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Google follows OpenAI in saying almost nothing about its new PaLM 2 AI program
Watch as flexible locksmith shows off superhuman powers to break into his van – and everyone’s saying same thing
A FLEXIBLE locksmith has shown off his superhuman powers to break into his van – and everyone’s saying the same thing.
Nimble tradesman Liam was filmed wriggling into the back of the Ford Transit by his colleague Hannah, who posted the clip to TikTok.
The keys had been locked in the back of the transit with slam-lock on – meaning he couldn’t open it.
Hannah wrote: “Liam the locksmith used his talents to retrieve [the keys],” alongside two crying with laughter emojis.
The lad was filmed lifting up the van’s front passenger seat, before stepping over it and anchoring his legs on the driver’s seat.
The locksmith then lowered himself headfirst into the space beneath the opened passenger seat.
After worming his way down the gap, half of his body disappeared with only his legs sticking out.
Viewers were left shocked when he slid even further down to completely vanish under the passenger seat, before emerging out of the back of the van.
The video posted by @autokeychase quickly racked up a whopping 148.3k likes and over 2480 comments from stunned followers who were all left saying the same thing.
One wrote: “My claustrophobia would never allow me to do this”.
Another added: “I had a panic attack just watching this.”
One chimed in: “That is beyond terrifying. I can cope fine in small spaces but that is literally my nightmare”.
A fourth said: “Caught second-hand claustrophobia”.
A fifth commented: “My anxiety is through the roof.”
One viewer even suggested that Liam goes on Britain’s Got Talent after he showed off his flexible skills on TikTok.
“Is that elastic man?,” joked another follower.
Other viewers were quick to explain that the transit van’s model has a button in the front to release back doors – but they still praised Liam’s bizarre talent.
This comes after a mesmerising video clip of a worker perfectly painting a sign on a road left viewers gobsmacked and all saying the same thing.
The man carefully paints out ‘BUS’ in the short clip posted on Twitter with people declaring him an “artist”.
People have lauded the worker online with comments including “genius”, “an artist for sure”, “superb craftmanship” and “now that’s what we should call skilled labour”.
And pranksters claim they were left stunned when they pretended to be criminals trying to offload a blood-splattered hatchback to a well-known motors firm.
The viral video left people shocked at the dealers cryptic responses after the pranking pair were given a quote of £196.
Liam reappeared out of the back of the van after the keys were left in the back[/caption]
Everything the robot is saying in Unicorn: Warriors Eternal can be translated
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Elon Musk reportedly settles defamation suit after saying he’d never ‘surrender an unjust case’
A defamation case brought against Tesla chief executive Elon Musk by critic Randeep Hothi is coming to a close, reportedly costing the billionaire ten big ones. Lawyers representing Hothi, a vocal member of the TSLAQ short-seller community on Twitter, said in a statement that Musk asked to settle the nearly three-year-old case back in March. […]
Elon Musk reportedly settles defamation suit after saying he’d never ‘surrender an unjust case’ by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch
Is It Time to Stop Saying ‘Learn to Code’?
As Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently put it, “We’re in a different world.” Indeed. Encouraging kids to pursue CS careers in Code.org’s viral 2013 launch video, Zuckerberg explained, “Our policy at Facebook is literally to hire as many talented engineers as we can find.”
In Learning to Code Isn’t Enough, a new MIT Technology Review article, Joy Lisi Rankin reports on the long history of learn-to-code efforts, which date back to the 1960s. “Then as now,” Lisi Rankin writes, “just learning to code is neither a pathway to a stable financial future for people from economically precarious backgrounds nor a panacea for the inadequacies of the educational system.”
But is that really true? Vox does note that the latest round of layoffs at Meta “is impacting workers in core technical roles like data scientists and software engineers — positions once thought to be beyond reproach.” Yet while that’s also true at other companies, those laid-off tech workers also seem to be finding similar positions by working in other industries:
Software engineers were the most overrepresented position in layoffs in 2023, relative to their employment, according to data requested by Vox from workforce data company Revelio Labs. Last year, when major tech layoffs first began, recruiters and customer success specialists experienced the most outsize impact. So far this year, nearly 20 percent of the 170,000 tech company layoffs were software engineers, even though they made up roughly 14 percent of employees at these companies. “Early layoffs were dominated by recruiters, which is forgoing future hiring,” Revelio senior economist Reyhan Ayas told Vox. “Whereas in 2023 we see a shift toward more core engineering and software engineering, which signals a change in focus of current business priorities.”
In other words, tech companies aren’t just trimming the fat by firing people who fill out their extensive ecosystem, which ranges from marketers to massage therapists. They’re also, many for the first time, making cuts to the people who build the very products they’re known for, and who enjoyed a sort of revered status since they, like the founders of the companies, were coders. Software engineers are still important, but they don’t have the power they used to…
The latest monthly jobs report by tech industry association CompTIA found that even though employment at tech companies (which includes all roles at those companies) declined slightly in March, employment in technical occupations across industry sectors increased by nearly 200,000 positions. So even if tech companies are laying off tech workers, other industries are snatching them up. Unfortunately for software engineers and the like, that means they might also have to follow those industries’ pay schemes. The average software engineer base pay in the US is $90,000, according to PayScale, but can be substantially higher at tech firms like Facebook, where such workers also get bonuses and stock options.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Corrie fans are all saying the same thing as they predict the future of Sarah and Adam’s relationship
FANS of Coronation Street have predicted that they know the drama Sarah is set to face, after noticing this clue.
Viewers are questioning if Sarah’s next plot is who the father of her baby .will be.
In a complete turn of events, viewers saw Sarah change her mind over wanting another child with husband Adam – but his comes after Sarah confessed to having an affair with her husband’s client Damon.
Wrought with guilt Sarah told barrister Dee Dee that she had slept with Damon.
The affair started when Sarah kissed Damon in a hotel room.
Viewers were amazed by Sarah’s actions as she was completely taken in by Damon’s charm.
Taking to Twitter, one said: “Sarah does realise she still has a husband right?.”
Another wrote: “Sarah really just threw herself at Damon for no reason at all justice for Adam.”
A third added: “Sarah is a s*****r.. “
They continued: “I mean seriously.. he’s you’re brothers enemy and tormented you’re family and you’re there sleeping with him.”
Sarah and Damon became close in a hotel room after falling for his charm[/caption]
Sarah and Damon started kissing in the hotel room[/caption]
Sarah married Adam but has been cheating on him with drug dealer Damon[/caption]