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1 year ago+2 2 0CRISPR-edited fat shrank tumors in mice. Someday, it could work in people, scientists say.
Fat sucked out of the body and tweaked with the gene-editing tool CRISPR could be used to treat cancer, a study of mice and transplanted human tissues hints. However, it remains to be seen whether the experimental therapy would be safe and effective ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0California's superbloom is so big and bright, it can be seen from space
NASA's Landsat 9 satellite, which was launched in 2021 to capture images of Earth's land surface, sent back images of bright purple and green blooms in Carrizo Plain National Park.
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1 year ago+22 22 0Price Controls Can Work, Sorry If This Offends
There’s something about the phrase “price controls” that drives some people — mainly economists — around the bend. But history shows that market economies rarely go very long without needing some form of price control — especially in a crisis.
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1 year ago+11 11 0Cannabis retail sales to surpass $33.5B in 2023, topping chocolate, eggs and craft beer
Business is booming as 4/20 approaches.
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1 year ago+15 15 0NPR to quit Twitter after being labelled ‘state-affiliated media’
Radio network ‘officially de-emphasizing Twitter across the organization’ after platform refused to remove ‘inaccurate’ label
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1 year ago+24 24 0Training ChatGPT Required Enough Water to Fill a Nuclear Cooling Tower
An average user’s conversational exchange with ChatGPT basically amounts to dumping a large bottle of fresh water out on the ground.
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1 year ago+3 3 0New findings that map the universe's cosmic growth support Einstein's theory of gravity
For millennia, humans have been fascinated by the mysteries of the cosmos.
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1 year ago+18 18 0Alibaba to roll out its rival to ChatGPT across all its products
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing unit of Chinese tech giant, announced it will be rolling out its own ChatGPT-style product Tongyi Qianwen in "the near future."
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1 year ago+4 4 0McDonald's temporarily shuts US offices, prepares layoff notices, Wall Street Journal reports
Burger chain McDonald's Corp is temporarily closing its U.S. offices this week as it prepares to inform corporate employees about its layoffs as part of a broader company restructuring, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
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1 year ago+18 18 0Should you be worried that an AI picture of the pope went viral?
You may have seen these images of Pope Francis looking stylish in a puffer jacket on social media, but you might not have realised they were created by the artificial intelligence tool Midjourney
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1 year ago+7 7 0Tulare Lake Was Drained Off the Map. Nature Would Like a Word.
A barrage of storms has resurrected what was once the largest body of fresh water west of the Mississippi River, setting the stage for a disaster this spring.
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1 year ago+15 15 0Father Dies by Suicide After Weeks Spent Talking With AI Chatbot, Wife Says Without It ‘He’d Still Be Here’
A man died by suicide after weeks of lengthy discussions with an AI chatbot. The bot apparently encouraged him to sacrifice himself for the Earth.
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1 year ago+12 12 0Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users
The new file limit means you can't actually use the storage you buy from Google.
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1 year ago+21 21 0CEOs are quietly backtracking on remote work—and more companies could follow
Major corporations including Disney, Twitter and Starbucks are requiring employees to spend more time at the office.
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1 year ago+20 20 0White House ‘very in favor’ of bill thought to target TikTok
Platform has drawn close congressional scrutiny because the data of users could be available to the government of China
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1 year ago+17 17 0The FBI Has Been Buying Bulk Internet Data from This Weird Florida Company
A data broker that previously sold data-pilfering tools to the U.S. military has received tens of thousands of dollars from the FBI for similar services.
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1 year ago+20 20 0Twitter source code leaked online, court filings show
Pieces of the computer code used to run Twitter were leaked online, according to court filings.
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1 year ago+17 17 0E coli from meat behind half a million UTIs in the US every year, study suggests
Fatal bloodstream illnesses driven by urinary tract infections could rise, warn scientists as research shows link to food-borne bacteria
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1 year ago+13 13 0These Native American Boys Are Being Told To Cut Their Hair Due To School Policy
The school system's policies prohibit “extreme” and “radical” haircuts. Extreme and radical to whom, exactly?
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1 year ago+13 13 0America’s banks are missing hundreds of billions of dollars
How the Federal Reserve drained the financial system of deposits