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20 side hustle ideas to make extra money during the holidays and in 2026

Upwork details 20 side hustle ideas for supplementary income, emphasizing creativity and flexibility to meet holiday expenses and future goals.
The Daily Star

From dorm room coder to national tech mentor: The journey of Sumit Saha

What started as personal curiosity later turned into a profession and a learning platform used by thousands across Bangladesh ...
Wired

Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...
Macworld

Master Pollo AI Video Generator: How to Create Videos from Image and Text

Video creation has never been easier. Whether you’re a content creator scrambling to keep up with TikTok trends or a marketer in need of quick product demos, AI video generators are becoming your new ...
The Guardian

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic

More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape It is not likely to be a hefty volume because the vast majority of the material has been lost ...
Futurism

Large Language Models Will Never Be Intelligent, Expert Says

Are tech companies on the verge of creating thinking machines with their tremendous AI models, as top executives claim they are? Not according to one expert. We humans tend to associate language with ...
The New York Times

A.I. Videos Have Flooded Social Media. No One Was Ready.

A video on TikTok in October appeared to show a woman being interviewed by a television reporter about food stamps. The women weren’t real. The conversation never happened. The video was generated by ...
The Conversation

What are small language models and how do they differ from large ones?

Lin Tian receives funding from the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) and the Defence Innovation Network. Marian-Andrei Rizoiu receives funding from the Advanced Strategic Capabilities ...
Phys.org

Natural language found more complex than it strictly needs to be—and for good reason

Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining speakers, while others, such as Chinese, English, Spanish and Hindi, are ...
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Kerala Theater CCTV Footage of Couples Leaked, Sold as Adult Content on Telegram and Websites

Thiruvananthapuram: An investigation by The News Minute has uncovered a disturbing digital privacy breach involving CCTV footage from theaters owned by the Kerala State Film Development Corporation ...
CNET

Wordle Players, It's Time to Retire Your Favorite Starter Word

If your starter word contains a J, rethink your strategy. Here are the most commonly used letters in the alphabet. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is ...