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This Professor Converts Visualization Into Discovery
When Yong Wang recently received one of the highest honors for early-career data visualization researchers, it marked a milestone in an extraordinary journey that began far from the world’s technology hubs.Wang was born in a small farming village in...
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Sony’s table tennis robot made me think about what happens when AI gets a body
I wanted to dismiss Sony’s table tennis robot as another expensive lab flex. A machine that can rally against elite players is impressive, sure, but it also sounds like the kind of demo built to make executives clap in...
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Is stem cell therapy about to transform medicine and reverse ageing?
I’ve covered the ageing field for many years and seen a lot of promising rejuvenation therapies get hyped up...
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US Special Forces Soldier Arrested for Polymarket Bets on Maduro Raid
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it arrested Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an enlisted member of the US Army’s special forces, for allegedly using “classified, nonpublic” information about the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro to notch more...
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Rednote Draws a Line Between China and the World
Some Rednote users have reported that their accounts were automatically converted from the Chinese to the international version of the website recently. One American user, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid being punished by the platform, shared a...
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Catching a cold can delay cancer from spreading to the lungs
Respiratory infections seem to temporarily reduce the spread of cancer to the lungs from elsewhere in the body. Infecting...
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Anthropic’s Mythos Shows How AI Is Changing Hacking
Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced that its new model, Claude Mythos Preview, can autonomously find and weaponize software vulnerabilities, turning them into working exploits without expert guidance. These were vulnerabilities in key software like operating systems and internet infrastructure...
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Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say | TechCrunch
Security researchers have uncovered two separate spying campaigns that are abusing well-known weaknesses in the global telecoms infrastructure to track people’s locations. The researchers say these two campaigns are likely a small snapshot of what they believe to be...
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Autonomous cars were supposed to free us from traffic hell. Research says otherwise
Self-driving cars promised a future where you sit back, relax, and glide past the gridlock while the car handles everything. A new study from the University of Texas at Arlington has some bad news for that fantasy. According to...
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Nearly Half of US Children Are Breathing Dangerous Levels of Air Pollution – Slashdot
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Nearly half of children in the United States are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report, as experts warned Donald Trump's expansive rollback of protections...
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Sloth World: 31 sloths died before opening of Florida attraction
Many died due to conditions at a Florida warehouse where they'd been shipped, while others arrived from South America...