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Is your chatbot hallucinating?

Even competing chatbots can debate with each other to solve a task.

Fortune

Explained | Abaucin, the potential new antibiotic found with machine-learning

Researchers in the US and Canada have reported rediscovering a known compound called abaucin for its antibacterial properties against Acinetobacter baumannii, a notorious pathogenic bacteria known to resist multiple antibiotics, using machine learning.

The Hindu

Caroline Ellison: How a young math whiz with an appetite for risk became a major player in Sam Bankman-Fried’s corrupt crypto empire

After the fall of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and the trading firm she ran, Alameda Research, the 28-year-old became an unlikely celebrity—and a public villain.

Fortune

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Study shows how napping at the right time can be used to unlock creativity

‘If you access this brain state, you can be more creative in your waking life’

The Independent UK

Why you're right to hate motion blur in games (but devs aren't wrong to include it)

Motion blur might be the most hated post-processing effect in PC games. Here's why it keeps showing up.

PC Gamer

Lucky Hank episode 8: Hank finds his purpose again

In Lucky Hank episode 8, the season finale, Hank is rejuvenated in the fight against Dickie Pope, leading to a major epiphany.

WhatToWatch

The Most Important Sci-Fi Movie of the Century Gets One Thing Right About Nuclear Fusion

Is Iron Man's arc reactor possible in real life? Experts weigh in on the sci-fi movie's premise.

Inverse

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Feist says she gave up on GarageBand because ‘they made it more like Pro Tools”, and now records using iZotope’s Spire instead

“I used it for years and they kind of just made it more complicated, and I didn’t have the will to figure it out,” the Canadian musician admits

MusicRadar

Scientists have watched the end of the world

Scientists have watched what the end of the Earth could look like, reported The Telegraph. The fate of planet Earth is “sealed”, said the paper - in five billion years it will be “engulfed by our own Sun and devoured by a stellar inferno”. Experts from Harvard, Caltech and MIT…

The Week

US: New sensor can detect early signs of cancer, reveals a study

Engineers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed a new sensor that could detect early diagnosis of cancer with a simple urine test. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Exclusive-Turkish raid prompted ISIS leader to detonate suicide vest

ISIS leader Abu Hussein al-Qurashi's six-month rule ended when he detonated a suicide vest during a Turkish special forces raid in northwest Syria on Saturday after refusing to surrender, a senior Turkish security official said.

Reuters

African Bird’s Intricate Feather Patterns Inspires New Water Bottle Design

The fascinating bird has long been the subject of scientific interest due to its incredible water carrying talent.

Zenger

MIT Engineers Grow Atomically Thin 2D Materials in Silicon Circuits

MIT researchers have improved processes for “growing” transistor layers on top of a silicon circuit, solving several past limitations and opening a new path toward atom-thin stacking of transistor processing layers.

Tom’s Hardware

India urges G20 countries to collaborate, focus on evidence-based research

Ahead of the annual India-U.S. BioPharma and Healthcare Summit to be attended by scientists, academicians, corporate leaders, and officials from both countries, a top Indian official has urged the G20 countries to collaborate and focus on evidence-based research.

The Hindu

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Bangkok Post

Giant SpaceX rocket left craters, serious damage to launchpad

STARBASE, United States: Flying chunks of concrete, twisted metal sheets, craters blasted deep into the ground: the thunderous power of SpaceX's first test flight of Starship -- the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built -- inflicted serious damage on its Texas launch site.

Fortune

This MIT vet wants to revolutionize the steel industry

Climate tech investing is gaining prominence, but founders are still having a tough time convincing VCs to play the long game.

Inverse

Ariel Ekblaw Wants To Go to Space So We Can Save Earth

The 30-year-old founder of MIT’s Space Exploration Initiative is engineering small wonders with a big goal: making sure Earth remains our home.

Fortune

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says 'hallucination problems' still plague A.I. tech and he doesn't know why

After Google’s A.I. chatbot invented fake economics books in a demonstration with 60 Minutes, Pichai admitted: 'You can’t quite tell why it said this.'

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Still No Pseudonymity for Sorority Members Suing to Challenge Sorority's Admission of Transgender Student

From Judge Alan Johnson's decision today in Doe v. Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity (D. Wyo.) (the "fraternity" is really a sorority), declining to reconsider an earlier decision: I yearn for the day where litigants seek their courts unburdened by the mere possibility of physical reprisal. That hope may be quixotic…

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Pinned to the right

One would not have expected Benjamin Netanyahu and Kevin McCarthy to have very much in common. One is the second son of a famed and brilliant scholar, whose elder brother, by all accounts his father’s favorite, was killed in one of most audacious and celebrated rescue missions in his nation’s…

The Independent UK

Ohio Republican lawmaker falsely claims to be MIT graduate

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology says a freshman state lawmaker in Ohio falsely claimed to have graduated from the prestigious university

PC Gamer

Ethernet co-inventor finally bags a Turing Award, half a century later

Dubbing their invention the "Ether Network", Bob Metcalf and co. gave real substance to the long-tailed metaphysical concept of the ether.

Inverse

LEGO-Inspired Robots Could Solve the Biggest Hurdles in Moon Exploration

Student-led team from MIT developed Walking Oligometric Robotic Mobility Systems (WORMS) robot.

RideApart

MIT Electric Vehicle Team Is Working On An Open-Source Hydrogen Bike

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Electric Vehicle Team is currently working on a hydrogen-powered motorcycle design, testing a small Doosan fuel cell.

LiveScience

DeepMind's AI used to develop tiny 'syringe' for injecting gene therapy and tumor-killing drugs

Researchers used the AI system AlphaFold to develop a tiny "syringe" that can inject proteins into cells.

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