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The DOJ Antitrust Division isn't afraid to go to court (theverge.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | theverge.com | newest

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Scientists create program that paints structure of molecules in Mondrian style (phys.org)

6 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | frontpage

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AI's 'Oppenheimer moment': autonomous weapons enter the battlefield (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | newest

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Groundbreaking study reveals the impact of genetics on IQ scores over time (psypost.org)

6 months ago | pseudolus | psypost.org | frontpage

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This Is What Being in Your Twenties Was Like in 18th-Century London (smithsonianmag.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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In the South, sea level rise accelerates at some of most extreme rates on Earth (insideclimatenews.org)

6 months ago | pseudolus | insideclimatenews.org | frontpage

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Arthur Miller on Sweltering Summers Before Air-Conditioning (1998) (newyorker.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | newyorker.com | newest

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When Facial Recognition Helps Police Target Black Faces (thewalrus.ca)

6 months ago | pseudolus | thewalrus.ca | frontpage

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Partial automated driving systems don't make driving safer, study finds (arstechnica.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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First "Miss AI" contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards (arstechnica.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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AT&T breach leaked call and text records from 'nearly all' wireless customers (theverge.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | theverge.com | frontpage

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How to Raise the World’s IQ (economist.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | economist.com | newest

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New Antikythera mechanism analysis challenges century-old assumption (arstechnica.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Apple reaches deal with EU to open up mobile payments system to rivals (cnbc.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | cnbc.com | newest

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Apple to let rivals use tap-and-go payment, staves off EU fine (reuters.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | reuters.com | newest

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A nuclear accident made Three Mile Island infamous. AI's needs may revive it (washingtonpost.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | washingtonpost.com | newest

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New incompletely rifted microcontinent identified between Greenland and Canada (phys.org)

6 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | frontpage

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The sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet' revealed by AI (bbc.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | frontpage

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America's Fastest Swimmers Use Math to Win Gold (quantamagazine.org)

6 months ago | pseudolus | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

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Scientists edit the genes of gut bacteria in living mice (nature.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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Old Pfizer Headquarters to Be NYC's Largest Office-to-Residential Conversion (secretnyc.co)

6 months ago | pseudolus | secretnyc.co | newest

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Free med school tuition unlikely to have a major impact on US health care system (statnews.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | statnews.com | newest

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A Scientist's Quest to Decode Vermeer's True Colours (thewalrus.ca)

6 months ago | pseudolus | thewalrus.ca | frontpage

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Middlemen have outsized influence on drug prices due to market consolidation,FTC (cnbc.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | cnbc.com | frontpage

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After two rejections, Apple approves Epic Games Store app for iOS (arstechnica.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Etsy: Company escaping 'race to the bottom', getting back to its artisan roots (cnbc.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | cnbc.com | frontpage

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Brain size riddle solved as humans exceed evolutionary trend (phys.org)

6 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | frontpage

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Canada became a car theft capital of the world (bbc.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | frontpage

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Bloomberg gives $1B to Hopkins to make tuition free for most medical students (npr.org)

6 months ago | pseudolus | npr.org | frontpage

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Can AI be superhuman? Flaws in top gaming bot cast doubt (nature.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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What Is Machine Learning? (quantamagazine.org)

6 months ago | pseudolus | quantamagazine.org | newest

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High speed video shows hippos get airborne when running (phys.org)

6 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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Why So Many Bitcoin Mining Companies Are Pivoting to AI (time.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | time.com | frontpage

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Temperatures 1.5C above pre-industrial era average for 12 months, data shows (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Ecuador court rules pollution violates rights of a river running through capital (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Association of Neurocognitive and Physical Function with Gait Speed in Midlife (jamanetwork.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | jamanetwork.com | newest

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Is open source the future of the software field or a passing fad? (2004) (acm.org)

6 months ago | pseudolus | acm.org | newest

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The Quiet Return of Eugenics (spectator.co.uk)

6 months ago | pseudolus | spectator.co.uk | frontpage

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Rare ancient rock art found in Saudi Arabian lava tube (theartnewspaper.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | theartnewspaper.com | newest

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Research finds humpbacks were happier during pandemic pause (phys.org)

6 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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[flagged] Free and Open Source Software–and Other Market Failures (acm.org)

6 months ago | pseudolus | acm.org | frontpage

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Judge says FTC lacks authority to issue rule banning noncompete agreements (arstechnica.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Spinal fluid might cause migraine pain (nature.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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Delivery apps in NYC could be held responsible for workers following traffic law (gothamist.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | gothamist.com | newest

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FTC Ban on Noncompetes Delayed by Texas Judge (pcmag.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | pcmag.com | newest

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Song melodies have become simpler since 1950, study suggests (phys.org)

6 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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Anglo-Saxons may have fought in northern Syrian wars, say experts (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | newest

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384k sites pull code from sketchy code library recently bought by Chinese firm (arstechnica.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Japan declares victory in 'war' on floppy disks (bbc.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | newest

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Coffee, eggs and white rice linked to higher levels of PFAS in human body (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | newest

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Philosophy Was Once Alive (aeon.co)

6 months ago | pseudolus | aeon.co | newest

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Air pollution drives 7% of deaths in big Indian cities: Study (medicalxpress.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | medicalxpress.com | frontpage

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Rapper BG ordered to have all future songs approved by US Government (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | newest

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Oldest known picture story is a 51,000-year-old Indonesian cave painting (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | newest

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Seattle cosmetic surgeon must pay $5M after allegedly faking reviews (seattletimes.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | seattletimes.com | newest

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News outlets are accusing Perplexity of plagiarism and unethical web scraping (techcrunch.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | techcrunch.com | newest

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Why cancer risk declines sharply in old age (nature.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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I Don't Want to Pay for Things with My Face (thewalrus.ca)

6 months ago | pseudolus | thewalrus.ca | newest

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Ants perform limb amputations on injured comrades to save their lives (reuters.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | reuters.com | newest

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[flagged] Neuroscientists must not be afraid to study religion (nature.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | frontpage

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The Trimodal Nature of Tech Compensation Revisited (pragmaticengineer.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | pragmaticengineer.com | newest

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How to Build EV Motors Without Rare Earth Elements (ieee.org)

6 months ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | newest

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Shipt's Algorithm Squeezed Gig Workers. They Fought Back (ieee.org)

6 months ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | newest

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Nuclear could power the AI boom–but only if proliferation risks are minimized (thebulletin.org)

6 months ago | pseudolus | thebulletin.org | newest

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True scale of carbon impact from long-distance travel revealed (phys.org)

6 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | frontpage

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Gamification Took over the World (technologyreview.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | technologyreview.com | frontpage

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Tracing the hidden hand of magnetism in the galaxy (quantamagazine.org)

6 months ago | pseudolus | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

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Supreme Court vacates rulings on Texas and Florida social media laws (arstechnica.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Scatterbrain: The Explosion of Adult ADHD (torontolife.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | torontolife.com | newest

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Robot cats, dogs and birds are being deployed amid an 'epidemic of loneliness' (techcrunch.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | techcrunch.com | newest

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The telltale words that could identify generative AI text (arstechnica.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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New findings may fix the replicability crisis in microbiome research (medicalxpress.com)

6 months ago | pseudolus | medicalxpress.com | newest

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Bipartisan consensus in favor of renewable power is ending (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment (historytoday.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | historytoday.com | frontpage

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The Gods of Logic – Before and after artificial intelligence (harpers.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | harpers.org | newest

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ChatGPT outperforms undergrads in intro-level courses, falls short later (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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The Death-Themed "Cabaret of Nothingness" (mitpress.mit.edu)

7 months ago | pseudolus | mit.edu | newest

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Could a Self-Sustaining Starship Carry Humanity to Distant Worlds? (mitpress.mit.edu)

7 months ago | pseudolus | mit.edu | newest

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Hayek, the Accidental Freudian (newyorker.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | newyorker.com | newest

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Bitcoin windfall for Mt. Gox creditors after 10 year wait (cnbc.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | cnbc.com | best

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Alaska Rivers Are Turning an Eerie Orange (atlasobscura.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | atlasobscura.com | newest

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What the Ancients Knew – Rediscovering the breadth and depth of formation (hedgehogreview.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | hedgehogreview.com | newest

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A violent gang's ruthless crypto-stealing home invasion spree (wired.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | wired.com | frontpage

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Scaling Compute to Satiate AI (ieee.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | newest

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NASA will pay SpaceX nearly $1B to deorbit the International Space Station (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Study: Scribes in ancient Egypt had really poor posture as they worked (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Kids given 'digital pacifiers' fail to learn how to regulate emotions (medicalxpress.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | medicalxpress.com | newest

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Ray Kurzweil is (still, somehow) excited about humans merging with machines (washingtonpost.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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Beijing unavailable to take call: Why the US-China crisis hotline doesn't work (thebulletin.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | thebulletin.org | newest

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Jury Rules NFL Owes More Than $4B in Sunday Ticket Antitrust Case (frontofficesports.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | frontofficesports.com | newest

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The strategy behind Cambridge’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology (nature.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | frontpage

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The greatest social media site is Craigslist (slate.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | slate.com | best

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AI-generated Al Michaels to provide daily recaps during 2024 Summer Olympics (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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DNA-based bacterial parasite uses new DNA-editing method (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Supreme Court curbs SEC powers to enforce securities laws (nbcnews.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | nbcnews.com | newest

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Supreme Court blocks Purdue Pharma opioid settlement (nbcnews.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | nbcnews.com | best

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Einstein and his peers were 'irrationally resistant' to black holes (bbc.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | frontpage

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Arkansas Sues Temu, Claims Chinese Shopping App Is Malware (pcmag.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | pcmag.com | frontpage

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Colorado bat facility that will support virus studies sparks outbreak fears (science.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | science.org | frontpage

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Multivitamin myth: Study shows no benefit to long-term health, longevity (studyfinds.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | studyfinds.org | newest