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Hacker Locks Internet-Connected Chastity Cage, Demands Ransom
Identical twins are not so identical, study suggests — they differ by an average of 5.2 early mutations, adding new perspective to nature-versus-nurture debates
After group conversations, people underestimated how much they were liked by others
Bottle-cork injury to the eye: a review of 13 cases
Is Light Fundamentally A Wave Or A Particle?
being angry increases your vulnerability to misinformation — Human memory is prone to error — and new research provides evidence that anger can increase these errors.
Genetic Variants of SARS-CoV-2—What Do They Mean?
Flu strains mutate regularly so vaccines need to be slightly altered every year. There are, however, several “universal” flu vaccines currently being studied that aim to make annual flu vaccinations a thing of the past. n fact, according to the American Society for Microbiology, some of these vaccine candidates are in phase 2 and phase 3 trials right now.
Covid-19 immunity likely lasts for years A new study shows immune cells primed to fight the coronavirus should persist for a long time after someone is vaccinated or recovers from infection.
Gorillas test positive for coronavirus at San Diego Zoo
school closures and lockdown are the only interventions modeled that have a reliable impact on Rt, and lockdown appears to have played a key role in reducing Rt below 1.0. We conclude that reversal of lockdown, without implementation of additional, equally effective interventions, will enable continued, sustained transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States.
Integrated information as a possible basis for plant consciousness
2019-2020 Tech company donations to Republicans who voted to overturn the election
As The New York Times noted in 2016, not even Oprah Winfrey, the queen of all media, succeeded in turning her personal franchise into a cable powerhouse. Can Trump do something the far-wealthier and much more appealing Winfrey couldn’t?
migrating a large product off Amazon Web Services can take months of staging and possibly years to execute [more]
Clearview AI’s CEO says that use of his company’s facial recognition technology among law enforcement spiked 26 percent the day after a mob of pro-Trump rioters attacked the US Capitol. Audio: What is Clearview AI, and what influence does it hold?
When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using artificial intelligence
I review 65 years of Playboy centerfolds to consider how their bodies—physical characteristics, positions, contexts, and explicitness—have changed, and how this reflects the broader social change to which they are subject. I find that, overall, very little changes over the years, with two notable exceptions: increased visibility of the montes pubis and the slow decreasing in the amount of pubic hair the models have
A law buried in the 5,600-page emergency relief bill requires the US intel agencies to deliver an unclassified report on UFOs. More:US intelligence agencies have 180 days to share what they know about UFOs.
Lessons for Philosophers and Scientists from Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown
We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions
Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time
