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An anonymous reader shares a report: In 2013, scientists unveiled the first lab-grown burger at a cost of $330,000. By 2023, the FDA approved cultivated chicken for sale. The price had dropped to around $10-$30 per pound, and over $3 billion in investor money had poured into more than 175 companies developing meat grown from animal cells instead of slaughtered animals.
The promise is straightforward: real meat, no slaughter required. You could eat beef without killing cattle, chicken without industrial fa
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Netflix sent TikTok parent ByteDance a cease-and-desist letter to over its AI video tool Seedance, following in Disney and Paramount's footsteps. Read more ›
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Apple has positioned itself as an alternative to tech stocks dependent on the AI boom to grow. Read more ›
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The algorithm also doesn't like posts by traditional news media, the researchers found. Read more ›
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Yoshua Bengio, known as a "godfather of AI" alongside fellow computer scientists like Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, said education " isn't just about acquiring the skills to get a job." Read more ›
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An advert released to promote Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has been banned after the UK's Advertising Standards Authority upheld complaints that it "trivialised sexual violence" following an investigation. Read more Read more ›
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For the 12 of us who woke up Tuesday morning wondering what we had missed on Monday’s late-night shows, CBS greeted us with a concerning development. Overnight, Stephen Colbert had laid into his network, dedicating time at the top of The Late Show to claim that CBS prohibited him from airing an interview with the […] Read more ›
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My grandmother is 95 years old, and I'm 40, but we have the same medical issues. We rely on each other for support as our bodies change. Read more ›
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Levittown in Long Island, New York, was built in 1947 as a suburban community for America's growing families. Here's what it was like in the '50s. Read more ›
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Nevada is taking action against the rapidly growing Wild West of prediction markets. The state's gambling regulators and attorney general sued Kalshi on Tuesday. They accuse the company of bypassing Nevada law by operating a sports gambling market without proper licenses. In addition, they say Kalshi provides services to individuals under 21, which violates state law.The lawsuit follows a federal appeals court’s rejection of Kalshi's request to prevent the state... Read more ›
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A three-hour-long period drama about kabuki, a centuries-old form of Japanese theater, doesn't exactly sound like box office gold. But that's exactly what happened with Kokuho. Director Lee Sang-il's adaptation of the Shuichi Yoshida novel of the same name was a surprise hit last year, becoming Japan's top-grossing live-action film domestically. But star Ken Watanabe […] Read more ›
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The CEO said Horizon's redesign with two decks across an ultra-wide cabin captures lucrative cargo space that is unavailable on exisiting narrobodies. Read more ›
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The Pocket Super Knob 5000 swaps one thumbstick for a knob, but it's no Playdate. Read more ›
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Welcome Captain Seven of Nine aboard the 'Enterprise' with IDW's new 'Star Trek' comic. Read more ›
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"Everyone has an incredible amount of agency," said X product head Nikita Bier. "We come up with an idea, we build it in a week, and it's out." Read more ›
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A database left accessible to anyone online contained billions of records, including sensitive personal data that criminals appear to have not yet exploited. Read more ›
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If you want a Chromebook that can double as a tablet when you need it to, Acer’s Chromebook Plus Spin 514 is one of the better 2-in-1s on the market. And you can buy it with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage for $499 ($200 off), which is a new low price, at Best […] Read more ›
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A survey of 6,000 executives reveals a significant productivity disconnect, where 80% of firms report no measurable improvement to operations with the use of AI, while a third of senior leaders only use the technology themselves for just 1.5 hours per week. Read more ›
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I feel for Avowed. It's a bit like an athlete that goes to an Olympics and makes it to a final but doesn't place. It's a great achievement, a success by many people's standards, but history doesn't care. Read more Read more ›
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Google has given Gemini the ability to spit out AI-generated music, courtesy of DeepMind's latest audio model. Beta access to Lyria 3 is rolling out in the Gemini app, enabling users to generate 30-second tracks based on text, images, and videos, without having to leave the chatbot window. The new music-making tool is available globally […] Read more ›
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"I've had an extremely weird few days..." writes commercial space entrepreneur/engineer Scott Shambaugh on LinkedIn. (He's the volunteer maintainer for the Python visualization library Matplotlib, which he describes as "some of the most widely used software in the world" with 130 million downloads each month.) "Two days ago an OpenClaw AI agent autonomously wrote a hit piece disparaging my character after I rejected its code change." "Since then my blog... Read more ›
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Up to a third of people worldwide have shoulder pain; it's one of the most common musculoskeletal complaints. But medical imaging might not reveal the problem -- in fact, it could even cloud it. From a report: In a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine this week, 99 percent of adults over 40 were found to have at least one abnormality in a rotator cuff on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).... Read more ›
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China's courts are now handling more than 550,000 intellectual-property cases a year -- making it the world's most litigious country for IP disputes -- as the nation's own companies, once notorious for copying foreign designs and technology, find themselves on the defensive against a domestic counterfeiting epidemic fueled by excess factory capacity. The problem runs from knockoff "Lafufu" plush toys (cheap copies of Pop Mart's wildly popular Labubu dolls, which... Read more ›
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Installing Linux on a MacBook Air "turned out to be a very underwhelming experience," according to the tech news site MakeUseOf: The thing about Apple silicon Macs is that it's not as simple as downloading an AArch64 ISO of your favorite distro and installing it. Yes, the M-series chips are ARM-based, but that doesn't automatically make the whole system compatible in the same way most traditional x86 PCs are. Pretty... Read more ›
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Microsoft has patched a high-severity vulnerability in Windows 11's Notepad that allowed attackers to silently execute local or remote programs when a user clicked a specially crafted Markdown link, all without triggering any Windows security warning. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20841 and fixed in the February 2026 Patch Tuesday update, stemmed from Notepad's relatively new Markdown support -- a feature Microsoft added after discontinuing WordPad and rewriting Notepad to serve... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: A moderator on diyAudio set up an experiment to determine whether listeners could differentiate between audio run through pro audio copper wire, a banana, and wet mud. Spoiler alert: the results indicated that users were unable to accurately distinguish between these different 'interfaces.' Pano, the moderator who built the experiment, invited other members on the forum to listen to various sound clips with four... Read more ›
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Cord Cutters News reports: In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just as it departs from the ad-supported streaming platform Tubi... Viewers noticed notifications on Tubi indicating that all five seasons would no longer be available after February 10, 2026, effectively removing one of... Read more ›
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Ireland has announced what it says is the world's first permanent basic income program for artists, a scheme that will pay 2,000 selected artists $385 per week for three years, funded by an $21.66 million allocation from Budget 2026. The program follows a 2022 pilot -- the Irish government's first large-scale randomized control trial -- that found participants had greater professional autonomy, less anxiety, and higher life satisfaction. An external... Read more ›
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The large language models that millions of people rely on for advice -- ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini -- will change their answers nearly 60% of the time when a user simply pushes back by asking "are you sure?," according to a study by Fanous et al. that tested GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, and Gemini 1.5 Pro across math and medical domains. The behavior, known in the research community as sycophancy, stems from... Read more ›
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The world is closer than thought to a "point of no return" after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said. From a report: Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops, they said. This would lock the world into a new and hellish "hothouse Earth" climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is... Read more ›
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