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Scientists are getting very close to bringing a few iconic species, like woolly mammoths and dodos, back from extinction. That may not be a good thing.
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) On Thursday, OpenAI said that ChatGPT has attracted over 200 million weekly active users, according to a report from Axios, doubling the AI assistant’s user base since November 2023. The company also revealed…
Enlarge (credit: AnandTech) Few ’90s tech sites other than Ars Technica are still operating here in 2024, and today, there’s one fewer. AnandTech, a staple of CPU and GPU news and reviews since 1997, will stop publishing today, according to…
Trust is the cornerstone of any strong marriage, but what happens when that trust is broken — or even just doubted? A new study in Family Process highlights that merely suspecting a partner of infidelity is strongly linked to lower…
Enlarge / Generative AI Alexa asked to make a taco poem. (credit: Amazon News/YouTube) The previously announced generative AI version of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant “will be powered primarily by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models,” Reuters reported today. This comes…
Enlarge / A recall notice is posted next to Boar’s Head meats that are displayed at a Safeway store on July 31, 2024, in San Rafael, California. (credit: Getty | Justin Sullivan) Federal inspections found 69 violations—many grisly—at the Boar’s…
Enlarge / “You’ll never be bored again” is one of the more fitting slogans attached to Tumblr. (credit: Getty Images) Once-great social media and blogging platform Tumblr has gone through a number of big changes in recent years, and another…
Enlarge / Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at Tesla’s “Cyber Rodeo” on April 7, 2022, in Austin, Texas. (credit: Getty Images | AFP/Suzanne Cordeiro) A federal judge in Texas yesterday ruled that Elon Musk’s X Corp. can continue its lawsuit…
De-extinction — the science of resurrecting extinct species — is progressing in leaps and bounds. Here are six creatures that researchers could bring back to life.
Finding the universe’s brightness is essential for confirming our theories of what makes up the universe. But to do so, scientists had to send a spacecraft far away from our sun.
