Three Chinese women were detained and questioned by immigration officers at the airport because their passport photos did not match their post-cosmetic surgery faces. [2017]

Man awarded $12,500 after Google Street View camera captured him naked in his yard in Argentina

When I say GPT may be an information virus, I am referring to the spread that is about to happen. The economic incentives of our information economy will drive thousands of businesses to create AI-generated content. As more of the internet becomes AI-generated, humans will no longer be able to effectively use it as an information storage system. […] In the information cesspool that is an internet filled with 99% of AI-generated content, Google’s search will no longer work. People will no longer use it. Advertisers will stop advertising. [2023]

An extra copy of chromosome 21 was discovered as the cause of Down syndrome more than half a century ago […] Using a system to rescue human cells with trisomy 21, this study successfully demonstrates the efficient elimination of excess chromosomes using multiple allele-specific targeting.

people experience an inflection point at around 50 years old, after which ageing seems to accelerate […] the study suggests that some tissues — especially blood vessels — age faster than others

How Some Butterflies Fooled Evolution and Developed a Second “Head”

Lucier was a pioneer of experimental music who died in 2021. But here in the Art Gallery of Western Australia he has been resurrected with cutting-edge neuroscience. […] “We have developed a brain on a dish, more or less, that has the ability to take action in the real world” […] This “brain on a dish” takes the form of two small, white blobs on a pedestal at the gallery. […] it was grown out of stem cells created from blood samples the composer agreed to donate to the project the year before he died. […] In order to produce new music, the blobs — Alvin Lucier’s surrogate self — are connected to 20 handcrafted brass plates attached to the gallery walls, like paintings. The plates, which contain hidden transducers and mallets, respond to neural signals the biological matter gives out in real time, creating an ethereal soundscape.

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