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Young people seeking help from AI-powered chatbots
| While such chatbots may be able to offer a certain degree of help, some experts are concerned that they could also give poor advice | Millions of young people have been seeking mental health support from a particular generative AI chatbot on Character.ai, a popular app that lets anyone create a custom chatbot with its own personality. Called Psychologist, the chatbot has received a colossal 78 million messages since its creation just over a year ago. "I never intended for it to become popular,” Sam Zaia, its 30-year-old creator, told the BBC. “Then I started getting a lot of messages from people saying that they’d been really positively affected by it and were utilizing it as a source of comfort." The New Zealander trained the chatbot using principles from his psychology degree course by talking to it and shaping the answers it gave to common mental health conditions ... | |
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Sony lifts the veil on its exciting new mini-LED backlight tech | 'While other manufacturers try to one-up each other with specs, Sony has been working to improve its mini-LED technology. And the results are remarkable' | Anyone who has followed our TV reviews over the years has heard me say repeatedly what Sony has always told anyone who asks for specs and details on its backlight systems: It’s not the number of zones or the number of LEDs you have in the backlight setup — it’s how you use them. Upon hearing this, I’ve always told Sony, “OK, I’ll accept that. But will you please dish on how you use them that’s different?” And, of course, Sony wouldn’t say. That is until Sony hosted me at a small press trip in Tokyo in November, which laid the groundwork for what you’re reading here. For the first time, Sony is showing us how its backlight tech works ... | |
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This crazy case adds a BlackBerry-inspired keyboard to your iPhone | The new accessory comes in yellow and blue and costs $139
| If you’re an iPhone user who somehow still hasn’t gotten used to using a virtual keyboard, help is at hand in the form of a BlackBerry-style physical keyboard that you can attach directly to your Apple-made smartphone. Besides offering tactility and precision, using the new Clicks keyboard also frees up more real estate on your iPhone display, giving you a better view of the screen on which you’re inputting text. The device also unlocks iOS keyboard shortcuts; for example, pressing CMD + H takes you to your home screen while CMD + Space launches Search. You can also scroll through webpages using the space bar on the keyboard. Clicks also supports keyboard shortcuts for iOS and third-party apps ... | |
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Four major rocket launches to look out for in 2024 | Two of the most powerful boosters currently in operation will be flying again, along with at least two brand new rocket designs | SpaceX is preparing for the third launch of the most powerful rocket ever built, the Starship. Following two failed test missions last year, the Elon Musk-led spaceflight company is keen to see the 397-feet-tall (121-meter) rocket achieve its first orbital flight in a test expected to take place in the coming weeks. Much later in the year, NASA is set to use its powerful SLS rocket for its first crewed flight, powering the Orion spacecraft and four astronauts toward the moon in the highly anticipated Artemis II mission. This year should also see brand new rockets flying for the first time, including Arianespace’s Ariane 6 vehicle for European heavy-lift missions and Rocket Lab’s two-stage Neutron rocket that could one day be used for crewed flights ... | |
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