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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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Elon Musk Takes Witness Stand to Defend Tesla Buyout Tweets – NBC Bay Area
Elon Musk took the witness stand Friday to defend a 2018 tweet claiming he had lined up the financing to…
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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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Healthy Plant-Based Diets Could Lower Men’s Risk of Colon Cancer
Colorectal cancer, also known as colon cancer, is a type of cancer that affects the colon and rectum. It is…
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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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“Green” Biodegradable Medical Gowns Actually Produce Harmful Greenhouse Gases
Medical gowns are garments worn by healthcare workers, patients, and visitors in medical facilities to prevent the spread of infection.…
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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 a Single Oil Spill Can Disrupt the Global Energy Supply
Close-up of the desalination and liquid natural gas export infrastructures in Qatar. Credit: Thomas Anselain, Essam Heggy, Thomas Dobbelaere &…
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Ancient Asteroid Provides Insight Into the Evolution of Our Solar System
Asteroid Ryugu – Image taken at 20km on 26 June 2018, diameter 870 m. Credit: Hayabusa2/JAXA A large international collaboration…
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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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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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An asteroid came so close to the Earth that its orbit was permanently altered
That was close! An asteroid approximately the size of a large SUV or bigger swung around the Earth Thursday evening…
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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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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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MoviePass 2.0 is opening up the invite waitlist again before its public launch this summer
MoviePass is back in control of its founder, Stacy Spikes, and is beta testing a new points-based setup for subscription…
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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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World Surf League adopts Apple Watch as its ‘official wearable’
The Apple Watch will officially be catching waves. The World Surf League announced today that it’s adopting the Apple Watch…
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Intel reports massive quarterly loss as PC demand continues to wane
In brief: Intel finished 2022 on wobbly legs but is steadfast in its belief that greener pastures are looming. Intel…
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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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Synthetic Tissue Restores Erectile Function in Pigs
Bionic artificial penile Tunica albuginea. Credit: Matter/Chai et al. Scientists have developed a synthetic tissue that repairs injuries and restores…
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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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Can Elephants Save the Planet? These Majestic Animals Are Key to Capturing Atmospheric Carbon
According to recent research, elephants play a crucial role in the development of forests that store large amounts of carbon…
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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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The Surprising Connection Between Income and Sexual Orientation
Sexual orientation refers to an individual’s emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attraction to people of a particular gender. The most commonly…
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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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Top tech news for Friday, January 27, 2023
Today sees the return of not one but two classic games, albeit in very different forms. First up is Goldeneye…
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Amsterdam’s underwater parking garage fits 7,000 bicycles and zero cars
Maybe one day, flying cars and jetpacks will be the hallmarks of futuristic cities, but today — in 2023 —…
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Harmful Fungal Toxins Spreading in Wheat
Wheat infected with Fusarium Head Blight: a growing problem in Europe. Credit: University of Bath A new study led by…
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Samsung’s Galaxy S23 may cost more than its predecessor
It seems like Samsung’s planning on charging more for the upcoming Galaxy S23 than it did for the S22, at…
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