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10 months agoAnalysis wildcat
Ancient DNA helps trace multiple sclerosis origins in European descendants
The finding answers a long-standing conundrum about multiple sclerosis and recasts the modern-day illness, suggesting it is rooted in an evolutionary trade-off.
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1 year agoExpression wildcat
This Footnote on Trump Boasting About His Saudi Line of Credit Is Terrifying
What Trump bragged about in a deposition deserves quite a bit more attention.
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1 year agoCurrent Event wildcat
Mozilla study reveals that “modern cars are a privacy nightmare”
All 25 car brands reviewed raised privacy concerns regarding customer data.
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1 year agoCurrent Event wildcat
Watch: Altuve becomes 4th in MLB history with 3 HRs in first 3 innings
Jose Altuve is on an absurd tear.The Houston Astros second baseman went deep three times in the first three innings of Tuesday's game against the division-rival Texas Rangers.The 33-year-old is the fourth player in MLB history to accomplish the feat, according to ESPN Stats & Info.
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1 year agoExpression wildcat
Every feature Google should copy from Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 5
Bringing these software features to the Pixel Fold should benefit other foldables too.
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1 year agoCurrent Event wildcat
Reddit users are reporting Christian websites for violating Virginia's new porn identification law, citing vulgar passages in the Bible
People are using Virginia's porn age verification law to flag Bible.com for adult content.
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1 year agoCurrent Event wildcat
Dolphin and her baby rescued after being trapped in pond for 2 years
Video shows a group of rescuers gently capture the dolphins and bring them safely back to the open waters where they belong.
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1 year agoCurrent Event wildcat
Google admits it’s training AI on scraped web data
Looks like the cat is out of the Bard.
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1 year agoCurrent Event wildcat
Constitutional climate trial ends, verdict could take 'months'
The nation’s first youth-led constitutional climate trial ended Tuesday in Helena. Sixteen young people are suing Montana state leaders for allegedly violating their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment by promoting fossil fuel policies and contributing to climate change.
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1 year agoCurrent Event wildcat
The expansion of the universe could be a mirage, new theoretical study suggests
The expansion of the universe could be a mirage, a potentially controversial new study suggests. This rethinking of the cosmos also suggests solutions for the puzzles of dark energy and dark matter, which scientists believe account for around 95% of the universe's total energy and matter but remain shrouded in mystery.
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1 year agoCurrent Event wildcat
You’ve Never Heard of Him, but He’s Remaking the Pollution Fight
Richard Revesz is changing the way the government calculates the cost and benefits of regulation, with far-reaching implications for climate change.
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1 year agoCurrent Event wildcat
NASA TV is Live for SpaceX Cargo Dragon Departure
Live coverage of the departure of SpaceX’s uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station is underway on NASA Television, the agency’s website, and the NASA app. Following commands from ground controllers at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, Dragon will undock at 11:05 a.m. EDT from the forward port of the station’s Harmony module and fire its thrusters to move a safe distance away from the station.
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1 year agoCurrent Event wildcat
At 83, The Handmaid's Tale author Margaret Atwood shows no signs of slowing down
In 2019, famed Canadian author Margaret Atwood lost her partner of 48 years, fellow novelist Graeme Gibson, to dementia. Gibson was diagnosed with the condition in 2012. His death was not unexpected – but it was a devastating loss for Atwood, a two-time Booker Prize winner and the author of more than 50 books.
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1 year agoCurrent Event wildcat
TechScape: The AI tools that will write our emails, attend our meetings – and change our lives
What are the tipping points for an AI boom? Some are clear in hindsight. The open-source release of Stable Diffusion, still one of the most impressive image generators out there, was the beginning of the end for the closed-access model that had dominated the AI world until then. It arrived when the image generator Dall-E 2 was still limited to a handful of people who had been vetted by OpenAI, and offered an alternative proposal: powerful image creation to anyone who wanted it.
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1 year agoCurrent Event wildcat
Judge still thinks proposed Bankman-Fried bail conditions too lenient
A U.S. judge on Friday said he remained unsatisfied with a proposal to impose tight restrictions on how the indicted FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried communicates with the outside world while free on bail.