Category: Media
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The most popular love songs of the 1960s and 1970s
“If music be the food of love, play on,” says Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night. Music, pop music, certainly overflowed with love back in the 1960s and 1970. There was no dearth of love in music from the 1950s — I love songs like Walk the Line by Johnny Cash,…
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Krishna and Jesus, according to ChatGPT
There’s an amazing similarity in the accounts of the birth of Jesus and Lord Krishna (seen with Radha in the picture). I was suddenly struck by the similarity on Janmashtami, the birthday of Krishna, which was celebrated by many people on September 6 and by others on September 7 this…
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Pop music from the 1950s to the 1970s
“I can hear music, sweet, sweet music,” sang the Beach Boys, and that’s what I am hearing, leafing through a marvellous history of pop music. Harvey Rachlin takes us on a spin down memory lane in Song and System: The Making of American Pop Music. Elvis Presley and the Beatles,…
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Bing! This chatty search engine is a writer!
Bing is no longer just a search engine. It’s also a chatbot which can chat with you and write email, blog posts and articles. The new Bing is powered by GPT 4, an artificial intelligence tool developed by Open AI, an American research laboratory in which Microsoft has invested billions…
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ChatGPT assesses The Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times
The chatbot ChatGPT with its amazing ability to write anything from poems to articles in no time at all has taken the world by storm. The media can’t stop talking about it. Fed and trained on reams of data, it can write on anything from Shakespeare to social media. Along…
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ChatGPT: A chatty, amazing writer
My initial encounter with ChatGPT left me in a state of shock and awe. Words sprouted on the web page as soon as I finished typing my request for a parody of Shakespeare. In a flash, ChatGPT churned out a poem addressing the Bard that went: “Let’s see, how could…
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Raffles, Singapore, Calcutta and Bengal
When a young man came to Singapore from Calcutta many years ago, he didn’t know he was following in the footsteps of Sir Stamford Raffles. The one difference: He came by air. Raffles came by sea — on the ship Indiana, with his deputy, Major William Farquhar, on board another…
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Tim Berners-Lee and his World Wide Web
Google tweeted today: “27 years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau published their proposal for a little something called the ‘WorldWideWeb’.” That was the first web browser.
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Anthony Howard and the old New Statesman
I just came across Anthony Howard on Wikipedia. He was the editor of the New Statesman when I used to look forward to every issue of the weekly. Just out of high school, reading English as an undergrad, I had a thing about newspapers and magazines back then. Shakespeare and…
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Feedbin, Feedly, Inoreader, Newsblur: News aggregators compared
The Readability bookmarking service was shut down on September 30. But Readability’s armchair icon can still be found in the Feedbin news aggregator. It’s what makes reading articles in Feedbin so simple and easy on the eye. Click on the armchair icon and you get to read the entire article…
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