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Surgeons in Boston successfully transplanted the kidney of a genetically modified pig into a 66-year-old man with kidney failure last month, Massachusetts General Hospital announced on Friday.It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the...

Liv McMahon & Graham FraserTechnology reportersHollie DanceIt is one of several viral social media trends that have resulted in warnings from schools and experts about their dangers.TikTok said in 2021 it would strengthen its detection and enforcement of rules...

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India’s central bank is introducing an exclusive “.bank.in” domain for banks from April 2025 as part of efforts to combat rising digital payment frauds and bolster trust in online banking services.The Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Boston Dynamics Wednesday announced a partnership designed to bring improved reinforcement learning to its electric Atlas humanoid robot. The tie-up is with the Robotics & AI Institute (RAI Institute), earlier...

Leah Barlow, a liberal studies professor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, prepared to teach her Intro to African American Studies class this semester as she always does: She put together a syllabus, mapped out assignments and...

When considering new hires, 80% of corporate executives prioritize skills over degrees, with half planning to increase freelance hiring this year, according to a new study from freelancing platform Upwork. The study, released this week, showed “unprecedented growth” in specialized...

Zoë Schiffer: Booktok got me fully immersed in the romantasy world. Now I'm incapable of reading normal literature. Thank you.Lauren Goode: I'm going to assume that romantasy is romance and fantasy?Zoë Schiffer: Oh, yes it is. Dragons. There's fairies,...

AI researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington were able to train an AI "reasoning" model for under $50 in cloud compute credits, according to a research paper. From a report: The model, known as s1, performs...

A new study reveals that two Grand Canyon-sized valleys were formed in less than 10 minutes by "floods of rocks traveling as fast as bullets," reports Space.com. From the report: Scientists analyzed the lunar canyons, named Vallis...