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Scientists have shown that honeybees retain a memory of the dominant linear landscape elements in their home area like channels, roads, and boundaries. When transported to an unfamiliar area, they seek out local elements of this kind, compare their layout to the memory, and fly along them to seek their way home. This navigation strategy is similar to the one followed by the first human pilots.
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A trip down memory lane and a lesson on scientific integrity . I had reason to be reviewing the history of MSU satellite retrievals for atmospheric temperatures recently. It's a fascinating story of technology, creativity, hubris, error, imagination, rivalry, politics, and (for some) a search for scientific consilience – worthy of movie script perhaps? – but I want to highlight a minor little thi
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Scientists have shown that honeybees retain a memory of the dominant linear landscape elements in their home area like channels, roads, and boundaries. When transported to an unfamiliar area, they seek out local elements of this kind, compare their layout to the memory, and fly along them to seek their way home. This navigation strategy is similar to the one followed by the first human pilots.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 06 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36949-4 The immune response has been suggested to be involved in the pathology of Ménière's disease. Here the authors implicate serum glucocorticoid-inducible kinase 1 as a regulator of the NLRP3 inflammasome and link to macrophage function in a model of Ménière's disease pathology.
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Do you ever find yourself second-guessing your own decisions or questioning your abilities? If so, then you're probably familiar with the feeling of self-doubt. Self-doubt can be a major obstacle that holds us back from achieving our goals and reaching our full potential. Thankfully, it is possible to move past this hurdle and gain confidence in ourselves. In this article, we will explore how to
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I'm aware that this topic has been addressed numerous times by many others, but an idea recently occurred to me that has me curious; So let's say that there are two separate batteries of double-slit devices. Each device fires one particle at a time through a double slit, with the particles then landing on a screen beyond the double slit. Each device has its own double slit, and its own receiving
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Do you remember what it was like to be a teenager? It is likely that as you transitioned into a teenager, you spent more time exploring, taking risks, and hanging out with friends. Socializing itself is a highly rewarding and motivating experience that involves the dopamine reward circuitry, which are pathways in the brain that get activated when we feel pleasure. When we are exposed to something
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Two Avenger Torpedos Bombers crashed near California in 1940. Today, Josh Gates enters a similar aircraft to go on a hunt for the missing ship and crew. #discoveryplus #expeditionunknown Stream Full Episodes of Expedition Unknown https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/expedition-unknown About Expedition Unknown: Josh Gates investigates the truth behind the world's most iconic and captivating legends.
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We are witnessing a last evolution in front of our eyes. AI, a new species, is taking its shape and becoming ready to replace the human beings, the homo sapiens. We are gradually merging ourselves with AI. It's extremely surprising that one of the biggest events since the existence of living beings is taking place and very few of us are realising it. Human beings, a species, which originated arou
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Hello, I am an information systems student currently conducting research for my undergraduate thesis on the factors that influence people's adoption intention of ChatGPT, as well as identifying the factors that may be holding them back. These factors include people's concerns about potential negative impacts of ChatGPT, such as increased unemployment and the spread of misinformation. Your partici
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https://www.npr.org/2023/01/25/1151474938/populations-around-the-world-are-declining-migration-is-the-solution-says-econom PRITCHETT: …….. One question is, who are the future citizens? Who are the future members of what we regard as us – our society, our nation? And the other question, though, is who are we going to allow to be legally present on our territory to do labor services? My feeling
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Super Bowl winners once went to Disney World to celebrate their victories, but Saturday Night Live has occasionally offered another option. Last night, Travis Kelce—the Kansas City Chiefs tight end and two-time Super Bowl champion—joined the likes of the quarterbacks Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, each of whom hosted the sketch show shortly after winning the big game. Kelce's towering athletic pre
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Computer vision has advanced so much that AI can identify images on par with humans now, in some instances surpassing us. There no way that AI cant identify scratched texts or little blurred images. Whats the alternative you guys suggest to verify humans? submitted by /u/Lowleight [link] [comments]
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I was born in the late '50s, and I've witnessed a lot of change. My parents were born in the 1920s and I witnessed through their eyes and description the massive changes they witnessed in their lives. The pace of these changes has been increasing for centuries, but it is only within the last couple of generations that the pace can be measured by portions of a lifetime instead of the entire life.
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While robotic exoskeletons have a long way to go before they're affordable and available to the average consumer, they're still helping patients make monumental strides. Take Richard Hernandez, who became bound to a wheelchair after a spinal cord injury over twenty years ago. Now, using an exoskeleton developed by the Barcelona-based medical startup ABLE Human Motion, Hernandez can walk around on
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Overwhelmed Impressed by OpenAI's viral chatbot, ChatGPT? Cool — but the folks over at OpenAI aren't really sure why. "It's been overwhelming, honestly," Jan Lieke, leader of OpenAI's alignment team, told the MIT Technology Review . "I would love to understand better what's driving all of this — what's driving the virality." "Like, honestly, we don't understand," he added. "We don't know." Lieke
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Is augmenting human bodies with robotic parts something we can look forward to? Scientists in a new piece from The Guardian seem to think so. "If you want an extra arm while you're cooking in the kitchen so you can stir the soup while chopping the vegetables, you might have the option to wear and independently control an extra robotic arm," Tamar Makin, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at Ca
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Crypto to AI Pipeline A broken clock is, as they say, right twice a day — and even Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the king of bad takes, occasionally gets it right when it comes to artificial intelligence. "'I used to be in crypto,'" Musk tweeted , pretend-quoting the kind of bros who, ironically, worship him, "'but now I got interested in AI.'" While the crypto-to-AI pipeline is nothing new, it has, predi
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Maverick Was Right Computers aren't just beating humans at chess anymore. According to a report from The South China Morning Post , Chinese military researchers have claimed that, for the first time, an AI-powered fighter pilot has bested humans in a real-life, close-range dogfight, winning the contest in an astonishingly short 90 seconds. The paper, according to the SCMP , was published last wee
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Owning Up Mistakes are bound to happen in the fiery world of rocket launches. In a statement released this week, space vehicle launch company Astra admitted it lost two out of six hurricane-tracking cubesats that belonged to NASA last summer worth nearly $8 million altogether — which led to the space agency looking to other vendors to get its remaining four satellites into space. Last June, Astra
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Caesar and Leah try and build a shelter until an unexpected injury occurs. #discoveryplus #nakedandafraid Stream Full Episodes of Naked and Afraid: https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/naked-and-afraid About Naked and Afraid: One man and one woman, who meet for the first time in the nude, are paired and tasked with surviving in some of the world's most extreme environments for 21 days with no food,
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The enormous potential of AI to reshape the future has seen massive investment from industry in recent years. But the growing influence of private companies in the basic research that is powering this emerging technology could have serious implications for how it develops, say researchers. The question of whether machines could replicate the kind of intelligence seen in animals and humans is almo
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I was lonely after lockdown and wanted to know why women gardened so wrote to those I admired. Now I have a host of new friends from different generations and backgrounds This year, I dedicated the drizzly, flat little days between Christmas and New Year to having a clearout. I felt an intangible lightness with each book, old birthday card or defunct gadget that passed out of the door and into a n
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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here . Good morning, and welcome back to The Daily's Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic staffer reveals what's keeping them entertained. Today's special guest is the Atlantic managing editor Bhumi
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After Safia Elhillo Your mother's mother came from Igboland though she did not teach your mother her language. We gave you your name in a language we don't understand because gravity is still there even when we cannot see it in our hands. I ask your mother's mother to teach me some of the words in hopes of tracing the shadow of someone else's tongue. The same word in Igbo, she tells me, may have
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A NASA-led research team used satellite imagery and artificial intelligence methods to map billions of discrete tree crowns down to a 50-cm scale. The images encompassed a large swath of arid northern Africa, from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. Allometric equations based on previous tree sampling allowed the researchers to convert imagery into estimates of tree wood, foliage, root size, and carbon s
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When I was getting ready to leave my hometown of Kansas City, Missouri, for college on the East Coast more than a decade ago, weather warnings came from everyone. "Get ready for that New England winter!" "I hope you have a big coat!" "Ooh, I hear it gets cold up there!" This cautioning from friends and neighbors confused me. In my 18 years in the Midwest, I'd experienced huge snowfalls, multiple
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While the international community was focused on the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, inspectors from the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), discovered uranium residue enriched to 84 percent in Iranian centrifuge cascades. Weapons-grade fissile material is typically characterized as uranium enriched to 90 percent, but it is worth recalling
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T o the Lighthouse , from the first word of its title, is a novel that moves. Here it comes striding across the lawn, with its hair in long, curving crimps and a deerstalker hat on its head, with a bag in one hand and a child trailing from the other. It is coming to find you, its face lights up, there is something in this world for you to do. I had met Virginia Woolf before I ever opened her book
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The European Space Agency's Juice probe launches next month, flying closer to icy moons – including Ganymede, the solar system's largest – than ever before For most of the past 200 years, were you to ask an astronomer where the most likely place in the solar system is to find life, the answer will have been Mars. The red planet and its potential inhabitants have captured our collective imaginatio
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The technique – known as proteomics – could bring new insights into the past two million years of humanity's history Tiny traces of protein lingering in the bones and teeth of ancient humans could soon transform scientists' efforts to unravel the secrets of the evolution of our species. Researchers believe a new technique – known as proteomics – could allow them to identify the proteins from whic
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Matt Hancock's leaked messages are not the evidence we are waiting for. A government report into its own pandemic response is overdue A war of words played out over the first two years of the pandemic. On one side were commentators and scientists opposed to any form of social restriction as a way of keeping infection rates down. On the other, those who argued the government should be pursuing a "z
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Technologies / new drugs, gene therapies etc that seem like they will be here in the near future I'm just wondering what other technologies, gene therapies etc we can expect in the next, say 5-10 years? 3D printing is already used to mass produce gillette products and i'm wondering what else we can expect? also, there have been numerous gene therapies (cures or effective cures) for several differ
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Recent revelations have confirmed what many of us knew all along- COVID came from a lab in China. I am agnostic as to whether it was created as a bioweapon or it emerged from a simple, but devastating error. Either way, China is trying to absolve themselves of all responsibility for unleashing this deadly virus around the world. Thanks to their actions, […] The post first appeared on Science-Bas
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A national debate on the controversial issue is essential, but the research could immeasurably improve the lives of millions of people and their descendants Hundreds of researchers, lawyers and ethicists from across the world will tomorrow gather at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing at the Francis Crick Institute in London. For three days, they will debate developments in a fi
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I saw the "Black Museum" episode of Black Mirror & the story with the monkey made me think that perhaps sometime in the future, people with DID could give their Alters their own bodies via robotics, so when will we be able to separate Alters from Mains & give them their own body? submitted by /u/Sine404 [link] [comments]
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Former President Donald Trump gripped the CPAC lectern as he workshopped a new sales pitch: "I stand here today, and I'm the only candidate who can make this promise: I will prevent—and very easily—World War III." (Wild applause.) "And you're gonna have World War III, by the way." (Confused applause.) It was just one in a string of ominous sentences that the 45th president offered tonight during
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I think the world is moving "fast" away from democracy. Democracy is slowly breaking down because it's being associated with a government that does not give its citizens any ideals to live by, the youth are encountering mass depression rates, consumerism and globalism are completely taking over, and no one can have subjective opinions about anything anymore. The world has become too complex in al
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Article So I'm saying there is a present and I would like to tell me if what I say below is wrong or right. Does what I say have any merit or no? If we take a example of wanting to drink water say. We first need to find water, say a tap, then we need to stretch out our hand to pick up a glass which takes way more than 120 milliseconds. Move or walk towards the tap, again more than 120 millisecond
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There's so much hype going on at the moment with various AI technologies that is hard to not to think some of these early adopters are being too eager to use it in production environments and overseeing the potential risks of using an experimental technology prone to errors that the don't necessarily fully understand, with little or no supervision. Think about the mix of the following factors: –
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A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Feb 26, 2023 thru Sat, Mar 4, 2023. Story of the Week 10 of the best climate change documentaries to see in 2023 These films screened at the recent Wild & Scenic Film Festival. What happens when you watch 20 or so documentaries that grapple with climate change and its many impacts — a
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In the not-too-distant future, cities will be transformed by shared autonomous electric vehicles, electric minibuses, and vastly improved public transit. The undeniable truth is that cars driven alone are inefficient, wasteful, and costly, leading to debt slavery for millions. It's time for change, and a shift towards shared transportation is the solution we need. Imagine a world where our street
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Given the predictions of coming job losses due to AI, as well as continuation of other trends like outsourcing and automation, what cogent theories are in circulation about what could be called 'life after work'?That is, a world where employment would not be necessary to live well, and would not be the key determinant of a person's status in society, access to healthcare, etc. Regardless of capit
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Part One: Time I am reminded of an issue H.G. Wells had with the British educational and governmental systems around 1910. His issue was simple: it took these systems 30 years, on average, to update to the cutting-edge scientific and otherwise advancements. Naturally, this annoyed Wells beyond measure. I have always taken issue with Wells' statement. He made a few grave errors, one of which being
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New Kid In Town Ancient, large "dark asteroids" lurking between Mars and Jupiter may be some of the oldest, primordial relics from the early years following our solar system's formation. And now, in an intriguing development, astronomers have examined those asteroids and found them to contain water, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy . The result of their findings:
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Friendly Fire Nishad Singh, a cofounder and former Director of Engineering of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, officially pled guilty to six federal charges on Tuesday. Among other charges, Singh admitted to committing wire fraud. This would be less surprising if Singh hadn't been one of the four members of a secret FTX exec Signal chat allegedly called " wirefraud ." "I'm unbelievab
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36833-1 Well-defined metastable phase nanostructures are a core issue for catalyst design. Here, the authors report metastable monoclinic phase IrO2 nanoribbons obtained via a molten-alkali mechanochemical method, which exhibit intrinsic high performance towards the acidic oxygen evolution reaction.
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Citizens' panel of people with experience of genetic conditions says discussion urgently needed for research Ministers must consider changing the law to allow scientists to carry out genome editing of human embryos for serious genetic conditions – as a matter of urgency. That is the key message of a newly published report by a UK citizens' jury made up of individuals affected by genetic condition
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With the surge of AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing AI, companies are looking to keep their AI models up to date, ensuring they aren't spitting out hallucinations , misinformation , and even creepy threats — all of which they're prone to do in their current state. The trend has even given birth to a new profession, "prompt engineering," which involves simply speaking to these chatbots
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Helium — essential for many medical and industrial processes — is in critically short supply worldwide. Production is also associated with significant carbon emissions, contributing to climate change. This study provides a new concept in gas field formation to explain why, in rare places, helium accumulates naturally in high concentrations just beneath the Earth's surface. The findings could hel
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JB rescues a rock truck that is stranded on the side of the road. #discoveryplus #goldrush Stream Full Episodes of Gold Rush https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/gold-rush About Gold Rush: Motivated by a depressed economy, hard-working gold miners get to work both in America and across the globe in an attempt to strike it rich. Subscribe to Discovery: https://www.youtube.com/@discovery About Discov
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In the last five years, 324 health sector staff have received payouts of more than £150,000, according to new figures NHS trusts and other organisations overseen by the Department of Health and Social Care agreed staff payoffs worth £42m in 2021/22, including 36 "golden goodbyes" worth more than £150,000 each. In the last five years, 324 staff in the health and care sector got payoffs of more tha
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Microsoft Unveils AI Model That Understands Image Content, Solves Visual Puzzles Benj Edwards | Ars Technica "On Monday, researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1, a multimodal model that can reportedly analyze images for content, solve visual puzzles, perform visual text recognition, pass visual IQ tests, and understand natural language instructions. The researchers
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Prisade hårdrockare gästade Tjolöholm Utdrag: "Svensk hårdrock. Det stod på menyn vid Tjolöholms slott under fredagskvällen. En engagerad publik fick se bandet Sabaton, som den här gången gör en turné … Continued Inlägget dök först upp på Vetenskap och Folkbildning .
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Pale Blue Dot Rapper, Wu-Tang affiliate, and practicing physician known as Kamran "Lazarus" Khan is a big fan of NASA and space travel. And to profess his love for both, Lazarus says he will be premiering a brand new song called "Pale Blue Dot" from aboard the International Space Station later this month, the rapper announced in an Instagram livestream with former NASA chief scientist Jim Green.
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It's a dirty little habit that many participate in, and few would admit to. As many as 91 percent of the population picks their noses from time to time. Many people do it to remove the dry nasal mucus, namely boogers, that can build up and irritate the nose. If you have allergies that clog your nasal passages, there's even more of a temptation to clear them up. And in some cases, nose-picking can
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36755-y Thyroid hormones have an important role in fostering tumour progression, however their upstream regulators are less clear. Here, the authors identify the thyroid hormone activating enzyme type 2 deiodinase as a p53 target gene and demonstrate its contribution to tumour progression in p53 mutant squamous cell ca
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36965-4 The fabrication of freestanding 3D lattice structures with beam diameters less than 100 nm is a considerable challenge. Here, the authors report quasi-BCC nanolattices of gold and copper, featuring beam diameters as low as 34 nm, that demonstrate an exceptionally high capacity for energy absorption.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36892-4 LKB1 mutations have been associated with primary resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with lung cancer. Here the authors show that Lkb1-deficient lung tumors are characterized by defective trafficking and adhesion of T cells and that, by upregulating ICAM1 expression, CDK4/6 inhibitors sensiti
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Generative AI is full steam ahead and will probably decimate a majority of white collar jobs. The response then has often been, well at least blue collar jobs will be thriving, but I question how? – You will get increased competition as there is a lot of people who got nothing better to do. – If there is no white collar work that also means no offices, that is a massive amount of potential work t
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Latest analysis of vase found in Colchester in 1853 shows the vessel was a piece of sports memorabilia from an area of combat Gladiator fights backed by roaring crowds in impressive-looking arenas have long inspired film-makers behind classics such as Gladiator and Spartacus . Now new research reveals for the first time that such a sporting spectacle took place in Britain in the late second centu
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Plus: Windows 11 gets updated with its new Bing AI, Google's Pixel Watch gets fall detection, and recommendation algorithms are absolutely everywhere.
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The author of The Battle for Your Brain has serious reservations about neurotechnology, from the surveillance of mental experiences to 'brainjacking' Our brainwave activity can be monitored and modified by neurotechnology. Devices with electrodes placed on the head can record neural signals from the brain and apply low electric current to modulate them. These "wearables" are finding traction not
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Humans have long found meaning in the stars, but only recently have we begun to understand whole clusters of them—galaxies, way out in the depths of space. A few nearby galaxies, such as Andromeda, have always been visible to the naked eye as a dusky smear in the night sky. Other shimmery structures became known to us after the invention of the telescope in the 17th century, along with a debate a
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This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. "A few years ago, my wife, Angie, and I made a pact," Jason Heller writes in The Atlantic . " Every Sunday , we swore to each other, we will abstain from work . And we kept our promise: On the second
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One of the most popular songs in the world right now presents a musical riddle: Are you supposed to dance or nap? PinkPantheress's "Boy's a Liar Pt. 2," featuring the rapper Ice Spice, sounds both fast and sluggish, new and old. It's undeniably catchy and yet feels as fleeting as a mild dream. Another vexing fact: Liar is pronounced, in the chorus, "lee-yah." Really, the No. 3 song on the Billboa
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Photographs by Wesaam Al-Badry Wesaam Al-Badry was born in Iraq, where he and his family might have stayed if not for the Gulf War, which began when he was 7. In 1991, the family landed at a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia. There, Al-Badry got his first camera, a Pentax K1000. "I didn't understand the numbers on top, shutter speed, and aperture, but I understood, over time, composition," Al-Badry to
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W ould you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work ? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Legal scholar who claimed false affiliations moves on to creating dubious legal yearbooks Chemist who cooked data claims PhD years after it was revoked Two years ago, an author asked a journal to withdraw a paper. It still hasn't. Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers
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Last month, Target announced that it would pay new employees as much as $24 an hour and extend health benefits to anyone working at least 25 hours a week. The company is hardly the only one coughing up cash to lure in new workers or retain those on staff. Starbucks recently set a national minimum wage of $15. McDonald's, Dairy Queen, and Subway franchises have been offering signing incentives. Lo
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Lots of people I know have shown interest in AI lately, specially now they witnessed how advanced it has become. Most of them have made the comment that it's becoming pretty scary. I just think that people is affraid on the image of AI becoming self-aware and going violent/berserk Terminator or Matrix style. I think it's because we created machines that are able to think just as we do (artifical
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Pain afflicts at least 1.5 billion people worldwide, and despite the availability of various painkilling drugs, not all forms of pain are treatable. Moreover, pain medications can have side-effects such as dependence and tolerance, especially in the case of morphine and other opioids.
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