying off thousands of U.S. employees and moving them to India. | Photo Credit: Reuters IBM is reportedly laying off thousands of U.S. employees and moving them to India. A report by The Register has stated that it spoke to employees who were asked to train Indian employees on their job role after being told they would soon have to leave. According to the outlet, IBM has also listed 173 open positions since January this year with 2,946 openings available since November last year. Some of the employees who were laid off and asked for an internal transfer were…
The New York Yankees had quite the Saturday, blasting nine home runs in a 20-9 win over the Milwaukee Brewers. And the bats used by many of their players caught the attention of the baseball world.While Aaron Judge rocked three homers using his normal bat, a number of Yankees opted for the Torpedo bat, which was designed in part by former Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Aaron Leanhardt and are notable for being densest at the barrel, or the “sweet spot” of the bat.”Really, it’s just about making the bat as heavy and as fat as possible in the area…
Vast Data Inc. has added block storage capabilities and an Apache Kafka-compatible event streaming service to its flagship Vast DataStore offering, transforming it into what it says is the industry’s first “fully unified” data platform for artificial intelligence workloads. With today’s announcements, Vast says it has fulfilled its vision of creating a “universal storage platform” that can linearly scale parallel data access across every type of data format, including file, object, block, table and streaming data. By making all of these data types accessible through a single storage platform, it’s possible for companies to cater to every kind of workload,…
Manus AI, the viral AI agent platform out of China, on Monday morning launched two subscription plans starting at $39 per month. Manus, which is still in beta, is an AI-powered agentic tool that can be used to complete tasks ranging from creating a web page for a wedding invitation to crafting a scoring sheet for a baseball game. In our tests, however, we found that the platform falls short of some of its loftier marketing promises. The cheaper of Manus’ new premium plans is $39 per month and comes with 3,900 credits and the ability to run two tasks…
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