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9 months agoCurrent Event 66bnats
A Blood Test Shows Promise for Early Colon Cancer Detection
Many patients are reluctant to undergo colonoscopies or conduct at-home fecal tests. Doctors see potential in another screening method.
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11 months agoAnalysis 66bnats
Energy based on power of stars is step closer after nuclear fusion heat record
Feat by scientists at Oxfordshire facility described as ‘fitting swansong’ for pioneering project as reactor is decommissioned
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11 months agoCurrent Event 66bnats
AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium
Researchers used AI to design a new material that they used to build a working battery – it requires up to 70 percent less lithium than some competing designs.
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11 months agoCurrent Event 66bnats
Belgium introduces animal-friendly labelling on food products
Around 60 per cent of people say they would be prepared to spend more for products from welfare-friendly farming systems.
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1 year agoCurrent Event 66bnats
Venmo, Cash App users sue Apple over peer-to-peer payment fees
Apple Inc has been sued by Venmo and Cash App customers in a proposed class action claiming the iPhone maker abused its market power to curb competition for mobile peer-to-peer payments, causing consumers to pay "rapidly inflating prices."
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1 year agoAnalysis 66bnats
AI to predict your health later in life — all at the press of a button
Thanks to artificial intelligence, we will soon be able to predict our risk of developing serious health conditions later in life, at the press of a button. ECU's School of Science and School of Medical and Health Sciences have collaborated to develop software which can analyse roughly 60,000 scans in a single day.
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1 year agoAnalysis 66bnats
No quiet place: Scientists say you can hear silence - study
“Our results suggest that silence is truly heard, not merely inferred, introducing a general approach for studying the perception of absence,” the researchers say.
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1 year agoCurrent Event 66bnats
Jane Birkin, actor and singer, dies aged 76
The Anglo-French singer and actor Jane Birkin has died at the age of 76, the French culture ministry has announced. The singer had been forced to postpone several concerts in Paris scheduled for May after breaking her shoulder in March 2022. This followed another string of cancelled shows after Birkin had a stroke in September 2021.
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1 year agoLevel Up 66bnats
Level 36
66bnats is now level 36 with 4,536,275 XP.
View Unlocks- Tribe Membership The maximum amount of tribes you can join has been raised by 10 to a total of 175.
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1 year agoCurrent Event 66bnats
Sweden charges Greta Thunberg for blockading oil port
The climate activist blocked a port handling fossil fuels with a group of young activists in June.
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1 year agoCurrent Event 66bnats
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Booted From Right-Wing House Freedom Caucus
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was recently kicked out of the House Freedom Caucus after a string of disagreements with the conservative group, according to two GOP lawmakers familiar with the situation. “She is no longer with HFC,” a Republican lawmaker told The Daily Beast, noting that “disparaging” fellow members is frowned upon.
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1 year agoCurrent Event 66bnats
ChatGPT pauses Bing integration to stop people from bypassing paywalls
ChatGPT aided users aiming to bypass paywalls, but OpenAI put a stop to it.
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1 year agoCurrent Event 66bnats
The SEC sues Binance, unveils 13 charges against crypto exchange in sweeping lawsuit
U.S. regulators sued Binance, saying the world's largest crypto trading platform misled investors and regulators. The accusations were part of 13 charges unveiled by the SEC.
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1 year agoCurrent Event 66bnats
Mother of 6-year-old who shot teacher will plead guilty to federal felony charges in deal with prosecutors | CNN
The mother of a 6-year-old boy who brought a gun to school and shot his first-grade teacher in January in Newport News, Virginia, will plead guilty to new federal felony charges as part of a deal with prosecutors, her attorney said Monday.
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1 year agoCurrent Event 66bnats
Popular Reddit App Apollo Would Need to Pay $20 Million Per Year Under New API Pricing
Popular Reddit app Apollo might not be able to operate as is in the future due to planned API pricing that Reddit is implementing. Apollo developer Christian Selig was today told that Reddit plans to charge $12,000 for 50 million API requests. Last month, Apollo made seven billion requests, which would mean Selig would need to pay $1.7 million per month or $20 million per year to Reddit to keep the app running.