This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 1of21Activists of the “Letzte Generation”, Last Generation, march during a protest against the climate policy of the German government in central in Berlin, Germany, Friday, April 21, 2023. Poster reads: last Generation – Before the tipping point.Markus Schreiber/AP BERLIN (AP) — German climate activists...
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Belgian foundation to exhibit auctioned T. rex in Antwerp
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 1of8Cyril Koller, CEO of auction house Koller, stands next to the head of the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex named Trinity, during an auction in Zurich, Switzerland on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. The 293 T. rex bones were assembled into a growling posture that...
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New Mac Pro: Everything we know so far
Skip to content Image: IDG Apple’s current Mac Pro was introduced in 2019, but since then Apple has transitioned every other Mac to its own chip architecture, starting with the M1 in 2020 followed by the M1 Pro, M1 Max, M1 Ultra, and eventually the M2 in early 2022. The Mac Pro, which is still...
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Get a refurbished HomePod mini in ‘like-new’ condition for just $65
Image: Foundry If you’re looking for a small smart speaker with big sound, the HomePod mini is a great option at $99. But today’s sale is even better: eBay’s Refurbished Store is selling a HomePod mini for $65 in any color, a savings of $35 and the lowest price we’ve ever seen. The HomePod mini...
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ESA’s JUICE Spacecraft Sends Its First Images from Space
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) has taken its first monitoring camera images showing part of the spacecraft with our home planet as a stunning backdrop. This image was taken by JUICE’s monitoring camera 1 (JMC1) at 14:42 CEST on April 14, 2023, following launch at 14:14 CEST. Image credit: ESA / JUICE / JMC...
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With AI Watermarking, Creators Strike Back
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. AI models rely on immense datasets to train their complex algorithms, but sometimes the use of those datasets for training purposes can infringe on the rights of the data owners. Yet actually proving that a model used a dataset...
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Sci fi author Lavie Tidhar: Using Midjourney to explore ethics of AI
Award-winning science fiction author Lavie Tidhar is a busy man. Between his own writing and editing projects, including The Best of World SF anthologies, he works with animator Nir Yaniv on sci-fi film series via their company Positronish, including Mars Machines, about “a toaster and a coffee pot on Mars”, and film noir Loontown. But...
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What could $1 billion do for Puerto Rico’s energy resilience? Residents have ideas.
When the electricity goes out in Puerto Rico, food and medicines spoil. Dialysis machines stop running. Water doesn’t flow, businesses shutter, and schools close. And while the energy grid’s fragility attracts national attention when a hurricane causes a blackout, Puerto Ricans constantly confront outages. “In the mountains, it only takes a little wind and we...
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Find Out If You Live in One of the Most Polluted US Cities
There’s a tiny bit of good news in the American Lung Association’s “State of the Air” report: Only 36% of us live in places that get an F grade for ozone and fine particle pollution. That’s too many, of course, but it’s a smaller number than in years past. According to the report, air pollution...
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Weird dark matter waves seem to warp the light from distant galaxies
Space Ultralight dark matter particles that behave like waves, called axions, seem to be a better match for gravitational lensing measurements than more traditional explanations for dark matter By Leah Crane A gravitationally lensed image of a galaxy NASA/ESA/STSci Evidence is growing for an ultralight dark matter particle called the axion. A study of light...