40% of workers will have to reskill in the next three years due to AI, says IBM study

Learn how to use AI or you’ll be replaced by someone who does.

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AI-Generated Works Aren’t Protected By Copyrights, US Judge Rules

As questions swirl about how artificial intelligence will impact the music business, a federal judge offers one definitive answer.

Why DARPA Hopes To ‘Distill’ Old Binaries Into Readable Code

Brendan Saltaformaggio leads a $10M DARPA-funded effort to update critical defense software.

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Dead trees around the world are shocking scientists

Forests once deemed ironclad are suffering surprising die-offs. To predict the fate of the world’s woods in the face of climate change, researchers need to understand how trees die.

Can Computing Clean Up Its Act?

The industry consumes as much electricity as Britain—and rising.

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Forgetting To Cancel Subscriptions Boosts Businesses’ Revenue By 200%, Study Finds

Forget to cancel that one thing? Companies are counting on it.

US Space Force Creates First Unit Dedicated To Targeting Adversary Satellites

“We are changing the way targeting is done across the joint community when it comes to space and electromagnetic warfare.”

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NYU Surgeons Claim Advance In Transplant of Pig Kidney To a Human

A genetically altered pig kidney transplanted into a brain-dead man has continued to function for 32 days…

Scientists recreate an iconic Pink Floyd song by scanning listeners’ brains

The research looked at how brains interact with music.

Astronomers confirm Maisie’s galaxy is one of the oldest observed

At 390 million years after the Big Bang, it isn’t quite as old as initially estimated.

Harrison Ford has a new Peruvian snake species named after him

Harrison Ford’s legendary Indiana Jones character may fear snakes, but the actor now has a real reptile named after him.

JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe

The young cosmos is home to a mystifyingly large population of tempestuous galaxies with large black holes at their cores.

British Columbians warned to watch out for poisonous death cap mushrooms

Potentially deadly fungus is mainly found in urban environments.

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Judge Rules in Favor of Montana Youths in Landmark Climate Decision

‘This is a monumental decision,’ said a lawyer for the young plaintiffs. The ruling could influence how judges handle similar cases in other states.

Could Supermassive Black Holes Explain Our Universe’s Gravitational-Wave ‘Hum’?

Scientists’ recent detection of low-frequency gravitational waves may shed light on what’s causing a constant rumble of ripples in the very fabric of space and time.

How Laser Sensors Could Improve America’s Electric Grid

The sensors can read things like wind and temperature and give that data to utilities so they can safely transmit more power.

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Will Quantum Computing Supercharge AI - and Then Transform Our Understanding of Reality?

Quantum computing could give us machines massively more powerful than today’s, but we still have a long way to go, say leaders in the field.

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Why Was Silicon Valley So Obsessed with LK-99 Superconductor Claims?

South Korean researchers claimed to have discovered a “room-temperature superconductor” — setting off a brief but intense tech hype cycle.

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Common Alzheimer’s Disease Gene May Have Helped Our Ancestors Have More Kids

Study of traditional society in Amazon suggests why evolution hasn’t purged harmful variant.

How to Turn an Asteroid into a Space Habitat

A new p;aper shows how to change an asteroid into a space habitat – in just 12 years.