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At least 3 dead in shooting in Benedict Canyon area in L.A.
At least three people were killed and four wounded Saturday morning in a shooting in an upscale neighborhood in the…
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Mercedes leapfrogs past Tesla on automated highway driving
By Peter Valdes-Dapena | CNN Business Mercedes-Benz will take a step towards offering a self driving car in the United…
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An important Afro-Atlantic art show falls short at LACMA
Groundhog Day is coming up — again! — next Thursday, Feb. 2. I’m Times art critic Christopher Knight, filling in…
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Decades-Old Mystery Solved? Astronomers May Have Uncovered How Galaxies Change Their Shape
A study led by astronomers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) may have discovered the explanation for…
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NASA’s Revolutionary Propulsion Design for Deep Space Missions
Rotating detonation rocket engine, or RDRE hot fire test at Marshall Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA As NASA takes its…
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The Apple Watch Series 7 with GPS and LTE is on sale for $329 at Walmart
In terms of specs, the Series 7 is a lot like the newer Series 8. It features better dust resistance…
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Coherent Manipulation of Spin Qubits at Room Temperature
By Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy Sciences January 28, 2023 Initialization, coherent quantum-state control, and readout of spins…
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Google’s new AI turns text into music
Google researchers have made an AI that can generate minutes-long musical pieces from text prompts, and can even transform a…
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Columbia Researchers Uncover Dangerous Connection Between Serotonin and Heart Valve Disease
This image shows the mitral valve of the heart of a mouse that lacks the serotonin transporter (SERT) gene. The…
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Transistors Repurposed As Microchip “Clock” To Address Security Concerns and Supply Chain Weakness
A new method of fabricating the “clock” critical to all microprocessors from a specialized set of transistors in a standard…
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New Portable Mosquito Repellent Device Passes U.S. Military Testing
The graphic demonstrates use of the controlled-release passive device on a military tent to protect the area from mosquitos. Credit:…
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Simulations Reproduce Complex Fluctuations in Soft X-Ray Signal Detected by Satellites
Charged particles from the sun coming towards earth interact with the geocorona, a wide cloud of hydrogen atoms extending into…
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How Machine Learning Could Predict Rare Disastrous Events – Like Earthquakes or Pandemics
A team of researchers has developed a new framework which utilizes advanced machine learning and statistical algorithms to predict rare…
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Midwest and Southeast Experience Dramatic Increase in Anal Cancer
Anal cancer is a type of cancer that affects the tissues of the anus, which is the opening at the…
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Twitter vows to take ‘less severe actions’ against rule-breaking accounts
Twitter is promising that it’ll take “less severe actions” when disciplining accounts that break its rules; it’ll only suspend Twitter…
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Revolutionary New Method for Materials Discovery
Scientists have developed a new technique for discovering and synthesizing new crystalline materials composed of two or more elements.…
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FBI takes down Hive ransomware network
The Department of Justice announced this week that FBI agents successfully disrupted Hive, a notorious ransomware group, and prevented $130…
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San Francisco robotaxis are causing false 911 calls and other chaos
Through the looking glass: Sometimes unfortunate or sometimes deadly incidents involving self-driving cars happen. However, recent occurrences with autonomous vehicles…
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Why Aren’t All Black Bears Black?
Cinnamon-colored black bears are a unique subspecies of the American black bear that are known for their distinctive reddish-brown coat.…
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Calligrapher.ai is using AI for handwriting generation
In context: Researchers are turning the creative world upside down, exploiting artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to turn many…
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Amazon is reportedly making a Tomb Raider TV series written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Amazon is developing a TV series based on the Tomb Raider video game franchise with scripts written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge,…
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Every device getting Matter support in 2023
The new Matter smart home standard is finally ramping up, with a number of compatible products available now and many…
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The Milky Way Is Too Big for Its “Cosmological Wall”
A lonely Milky Way analog galaxy, too massive for its wall. The background image shows the distribution of dark matter…
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A hacker tried to sell the personal information of nearly every Austrian citizen, police say
In context: The results of successful international cooperation between law enforcement agencies fighting cybercrime became known for the second time…
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Scientists Discover How the Measles Virus Can Cause a Fatal Neurological Disorder
Japanese researchers have discovered the mechanism behind the development of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), a fatal neurological disorder that can…
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Amazon Fresh is more than quadrupling how much you’ll need to pay to get free grocery delivery
Starting at the end of February, if you want to get free grocery delivery through Amazon Fresh, you’re going to…
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How to format text in Google Docs
Google Docs has become a very useful word processing tool — a lot better than it was only a few…
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Best Super Bowl TV deals for 2023: OLED, Mini LED, and more
It’s almost time for the Super Bowl, the only game that functions more akin to an annual holiday in the…
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Steelcase’s Frank Lloyd Wright furniture is a throwback for your home office
It’s not often that furniture makes a splash in The Verge’s newsroom (okay, it does happen occasionally), but when one…
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Game bits: GoldenEye 007 pause music, HBO renews The Last of Us, and 90s classic Terminal Velocity gets a remaster
In brief: Rare’s seminal first-person shooter has finally arrived on the Nintendo Switch and Xbox Game Pass. The movie-to-game adaptation…
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Were We Wrong About the “Love Hormone” Oxytocin?
A new genetic study, published in the journal Neuron, calls into question the traditional belief that the “love hormone” oxytocin…
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Apple is reportedly working on a way to make AR apps that’s as simple as talking to Siri
Apple is apparently working on a way to let you make apps for its long-rumored mixed reality headset using Siri,…
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Mercedes-Benz is the first to bring Level 3 automated driving to the US
Mercedes-Benz announced that it was the first automaker to receive government approval in the US for a Level 3 driving…
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Russia wants to ban popular games with “hidden inserts” that are affecting young minds
WTF?! Russia appears to be following in China’s footsteps by tightening its control over the video games industry. The country…
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In My Mother’s Skin review: a truly frightening Filipino fairy tale
It does not take long for In My Mother’s Skin to get gross. Within its first few minutes, the horror…
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Computing 101: how to zip and unzip a file
The ability to compress a file or a group of files so that they take up less space is something…
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The Dead Space remake doesn’t support the Steam Deck
The Dead Space remake is a very good game, and if (like me) you haven’t sprung for a next-generation console,…
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Seagate: 30TB second-generation HAMR hard disks are almost here
Forward-looking: Seagate has invested a huge amount of money and energy into a HAMR-powered future for storage based on magnetic…
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God of War Ragnarök for the PS5 is on sale for $48 at CDKeys
Winter is an ideal time for many things — gaming included. And if you’re currently looking for a PlayStation 5…
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No, Microsoft DirectStorage isn’t slashing RTX 4090 performance by 10 percent
You may have seen headlines like “DirectStorage causes 10 percent performance hit on RTX 4090 in Forspoken” or “Careful —…
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See how an i9-13900K and RTX 4090 perform when it’s -63F outside
WTF?! PC gamers often joke that seasonal temperature changes have a measurable effect on their systems’ internal temperature while under…
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The first AI-written speech delivered by congressman is as flavorless as you’d expect
Representative Jake Auchincloss speaks to reporters in 2020. | Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images We’ve reached…
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FBI brings down massive ransomware gang by “hacking the hackers”
What just happened? In what could be described as beautifully ironic, a notorious ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) gang has been brought down…
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ISS Astronauts Prep for Next Spacewalk, Explore Space Biology and Physics
NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Nicole Mann is pictured in her Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or spacesuit, during her…
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Intel Core i5-13500 Review | TechSpot
The Core i5-13500 is Intel’s new $250 offering, packing 14 cores in total, 20 threads and 35.5 MB cache. This…
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Google services to provide clearer information in compliance with EU
Many of Google’s offerings will soon be updated to provide clear and accurate information in compliance with consumer protection laws…
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Samsung unveils the 43-inch Odyssey Neo G7, its first flat Mini-LED gaming monitor
What just happened? Samsung has unveiled the next product in its expanding Odyssey Neo range, one that straddles the line…
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High Blood Pressure Medication Shown To Slow Aging and Extend Lifespan
A study recently published in the journal Aging Cell found that administering rilmenidine, a medication used to treat hypertension, to…
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Medium welcomes posts written with AI as long they’re ‘clearly labeled’
Online publisher Medium says it’s happy for users to post articles written with the help of AI writing tools like…
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New Study Indicates Video Games Can Improve Career Prospects
Video games have become a popular form of entertainment for people of all ages. They can offer a variety of…
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