Few tasks come as thankless as asking a scientific journal editor to correct a bad study. “I think that it [is] time to stop this never-ending story,” the editor in chief of a diabetes journal told us last year, refusing our request for the data behind a study that we deemed to have fatal statistical […]
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How Researchers Found a Greener Way to Make Fuel for Nuclear Fusion—By Accident Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion reactors. The new approach doesn’t require toxic mercury, as conventional methods do By Jacek Krywko edited by Andrea Thompson All the nuclear power
Google owner Alphabet will buy cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion — in a deal set to boost the tech giant’s in-house cloud computing amid burgeoning artificial intelligence growth. If closed, the cash transaction, announced Tuesday, would become Google’s most expensive acquisition in the company’s 25-year history. Wiz rejected a reported $23 billion buyout proposal
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It might have seemed like one of the weirder headlines of 2024: Microsoft is paying $1.6 billion to restart Three Mile Island. That’s the nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania whose reactor #2 had a partial meltdown in 1979. There were no injuries, and nobody died, but it set the nuclear industry back years. Only two
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A little over a month after a civilian jet broke the sound barrier, Boom Supersonic and NASA have released a photo of one of the aircraft’s historic test flights over the Mojave Desert. The image released Monday shows the XB-1 aircraft, which Boom Supersonic said is the “first civil supersonic jet made in America,” during its second
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Microsoft is pulling the plug on Skype, the pioneering Internet telecommunications and video call platform it bought nearly 14 years ago for $8.5 billion. “We will be retiring Skype in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams (free), our modern communications and collaboration hub,” already used by hundreds of millions of people at work, school and
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The Hague — A global campaign has led to at least 25 arrests over child sexual abuse content generated by artificial intelligence and distributed online, Europol said Friday. “Operation Cumberland has been one of the first cases involving AI-generated child sexual abuse material, making it exceptionally challenging for investigators due to the lack of national legislation
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Meta is apologizing for a mistake that resulted in graphic and violent imagery appearing in the Reels feeds of some Instagram users. “We have fixed an error that caused some users to see content in their Instagram Reels feed that should not have been recommended,” a Meta spokesperson said Thursday in a statement, without offering
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Apple shareholders on Tuesday rejected a proposal to end the iPhone maker’s diversity, equity and inclusion program. The National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank, had called on Apple to follow other major companies in backing off from DEI, which has come under fire from Republicans and from President Donald Trump. “DEI
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Over the last month, the U.S. government has worked quickly to pause, disband and dismantle the U.S. effort to fight foreign meddling in elections, raising concern among federal lawmakers and election officials across the country who rely on the federal cybersecurity agency and its counterparts to warn them about attacks on election systems. First came
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