На Сотбис продан портрет Алана Тьюринга, созданный ИИ, за 1,3 млн долларов.  
A painting by an AI robot of the eminent World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for a record $1.3m (£1m) at auction. (ВВС)

«Смутили слова бессребреник и погрызенный...первое слово вообще не встречала никогда, даже не знаю что оно значит.»

The Public Prosecution Service (OM) is very concerned by the growing number of firearm parts that have been made with a 3D printer. It is becoming easier and easier to print weapons.

в 2023 году каждый резидент Нидерландов произвел 453 кг мусора. 

ВВС: How have social media algorithms changed the way we interact?

Свобода слова в интернете/социальных сетях двусторонняя: свобода говорить и свобода слушать. Свобода говорить ограничивается правительствами, стремящимися использовать сети в качестве инструмента политического и социального контроля; свобода слушать ограничивается алгоритмами ( Read more... )

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грибы, содержащие псилобицин, показали поистине волшебный и длительный эффект в лечении депрессивных расстройств.

Based on a small research, the US Food and Drug Administration has described psilocybin as a breakthrough medicine, “which is phenomenal,”.

LondonCNN - An auction house in England has withdrawn human remains, including shrunken heads and ancestral skulls, from sale following an outcry.

The Swan auction house in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire withdrew more than two dozen lots from an upcoming auction titled “The Curious Collector Sale,” including an 18th-century Tsantsa shrunken head, which was ( Read more... )

Around 2.7 million people in Dutch LGBTQIA+ community

In the Netherlands, approximately 2.7 million people are lesbian, gay, bi-plus, transgender, queer, intersex, or asexual (LGBTQIA+). That amounts to almost 18 percent of all Dutch people aged 15 and over, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reported on Coming Out Day on Friday.

Reports that some police officers don’t want to be deployed to protect Jewish institutions over moral objections to the violence in Gaza and Lebanon have caused outrage in the Netherlands. The police said it makes space for officers’ moral objections and switches shifts to accommodate for that where possible, but if there is an emergency or urgent ( Read more... )

more than half of electricity production in the Netherlands comes from renewable sources, such as wind and solar energy, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reported.

В первом полугодии 2024 впервые более половины произведенного в Нидерландах электричества поступает от возобновляемых источников - в основном, от солнца и ветра. Экспорт электричества ( Read more... )