World’s first robot Olympics, plus the latest information science updates

Learn more about the stories you heard today:

• World’s first robot Olympics held in China (Quartz)
• AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service (CNN)
• Versailles statues can now talk to visitors with AI (New York Times)
• Instagram’s new map feature raises privacy concerns (CBS News)
• Boston Public Library digitizes archives with OpenAI (NPR)
• ‘Tradwife,’ ‘delulu,’ and ‘skibidi’ among new Cambridge Dictionary words (Sky News)
• 10 surprising things your smartphone camera can do (MakeUseOf)
• Texas A&M researchers map U.S. power outage hot spots (Texas A&M)
• Interactive power outage map (Netlify app)
• Focus Friend app overtakes ChatGPT on App Store (Lifehacker)
• Pomodoro Technique (Wikipedia)
• How to minimize distractions in Chrome (HowToGeek)
• School of Information launches two new AI courses open to all U-M undergraduates

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