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Some of Substack's Biggest Newsletters Rely on AI Writing Tools (wired.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | wired.com | newest

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Visions of Nuclear-Powered Cars Captivated Cold War America, Tech Never Worked (smithsonianmag.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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Study confirms Egyptians drank hallucinogenic cocktails in ancient rituals (phys.org)

a month ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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How public key cryptography works, using only simple math (quantamagazine.org)

a month ago | pseudolus | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

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ChatGPT or Shakespeare? Readers Couldn't Tell Difference–Preferred AI Verse (smithsonianmag.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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France's new dictionary struggles to keep up with the times (bbc.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | newest

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OpenAI accused of trying to profit off AI model inspection in court (arstechnica.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Are standing desks good for you? The answer is getting clearer (arstechnica.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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US trust in scientists plunged during pandemic – but it's starting to recover (nature.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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Scientists Make First Mechanical Qubit (ieee.org)

a month ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | newest

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Hiker discovers first trace of entire prehistoric ecosystem in Italian Alps (theguardian.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Canada Just Fixed Copyright Law for Repair (ifixit.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | ifixit.com | frontpage

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US FTC plans to investigate Microsoft's cloud business (reuters.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | reuters.com | newest

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Internet freedom is fading in the new era of social control (bigthink.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | bigthink.com | frontpage

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Amazon launches Temu and Shein rival with 'crazy low' prices (bbc.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | frontpage

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Sanctuary AI Is Betting Big on Human-Like Machines That Learn and Work (thewalrus.ca)

a month ago | pseudolus | thewalrus.ca | newest

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World's Largest Coral Found in the Pacific (bbc.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | newest

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Meteorite contains evidence of liquid water on Mars 742M years ago (phys.org)

a month ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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Revisting the Stanford Prison Experiment 50 years later (arstechnica.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Chronic itch is miserable. Scientists are just scratching the surface (npr.org)

a month ago | pseudolus | npr.org | newest

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New model calculates chances of intelligent beings in our universe and beyond (phys.org)

a month ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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Sweden TM: why is the Scandinavian country trying to trademark its name? (theguardian.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | newest

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Hyundai's touchscreen honeymoon over because sometimes buttons are just better (theverge.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | theverge.com | newest

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Map of over a Billion NYC Subway Rides Reveals Hidden Connections (untappedcities.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | untappedcities.com | frontpage

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FTX sues Binance for $1.76B in battle of crypto exchanges founded by convicts (arstechnica.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Global warming is on the cusp of crucial 1.5 °C threshold, suggest ice-core data (nature.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | nature.com | frontpage

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Scientists found 'nitriles' in an interstellar cloud – why that could be huge (space.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | space.com | newest

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A Soviet swamp rat scheme for Azerbaijan went horribly wrong (bbc.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | newest

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Was 'Snowball Earth' a global event? New study delivers best proof yet (phys.org)

a month ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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Red Lobster and TGI Fridays are closing. Here's what's moving in (cnn.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | cnn.com | newest

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GPTs Are Maxed Out (thealgorithmicbridge.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | thealgorithmicbridge.com | frontpage

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[dupe] AI protein-prediction tool AlphaFold3 is now open source (nature.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | nature.com | frontpage

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Alzheimer's timeline shows changes start as trickle, become torrent (npr.org)

a month ago | pseudolus | npr.org | newest

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How gophers brought Mount St. Helens back to life in one day (phys.org)

a month ago | pseudolus | phys.org | best

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Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe (technologyreview.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | technologyreview.com | newest

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How Tech Created a 'Recipe for Loneliness' (nytimes.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | nytimes.com | newest

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The voice of America Online's "You've got mail" has died at age 74 (arstechnica.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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DNA shows Pompeii's dead aren't who we thought they were (arstechnica.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Why Is the Tesla Cybertruck So Depressingly Ugly? (honest-broker.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | honest-broker.com | frontpage

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Painting by the AI robot AI-Da sells for more than $1M at Sotheby's (theartnewspaper.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | theartnewspaper.com | newest

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The Surprisingly Long History of the Movement to Make Buildings Safer for Birds (audubon.org)

a month ago | pseudolus | audubon.org | newest

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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic? (historytoday.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | historytoday.com | newest

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One Way That Could Improve Space-Based Power: Relays (ieee.org)

a month ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | newest

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This elephant learned to use a hose as a shower. Then her rival sought revenge (science.org)

a month ago | pseudolus | science.org | frontpage

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How Much Porn Are We Watching? A Lot (thewalrus.ca)

a month ago | pseudolus | thewalrus.ca | frontpage

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The Banality of Online Recommendation Culture (newyorker.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | newyorker.com | newest

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TSMC to suspend production of advanced AI chips for China from Monday, FT report (reuters.com)

a month ago | pseudolus | reuters.com | newest

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Chinese rover finds evidence of ancient Martian ocean (phys.org)

a month ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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Preprint on Alzheimer's drug deaths ignites dispute among authors (science.org)

2 months ago | pseudolus | science.org | newest

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How the Occult Gave Birth to Science (nautil.us)

2 months ago | pseudolus | nautil.us | newest

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One AI to Another: Is That Your Best Offer? (ieee.org)

2 months ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | newest

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Vampire bats rapidly fuel running with amino acids from a blood meal (royalsocietypublishing.org)

2 months ago | pseudolus | royalsocietypublishing.org | newest

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The Open Source AI Definition – 1.0 (opensource.org)

2 months ago | pseudolus | opensource.org | newest

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A battle is raging over the definition of open-source AI (economist.com)

2 months ago | pseudolus | economist.com | newest

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Astronomers may have spotted the smallest possible stars (science.org)

2 months ago | pseudolus | science.org | frontpage

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Bach, Mozart or jazz: Quantitative measure of variability in music pieces (phys.org)

2 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | frontpage

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Anthropic's Haiku 3.5 surprises experts with an "intelligence" price increase (arstechnica.com)

2 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Quest for a deeper theory of fundamental particles hits a curious snag (science.org)

2 months ago | pseudolus | science.org | newest

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Study disproves weather-dependent renewable energy more prone to blackouts (techxplore.com)

2 months ago | pseudolus | techxplore.com | newest

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How 'miracle' weight-loss drugs will change the world (nature.com)

2 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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The Antitrust Revolution (harpers.org)

2 months ago | pseudolus | harpers.org | frontpage

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How do you vote from space? NASA astronauts cast 2024 election ballots from ISS (space.com)

2 months ago | pseudolus | space.com | newest

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He's Gleaning the Design Rules of Life to Re-Create It (quantamagazine.org)

2 months ago | pseudolus | quantamagazine.org | newest

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U.S. chip revival plan chooses sites (ieee.org)

2 months ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | best

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Report finds 'shocking and dispiriting' fall in children reading for pleasure (theguardian.com)

2 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Facebook, Nvidia push SCOTUS to limit "nuisance" investor suits after scandals (arstechnica.com)

2 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Invasive Mussels Recently Spotted in California Mark a First for North America (smithsonianmag.com)

2 months ago | pseudolus | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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Confidential Computing or Cryptographic Computing? (acm.org)

2 months ago | pseudolus | acm.org | newest

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NYPD using drones to combat subway surfing (boingboing.net)

2 months ago | pseudolus | boingboing.net | newest

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Boston Dynamics' Latest Vids Show Atlas Going Hands On (ieee.org)

2 months ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | newest

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World’s oldest tree? Genetic analysis traces evolution of iconic Pando forest (nature.com)

2 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | best

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Columbus says ransomware gang stole personal data of 500k Ohio residents (techcrunch.com)

2 months ago | pseudolus | techcrunch.com | frontpage

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Endangered bees stop Meta's plan for nuclear-powered AI data center (arstechnica.com)

2 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Not too big, not too small: Why modern humans are the ideal size for speed (phys.org)

2 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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Life evolves. So do minerals. How about everything else? (science.org)

2 months ago | pseudolus | science.org | newest

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Why it costs India so little to reach the Moon and Mars (bbc.com)

2 months ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | frontpage

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Can computers think? No they can't actually do anything (aeon.co)

2 months ago | pseudolus | aeon.co | newest

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San Francisco Startup Sees Big Demand for Sleeping Pods That Cost $700 a Month (gizmodo.com)

2 months ago | pseudolus | gizmodo.com | frontpage

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The Secret of Ramsey Numbers (acm.org)

2 months ago | pseudolus | acm.org | frontpage

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Iykyk: When Novels Speak a Language Only Part of the Internet Gets (thewalrus.ca)

2 months ago | pseudolus | thewalrus.ca | newest

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Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back (ieee.org)

2 months ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | best

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A new copyright rule lets McDonald's fix its own broken ice cream machines (npr.org)

2 months ago | pseudolus | npr.org | frontpage

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A Rock-Star Researcher Spun a Web of Lies–and Nearly Got Away with It (thewalrus.ca)

3 months ago | pseudolus | thewalrus.ca | frontpage

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Online Shopping Can't Be Trusted (thewalrus.ca)

3 months ago | pseudolus | thewalrus.ca | frontpage

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Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype (theregister.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | theregister.com | newest

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Physics Nobel-winner on solving problems between fields (nature.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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Study links black holes to dark energy (phys.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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The twins who created their own language (bbc.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | newest

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[flagged] Room-Temperature Superconductivity Heats Up (acm.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | acm.org | frontpage

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On influence of carbonic acid in air on temperature of ground (1896) ( [pdf] (rsc.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | rsc.org | newest

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Iceberg A-68: The story of how a mega-berg transformed the ocean (bbc.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | newest

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Grateful Dead bassist and founding member Phil Lesh has died at 84 (cnn.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | cnn.com | newest

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Catfish killer Alexander McCartney jailed for minimum of 20 years (bbc.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | newest

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Judge Sides with FTC, Blocking Kate Spade and Michael Kors Merger (go.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | go.com | newest

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The Lion of St. Mark's Square in Venice Is Chinese (archaeologymag.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | archaeologymag.com | best

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DNA stores data in bits after epigenetic upgrade (nature.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | frontpage

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When LLMs Learn to Lie (acm.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | acm.org | newest

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The US is the world’s science superpower — but for how long? (nature.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | frontpage

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We're in the Golden Age of Garbage Clothing (thewalrus.ca)

3 months ago | pseudolus | thewalrus.ca | frontpage

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Climate expert on potential collapse of Atlantic circulation (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | frontpage