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Figuring out why a nap might help people see things in new ways

Lacaux’s team also experimented with different objects the participants should hold while napping: spoons, steel spheres, stress balls, etc. It turned out Edison was...

The curious rise of giant tablets on wheels

"KTC defines the MegPad A32Q7Pro as a portable, smart, touchscreen monitor," KTC's spokesperson told me. "It combines key traits of a smart display and...

Provider of covert surveillance app spills passwords for 62,000 users

The maker of a phone app that is advertised as providing a stealthy means for monitoring all activities on an Android device spilled email...

Judge: You can’t ban DEI grants without bothering to define DEI

Separately, Trump v. Casa blocked the use of a national injunction against illegal activity. So, while the government's actions have been determined to be...

Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse”

Zuckerberg did allow that relationships with AI would “probably not" replace in-person connections, because there are “things that are better about physical connections when...

TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google’s Veo 3

TikTok notes that it uses both technology and human moderators to identify rule-breaking content. However, the volume of uploads makes timely moderation difficult. While...

Everything that could go wrong with X’s new AI-written community notes

If AI note writers "generate initial drafts that represent a wider range of perspectives than a single human writer typically could, the quality of...

RFK Jr.’s health department calls Nature “junk science,” cancels subscriptions

The move comes after HHS Secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on a May 27 podcast that prestigious medical journals are...

Pentagon may put SpaceX at the center of a sensor-to-shooter targeting network

The possibilities include exploiting automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to sense, target, and strike an enemy vehicle—a truck, tank, airplane, ship, or missile—nearly...

A mammoth tusk boomerang from Poland is 40,000 years old

A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists originally...

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