Opinion: How to design a US data privacy law
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Ultrahuman Ring AIR review
Can “the lightest smart ring in the world” impress us with its features and performance?
Siphonophores: The clonal colonies that can grow longer than a blue whale
Siphonophores are unusual animals made up of individual organisms called “zooids,” which each have a…
Experiment reveals limited ability to spot deepfakes, even with prior warnings
An experiment conducted in the UK has shown that people generally struggle to distinguish deepfake…
Can addressing gut issues treat long COVID in children?
Enlarge (credit: Frazao Studio Latino/ Getty Images) Four years after the outbreak of the COVID-19…
32 weird ways to fight climate change that just might work
From “MooLoos” to painting mountains, these silly scientific suggestions could actually help with climate change.
New study confirms: Thinking hard feels unpleasant
If you’ve ever felt drained by intense mental effort, science now backs up your experience.…
What happens when you hold in a fart?
We all hold in farts from time to time, but where does the gas go?
Science news this week: A lost Biblical tree and a memory crystal that could ‘survive to the end of the universe’
Sept. 28, 2024: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well…
Report: Apple changes film strategy, will rarely do wide theatrical releases
Enlarge / A still from Wolfs, an Apple-produced film starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt.…
Black hole jet appears to boost rate of nova explosions
Enlarge / One of the jets emitted by galaxy M87’s central black hole. (credit: NASA…
Google and Meta update their AI models amid the rise of “AlphaChip”
Enlarge / There’s been a lot of AI news this week, and covering it sometimes…
iFixit’s iPhone 16 teardown finds a greatly improved battery removal process
iFixit’s iPhone 16 and 16 Plus teardown. iFixit has published teardown views for the iPhone…
Black hole ‘blowtorch’ is causing nearby stars to explode, Hubble telescope reveals
Star explosions called novas are happening twice as often near a gargantuan black hole jet…
Steam doesn’t want to pay arbitration fees, tells gamers to sue instead
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | eccolo74) Valve Corporation, tired of paying arbitration fees, has removed…
More unidentified illnesses linked to unexplained bird flu case in Missouri
Enlarge / A warning sign outside a laboratory testing the H5N1 bird flu virus at…
Anticipated emotions shape moral praise and character judgments of helpers
New research published in Journal of Personality & Social Psychology shows that people’s anticipated emotional…
“Not a good look”: Google’s ad tech monopoly defense widely criticized
Enlarge (credit: Leon Neal / Staff | Getty Images News) Google wound down its defense…
AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs
Enlarge / Examples of the kind of CAPTCHAs that image-recognition bots can now get past…
Dell sales team told to return to office 5 days a week, starting Monday
Enlarge (credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Most members of Dell’s sales team will no longer have…
Meta pays the price for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Officials in Ireland have fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds…
Study: Cats in little crocheted hats shed light on feline chronic pain
Enlarge / “When you spend more time putting electrodes back on than you do actually…
‘Night Magic’ invites you to celebrate the living wonders of the dark
In the book ‘Night Magic,’ Leigh Ann Henion writes of encounters with salamanders, bats, glowworms…
New research uncovers an insidious form of workplace sexism
A recent study published in Sex Roles sheds light on a troubling phenomenon: when women…
