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Mind-reading AI works out what you are thinking from brain scans

Mind-reading AI works out what you are thinking from brain...

A brain decoder can extract words and sentences from the brain recordings of people...

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World's heaviest bony fish weighs in at a whopping 2744 kilograms

World's heaviest bony fish weighs in at a whopping 2744...

A southern sunfish (Mola alexandrini) found dead off the coast of Faial Island in...

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Gut pain may help to maintain a healthy microbiome in mice

Gut pain may help to maintain a healthy microbiome in mice

Neurons that transmit pain signals in the gut lining of mice are linked to the production...

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Personal lubricant made from cow mucus may protect against HIV

Personal lubricant made from cow mucus may protect against...

In a laboratory study, human epithelial cells were treated with the lubricant before...

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How much water do data centres use? Most tech companies won't say

How much water do data centres use? Most tech companies...

As more data centres are being built to meet growing demand, their water use is...

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A black hole ate a star and belched out the remains two years later

A black hole ate a star and belched out the remains two...

A distant black hole shredded a star in 2018, and released a plume of plasma travelling...

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What's next if SpaceX won't fund Starlink in Ukraine?

What's next if SpaceX won't fund Starlink in Ukraine?

SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the company can no longer pay for the Starlink satellites...

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Grey wolves are rebounding but it's making it hard for them to survive

Grey wolves are rebounding but it's making it hard for...

After grey wolf numbers grew in the US, they were taken off the Endangered Species...

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How Netflix plans to fight slowing growth, including via an ad-supported tier; Netflix accounts for ~8% of all TV viewership in the US, the most of any network (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

How Netflix plans to fight slowing growth, including via...

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:How Netflix plans to fight slowing growth, including via...

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NYC-based NorthOne, which offers digital banking services for small business owners, raised a $67M Series B, bringing its total funding to $90.3M (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

NYC-based NorthOne, which offers digital banking services...

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:NYC-based NorthOne, which offers digital banking services...

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Twitter tests a feature letting users control whether others can mention them; if so, the user can pick if mentions can be from anyone or only those they follow (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Twitter tests a feature letting users control whether others...

Mitchell Clark / The Verge:Twitter tests a feature letting users control whether...

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Q&A with Zuckerberg about selling the Quest 3 at a break-even or a loss, from $300-$500, to grow the ecosystem, missing the shift to TikTok-like feeds, and more (Stratechery)

Q&A with Zuckerberg about selling the Quest 3 at a break-even...

Stratechery:Q&A with Zuckerberg about selling the Quest 3 at a break-even or a loss,...

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Meta files to dismiss the FTC's attempt to block its Within acquisition, arguing the agency's claims rely on "pure speculation of a hypothetical future state" (Ashley Gold/Axios)

Meta files to dismiss the FTC's attempt to block its Within...

Ashley Gold / Axios:Meta files to dismiss the FTC's attempt to block its Within...

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A survey of US adults on misinformation: 91% say its spread is a problem, 77% think it increases hate crimes, and 73% say it increases extreme political views (David Klepper/Associated Press)

A survey of US adults on misinformation: 91% say its spread...

David Klepper / Associated Press:A survey of US adults on misinformation: 91% say...

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How cosmic rays can alter computers' memory, a phenomenon understood since at least the 1970s, and why it is hard to tie specific errors to ionizing radiation (Chris Baraniuk/BBC)

How cosmic rays can alter computers' memory, a phenomenon...

Chris Baraniuk / BBC:How cosmic rays can alter computers' memory, a phenomenon understood...

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July 2022 filing: Twitter said Elon Musk was under a US federal investigation into his acquisition bid and the company has been asking for the related documents (Tom Giles/Bloomberg)

July 2022 filing: Twitter said Elon Musk was under a US...

Tom Giles / Bloomberg:July 2022 filing: Twitter said Elon Musk was under a US federal...