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Artificial intelligence is being asked to predict the future of AI

Artificial intelligence is being asked to predict the future...

Artificial intelligence model predictions from historical data on how AI research...

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Menstrual cycle lengths vary between people of different ethnicities

Menstrual cycle lengths vary between people of different...

Cycles may be 1.6 days longer in people who self-identify as Asian compared with...

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Covid jab rates vary in England in children of different ethnicities

Covid jab rates vary in England in children of different...

In England, 15.8 per cent of children aged 12 to 15 from Gypsy or Roma ethnic groups...

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European empires had a lasting impact on plant biodiversity worldwide

European empires had a lasting impact on plant biodiversity...

The global distribution of plants has been heavily influenced by the European empires...

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Astronomers have just watched the most powerful explosion ever seen

Astronomers have just watched the most powerful explosion...

A gamma ray burst about 2.4 billion light years away is being called “the BOAT”...

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How to improve your digital diet for greater well-being

How to improve your digital diet for greater well-being

Online activities like gaming, social media and video calls have unique "nutritional"...

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Why have billions of snow crabs disappeared from Alaskan waters?

Why have billions of snow crabs disappeared from Alaskan...

The state of Alaska has cancelled the snow crab harvest for the first time due to...

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Over a million people in the US ration insulin because of high costs

Over a million people in the US ration insulin because...

An estimated 1.3 million adults with diabetes in the US rationed their insulin supply...

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Second world war shipwreck is leaking toxic chemicals in the North Sea

Second world war shipwreck is leaking toxic chemicals in...

A German warship, the V-1302 John Mahn, was sunk in 1942 and is currently leaking...

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Seattle-based Diagrid, which offers a fully managed Dapr on Kubernetes service, raised a $20M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Seattle-based Diagrid, which offers a fully managed Dapr...

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:Seattle-based Diagrid, which offers a fully managed Dapr...

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Amsterdam-based Crisp, an app-only supermarket focused on fresh produce, raised a €75M Series C and announces the acquisition of local food supplier Eetfabriek (Vishal Singh/Silicon Canals)

Amsterdam-based Crisp, an app-only supermarket focused...

Vishal Singh / Silicon Canals:Amsterdam-based Crisp, an app-only supermarket focused...

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Study: AI hiring tools don't reduce bias or improve diversity, and can't be trained to only identify job-related characteristics and strip out gender and race (Chris Vallance/BBC)

Study: AI hiring tools don't reduce bias or improve diversity,...

Chris Vallance / BBC:Study: AI hiring tools don't reduce bias or improve diversity,...

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Alphawave IP Group acquires Banias Labs, an Israel-based optical digital signal processing chip developer for data centers, for $240M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Alphawave IP Group acquires Banias Labs, an Israel-based...

Meir Orbach / CTech:Alphawave IP Group acquires Banias Labs, an Israel-based optical...

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International Federation of Robotics: 517,385 industrial robots were installed in 2021, an all-time high, bringing the global total to an all-time high of 3.5M (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

International Federation of Robotics: 517,385 industrial...

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:International Federation of Robotics: 517,385...

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London-based Zen Educate, an online marketplace that algorithmically matches schools with available teachers, raised a £19.3 Series A extension for US expansion (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

London-based Zen Educate, an online marketplace that algorithmically...

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:London-based Zen Educate, an online marketplace that algorithmically...

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New US export controls may affect 43+ senior executives at 16 public chip companies in China, forcing them to choose between their US citizenship and their jobs (Wall Street Journal)

New US export controls may affect 43+ senior executives...

Wall Street Journal:New US export controls may affect 43+ senior executives at 16...