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Enlarge / Hey, welcome back to “Talkin’Minesweeper,” the podcast where AI hosts discuss a book about Minesweeper! (credit: Aurich Lawson | Boss Fight Books) As someone who has been following the growth of generative AI for a while now, I…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images) Elon Musk is apparently conceding defeat in his fight with Brazil Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes, as the X social platform has started complying with the judge’s demands in an attempt to…
Florence Pugh heads an assembly of misfits in Marvel’s Thunderbolts*. Marvel Studios has dropped an extended teaser trailer for the final feature film in its Phase Six slate: Thunderbolts*, now with a mysterious asterisk to the title. The studio has…
The X-ray pulses could deflect asteroids up to 4 kilometers wide, a new study suggests.
A new map that details gravitational anomalies on Mars has revealed 20 mysteriously dense blobs, including a dog-shaped mass, buried below the planet’s north pole. And researchers have no clear idea where they came from.
A new study published in Scientific Reports has revealed that a combination of “bright” and “dark” personality traits may help predict criminal behavior, including both first-time offenses and recidivism. Researchers found that higher levels of emotional instability (neuroticism), risk-taking (openness),…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The US government is readying its latest measure to defend local automotive manufacturing. In May, US President Joe Biden levied new 100 percent tariffs targeted at specific Chinese automakers. Now, the US Commerce Department is set…
Enlarge / A box and a tablet of Roche Pharmaceuticals’ Tamiflu pills for influenza. (credit: Nikos Pekiaridis/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Since reports emerged earlier this year that dairy cows across the country had been infected with H5N1 bird flu, the…
Scientists have grown an ancient seed from a cave in the Judean Desert into a tree — and it could belong to a locally-extinct species with medicinal properties mentioned several times in the Bible.
Many studies have suggested that psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, might be useful in treating a variety of mental health conditions. But we don’t really know what’s going on at the level of “functional brain networks” – the…
