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1 year ago+14 14 0Why it took 35 years to develop the first malaria vaccine
When the World Health Organization approved a malaria vaccine for the first time in October 2021, it was widely hailed as a milestone. “This is a historic moment,” said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a statement that month. The va ...
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1 year ago+12 12 0Experimental gene therapy appears to have helped one patient with advanced pancreatic cancer
A new gene therapy shrank the tumors of a woman with pancreatic cancer. Researchers think it has the potential to benefit millions more people.
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1 year ago+17 17 0Twitter’s reportedly shifting teams away from Spaces, newsletters, and communities
Elon Musk isn’t its owner yet, and Twitter is changing focus.
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1 year ago+14 14 0Think you can spot content written by AI? The truth is you've probably already read a lot of it
You may not have heard of GPT-3, but there's a good chance you've read its work, used a website that runs its code, or even conversed with it through a chatbot or a character in a game.
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1 year ago+21 21 0A Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate
PimEyes is a paid service that finds photos of a person from across the internet, including some the person may not want exposed. “We’re just a tool provider,” its owner said.
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1 year ago+16 16 0Pfizer will not sell drugs for profit in poor nations
US pharmaceutical firm Pfizer said it would sell its patented drugs at cost to 45 low-income countries.
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1 year ago+12 12 0Kurt Cobain’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ Guitar Auctions for Nearly $5 Million
Kurt Cobain’s mythical 1969 Fender Mustang electric guitar from Nirvana’s landmark 1991 music video, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was auctioned for nearly $5 million at Julien’…
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2 years ago+4 4 0The Woman Who Saw Zombies
Discovering the molecule that drove her madness.
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2 years ago+16 16 0Coinbase And Kraken Promote “Fake Bitcoin”, Lawsuit Says So
Per a post from Ontier, the self-proclaimed inventor of Bitcoin Craig Wright filed a lawsuit against leading crypto exchanges Coinbase and Kraken. Ontier is a legal firm that represents Wright, Wright International Investments Limited (WII), and Wrig ...
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2 years ago+16 16 0Free college is now a reality in nearly 30 states
Even though the plan to make community college tuition-free was stripped from Build Back Better, the number of statewide free-college programs is growing.
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2 years ago+21 21 0DuckDuckGo removes search results for major pirate websites | Engadget
DuckDuckGo has delisted major pirate sites, and also appears to have scrubbed YouTube-DL..
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2 years ago+23 23 0Social media posts can predict your IQ score
Ivan Smirnov, Leading Research Fellow of the Laboratory of Computational Social Sciences at the Institute of Education of HSE University, has created a computer model that can distinguish high academic achievers from lower ones based on their social ...
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2 years ago+15 15 0Whistleblower says DeepMind waited months to fire a researcher accused of sexual misconduct
DeepMind allegedly took 10 months to resolve a complaint.
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2 years ago+14 14 0Hungary's Viktor Orban claims a 4th term, extending his autocratic rule
The prime minister declared victory in the national elections, claiming a mandate for another term as a partial vote count predicted a strong lead for his right-wing party.
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2 years ago+24 24 0TikTok is testing a ‘Watch History’ so you can finally find that video you saw
You could finally scroll through your watched TikToks.
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2 years ago+17 17 0Google follows YouTube in cutting off ad revenue to Russian state media
Google will no longer allow Russian state media outlets to run ads, following a similar decision on Saturday by the tech giant's video subsidiary, YouTube. "In response to the war in Ukraine, we are pausing Google monetization of Russian st ...
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2 years ago+11 11 0Ukraine island defenders who told Russian navy ‘go fuck yourself’ may still be alive
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the troops on Snake Island ‘died heroically’ but border guard service says it holds out hope they are alive
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2 years ago+19 19 0Battery-Powered Trains Are Picking Up Speed
Electric locomotives could cut emissions of greenhouse gases and toxic pollutants that harm people living near rail yards.
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2 years ago+4 4 0Dawn of the Space Lords
THEY CALLED IT A “SPUTNIK MOMENT.” In October, the Financial Times reported that over the summer of 2021, the Chinese government tested a new missile. It was reported to have been fired from a so-called hypersonic glide vehicle that circled the plane ...
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2 years ago+22 22 0Teen who turned down $5,000 from Elon Musk to shut down a Twitter account tracking the billionaire's jet says he gets too much work satisfaction to settle for less than $50,000
"I've done a lot of work on this and $5k is not enough," the teen behind the Elon Musk's Jet Twitter account told Insider.