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💻 Windows Applications Experience Hangs 7.5 Times More Frequently Than Those on macOS

💻 Windows Applications Experience Hangs 7.5 Times More Frequently Than Those on macOS This was reported by analysts at Omnissa, who analyzed telemetry data from millions of corpo…

💼 AI Will Replace At Least 500,000 Jobs in the U.S. This Year

💼 AI Will Replace At Least 500,000 Jobs in the U.S. This Year This is the forecast by the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research based on a survey of 750 top executives at maj…

🔥 Japanese Engineers Bring Smell to VR

🔥 Japanese Engineers Bring Smell to VR A compact device developed at the Institute of Science Tokyo attaches to a VR headset and releases specific scented air streams toward the…

💻 Meta Releases AI Model of the Human Brain

💻 Meta Releases AI Model of the Human Brain Meta has introduced TRIBE v2—an open model that predicts how the human brain will respond to text, sound, or video. Essentially, it's…

🔥 Jury Says Social Media Is Addictive for Kids

🔥 Jury Says Social Media Is Addictive for Kids A U.S. jury found that Instagram and YouTube were designed to capture children's attention, harming their mental health. As a resul…

🤖 Androids Help People in a Public Park in Shenzhen

🤖 Androids Help People in a Public Park in Shenzhen They wear uniforms, give visitors directions, hand out water, bicycle pumps, mosquito repellent, and other essentials. They ev…

🤩 Organisms Without Brains or Sensation for Experiments and Organ Cultivation

🤩 Organisms Without Brains or Sensation for Experiments and Organ Cultivation The startup R3 Bio wants to grow complete human organisms without brains as a source of blood, tissu…

🚀 Bacteria Could Help Grow Food on Mars

🚀 Bacteria Could Help Grow Food on Mars Astronauts heading to the Red Planet will need a huge amount of supplies. But even launching cargo into Earth orbit costs thousands of dol…

🎧 Dad Vibecoded a Piano App for His Daughter

🎧 Dad Vibecoded a Piano App for His Daughter Ryan Leachman works in the oil and gas industry and had never written code before. However, Claude Code helped him create a gamified…

💡 Post-Game Depression Is Real, Polish Psychologists Have Found

💡 Post-Game Depression Is Real, Polish Psychologists Have Found Scientists surveyed 373 gamers to study this phenomenon and developed a special scale to measure it. They describe…

🙈 A Minecraft Theme Park Is Opening in the UK in 2027

🙈 A Minecraft Theme Park Is Opening in the UK in 2027 The world's first Minecraft World theme park will launch as part of the Chessington World of Adventures resort near London.…

🚀 Nebius: How the Former Yandex N.V. Became an AI Industry Giant

🚀 Nebius: How the Former Yandex N.V. Became an AI Industry Giant In just 18 months following the split of Yandex, Arkady Volozh's international group has transformed from a fragm…

🔥 "Cognitive Atrophy" is One of the Main Fears About AI

🔥 "Cognitive Atrophy" is One of the Main Fears About AI  Only bot unreliability, the impact of technology on the economy, and the loss of agency and autonomy due to AI worry peop…

💡 AI Glasses to Help People with Dementia

💡 AI Glasses to Help People with Dementia The smart glasses from the British company CrossSense are designed specifically for people living with mild to moderate dementia. The AI…

💡 Chinese Researchers Found a Way To Expand LLM Context by Hundreds of Times

💡 Chinese Researchers Found a Way To Expand LLM Context by Hundreds of Times Startup Evermind has introduced its modification of the transformer attention mechanism: Memory Spars…

✖️ Diets From Chatbots Could Be Harmful to Health

✖️ Diets From Chatbots Could Be Harmful to Health The AI-generated diets for teenagers wishing to lose weight are not to trust blindly, the researchers from Atlas University in Is…

💻 Google AI Studio Becomes a Full-Fledged Vibe-Coding Platform

💻 Google AI Studio Becomes a Full-Fledged Vibe-Coding Platform Google has upgraded the Build mode for app creation in its developer platform. It's now powered by Google Antigravi…

🔥 Bacteria Turn Plastic Bottles Into a Drug for Parkinson's Disease

🔥 Bacteria Turn Plastic Bottles Into a Drug for Parkinson's Disease Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have genetically engineered E. coli bacteria to convert plastic wast…

💡 AI Helps Generate Creative Ideas, but Can Make Them Harder to Bring to Life

💡 AI Helps Generate Creative Ideas, but Can Make Them Harder to Bring to Life Researchers studied how AI affects the creative process. Design students ("experts") and peers from…

👨 AI Model Predicts Risks of Domestic Violence

👨 AI Model Predicts Risks of Domestic Violence According to the WHO, nearly one in three women has experienced sexual or physical violence from a partner at least once. Even so,…

🎧 Fatal Car Crashes Increase on Days When Major Albums Drop, Harvard Researchers Find

🎧 Fatal Car Crashes Increase on Days When Major Albums Drop, Harvard Researchers Find The idea for the study came to coauthor Vishal Patel after he almost got into a crash himsel…

❤️ A Data Analyst Used ChatGPT to Create a Cancer Vaccine for His Dog

❤️ A Data Analyst Used ChatGPT to Create a Cancer Vaccine for His Dog Rosie only had a few months left to live. In 2024, she was diagnosed with an aggressive mast cell tumor. Chem…

🤖 By 2060, There Will Be Twice As Many Androids In The World As Cars

🤖 By 2060, There Will Be Twice As Many Androids In The World As Cars According to Bank of America, around 62% of humanoid robots (2 billion units) will "live" in people's homes.…

✖️ Scammers Use AI-Generated Pet Photos

✖️ Scammers Use AI-Generated Pet Photos Animal welfare groups and media outlets are reporting a new scam involving AI. Fraudsters find photos of pet dogs online, often from missin…

📸 Woman Spent Half a Year in Prison Due to AI Error

📸 Woman Spent Half a Year in Prison Due to AI Error 50-year-old Angela Lipps from Tennessee ended up in prison after the Fargo police (North Dakota, almost 2,000 km from Tennesse…

📸 AI Can Now Detect Drunk Drivers by Watching Their Faces

📸 AI Can Now Detect Drunk Drivers by Watching Their Faces A computer vision system can analyze video of a driver's face to detect intoxication, drowsiness, and aggressive behavio…

🧠 Grok Connected to Chip with Live Neurons

🧠 Grok Connected to Chip with Live Neurons AI blogger Garret "Artist" has introduced BioLLM, the first chatbot powered by real human neurons. It uses a regular Grok through the…

💡 U.S. Startup Nectome Is Testing Brain Preservation for "Digital Immortality"

💡 U.S. Startup Nectome Is Testing Brain Preservation for "Digital Immortality" The startup's founders believe that if a brain is cryopreserved after death, scientists could later…

❤️ AI Can Choose Makeup Based on Your Mood and Show You How It Will Look

❤️ AI Can Choose Makeup Based on Your Mood and Show You How It Will Look Researchers in Tokyo developed a system that generates a makeup look based on a mood description. All you…

🔥 AI Taught to Generate Videos That Follow Real Physics

🔥 AI Taught to Generate Videos That Follow Real Physics The RealWonder system can generate realistic video from a single image while taking physical laws into account: what happe…