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1 year ago+16 16 0Fourty Years of Famicom: The Once and Future King
Happy 40th anniversary to the legendary video gaming titan, Famicom!
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1 year ago+4 4 0James Webb Space Telescope finds possible evidence of dark stars
A trio of astrophysicists, two from Colgate University and the third from the University of Texas, has found evidence of dark stars courtesy of data from the James Webb Space Telescope. In their study, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Solving the RIME deployment mystery
When the RIME antenna on ESA’s Juice mission failed to deploy a few days after launch, the engineering teams faced the mighty challenge to understand the fault and rectify it. At stake was a chance to see inside Jupiter’s mysterious icy moons.
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1 year ago+3 3 0SpaceX veteran Tom Mueller targets space service economy with tug business
Though SpaceX founder Elon Musk most often commands headline, the story of the private space startup hinges on a collection of key early figures. One is Tom Mueller, the famed space propulsion expert who ran development of SpaceX’s rocket engines and ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Cyberattacks on hospitals 'should be considered a regional disaster,' researchers find
It was early May in 2021 when patients flooded the emergency room at the University of California San Diego Health Center. "We were bringing in backup staff, our wait times had gone haywire, the whole system was overloaded," said Dr. Christ ...
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1 year ago+16 16 0ChatGPT designs its first robot
Poems, essays and even books—is there anything the open AI platform ChatGPT can't handle? These new AI developments have inspired researchers at TU Delft and the Swiss technical university EPFL to dig a little deeper: For instance, can ChatGPT a ...
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1 year ago+3 3 0Yale’s new research tool will lead you down a rabbit hole of knowledge
It's supported by something called a knowledge graph, which maps the connections between people, places, objects, and events.
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1 year ago+4 4 0Salting and burying biomass crops in dry landfills could economically capture greenhouse gases for thousands of years
Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions is critical to avoiding a climate disaster, but current carbon removal methods are proving to be inadequate and costly. Now researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, have proposed a scalable sol ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0iPhone maker Wistron calls it quits, saying Apple didn't allow it to make a profit
iPhone maker Wistron – which was the first company to produce iPhones in India – has exited the business, saying that Apple’s tough negotiations on price meant the company was unable to make a profit. The news comes at a time when the Cupertino compa ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Box Office: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy 3’ Kicks Off Summer Movie Season With $114 Million Debut
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” the conclusion to Marvel’s trilogy about an extraterrestrial crew of misfits, kicked off with $114 million in its domestic box office debut. Those ticket sales rank as the second-biggest opening weekend of the year, ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0AI track Heart on My Sleeve is ‘just the beginning’ of robot music
The future is here, the ghostwriters are on the storm, and fake Drake is all too real. Earlier this month, a gloomy hip-hop track created with the help of artificial intelligence to jarringly replicate the voices of Canadian superstars Drake and the ...
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1 year ago+33 33 0 x 1Humans Will Achieve Immortality by 2030, Former Google Engineer Claims
Immortality has been a dream of human beings since the dawn of time. Mankind´s fascination with cheating death is reflected in scientific records, mythology, and folklore dating back at least to ancient Egypt. Now, Ray Kurzweil, a former Google engin ...
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1 year ago+3 3 03 Environmentalists Fighting Climate Change With Bitcoin
There are hundreds of environmentalists around the world who believe the bitcoin ecosystem could actually help reduce carbon emissions and increase reliance on renewable energy. Renewable energy sources, like wind and solar power, provide inconsisten ...
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1 year ago+2 2 0Psychedelic therapy may be better than conventional depression and anxiety treatments for patients with advanced cancer
In people with advanced cancer, psychedelic drugs like psilocybin, LSD and MDMA may significantly reduce the severity of depression and anxiety symptoms. Roughly 10% of patients with cancer experience anxiety, while 20% report depression. However, cu ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0The real reason bosses are freaked out by remote work
Why are so many CEOs ordering everyone back to the office? Because they think offices are "hardcore" and working from home is "soft."
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1 year ago+3 3 0Fox to Pay $787 Million in Dominion Defamation Trial Settlement
In an unexpected and abrupt end to a legal battle that had fascinated the media industry, Fox Corporation and Dominion Voting Systems agreed to settle a much-discussed $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit mere hours after a jury had been seated to conside ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0‘The Tale of Genji’ Is More Than 1,000 Years Old. What Explains Its Lasting Appeal?
The book is often described as the world’s first novel and a touchstone of Japanese literature. But some of its themes, including its take on gender and power, have echoed over centuries.
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1 year ago+3 3 0What do killer whales eat in the North Atlantic? Fat's the question!
Here is a killer whale fact for you: despite decades of intensive research, we still do not know for sure what killer whales eat in most regions of the world. Killer whales are top predators, and the amount and types of animals they eat can greatly i ...
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1 year ago+16 16 0Could the dodo come back from extinction?
The dodo's genome has been sequenced from a DNA sample, but that's just the first hurdle to overcome in bringing a species back from the dead
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1 year ago+4 4 0A simple way to fall asleep in 60 seconds was revealed by a scientist from the USA
Andrew Weil, an integrative medicine expert and employee of Arizona State University, shared a simple and effective method to fall asleep in 60 seconds.