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A new study finds that while the overall impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of young Americans may not have been as great as many feared, its effects have been varied.The study, published this week in JAMA Network Open, found that the pandemic has only modest changes to young people's overall mental health: While certain groups of US children have seen increases in feelings of distress, depressive symptoms, and externalizing behaviors (such as acting out), some kids who entered the U.S. with mental health issues during the pandemic actually saw improvements.”Our study shows that the pandemic's impact…
On the morning of the second day of the IAAF World Athletics U-20 Championships in Lima 24 on Wednesday (28th), fierce competition unfolded in the heptathlon, with Jana Kosciak of Croatia and Lucia Aklin of Switzerland battling for the gold medal in tonight's 800m. After six meets, Koszczak leads the standings with 5,044 points, 40 points ahead of Acklin. Australia's Mia Cheri is third with 4,771 points. Koszczak won the 800 meters in a personal best time of 2:19.14, but the margin wasn't that great, with Acklin winning in 2:20.84, 23 points ahead. Acklin would need to run the best…
As a result of their research, a team from Google and Tel Aviv University have developed a generative AI game engine that can simulate the cult favorite DOOM at over 20 frames per second. The research, detailed in a paper (PDF) published yesterday, shows how the reinforcement and diffusion models can be used to simulate a game engine in real time. The model, called GameNGen (pronounced “game engine”), was trained on DOOM, but the researchers note that the approach used is not specific to that game and can be applied to a variety of titles. Traditional game engines are hand-coded…
Tim Burton's Beetlejuice had its world premiere tonight as the opening film of the Venice Film Festival, with a four-plus minute screening of The Ghost with the Most Haunted Man at the Sala Grande. When the film ended, the audience applauded enthusiastically for four minutes and 35 seconds to the closing song. Unlike the applause in Cannes, there were no speeches from the cast or creators, which could have increased the overall volume of the audience's applause. Joining Burton tonight was Michael Keaton, reprising his otherworldly role 36 years after the original supernatural comedy (now a classic) first came out,…
Google had removed a feature that allowed AI chatbots to generate portraits of people, but after significant backlash, the search giant has now reintroduced the feature.Google announced on Wednesday that it is rolling out an updated image generation tool to English-language users of its AI chatbot, Gemini Advance, which will also feature Google's latest image generation model, Imagen 3.In February, Google disabled users' ability to generate images of people after acknowledging that its tools “over-correct” to portray diverse people in unrealistic or absurd scenarios, highlighting the company's desperate efforts to jump on the AI bandwagon and the risks of releasing…
LAS VEGAS—Broadcom's VMware Explore event featured talks on why private clouds using private data to run private AI are the way of the future for enterprises. “It's clear that the future of enterprise is private,” Broadcom CEO Hock Tan wrote in a blog post. A hot subtopic in a lively session for analysts and media was how networks can best coordinate GPUs and other data center infrastructure needed to deliver AI. Ram Belaga, SVP and GM of Broadcom's Core Switching Group, declared, “Ethernet will be the enabling technology for this.” Let's stop and think for a moment. Velaga began his…
The Tampa Bay Rays are one of the first major league teams to deploy new facial recognition technology that allows for seamless, hands-free entry into Tropicana Field. Catalyst gave a sneak peek at the team's “go-ahead entry” system on Wednesday, with the official announcement coming Friday before the team's game against the San Diego Padres. Rays fans who sign up for the option program will receive two free tickets to one of the team's seven remaining home games, a process that Chief Business Officer Bill Walsh said is “literally as easy as walking into the building.” “It will recognize you…
A study published on August 28 by Kate Dunn-Campbell of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and her colleagues found that “unhealthy commodities” such as tobacco, alcohol, ultra-processed foods, social media, and fossil fuels, as well as the effects of fossil fuel consumption such as climate change and air pollution, are associated with depression, suicide, and self-harm. Currently, approximately one in eight people worldwide are living with a mental illness. These illnesses, including depression, suicide, anxiety, and other diseases and disorders, have many underlying causes. Some of those causes may be related to commercial determinants of health, that…
Workers destroy Klamath Dam, allowing salmon to swim free for the first time in a centuryAs the largest dam removal project in U.S. history nears completion, workers are destroying the last dam on a major stretch of the Klamath River, clearing the way for salmon to swim freely through the main watershed near the California-Oregon border for the first time in more than a century. Workers used excavators on Wednesday to destroy rock dams that had previously diverted water upstream of two dams, Iron Gate and Kopko 1, which have already been nearly completely removed. The work will allow the…
Attention, travel lovers: Delta SkyMiles has launched a limited-time SkyMiles promotion on both domestic and international flights. But don't wait to plan your trip: You'll need to book by August 29th to grab this great deal.So if you're struggling to get more than a cent per Delta SkyMiles mile, Delta's new summer promotion is your chance.All of the offers included in Delta's new “Beyond the Summer Event” promotion can be found on this special landing page, where you can search by departure airport and destination region to find eligible flights. Unfortunately, the offer only includes Basic Economy and Main Cabin…