I am here to save us all time by determining which of our most-played videogames would be more efficiently completed if you had a gun

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If there's one thing I know about the age of information, it's that none of us have time for anything anymore, nor the attention spans to see them through. If I'm not getting a constant jitterbug hit of dopamine every two seconds from my doomscrolling, am I really awake? Don't answer that. I don't want to think about the answer to that.

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Council Post: How To Divide Work Between Humans And AI Agents

Manu Khetan is Founder and CEO of Rolling Arrays, a LinkedIn ‘Top Voice’ Influencer and Creator of the R7 Framework.

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How do I divide work between humans and agents? Every leader I meet is asking some version of that question. Usually it arrives dressed up as a technology question, which is why it goes wrong.

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Pro-Trump Ads Funded With Taxpayer Dollars Air on CNN and MS NOW; White House Has Spent $2.9 Million on the TV Spots to Date

Even as President Donald Trump has tried to block CNN and MS NOW from covering the White House, his administration has purchased pro-Trump TV ad time on the news networks — using taxpayer money.

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The IDF Calls Gaza Documentary ‘NAZA’ “Distorted, Misleading and Disingenuous”

The Israeli Defense Force on Thursday came out with an official, and lengthy, response to NAZA, the Israeli-army whistleblower documentary about the war in Gaza.

The doc, from Oscar-winning Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor (No Other Land), is a series of anonymous interviews with two dozen IDF veterans of the Gaza war. They lay out, in extraordinary detail what they claim is Israel‘s deliberate and systematic targeting of civilians in the war, (the NAZA of the title, an acronym of a Hebrew expression meaning “collateral damage”).

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Jesse Eisenberg Already Stressed Over ‘The Debut’ Oscar Buzz: “It’s Not About Awards”

Jesse Eisenberg’s musical comedy The Debut moved audiences to tears and laughter out of Telluride and Toronto, and has already generated buzz about a best picture and an acting nomination for Julianne Moore at the Academy Awards.

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Man City charges: What if club's Premier League titles and trophies are stripped? Who 'benefits' and what changes?

Jamie Carragher has called for Manchester City to be stripped of their titles after the club was found guilty of serious breaches of the Premier League's financial rules – so what would change?

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Celebrity Traitors: What you need to know ahead of the first show

Maya Jama, Michael Sheen and Bella Ramsey all in smart clothes, looking straight at the cameraImage source, BBC/Studio Lambert/Cody Burridge/BBC Creative

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Maya Jama, Michael Sheen and Bella Ramsey are among this year's celebrity contestants

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Kristi Noem, former Trump homeland security chief, files for divorce

Kristi Noem, who was fired by Donald Trump after a rumbustious stint as homeland security secretary, is divorcing her husband, Bryon Noem, after 34 years of marriage, citing “irreconcilable differences”.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom bans AI 'robo bosses' in landmark state law, reversing his earlier veto

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a landmark AI law banning Golden State employers from relying solely on artificial intelligence to fire or discipline workers.  

SB 947, dubbed the No Robo Bosses Act, prevents businesses around the state from exclusively using "automated decision-making systems" in matters of employee discipline and termination. It also restricts their capacity to use AI as a principal tool in such decisions.

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Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh: The children dying in India's remote tribal heartland

Warning: This article contains details some readers may find distressing

At about 3am one morning in May, Bamita Markam began convulsing.

The three-year-old had spent days with a high fever and angry red sores on her body. Her mother, Koushila, had first taken her to a doctor, who prescribed an ointment.

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