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☆ These artists found out their work was used to train AI. Now they’re furious
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Rachel Metz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

AI Image/Stable DiffusionHanson, who’s based in McMinnville, Oregon, is one of many professional artists whose work was included in the data set used to train Stable Diffusion, which was released in August by London-based Stability AI. Once available only to a select group of tech insiders, text-to-image AI systems are becoming increasingly popular and powerful. A piece by illustrator Daniel Danger that was included in the training data behind the Stable Diffusion AI image generator. But removing pictures of an artist’s work from a dataset wouldn’t stop Stable Diffusion from being able to generate images in that artist’s style. Hanson, for her part, has no problem with her art being used for training AI, but she wants to be paid.

☆ A hot new app at the top of the App Store shows you where to find Pokémon — here's how 'Poke Radar' works
▼ + stars: | 2016-07-18 | by ( Steve Kovach | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Tapping a Pokémon tells you the username of the trainer who found it and when it was found. Screenshot/Tech InsiderIf you go to the location and don't find the Pokémon you're looking for, you can "Vote Down." That'll tell the app that other users are less likely to find the Pokémon in question there. This is the biggest problem with Poké Radar. Since it's an unofficial, crowdsourced app and Pokémon appear at random, there's no guarantee it'll work.

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☆ How astronauts go to the bathroom in space
▼ + stars: | 2016-07-07 | by ( Rebecca Harrington | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A NASA astronaut, a Russian cosmonaut, and a Japanese astronaut are about to spend the next two days aboard a tiny Soyuz capsule bound for the International Space Station. The Soyuz, which ferries astronauts and cosmonauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS), has a vacuum-like toilet that sucks urine out of the space environment and into a collection bin. Of course, since they're in space, the astronauts can strap themselves onto the station toilet so they don't float away while they're doing their business. Thankfully, the culture of space travel has changed a lot, too, as more and more women become astronauts. PBS did a fascinating interview with female astronauts and NASA engineers about what it was like when women first started going to space, and had to pee there:

☆ 11 qualities in men that women find attractive
▼ + stars: | 2016-05-16 | by ( Rebecca Harrington | Tech Insider | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

ShutterstockBe honest, straight men: You all want to know what women want. Luckily, a bunch of scientists have wondered the same thing. These types of studies are often small, and frequently rely on self-reported feelings in a lab, which may be different from how women truly react in real life. And the participants are often Western college students, who are not an especially a diverse group. Here are 11 science-supported traits that women find irresistible.

SntTop editors give you the stories you want — delivered right to your inbox each weekday. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! You should know that snot color is not enough to diagnose anything outright. Still, it offers a unique glimpse into your body's strange ways of telling you that something's up.

Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" delves into the design and development of the atomic bomb. But nuclear experts say the atomic bomb is nowhere near as deadly as its nuclear cousin. Hydrogen bombs can be up to 1,000 times more powerful than atomic bombs. The device on the left is an implosion-type fission bomb, like the Fat Man bomb detonated over Nagasaki, and it compresses everything inward. Below is a second graphic showing a boosted atomic bomb and a hydrogen bomb.

Persons: Christopher Nolan's, Oppenheimer, J, Robert Oppenheimer, Little Organizations: Service, Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory, Little Boy, Reuters Locations: Wall, Silicon, Japan, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Korea

That means astronauts on the International Space Station get to age just a tiny bit slower than people on Earth. And for astronauts on the International Space Station, that means they get to age just a tiny bit slower than people on Earth. That's why time passes slower for objects closer to the center of the Earth where the gravity is stronger. That means time should also slow down for the astronauts relative to people on the surface. You'd think that might even out, but actually their velocity time dilation has a bigger effect than their gravitational time dilation, so astronauts end up aging slower than people on Earth.

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