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View More NewsIn brief Story Protocol is pivoting from its permissionless intellectual property network in favor of a new opportunity in AI training data. The renamed Data Network aims to become a key place for sourcing, processing, and verifying AI training data. As part of the move, its native IP token is making a 1:1 migration to trade as DATA. Story Protocol, the decentralized network originally designed to revolutionize the intellectual property industry, has rebranded to Data Network amid a strategic refocus on artificial intelligence. The transition includes the launch of Trace, an on-chain registry for AI training data and an integration with…
Are the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) surging to victory in New York City because foreigners and immigrants are smuggling this ideology into the U.S.? That seems to be the takeaway for many conservatives bemoaning that “Third World-ism”—i.e., the nominally communist brand of authoritarianism that is prevalent in some African and Latin American countries—is winning at the ballot box. Their solution, unsurprisingly, is to curb all categories of immigration, legal and illegal. You are reading Free Media from Robby Soave and Reason. Get more of Robby’s on-the-media, disinformation, and free speech coverage. The victories of Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila…
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Editor’s note: This article is adapted from a piece originally published in Dutch in de Volkskrant.Here is a trivia question: which continent suffers the most heat-related deaths per capita? By a wide margin, the dubious prize goes to… Europe. In the summer of 2022 alone, more than 61,000 Europeans died as a result of the heat.In case you feel geographically confused: no, the equator does not run through Brussels. Thanks to its northern latitude, Europe in fact endures fewer heat days than almost any other inhabited region on Earth. How, then, can it hold the record for heat mortality? Part…
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