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"Everyone knows that AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini can often hallucinate sources. But for the folks tasked with helping the public find books and journal articles, the fake AI bullshit is really taking its toll. Librarians sound absolutely exhausted by the requests for titles that don't exist … The magazine spoke with Sarah Falls, the chief of researcher engagement at the Library of Virginia, who estimates that about 15% of all emailed reference questions that they receive are generated by AI chatbots like ChatGPT. And the requests often include questions about fake citations. What's more, Falls suggests that people don't seem to believe librarians when they explain that a given record doesn't exist…"

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"We've reached the end of television. Since the invention of the technology in the 1920s, TV screens have gradually grown larger, pictures clearer, and sets cheaper, until now: For all intents and purposes, we're at the end of the road. This 'nothing special' 65-inch Samsung unit, is, for most people, as good as a TV ever needs to be. It displays an image more highly detailed than most viewers can perceive from a couch-length viewing distance, its screen is as big as the average American living room can handle, and it costs less than $500. For 100 years, manufacturers and consumers have been chasing screen size and image clarity, so what happens now that the dog has caught the mail truck, and just about everyone has a TV that's essentially perfect?"

"Leading U.S. scientists and engineers have published a 200-page report, 'A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars,' arguing for investing resources in visiting our most promising neighbor for human habitation. The core of it? They want to try to find life on another world. But beyond that, studying Mars' geology, discovering new resources, and bringing samples home would all be far easier with human boots on the ground."

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"Their findings indicate that the overall ecological impact of the mining activity was milder than many had feared. Even so, the team observed a clear decline in biodiversity, with species richness dropping by roughly one-third along the tracks left by the mining vehicle. The work is part of a major international project in which marine biologists set out to document life on the largely uncharted deep-sea floor of the Pacific Ocean."

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