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ESA applies CREAM to tackle growing space debris threat:
ESA is working on a new system with the unfortunate acronym of Collision Risk Estimation and Automated Mitigation (CREAM) that is designed to automate the labor-intensive process of monitoring, assessing, and responding to possible space debris.
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27 August 2025.
Robots could sense both touch and proximity, by seeing through their arms:
In order for robots to operate safely around humans, they need to see that people are approaching and they need to know when they make physical contact with those people.
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26 August 2025.
RFK Jr. Vowed To Find The Environmental Causes Of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying To Do Just That.:
This story was originally published by ProPublica.
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27 August 2025.
Top 10 AI Tools That Will Transform Your Content Creation in 2025:
Looking to level up your content creation game in 2025? You're in the right place! The digital landscape has evolved dramatically, and AI tools have become essential for creators who want to stay ahead of the curve.
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02 January 2025.
Mako, a faculty-led startup based at Cornell Tech, raises $8.5 million:
Mako, co-founded by assistant professor Mohamed Abdelfattah, sets out to tackle one of artificial intelligence’s most pressing infrastructure challenges: optimizing the computing efficiency of graphics processing units.
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25 August 2025.
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times:
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentientAI called Maya tells Guardian: ‘When I’m told I’m just code, I don’t feel insulted.
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27 August 2025.
Primates with longer thumbs tend to have bigger brains, research finds:
Results suggest brain co-evolved with manual dexterity, say scientists, with humans by no means the outlierBig hands might mean big feet, but it seems long thumbs are linked to large brains – at least in primates.
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27 August 2025.
Yes, you can buy a MacBook Air for just $142 right now - here's what's included:
Back Market is offering a refurbished 13-inch MacBook Air for as low as $142 - one of the lowest prices I've ever seen - ahead of Labor Day.
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27 August 2025.
Get ready for fracking, Reform UK tells energy firms:
The party is serious about going after shale gas - but critics argue it's too difficult and costly.
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25 August 2025.
AI 'deadbots' are persuasive — and researchers say, they're primed for monetization:
The digital afterlife industry may near $80 billion in a decade, fueled by AI "deadbots.
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26 August 2025.
Cardiac arrest in space: Research shows that automatic chest compressions are more effective for CPR:
New research presented at the 2025 European Society of Cardiology Congress in Madrid, Spain, has found a more effective way to conduct cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in microgravity, which causes the weightlessness astronauts experience in space.
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27 August 2025.
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.:
More people are turning to general-purpose chatbots for emotional support.
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27 August 2025.
Missouri GOP congressman encounters a surprisingly civil audience at town hall:
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27 August 2025.
SpaceX Starship Completes Successful Test Flight After Previous Launch Setbacks:
After setbacks during the last three launches of Starship, Elon Musk’s rocket company splashed down in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday night.
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27 August 2025.
These fish may feel pleasure while being groomed by other fish:
An experiment with threadfin butterflyfish finds that these fish may experience pleasure while being cleaned by bluestreak cleaner wrasse — suggesting this capacity goes far back in animal evolution.
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25 August 2025.
Missouri GOP congressman encounters a surprisingly civil audience at town hall:
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27 August 2025.
Pig Lung Transplanted Into a Human In Major Scientific First:
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ScienceAlert: A genetically modified pig lung transplanted into a brain-dead human patient functioned for nine days in a new achievement that reveals both the promise and significant challenges of xenotransplantation.
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27 August 2025.
Georgia leads toward a nuclear future with its first operating reactor:
Georgia Power Co. announced one of its two new reactors reached self-sustaining nuclear fission on Monday.
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07 March 2023.
An exotic quartz arrow may have killed a man 12,000 years ago in Vietnam:
A man who died 12,000 years ago in Vietnam had a "bonus" rib — and it was broken when he was shot by an exotic arrow.
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26 August 2025.
Some of the tech in my workday
Best programming language?
The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.
The TIOBE Programming Community index measures popularity based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses, third party vendors and search engine activity.
w3techs analyses page content to determine the technology used, and also uses publicly available information from sources such as Alexa, Google, Microsoft and ipinfo.io.
While Java and Python top the popularity charts, more than 80% of all websites run on PHP.
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