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1 year ago+25 25 0Astronomers spy new class of dark, water-rich asteroids like dwarf planet Ceres
Astronomers are slowly shining light on the dark objects hovering in a narrow part of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. In a new study, researchers found that 10 well-known asteroids have features much like the belt’s largest object, the dw ...
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1 year ago+35 35 0 x 1Self-Driving Cars Need to Be 99.99982% Crash-Free to Be Safer Than Humans
As companies race to build self-driving cars, there’s always a question: How safe is safe enough? After all, humans drivers still crash every day — surely a system that crashes less, even if it’s not perfect, is better than your average FaceTiming mo ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0The Case That Could Ban the Abortion Pill Nationwide Is in the Hands of the Worst Possible Judge
Abortion advocates are waiting for a ruling in a lawsuit filed in Texas that could result in the main abortion drug being pulled from the market nationwide. (Such a ruling wouldn’t end all medication abortions, but it would create more confusion and ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0Can you tell if a 'bomb train' is coming to your town? It's complicated.
In the wake of the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment, Governor Mike DeWine called on Congress to look into why the rural village didn’t know ahead of time they had volatile chemicals coming through town. “We should know when we have trains carryi ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0Apple headphones snatched off wearers' heads in New York
Police say at least 21 people have fallen prey to moped-riding thieves
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1 year ago+21 21 0‘Dilbert’ Cartoon Dropped From Many News Outlets Over Creator Scott Adams’ Racial Remarks
Newspapers across the country are pulling the “Dilbert” cartoon after a podcast racial rant from creator and author Scott Adams. Adams said on his his Coffee with Scott Adams online vid…
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1 year ago+19 19 0Don’t Just Deactivate Facebook—Delete It Instead
Facebook has been under fire of late. The Mark Zuckerberg-owned firm is suffering as Apple’s privacy changes combined with a tough economic climate hit revenues. Then this week Facebook owner Meta confirmed it was trialling subscriptions, with users ...
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1 year ago+25 25 0Tech Companies Are Getting Into Neuroscience. Should We Worry?
The past few decades of neuroscience research have produced a wide array of technologies capable of measuring human brain activity. Functional magnetic resonance imaging, implanted electrode systems, and electroencephalograms, or EEGs, among other te ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0Bernie Sanders says it's time for a four-day work week
A four-day workweek pilot program out of the UK found that revenue was up, workers slept better, and many firms won't return to five days.
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1 year ago+25 25 0Apple, please don’t take all of the buttons away
Headphone jack, SIM tray, and now buttons?
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1 year ago+15 15 0AI porn is easy to make now. For women, that’s a nightmare.
Deepfakes, OnlyFans, revenge porn: The internet is weighing the costs of accessible AI imaging.
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1 year ago+22 22 0New lithium development in Canada could lure Tesla
A fresh lithium development in Saskatchewan, Canada, along with other significant supply developments, could make the country more enticing than ever to supply-hungry Tesla. Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk, have made it no secret that lithium is a vital ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0Inside Ferrari's near-perfect F1 car launch
Ferrari raised the bar with the launch of its 2023 car, hinting at a high level of confidence in its Formula One chances this year.
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1 year ago+24 24 0Oops, I Did It Again: Apple Faces Fourth iPhone Privacy Settings Suit
In November, Gizmodo reported that Apple seems to harvest your iPhone data, despite an iPhone privacy setting that promises to stop the tracking. The company now faces four different class-action lawsuits. Apple still hasn't said anything in its ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0Tech layoffs shrink ‘trust and safety’ teams, raising fears of backsliding efforts to curb online abuse
“Fewer people means less work is being done in a lot of different spaces,” said one of Twitter’s remaining content moderation staffers.
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1 year ago+13 13 0NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds ‘Never Seen Evidence’ Of Water On Mars
This discovery offers new insights into the water history of Mars and the possibility of ancient life on the Red Planet.
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1 year ago+34 34 0 x 1Google is losing control
After years of singleminded worship of the false god Assistant, Google is rushing its AI strategy and already making a hash of it.
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1 year ago+18 18 0‘I’ve never forgotten it’: the very best (and very worst) TV endings of all time
The final three minutes of Blackadder is so exquisitely played, so at odds with the extreme silliness of the rest of the series – and so very sad. There they stand – Blackadder, Baldrick, George and poor Capt Darling, going over the top after all – o ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why
Reddit usernames like ‘SolidGoldMagikarp’ are somehow causing the chatbot to give bizarre responses.
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1 year ago+20 20 0Google CEO Sundar Pichai introduces Chat-GPT rival Bard; here's what it can do
ChatGPT was introduced in the month of November last year. Since then, OpenAI has revealed the extraordinary capabilities of ChatGPT and its impact on daily lives. Google has been working on AI for the past six years and it has finally revealed Bard. ...