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• Can an AI chatbot ever 'get' a joke?

  "A prevalent malady of our age is to think of the mind as a computer" - Professor Sir Anthony Kenny. The late science editor of the Daily Telegraph, Adrian Berry, used to get a laugh by telling the following apocryphal anecdote. An AI is asked to write a short story with the popular themes of religi

• Waste of the Day: Millionaire mortgages

  The Department of Agriculture's Section 502 loan programs help low-income families buy homes with mortgages that don't require a down payment. But in 2013, an investigation by Reuters found dozens of millionaires took advantage to purchase vacation and rental homes. Though the millionaires later rep

• Leaked GOP memo worries that data centers are politically toxic, might cost Ohio senate race

  Ohio GOP Senate candidate Jon Husted is in hot water with the electorate, caught in a statistical tie with his Democrat challenger. The National Republican Senatorial Committee, via a memo leaked to CIA mouthpiece Axios, blames popular blowback on mass data center construction. From the memo: "Jon H

• UK: Asylum hotel protesters jailed for longer than migrant occupant who assaulted woman and girl

  Two men have been jailed for violent disorder during protests outside an asylum hotel in Essex last summer, receiving longer sentences than the hotel occupant who assaulted a woman and girl in the town. Charlie Land, 24, and Jonathan Glover, 48, were sentenced over their "entirely unacceptable" beha

• Harvard Medical School to pay $53 Million in morgue scandal settlement after manager sold body parts

  Harvard University has agreed to pay a $53 million settlement after its former morgue manager stole and sold body parts donated for scientific research, with a court reportedly approving the plan on Tuesday. Cedric Lodge, who managed the morgue at the prestigious Harvard Medical School before being