Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Professor David Chiaramonti is looking down at the ground to help resolve a problem up in the sky: airplanes’ emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other…
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Are Deepfakes a Genuine Threat or an Exaggerated Fear?
I’ve worked in and out of security for decades. We did the same kinds of things people do with deepfakes with far older technology when I was working on the…
Traces of Khan al-Tujjar caravanserais found at foot of Mount Tabor
During excavations near Beit Keshet in Lower Galilee, Israel, archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered traces of a market within the historic Khan al-Tujjar caravanserais. Khan al-Tujjar,…
China new year holiday spending surges past pre-pandemic levels
People gather to look at a giant dragon figure at a park in Beijing on February 9, 2024, which marks the eve of the Lunar New Year of the Dragon.…
Japanese space debris inspection probe launched
Credit: Pixabay from Pexels A Japanese firm said Monday it had successfully launched a spacecraft tasked with inspecting potentially dangerous man-made junk floating around the Earth. The European Space Agency…
Earth to be Exhibit A for Lunar Exoplanet Research
When Jake Turner was a kid in rural Colorado, he had pictures of all the Apollo lunar missions thumbtacked to his bedroom walls, along with Neil Armstrong’s words, “One small…
Research shows lasting effects of smoking after quitting
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers are still discovering how smoking continues to harm people’s health even years after they quit, with a new study on Wednesday revealing tobacco’s lasting effect…
Additional study shows promise for low-intensity ultrasound as a non-invasive approach to alleviate pain
Wynn Legon (left), the faculty director of the transcranial MR-guided focused ultrasound facilities at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, and Andrew Strohman, an M.D.-Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech, were among…
OpenAI in deal valuing it at $80 billion: Media
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain OpenAI has concluded a deal with investors that reportedly values the California start-up at $80 billion or more, after a roller-coaster year for the inventor of…
