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The AI code wars are heating up

An animation of laptops racing with live code being generated on their screens

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How it started

Writing code was a killer app for AI even before anyone was really talking about AI. In the spring of 2021, 18 months before the world knew the word “ChatGPT,” Microsoft debuted the very first product of a partnership with a nonprofit called OpenAI: a tool called GitHub Copilot that watched developers as they wrote code and tried to autocomplete snippets and lines for them …

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Asha Bhosle passes away: Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Karan Johar, Kajol remember legendary singer with emotional tributes

With a career spanning over eight decades, Asha Bhosle was known for her versatility and has sung many memorable melodies, from romantic songs to ghazals to peppy numbers. The legendary singer passed away at the age of 92 following multi-organ failure at Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital on Sunday. …read more

Allow me to explain why I love this camera that can’t shoot color

A Ricoh GR IV Monochrome camera resting on a black-and-white gradient mat with geometric shapes.
No frills, all artsy thrills. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge

I love black-and-white photography. I also adore compact cameras you can always have by your side. So I’m a total mark for the Ricoh GR IV Monochrome, a fixed-lens camera that can’t zoom and can’t record color – at all. It’s a formula that makes the average person ask, “Why?”

I’ve tested the GR IV Monochrome for over a month, taking it with me everywhere and photographing everything. Let me explain how this pricey little point-and-shoot is likely to go down as one of my all-time-favorite cameras.

Ricoh GR IV Monochrome

Score: 8

Pros Cons
  • Excellent black-and-white image quality
  • Everything great about the standard GR IV: sharp lens, small size, …

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The Netherlands is the first European country to approve Tesla’s supervised Full Self-Driving

View of FSD system in action with Tesla dashboard display

Dutch regulators, the RDW, announced that after over a year and a half of testing, it has officially approved Tesla’s Full-Self Driving (FSD) Supervised. This makes the Netherlands the first European country to authorize the use of FSD on its roads. This could open the door to wider adoption throughout the EU. Tesla’s European headquarters is located in Amsterdam, so it’s only fitting that the country is the first to embrace the company’s FSD.

In a statement announcing the approval, the RDW said that, “Using driver assistance systems correctly makes a positive contribution to road safety because the driver is supported in their driving task …

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