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Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle for March 13, No. 740.
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 Apple's new M5 MacBook Air and M5 Pro/M5 Max MacBook Pro just launched yesterday, and now Amazon has the first cash discounts on these models. You'll find $49 off nearly every new MacBook model on Amazon, without the need of a membership or clipping a coupon.
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These features can help you monitor and support your overall health.
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Don't let outdated gadgets collect dust when these platforms are here to help you turn them into money.
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Flash floods are notoriously difficult to predict, but Google might have a novel solution. The company just revealed Groundsource, a prediction tool for flash floods that uses Gemini to source data from old news reports. This is the first time it has used a language model for this type of work.
This provides a massive,…
— Google Research (@GoogleResearch) March 12, 2026
Google tasked Gemini with sorting through 5 million news articles from around the world and isolating flood reports. It transformed this data into a geo-tagged series of chronological events. Next, researchers trained a model to ingest current weather forecasts and leverage the Groundsource data to determine the likelihood of a flash flood in a given area.
We don't have any concrete information as to how accurate Google's forecast model is, though that should come over time. One trial user did say it helped his organization respond quicker to localized weather events. For now, the company is highlighting risks for urban areas in 150 countries via its
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The AI industry keeps saying its guardrails are improving. A new investigation suggests those protections still falter when conversations turn dark, emotional, and specific, especially when the user appears to be a distressed teen edging toward violence. This was not a case of one obscure bot answering a single reckless prompt. Researchers found that across […]
The post AI Chatbots Help Teens Plan Violence, Study Reveals appeared first on eWEEK.
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Character.ai didn't fare so well in this report. Claude got much better grades.
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Anthropic's Claude chatbot has been updated with support for inline visual content that will help it provide clearer answers.
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