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AI ‘will not alter fundamental commercial reality’ in news

AI ‘will not alter fundamental commercial reality’ in news

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A report from Enders Analysis has argued that generative artificial intelligence “will not alter the fundamental commercial reality for the news” as the shift online did previously. The research firm cautioned publishers to be “realistic” about the productivity and revenue gains possible from AI, but added that ignoring AI would be “a mistake”. The report found there have been some valuable uses for AI in the newsroom — but argued that there may not be an “immediate, killer news use case to raise revenues”. Worthwhile use cases raised by the analysts included creating audio editions of articles and translating content into foreign languages, although they noted that “translation is not the same as localisation, so such formats won’t mean game-changing audience expansions”. [Read more: How The Economist is using AI to extend its global reach] Thanks for subscribing. Close AI can also help to create “more sophisticated metadata for archival material”, they wrote, in turn making it easier for journalists and readers to access a publisher’s back catalogue. This could have revenue implications for local …

Being in nature can alter your sense of time, according to psychology research

Being in nature can alter your sense of time, according to psychology research

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Do you ever get that feeling that there aren’t enough hours in the day? That time is somehow racing away from you, and it is impossible to fit everything in. But then, you step outside into the countryside and suddenly everything seems slower, more relaxed, like time has somehow changed. It’s not just you – recent research showed nature can regulate our sense of time. For many of us, the combined demands of work, home and family mean that we are always feeling like we don’t have enough time. Time poverty has also been exacerbated by digital technologies. Permanent connectivity extends working hours and can make it difficult to switch off from the demands of friends and family. Recent research suggests that the antidote to our lack of time may lie in the natural world. Psychologist Richardo Correia, at the University of Turku in Finland, found that being in nature may change how we experience time and, perhaps, even give us the sense of time abundance. Correia examined research which compared people’s experiences of time …

How to Rewire Your Brain in 6 Weeks: A BBC Reporter Explores How Everyday Life Changes Can Alter Our Brains

How to Rewire Your Brain in 6 Weeks: A BBC Reporter Explores How Everyday Life Changes Can Alter Our Brains

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If you sus­pect that your brain isn’t quite suit­ed for mod­ern life, you’re not alone. In fact, that state of mind has prob­a­bly been clos­er to the rule than the excep­tion through­out moder­ni­ty itself. It’s just that the mix of things we have to think about keeps chang­ing: “The school run. Work calls. Infla­tion. Remem­ber your lines,” says BBC sci­ence reporter Melis­sa Hogen­boom in the video above. “Our brain nev­er evolved for any of this, and yet here we are, get­ting on with it as best we can, and it’s all thanks to our brain’s incred­i­ble capac­i­ty to adapt, to learn, to grow” — the very sub­ject she inves­ti­gates in this series, Brain Hacks. In search of neu­ro­sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly sound “hacks to help strength­en cru­cial con­nec­tions and keep our minds younger in the process,” Hogen­boom put her­self through a “a six-week brain-alter­ing course.” The first seg­ment of the series finds her enter­ing into a med­i­ta­tion pro­gram she describes in this arti­cle: “For 30 min­utes a day, either as one sin­gle ses­sion or two 15-minute ses­sions, I …

How Paul O’Grady won our hearts with his drag alter ego Lily Savage

How Paul O’Grady won our hearts with his drag alter ego Lily Savage

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails On a Saturday night in January 1987, Paul O’Grady was on stage at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. He was performing as his drag alter ego Lily Savage, the Scouse sex worker with an acid tongue and a towering blonde wig. Then the police burst in: the raid was ostensibly part of a crackdown on amyl nitrate, or poppers, but was also seen as an attempt to intimidate the gay community. Aids panic was at its height, and the officers all wore rubber gloves to avoid touching the crowd. “It looks like we’ve got help with the washing up,” O’Grady quipped. There are few showbiz careers that manage to encompass an arrest at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern and heartwarming teatime TV shows about rescue dogs. But Paul O’Grady, who gave his “real name” to the desk sergeant at the police station that night as “Lily Veronica Mae Savage”, did …

How nature can alter our sense of time

How nature can alter our sense of time

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Do you ever get that feeling that there aren’t enough hours in the day? That time is somehow racing away from you, and it is impossible to fit everything in. But then, you step outside into the countryside and suddenly everything seems slower, more relaxed, like time has somehow changed. It’s not just you – recent research showed nature can regulate our sense of time. For many of us, the combined demands of work, home and family mean that we are always feeling like we don’t have enough time. Time poverty has also been exacerbated by digital technologies. Permanent connectivity extends working hours and can make it difficult to switch off from the demands of friends and family. Recent research suggests that the antidote to our lack of time may lie in the natural world. Psychologist Richardo Correia, at the University of Turku in Finland, found that being in nature may change how we experience time and, perhaps, even give us the sense of time abundance. Correia examined research which compared people’s experiences of time …

A single bout of resistance training can improve memory and alter hippocampus function, study suggests

A single bout of resistance training can improve memory and alter hippocampus function, study suggests

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New research sheds light on how high-intensity resistance training can influence memory and brain function. The findings, published in the journal Brain and Behavior, provide evidence that a single session of such exercise can enhance memory performance and alter the functional connectivity within the hippocampus, a brain region crucial for memory formation. Previous studies have highlighted the benefits of physical exercise, including aerobic and resistance training, on memory and brain health. However, the specific impact of resistance training on memory remained less understood. Resistance training, characterized by muscle-strengthening activities, has been known to improve various aspects of physical and mental health across all age groups. Notably, in rodents, it was found to enhance neuroplasticity in the hippocampus, suggesting a potential mechanism for memory improvement. Given this background, the researchers hypothesized that high-intensity resistance training could bolster the hippocampal network, thereby improving memory performance. “Previous studies have shown physical training can improve memory and we aimed to verify this over a short period,” said study author Teruo Hashimoto, an assistant professor of functional brain imaging at …

Woman defended after not allowing daughter to alter her wedding dress

Woman defended after not allowing daughter to alter her wedding dress

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Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter A woman has been defended after she refused to let her daughter make changes to her wedding dress. In a recent post shared to the popular “Am I The A**hole?” Reddit forum, the parent asked if she was in the wrong for not letting her child “significantly alter [her] wedding dress”. After noting that her daughter and her girlfriend are getting married later this year, the parent explained that she “always dreamed of walking” her child down the aisle, since her husband passed away when his daughter was a child. She noted that when her daughter was younger, she loved planning her future wedding, which included “picking flowers and colours and venues”. She then explained how she previously spoke to her daughter about the wedding dress. “She loved watching the videos of my wedding and seeing me and her father get married and …

Maps explain how Sweden will alter NATO’s security

Maps explain how Sweden will alter NATO’s security

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NATO still needs to raise the gold-and-blue flag, but Sweden is on its way to joining the military alliance after Hungary on Monday became the last member country to ratify the long-stalled bid. Over more than 70 years, NATO has grown to an alliance of more than 30 countries. Founded in 1949 to counterbalance the growing power of the Soviet Union, NATO — long a source of tension between the West and Russia — has reasserted itself as a significant and unified force against Moscow since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Finland, a traditionally neutral nation, officially joined the alliance in April, after submitting a request along with Sweden in response to the war. Analysts say Sweden joining now, too, will transform Europe’s security landscape for years to come — and may further strain relations with Russia, which opposes the alliance’s expansion. The addition of Sweden and Finland provides NATO with expanded land, sea and air capabilities. Sweden has a strong navy, which would strengthen NATO’s defenses in the Baltic Sea, and builds …

Insight into memories may alter our view of eyewitness testimonies

Insight into memories may alter our view of eyewitness testimonies

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Our memory for places appears to differ from our other forms of memory REDPIXEL.PL/Shutterstock Our memory for the who, what and why of a situation appears to fade over time, but we may be better at remembering where it took place. Understanding how memories can change could have implications for how we judge eyewitness testimonies in criminal cases. To better understand how memories change, Wilma Bainbridge and her colleagues at the University of Chicago carried out two experiments. In the first, 1609 people were shown images of six scenes – a… Source link