Is Data Annotation Legit? What to Know About the Tech Jobs

 Posted on August 29, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1170 words  |  Billy Koelling

On TikTok, Reddit, and elsewhere, posts are popping up from users claiming they’re making $20 per hour—or more—completing small tasks in their spare time on sites such as DataAnnotation.tech, Taskup.ai, Remotasks, and Amazon Mechanical Turk. As companies have rushed to build AI models, the demand for “data annotation” and “data labeling” work has increased. Workers complete tasks such as writing and coding, which tech companies then use to develop artificial intelligence systems, which are trained using large numbers of example data points. [Read More]

Les Misrables in History - On This Day

 Posted on August 29, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  12 words  |  Kelle Repass

Search the largest, most accurate site for today in music history.

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LightBox | Time

 Posted on August 29, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  57 words  |  Tandra Barner

The History of the Boeing 747 in Photos

The Boeing 747, known as the "Queen of the Skies," revolutionized air travel since its first flight in 1969. It's now mostly a cargo plane, and the last 747 just rolled off Boeing's production lines.

By Nik Popli and Photo editing by Sangsuk Sylvia Kang January 31, 2023

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Lorne Michaels (Television Producer) - On This Day

 Posted on August 29, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  291 words  |  Patria Henriques

Profession: Television Producer Biography: Created and produced "Saturday Night Live". Michaels has also been the producer for "Late Night" on NBC since 1993 and "The Tonight Show" on NBC since 2014. Born: November 17, 1944 Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Age: 79 years old Generation: Silent Generation Chinese Zodiac: Monkey Star Sign: Scorpio Career Highlights 1975-10-11 "Saturday Night Live" created by Lorne Michaels premieres on NBC with George Carlin as host 1975-10-18 Simon & Garfunkel reunite on " [Read More]

Love Is Blind's Cuties Story Speaks Volumes

 Posted on August 29, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1337 words  |  Tandra Barner

Spoiler alert: this article discusses major plot points from the Love Is Blind season 3 reunion Reality TV exists to shock. Sometimes its surprises are wonderful—an underdog wins a top prize or a bully gets a drink thrown in their face—but more often they are horrible. Like the moment when Love Is Blind season 3 couple Zanab Jaffrey and Cole Barnett imploded at the altar. They had always been one of the show’s most volatile pairings. [Read More]

Magic: the Gathering Players Exposes Tournament Butt Cracks

 Posted on August 29, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  210 words  |  Martina Birk

March 11, 2014 1:11 PM EDT It brings a whole new definition to the word creepshot. Reddit user OB1FBM attended one the biggest tournaments of the fantasy card game Magic: the Gathering, hosted in Richmond, Virginia, and took selfies with every butt crack he saw peeking over the top of a pair of ill-fitting jeans. Spoiler alert: there were a lot of them. And they were all men. The project calls to mind the traditional stereotypes of nerds as slovenly and badly dressed. [Read More]

Milestones, Apr. 22, 1974 | TIME

 Posted on August 29, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  378 words  |  Kelle Repass

Born. To Karim Aga Khan, 37, Harvard-educated spiritual leader of 20 million Ismaili Moslems, who regard him as a 49th-generation direct descendant of the prophet Mohammed, and the Begum Aga Khan, 33, formerly Sarah Croker Poole, a British model: their third child, second_son; in Chambésy, Switzerland. Name: Hussain. Married. David Birney, 33, and Meredith Baxter, 26, stars of Bridget Loves Bernie, television’s ill-fated rehash of Abie’s Irish Rose; both for the second time; in Manhattan. [Read More]

Mitskis Be the Cowboy Is Here for the Outsiders

 Posted on August 29, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1224 words  |  Patria Henriques

Mitski Miyawaki didn’t have the money to fly home for the holidays. It was late 2017, and the raw-edged indie rocker, who performs under her first name, was fresh off a two-year world tour that ended in Australia. Instead, she took herself to nearby Malaysia. Lonely, devoid of instruments and itching to turn her frustrations into music, she went to a local Toys “R” Us and bought a toy piano. On that piano she wrote “Nobody,” a glittering single off her new album, Be the Cowboy, out Aug. [Read More]

NeuroGum: Caffeinated Gum Is Now a Thing

 Posted on August 29, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  880 words  |  Patria Henriques

This is This Is Now a Thing, where we check out the science behind new health trends. The thing: A new brand of caffeinated gum called NeuroGum, which launched Sept. 10 on Indiegogo. One piece contains 40mg of caffeine (a cup of coffee has around 100mg or more). The co-founders, entrepreneurs Kent Yoshimura and Ryan Chen, raised more than $11,000 in three days, quickly meeting their $10,000 goal. Yoshimura says he doesn’t expect people to replace coffee with a couple of pieces of gum, “but I could see people definitely either supplementing it if they don’t like the bitterness of coffee or the coffee breath,” he says. [Read More]

New Harriet Tubman Photo: Library of Congress Announcement

 Posted on August 29, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  339 words  |  Patria Henriques

More than a century after Harriet Tubman died in March of 1913, the Library of Congress announced on Tuesday that it has conserved and digitized a previously unrecorded portrait of the “conductor” of the Underground Railroad, the secret network that helped fugitive slaves in the South get to freedom in the North. Catalogers believe that the photograph was taken between 1867 and 1869, when she lived in Auburn, N.Y., where Tubman — who had herself escaped from bondage in 1849 — took care of fugitive slaves in their old age. [Read More]