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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

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Toys "R" Us riles critics with "first-ever" AI-generated commercial using Sora (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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The 'gene deserts' unravelling the mysteries of disease (bbc.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | newest

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The law should treat personal data like human organs – not for sale (theglobeandmail.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | theglobeandmail.com | best

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The surprising behavior of black holes in an expanding universe (phys.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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75 Years of 1984: Why George Orwell's Classic Remains More Relevant Than (lithub.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | lithub.com | newest

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Decades later, John Romero looks back at the birth of the first-person shooter (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Could Advanced Nuclear Reactors Fuel Terrorist Bombs? (ieee.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | newest

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Music labels sue AI song generators Suno and Udio for copyright infringement (theguardian.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | newest

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Law enforcement is spying on Americans' mail, records show (washingtonpost.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | washingtonpost.com | best

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Pablo Escobar's Abandoned Hippos Are Wreaking Havoc in the Colombian Jungle (smithsonianmag.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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The Question of What's Fair Illuminates the Question of What's Hard (quantamagazine.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | quantamagazine.org | newest

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'Fantastic' particle could be most energetic neutrino ever detected (nature.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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Roman beach destroyed by Mount Vesuvius is open to the public for the first time (npr.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | npr.org | newest

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The Scourge of Self-Checkout (thewalrus.ca)

7 months ago | pseudolus | thewalrus.ca | newest

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Can't get you out of my head: why pop culture is still under Kafka's spell (theguardian.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | newest

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California AI bill becomes a lightning rod–for safety advocates and developers (thebulletin.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | thebulletin.org | newest

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More evidence against the "ecocide" theory of Easter Island (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | best

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Why do people persecute city pigeons? (bbc.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | newest

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From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | best

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Gut microbiome discovery provides roadmap for life-saving cancer therapies (nature.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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Coding error in forgotten API blamed for data breach (theregister.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | theregister.com | newest

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Asteroid headed toward Earth? NASA simulation explores response (npr.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | npr.org | newest

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Citing national security, US will ban Kaspersky anti-virus software in July (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Not all 'open source' AI models are open: here's a ranking (nature.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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Donald Sutherland Dies at 88 (hollywoodreporter.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | hollywoodreporter.com | newest

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A brief history of Stephen Hawking's greatest equation (aeon.co)

7 months ago | pseudolus | aeon.co | newest

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Grolar bear hybrids in NWT all traced back to same 'strange' female polar bear (cbc.ca)

7 months ago | pseudolus | cbc.ca | newest

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The return of pneumatic tubes (technologyreview.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | technologyreview.com | best

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AT&T imposes $10 price hike on most of its older unlimited plans (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Autonomous vehicles are great at driving straight (ieee.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | frontpage

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Scientists discover energy imbalance on Saturn (phys.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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How ShinyHunters hackers allegedly pilfered Ticketmaster data from Snowflake (wired.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | wired.com | newest

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Tiny beauty: how I make scientific art from behind the microscope (nature.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | best

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Surgeon general calls for health warnings on social media for younger users (go.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | go.com | newest

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EV startup Fisker files for bankruptcy, aims to sell assets (cnbc.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | cnbc.com | newest

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A Robot Walks into a Bar: Can LLMs Serve as Creativity Support Tools for Comedy? (arxiv.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arxiv.org | newest

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Tokyo government to launch dating app in bid to boost birth rate (japantimes.co.jp)

7 months ago | pseudolus | japantimes.co.jp | frontpage

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Does Miami Have the Answer to Homelessness? (reason.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | reason.com | newest

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China could start building biggest particle collider in 2027 (nature.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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Crypto-failure Terraform Labs to cough $4.5B and then liquidate itself (theregister.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | theregister.com | newest

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A new look at why old age is linked to severe, even fatal COVID (medicalxpress.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | medicalxpress.com | newest

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Doing Nothing Has Never Been More Important (thewalrus.ca)

7 months ago | pseudolus | thewalrus.ca | newest

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AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human (bbc.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | newest

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Catholic AI Priest Stripped of Priesthood After Some Unfortunate Interactions (techdirt.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | techdirt.com | newest

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Meta accused of trying to discredit ad researchers (theregister.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | theregister.com | frontpage

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The first fugitive caught by the internet (hubspot.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | hubspot.com | newest

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Nth Country Experiment (wikipedia.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | wikipedia.org | newest

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Data-fueled neurotargeting could kill democracy (mitpress.mit.edu)

7 months ago | pseudolus | mit.edu | frontpage

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How do brainless creatures control their appetites (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Crypto Titans' $160M War Chest Threatens Senate Democrats (yahoo.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | yahoo.com | frontpage

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If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), You'll Meet His Immortal Soul in the Cloud (wired.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | wired.com | newest

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Researchers wonder what if you just put a robot in the driver's seat (techxplore.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | techxplore.com | newest

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Ernest Shackleton's last ship, Quest, discovered off the coast of Canada (smithsonianmag.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | smithsonianmag.com | best

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What causes long Covid? Case builds for rogue antibodies (nature.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | frontpage

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Shackleton died on board the Quest; ship's wreckage has just been found (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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The world's on the verge of a carbon storage boom (technologyreview.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | technologyreview.com | newest

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How worrying is the rapid rise of Chinese science? (economist.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | economist.com | newest

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Ancient DNA from Maya ruins tells story of ritual human sacrifices (nature.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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The American West is figuring out how to keep cool (bbc.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | frontpage

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Cyberattacks are hitting research institutions – with devastating effects (nature.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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Wreck of explorer Shackleton's last ship has been found off the coast of Canada (npr.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | npr.org | newest

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Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours (ieee.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | best

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'We need to go places and touch things': people turning away from smartphones (theguardian.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Jet missing since 1971 has been found at the bottom of Vermont's Lake Champlain (npr.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | npr.org | newest

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Plant-based ultra-processed foods linked with risk of cardiovascular disease (medicalxpress.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | medicalxpress.com | newest

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Neutrinos: The inscrutable "ghost particles" driving scientists crazy (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Do elephants have names for each other? (nature.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | frontpage

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New York moves to limit kids' access to 'addictive feeds' (techcrunch.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | techcrunch.com | frontpage

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Outcry from big AI firms over California AI "kill switch" bill (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Creating a throw-away culture: How companies ingrained plastics in modern life (npr.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | npr.org | newest

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In 2024, many Y Combinator startups only want tiny seed rounds – there's a catch (techcrunch.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | techcrunch.com | newest

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The AI Arms Race to Combat Fake Images Is Even–For Now (ieee.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | newest

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Scientists wonder if shape of the universe is like a doughnut (theguardian.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | best

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Associations between media parenting practices and early adolescent screen use (nature.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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Does the rise of index funds spell catastrophe? (harpers.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | harpers.org | newest

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Errors in Navigational Models Could Have an Easy Answer (ieee.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | newest

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Turn On, Tune In, Write Code (thenewatlantis.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | thenewatlantis.com | best

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Meta uses "dark patterns" to thwart AI opt-outs in EU, complaint says (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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First wooden satellite could herald era of greener space exploration (nature.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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Mike Lynch: Autonomy co-founder cleared of fraud in US trial (bbc.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | newest

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AI revolution as seen by a dean, a semiconductor VP, and a government regulator (ieee.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | newest

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Disputed dark-matter claim to be tested by new lab in South Korea (nature.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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A dad's diet affects his sperm – and his sons' health (nature.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia investigated over possible breach of antitrust laws (theguardian.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | newest

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Federal Judge Uses ChatGPT to Make His Decision (abovethelaw.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | abovethelaw.com | newest

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'Google for DNA' indexes 10% of known genetic sequences (science.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | science.org | newest

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A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs (techcrunch.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | techcrunch.com | newest

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How Online Privacy Is Like Fishing (ieee.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | newest

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Quantum Navigational Tech Takes Flight in New Trial (ieee.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | newest

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The Hubble Space Telescope has lost a majority of its gyroscopes (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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'Extremely impressive': melanoma jab trial results excite doctors (theguardian.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | best

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The world's largest 3D printer is building cozy homes from wood (cnn.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | cnn.com | best

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The Moral Limits of Bankruptcy Law (nytimes.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | nytimes.com | newest

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Why doctors dismiss the gut-brain relationship (aeon.co)

7 months ago | pseudolus | aeon.co | frontpage

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Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy (quantamagazine.org)

7 months ago | pseudolus | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

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China's far-side Moon mission begins journey back (bbc.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | frontpage

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X tweaks rules to formally allow adult content (techcrunch.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | techcrunch.com | newest

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Ticketmaster hacked in what's believed to be a spree hitting Snowflake customers (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest