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Taking a powder-fresh approach to climate protection, a new initiative assigns monetary value to snow, framing it as a critical natural resource for Canada's economy. Found at snowmethemoney.ca, Foreca$ter calculates the dollar value of predicted snowfall, with each centimeter worth approximately CDN 25.5 million. This valuation is based on the CDN 9.1 billion contributed annually by the snowsports industry divided by the average 358 centimeters of snowfall in Canadian ski areas. At the local level, this translates to about CDN 93,000 per centimeter of snow at each of Canada's 275 ski resorts.
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Microsoft announced that it is making some features available for free in its Copilot AI assistant. Everyone now has unlimited access to Voice and Think Deeper, which is powered by OpenAIs o1 model. Copilot got the Voice feature, which allows users to have conversations with the AI assistant, in October 2024. Think Deeper is intended to parse complicated queries, such as assessing the pros and cons of major home purchases, taking cost and long-term value into account. "We are working hard to scale unlimited access to advanced features to as many people as possible, as quickly as possible," the blog post noted. Microsoft noted that users could experience delays or interruptions during times of high usage for these newly free Copilot applications. Members of the Copilot Pro subscription will still have preferred access to the company's latest AI models at those peak usage times, as well as to new features that are still in the experimental stage.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/microsoft-copilot-offers-voice-and-o1-powered-think-deeper-for-free-232723768.html?src=rss
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A bizarre bug is causing iPhones to automatically change the word racist to Trump when using the built-in dictation feature in iOS. The issue, which seems to have been discovered by TikTok users, crops up when using the voice-to-text feature in Apple apps like Messages. When speaking the word racist, iOS briefly transcribes the text as Trump before changing it back to the intended word. Its not clear what could cause this behavior. Engadget was able to replicate the issue, as you can see in the GIF below. Apple told The New York Times it was due to phonetic overlap between the two words, despite the fact that the two words do not sound similar. That also doesn't explain why "racist," with a lowercase "r" would transcribe as "Trump" seemingly a reference to our current president and not "trump," the noun. An AI expert who once worked on Siri told the paper it could be a serious prank on the part of an Apple employee. Apple didnt immediately respond to a request for comment. Whether its a bug or prank, it surfaced at a particularly embarrassing time for the iPhone maker, which announced on Monday that it planned to invest $500 billion in manufacturing facilities for AI servers. The investment, most of which was already planned, came after Apple CEO Tim Cook met with President Donald Trump at the White House last week. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/iphones-are-briefly-changing-racist-to-trump-due-to-an-ios-dictation-issue-230712021.html?src=rss
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