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11 months ago+24 24 0US judge throws out Donald Trump’s lawsuit against New York Times
Lawsuit alleged newspaper sought out niece Mary Trump and persuaded her to join ‘insidious plot’ to obtain Trump’s tax records
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11 months ago+20 20 0Trials have become an endangered species. A new effort is trying to change that
Advocates say defendants who go to trial face much longer prison sentences — a so-called trial penalty. It can even lead innocent people to strike plea deals.
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11 months ago+19 19 0World’s first RSV vaccine approved by FDA — breakthrough 60 years in the making
“Our focus now is to ensure eligible older adults in the US can access the vaccine as quickly as possible,” said Tony Wood, the chief scientific officer at GSK.
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12 months ago+15 15 0Amnesty International criticised for using AI-generated images
Group has removed AI images used to promote their reports on social media, including fake photos of Colombia’s 2021 protests
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12 months ago+25 25 0First up-close images of Mars’s little-known Moon Deimos
The United Arab Emirates’ space probe Hope has taken the first high-resolution images of the farside of Mars’s moonlet Deimos. The observations add weight to the theory that Deimos formed together with Mars, rather than as an asteroid that was captur ...
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12 months ago+20 20 0A sapphire Schrödinger’s cat shows that quantum effects can scale up
The atoms in a piece of sapphire oscillate in two directions at once, a mimic of the hypothetically dead-and-alive feline.
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12 months ago+17 17 0You Don't Want to Be Within 160 Light-Years of a Supernova
When it comes to supernovae, what is the minimum safe distance for habitable planets? Larger than we thought.
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1 year ago+27 27 0Report Details Turmoil Behind Apple's AI Efforts, 'Siri X,' and Headset Voice Controls
Siri and Apple's use of AI has been severely held back by caution and organizational dysfunction, according to over three dozen former Apple employees who spoke to The Information's Wayne Ma.
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1 year ago+21 21 0This 18-Year-Old Developed a Test to Find Out If Your Drink Has Been Spiked
The simple and inexpensive sensor detects the antihistamine in "Benadryl cocktails"
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1 year ago+13 13 0Eat fibre first – and ditch the juice: five quick and easy tips for a much healthier meal
Whilst researching my latest book, Food for Life, I learnt that we’re very short of practical advice on food choices which are the most important things we can do for our health (humans and our gut microbes) and also to help the planet. I also learnt ...
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1 year ago+25 25 07 miles of California beaches closed after 250,000 gallons of sewage spill into the LA River
Water from the Los Angeles River connects to the Pacific Ocean in Long Beach, meaning pollution upriver can impact the city's coastal waters.
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1 year ago+18 18 0The Fox-Dominion Settlement Was a Disappointing Conclusion for Late Night: “That Does Nothing for Our Democracy”
Stephen Colbert lamented losing "six weeks of delicious content," while 'The Daily Show' guest host Jordan Klepper took aim at Fox News' anchors and Jimmy Kimmel called out Dominion: "We naively thought this was about ma ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0Volcanic microbe eats CO2 ‘astonishingly quickly’, say scientists
A microbe discovered in a volcanic hot spring gobbles up carbon dioxide “astonishingly quickly”, according to the scientists who found it. The researchers hope to utilise microbes that have naturally evolved to absorb CO2 as an efficient way of remov ...
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1 year ago+25 25 0Panic at Google: Samsung considers dumping search for Bing and ChatGPT
The New York Times details Google's "shock" and "panic" at having a search rival.
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1 year ago+22 22 0ChatGPT is now writing college essays, and higher ed has a big problem
Is higher learning doomed?
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1 year ago+25 25 0The uncancelling of JK Rowling
Tide appears to be turning for the Harry Potter author ostracised for her trans views
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1 year ago+21 21 0Kanye West’s School Is a Failed Tribute to His Mother, Ex-Teacher Says
Cecilia Hailey, who is suing Donda Academy for wrongful termination, tells The Daily Beast that her students were years behind in math and not allowed to learn about the Holocaust.
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1 year ago+15 15 0German band may have been refused UK entry ‘because they have day jobs’
Post-Brexit rules on touring under fire as it emerges Trigger Cut may have been turned away due to not being full-time musicians
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1 year ago+21 21 0The TikTok Ban Isn’t About National Security. It’s About the Global Dominance of US Tech.
After decades of justifying tech expansion on the basis of free speech, US policymakers threatening to ban Chinese-owned TikTok are now changing their tune. The about-face reveals their real objective: preserving the dominance of American tech capita ...
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1 year ago+13 13 0Three species of extremely primitive spider discovered in China
Mesothelean spiders diverged from all other spiders long before the first dinosaurs – three species of these living fossils have just been identified in western Hunan province