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• Gilles Beaufils and his wife ditched Tokyo city life to renovate an abandoned house in rural Japan.
• Beaufils, 56, estimates they spent less than $10,000 buying the abandoned property, or akiya, on Kyushu island.
• While they did most of the work themselves, he says they

• Academic researchers at the University of Chicago are helping artists fight back against AI algorithms that would ingest and monetize their works. Researchers have developed a program called “Nightshade” that could “break” AI programs that ingest unauthorized content that has been laced with the software.

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If you’re behind on what’s happening with the robot uprising, have no fear. Here’s a quick look at some of the weirdest and wildest artificial intelligence news from the past week. Also, don’t forget to check out our weekly AI write-up, which will go into more detail on this same topic.

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OpenAI is rolling out new beta features for ChatGPT Plus members right now. Subscribers have reported that the update includes the ability to upload files and work with them, as well as multimodal support. Basically, users won’t have to select modes like Browse with Bing from the GPT-4 dropdown — it will instead guess what they want based on context

• Hydrogen power is an exciting form of clean energy.
• But hydrogen typically needed to be produced in a lab using energy-intensive methods.
• White hydrogen, a newly identified hydrogen source, could eliminate the need for lab production.

Two scientists in France have discovered what may be the largest known

Horror movies usually hit big no matter when you release them, but October can help them do especially well. Almost every year, there’s a particular movie that outpaces all the rest, and for 2023, that distinction goes to the newly released Five Nights at Freddy’s.

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YouTube’s NFL Sunday Ticket streams have been plagued with buffering and pixelation, making afternoon games today unwatchable, according to many, many posts. The @TeamYouTube account acknowledged the issue at 1:53PM ET. The team wrote that they're aware YouTube is having issues and they are working to fix them, but acknowledged that “YouTube TV or NFL

• Panera founder Ron Shaich spoke about tough moments he faced as a leader in a recent interview.
• There was so much pressure he thought it would be easier to "get hit by a truck."
• Shaich said one way he overcame this was by reminding himself to take things "one step" at a time.

Panera Bread's founder Ron Shaich powered through some pretty tough periods in

• A couple saw a rare white deer in their yard in Tennessee.
• The Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency said one in 20,000 to 30,000 deer are albino.
• Hunting and killing albino deer is illegal in Tennessee and punishable by fine.

One couple in Tennessee says they