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4 years ago+10 10 0Robots threaten middle-aged workers the most (that's anyone over 21)
Three papers from influential economists cast doubt on the idea that there are beneficial aspects to automation. Beneficial aspects to workers, that is.
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5 years ago+25 25 0Blizzard bribes female employees to track their sex, pregnancy, and moods
Big Brother was so 1984. Now in 2019, it’s all about Big Blizzard.
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5 years ago+19 19 0'Paramedic' Ants Are the First to Rescue and Heal Their Wounded Comrades
Matabele ants nurse each other back to health after battle with a surprisingly high success rate, a new study finds.
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5 years ago+15 15 0Harvard study unlocks a key to regeneration
Led by Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Mansi Srivastava, a team of researchers is shedding new light on how animals perform whole-body regeneration, and uncovering a number of DNA switches that appear to control genes used ...
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5 years ago+3 3 0Dwarf Fortress launches on Steam with a brand new look
Dwarf Fortress is a fascinating concept, but if you’ve ever laid your eyes on the subterranean simulation, you’ll know it’s not been the easiest thing to actually look at. That’s set to change very soon, however, as the game’s developers have announc ...
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5 years ago+29 29 0 x 1Sleep helps to repair damaged DNA in neurons, scientists find
Ernest Hemingway prized sleep for good reason. Not one to dwell on rest and recuperation, the novelist saw snoozing as a form of damage limitation. “I love sleep,” he once said. “My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake.” The author’s ob ...
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5 years ago+25 25 0Elon Musk on Moon Bases, Mars, and How Not to Be Vaporized
In January, we ran an exclusive interview with Elon Musk in which he explained, for the first time, his full thinking—and the complex engineering questions—behind his decision to construct SpaceX’s Starship rocket and booster with stainless steel. Th ...
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5 years ago+27 27 0 x 1Tesla's Model 3 ranked 'most satisfying' car, more than Porsche or Corvette
It's well known that Tesla owners tend to show a lot of love for the electric automaker, which often tops lists that rank car brands based on owner satisfaction. In fact, Tesla's Model 3 compact sedan is so beloved by its owners that Consum ...
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5 years ago+18 18 0Historian’s epic rant against billionaires at Davos goes viral
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman’s epic rant against the super-rich in front of the super-rich at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos has turned the 30-year-old into a viral social media star.
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5 years ago+28 28 0Scientists Are Totally Rethinking Animal Cognition
On a hot day last spring, I removed my shoes at the hospital’s entrance and walked up to the second-floor lobby, where a clerk in his late 20s was processing patients. An older woman placed a shoebox before him and lifted off its lid, revealing a blo ...
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5 years ago+25 25 0Coca-Cola fears that climate change will cause water shortages
Climate change could cause water shortages, more natural disasters, and more outbreaks of tropical diseases, some of the world’s biggest corporations predict. Water shortages “could limit water availability for the Coca-Cola system’s bottling operati ...
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5 years ago+25 25 0Saudi teen granted asylum in Canada drinks wine, eats bacon in Snapchat images
Rahaf Mohammed, the Saudi teen who was granted asylum in Canada last weekend, has posted photos of herself enjoying a glass of wine, a cigarette, and bacon on Snapchat. Ms Mohammed, 18, was granted asylum after fleeing Saudi Arabia, where she feared ...
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5 years ago+3 3 0A sequel to the original Ghostbusters is being planned for 2020
The female-led 2016 reboot will be ignored.
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5 years ago+25 25 0Foldimate’s laundry-folding machine actually works now
Back in 2018, Foldimate was one of two laundry-folding machines exhibiting at CES that promised to make folding clothes a thing of the past. It was up against Laundroid, a $16,000 AI-powered machine that was supposed to analyze each clothing item and ...
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5 years ago+26 26 0Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
Even though Satoshi Nakamoto's identity is still unclear today, it is undeniable what he created: he is the inventor of the Bitcoin protocol, which he published in a whitepaper in November 2008 via an encrypted e-mail address.
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5 years ago+35 35 0 x 1‘Game of Thrones’ Star Says Producers Are ‘Absolutely Paranoid’ About Spoilers
“Game of Thrones” star Iain Glen has lifted the lid on the efforts of the show’s producers to avoid spoilers and leaks from the eagerly anticipated final season. “They’re absolutely paranoid now about anyone finding out anything about the series and ...
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5 years ago+24 24 0Facial recognition has to be regulated to protect the public, says AI report
The research institute AI Now has identified facial recognition as a key challenge for society and policymakers—but is it too late? Chief among them is the way machine learning can identify people’s faces in photos and video footage with great accura ...
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5 years ago+20 20 0Uber Is Headed for a Crash
The company just posted another quarter of jaw-dropping losses. How much is hype and how much is real?
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5 years ago+10 10 0Do Not Fear the Dark Matter Hurricane (The Dark Matter Hurricane Is Good)
Scientists think there's a 'dark matter hurricane' coming, but it's definitely not going to kill you. It's actually kind of exciting.
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5 years ago+30 30 0 x 1Oh great, AI will apparently match humans in creativity and emotional intelligence soon
As if we didn’t already have enough to worry about when it comes to artificially intelligent machines being able to perform many tasks faster and better than humans can, potentially stealing our jobs in the future, and presenting what some technologi ...
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