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It's cutting calories–not intermittent fasting–that drops weight
Intermittent fasting, aka time-restricted eating, can help people lose weight—but the reason why may not be...
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Microsoft's VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track
Enlarge / A sample image from Microsoft for "VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real...
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OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships 2022
Enlarge / An AI-generated image from DALL-E 2 created with the prompt "A painting by Grant...
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Google merges the Android, Chrome, and hardware divisions
Google is doing a major re-org of Android, Chrome, and the Google hardware division: They're merging!...
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Hospital prices for the same emergency care vary up to 16X
Enlarge / Miami Beach, Fire Rescue ambulance at Mt. Sinai Medical Center hospital. ] Since 2021,...
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Elon Musk's Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users' jokes
X's chatbot Grok is supposed to be an AI engine crunching the platform's posts to surface...
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Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules
The US Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination does not prohibit police officers from forcing a...
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How to keep Earth from being cooked by the ever-hotter Sun
I’d wager a guess that we are, as a species, rather fond of our home planet...
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Feds appoint "AI doomer" to run US AI safety institute
The US AI Safety Institute—part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)—has finally announced...
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Life-threatening rat pee infections reach record levels in NYC
Enlarge / A rat looks for food while on a subway platform at the Columbus Circle...
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Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°
Almost from the start, arguments about mitigating climate change have included an element of cost-benefit analysis:...
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Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply
Electricity supply is becoming the latest chokepoint to threaten the growth of artificial intelligence, according to...
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Linus Torvalds adds arbitrary tabs to kernel code
Enlarge / Cans of Tab diet soda on display in 2011. Tab was discontinued in 2020....
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ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC's Internet rules, critics say
Some net neutrality proponents are worried that soon-to-be-approved Federal Communications Commission rules will allow harmful fast...
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YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked
YouTube is putting third-party ad-blocking apps on notice. An ominous post on the official YouTube Community...
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How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2017)
Tens of millions of Winamp users are still out there. As many of us are busy...
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Russian space chief says new rocket will put Falcon 9 reuse to shame
Enlarge / Vladimir Putin meets with Roscosmos Director General Yuri Borisov on June 30, 2023. Russia's...
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The rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia
Enlarge / What might have been. February 1, 2023: One of the most tragic events in...
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Alleged cryptojacking scheme consumed $3.5M of stolen computing to make just $1M
Federal prosecutors indicted a Nebraska man on charges he perpetrated a cryptojacking scheme that defrauded two...
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Kansas couple sues MaxMind for turning their life into a "digital hell" (2016)
Ever since James and Theresa Arnold moved into their rented 623-acre farm in Butler County, Kansas,...
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SpaceX's most-flown reusable rocket will go for its 20th launch tonight
Enlarge / File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket rolling out of its hangar at Cape...
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Judge halts Texas probe into Media Matters' reporting on X
Enlarge / Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)...
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Tesla to lay off more than 10 percent of its workers as sales slow
Enlarge / Tesla's Shanghai factory in 2023. Times are starting to get tough for Tesla. The...
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Framework's software and firmware have been a mess, but it's working on them
Enlarge / The Framework Laptop 13. Since Framework showed off its first prototypes in February 2021,...