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5 years ago+12 12 0New deep knowledge AI system could resolve bottlenecks in drug research
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a new system that could significantly speed up the discovery of new drugs and reduce the need for costly and time-consuming laboratory tests.
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5 years ago+19 19 0Researchers Taught an AI to Give Really Good Head
According to a research paper on the project, entitled “Analysis of Movement in Oral Sex Performed Upon Men,” sixteen distinct motions were discovered.
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5 years ago+23 23 0MIT is giving you control of a real person on Halloween in a dystopian game that sounds like an episode of 'Black Mirror'
This Halloween, the creepiest event to attend might be a mass online social experiment hosted by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT is famous for churning out some of the world's top engineers, programmers, and scient ...
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5 years ago+21 21 0Reminder: Cars Don't Have Bumpers Anymore and That Sucks
I’m not sure if you saw this story this morning, but modern cars are absolutely outrageously expensive to fix after even a minor collision. Some of this has to do with all the cameras and sensors and robotic feely-bits crammed into the extremities of ...
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5 years ago+14 14 0 x 1'Spectacular' diabetes treatment could end daily insulin injections
A potential medical breakthrough that could put an end to the daily insulin injections endured by people living with diabetes has been unveiled by Dutch scientists. By destroying the mucous membrane in the small intestine and causing a new one to dev ...
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5 years ago+17 17 0Brain-eating amoebae halted by silver nanoparticles
Halloween is just around the corner, and some people will celebrate by watching scary movies about brain-eating zombies. But even more frightening are real-life parasites that feed on the human brain, and they can be harder to kill than their horror- ...
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5 years ago+10 10 0Chicken nuggets lab-grown from feathers to go on sale by end of year, company says
Imagine if instead of raising a whole chicken for slaughter, it was possible to pop a feather in a machine, and grow a chicken nugget. That's basically what a San Francisco-based company says it has figured out how to do. It claims the process - ...
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5 years ago+3 3 0Russian Scientists Discover Bacteria That Neutralizes Nuclear Waste
The unique bacteria, discovered in a nuclear waste storage site in Siberia, shows promise as a tool for the creation of a natural barrier to the spread of radionuclides.
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5 years ago+20 20 0Scientists Create Artificial Wood That Is Water- and Fire-Resistant
A new lightweight substance is as strong as wood yet lacks its standard vulnerabilities to fire and water. To create the synthetic wood, scientists took a solution of polymer resin and added a pinch of chitosan, a sugar polymer derived from the shell ...
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5 years ago+18 18 0The next big restaurant chain may not own any kitchens
If investors at some of the biggest technology companies are right, the next big restaurant chain could have no kitchens of its own. These venture capitalists think the same forces that have transformed transportation, media, retail and logistics wil ...
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5 years ago+15 15 0So many people have had their DNA sequenced that they've put other people's privacy in jeopardy
A new study argues that more than half of Americans could be identified by name if all you had to start with was a sample of their DNA and a few basic facts, such as where they live and how about how old they might be.
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5 years ago+2 2 0Fyre Festival Organizer Sentenced to Six Years in Federal Prison
Billy McFarland had pleaded guilty to wire-fraud charges in the Fyre debacle as well as two more fraud counts for running a sham ticket-selling business.
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5 years ago+10 10 0Magic Mushrooms May Be an FDA-Approved Drug for Anxiety and Depression in the Near Future
According to a new study, psilocybin found in “magic” mushrooms, could be useful in treating anxiety and depression.
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5 years ago+7 7 0Artificial intelligence: when humans coexist with robots
The human race is not on the scrapheap after all. Or at least not yet. There has been no shortage of predictions in recent years about how advances in artificial intelligence and robotics will see humans replaced in all kinds of jobs. But most AI exp ...
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5 years ago+36 36 0 x 1Google is shutting down Google+ for consumers following security lapse
Google is going to shut down the consumer version of Google+ over the next 10 months, the company writes in a blog post today. The decision follows the revelation of a previously undisclosed security flaw that exposed users’ profile data that was rem ...
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5 years ago+19 19 0Funnel-web spider can kill melanoma cells and Tassie devil tumours
The research also found the spider compound had almost no negative effects on healthy cells either.
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5 years ago+14 14 0Next crash will be ‘worse than the Great Depression’: experts
Ten years ago, it was too-easy credit that brought financial markets to their knees. Today, it could be a global debt of $247 trillion that causes the next crash. After a decade of escalating US household debt brought on by low wages and the national ...
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5 years ago+15 15 0Elon Musk just announced that SpaceX will livestream its 2023 moon mission in virtual reality, in real time
Musk said he plans to use his future Starlink satellite system to broadcast the mission.
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5 years ago+13 13 0One of the world’s biggest power plant developers just gave up on coal
Japan's Marbeni will no longer build coal power plants. Just 1,600 more plants to go.
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5 years ago+11 11 0Fancy a 13,000-year-old beer, anyone?
Researchers believe they have found the world's oldest brewery in a prehistoric cave in Israel.