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The AI slop drops right from the top, as Trump posts vulgar deepfake of opponents

AI poses an obvious danger to millennia-long human fight to find the truth. Large language model "hallucinations," vocal deepfakes, and now increased use of...

In 2022, the world axed a disease name seen as racist. US just switched back.

Switching names In November 2022, the WHO decided to change the name. The United Nations health agency noted that it had received reports from...

Trump obtains another settlement as YouTube agrees to pay $24.5 million

Google owner Alphabet today agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit that President Trump filed against YouTube in 2021. Trump sued YouTube...

Another setback for Firefly Aerospace’s beleaguered rocket program

Alpha’s track record The booster destroyed Monday was slated to fly on the seventh launch of Firefly's Alpha rocket, an expendable, two-stage launch vehicle...

30 years later, I’m still obliterating planets in Master of Orion II—and you can, too

I love 4X games. I've tried other strategy game genres, but frankly, they don't stick if they're not first and foremost 4X games—at the...

150 million-year-old pterosaur cold case has finally been solved

Smyth thinks that so few adults show up on the fossil record in this region not only because they were more likely to survive,...

The current war on science, and who’s behind it

Mann and Hotez have more in common than being pilloried all over the internet. Although they trained in disparate disciplines, their fields are now...

Why LA Comic Con thought making an AI-powered Stan Lee hologram was a good idea

“We are not trying to bring Stan back from the dead” Throughout our talk, DeMoulin repeatedly stressed that their AI hologram wasn’t intended to...

Can AI detect hedgehogs from space? Maybe if you find brambles first.

"It took us about 20 seconds to find the first one in an area indicated by the model," wrote Jaffer in a blog post...

Woman hospitalized with pain and vomiting—diet soda cured her

There are also trichobezoars, which are formed by consuming hair—something linked to hair-pulling and eating disorders (trichotillomania and trichophagia). Lactobezoars are made from milk...

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