During the past year, perhaps the only thing that has advanced as quickly as artificial intelligence is worry about artificial intelligence. In the near term, many fear that chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT will flood the world with toxic language and disinformation, that automated decision-making systems will discriminate against certain groups, and that the lack...
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Was a small-brained human relative the world’s first gravedigger—and artist?
A trio of papers posted online and presented at a meeting today lays out an astonishing scenario. Roughly 240,000 years ago, they suggest, small-brained human relatives carried their dead through a labyrinth of tight passageways into the dark depths of a vast limestone cave system in South Africa. Working by firelight, these diminutive cave explorers...
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Do children have a right to a healthy climate? Montana case is a test.
Ever since she was a freshman at Colorado College, Rikki Held has been waiting for today. It’s not her graduation; that happened a few weeks ago. This is something else – the day when the lawsuit that bears her name, Held v. Montana, goes to trial, marking the first time that young people in the...
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Your SD Card Might Slow Down Your Nintendo Switch
Hannah Stryker / How-To Geek The only way to add more storage to the Nintendo Switch is with a microSD card. However, not all SD cards are created equal, and using some types of cards could slow down your games. Nintendo Switch and Switch Lite consoles have 32 GB of internal storage, with the OLED...
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Google Chrome Now Has More Password Manager Features
Google’s feeble password manager, integrated into Chrome, has evolved a lot by virtue of it having to compete with actual password managers. It’s still no substitute for a dedicated password manager, but Google is rolling out a few improvements. Google has unveiled a significant update to its popular password management tool, introducing biometric authentication in...
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Canadian wildfire smoke dims the vision of Earth-observing satellites (photos)
Home News Science & Astronomy Providence, Rhode Island is blanketed by smoke from Canadian wildfires in this photo snapped on Jun 6, 2023 by a satellite operated by California company Planet. (Image credit: Planet Labs PBC) A smoky haze from over 400 wildfires currently burning in Canada is obscuring the view of numerous Earth-observing satellites....
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James Webb Space Telescope spots faintest galaxy yet in the infant universe (photo)
Home News Science & Astronomy A projected image of the galaxy JD1 (inset), which is located behind a bright cluster galaxy called Abell2744. JD1, which lies 13.3 billion light-years from Earth, is the faintest galaxy known in the early universe. (Image credit: Guido Roberts-Borsani/UCLA); original images: NASA, ESA, CSA, Swinburne University of Technology, University of...
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Gravitational waves may come from ‘cocoons’ of debris around dying stars (video)
Home News Science & Astronomy The ‘cocoons’ of debris that surround dying stars appear to be able to create tiny ripples in space-time. So far, astronomers have only detected these ripples, known as gravitational waves, when they have been triggered by cataclysmic mergers of pairs of orbiting black holes, neutron stars or a combination of...
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Can You Lower Your Alcohol Tolerance?
Jun 5, 2023, 1:00 pm EDT | 1 min read H_Ko/Shutterstock.com Among friends, there’s usually a joke about how can and can’t “hold their liquor.” For those who can handle their booze, alcohol tolerance is likely why. But if you’re looking to cut back on your drinking, can you lower your alcohol tolerance? As it...
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How to Improve AirPods or AirPods Pro Battery Life: 7 Tips
Justin Duino / How-To Geek AirPods are convenient and compact, but Apple’s wireless earbuds don’t always get the best performance in terms of battery life. Here are our favorite tips for improving your listening time. Store AirPods in the Case Whenever Possible It might sound obvious but try to put your AirPods back in the...