Meta has released an “open” implementation of the viral generate-a-podcast feature in Google’s NotebookLM. Called NotebookLlama, the project uses Meta’s own Llama models for much of the processing, unsurprisingly. Like NotebookLM, it can generate back-and-forth, podcast-style digests of text files uploaded to it. NotebookLlama first creates a transcript from a …

Deion Sanders’ Colorado will be playing in the postseason. In Sanders’ second season as head coach after taking over the worst power-conference team in college football, the Buffaloes (6-2, 4-1 Big 12) are bowl eligible after beating Cincinnati 34-23. Colorado hasn’t played in a bowl game since it went 4-2 …

For the first time, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that adults as young as 50 can get vaccinated against a pneumococcal pneumonia, significantly lowering the recommendation that was previously set at age 65.  The CDC made its recommendation because older adults are at higher risk of pneumococcal …