Sir Roy Calne, of Cambridge University, delivers an acceptance speech after receiving the 2012 Lasker DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for developing liver transplantation, an intervention that has restored normal…
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Chinese mourners use AI to digitally resurrect the dead
Seakoo Wu and his wife have joined a growing number of Chinese people turning to AI technology to create lifelike avatars of their departed. At a quiet cemetery in eastern…
Some Seattle cancer center patients are receiving threatening emails after last month’s data breach
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Some patients of a Seattle-based cancer center received threatening emails following a data breach last month. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center officials said a Nov. 19 hack…
Sam Altman, ousted pioneer of OpenAI, is serial entrepreneur
Sam Altman has been dismissed from OpenAI, which he created along with Elon Musk and others in 2015. Sam Altman, the tech titan behind ChatGPT, was abruptly fired Friday by…
In Mexico, building a rail rival to the Panama Canal
The government hopes the Isthmus of Tehuantepec Interoceanic Corridor (CIIT) will see 300,000 cargo containers transit every year by rail, with 1.4 million — about 33 million tons — by…
Slowing vaccine demand to weigh on BioNTech profits
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain German vaccine-maker BioNTech said Monday its earnings would take a hit as demand for its coronavirus jab slowed. BioNTech, which developed and marketed the first coronavirus…
IOC to explore Olympic eSports Games
IOC chief Thomas Bach confirmed the creation of an Olympic eSports Games is being examined. The International Olympic Committee is looking at creating an Olympic eSports Games, IOC president Thomas…
Pfizer cuts earnings outlook on lower COVID-19 drug sales
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer sharply scaled back its earnings outlook for the year, blaming lower-than-expected sales of two drugs used to treat COVID-19, the company…
Bluetooth inventors get OK to use Viking king’s name
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain To the backdrop of the vast Jelling stones, Denmark on Tuesday granted the inventors of Bluetooth technology permission to use the name and symbol of Harald…
An app shows how ancient Greek sites looked thousands of years ago. It’s a glimpse of future tech
A man holds up a tablet showing a digitally overlayed virtual reconstruction of the ancient Parthenon temple, at the Acropolis Hill in Athens, Greece on Tuesday, June 13, 2023. Greece…
