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Artificial intelligence

Microsoft Copilot Is Offering GPT-4 Turbo for Free: What to Know - CNET

2024-03-16 13:00:21 UTC

Microsoft Copilot Is Offering GPT-4 Turbo for Free: What to Know - CNETUntil now, the advanced artificial intelligence model powering Copilot's Pro tier wasn't free to all.
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'Games made by soulless machines': Tech sparks debate over AI stories in video games

2024-03-15 15:58:59 UTC

Is the future of artificial intelligence in video games playing out in a cyberpunk ramen bar? Tech companies would like you to think so, but game writers aren't so sure. Read more at NPR


AI speeding up oil extraction and boosting US crude output

2024-03-15 15:03:22 UTC

AI speeding up oil extraction and boosting US crude outputA new report has highlighted all the different ways artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the oil industry For offshore drillers like… Continue reading AI speeding up oil extraction and boosting US crude output The post AI speeding up oil extraction and … Read more at ReadWrite


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Bioinformatics

Cracking the pear genome: How students helped unlock a new tool for the pear industry

2024-03-15 18:13:24 UTC

Cracking the pear genome: How students helped unlock a new tool for the pear industryPears are big business in the Pacific Northwest US. But did you know that traditional pear breeding has remained largely unchanged for centuries? Read more at Phys.Org


For long-term sustainable software in bioinformatics

2024-03-15 14:00:00 UTC

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Sensitive remote homology search by local alignment of small positional embeddings from protein language models

2024-03-15 00:00:00 UTC

Sensitive remote homology search by local alignment of small positional embeddings from protein language modelsAccurately detecting distant evolutionary relationships between proteins remains an ongoing challenge in bioinformatics. Search methods based on primary sequence struggle to accurately detect homology between sequences with less than 20% amino acid identity. … Read more at Elifesciences.org


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Genomics

Cracking the pear genome: How students helped unlock a new tool for the pear industry

2024-03-15 18:13:24 UTC

Cracking the pear genome: How students helped unlock a new tool for the pear industryPears are big business in the Pacific Northwest US. But did you know that traditional pear breeding has remained largely unchanged for centuries? Read more at Phys.Org


ProPhase Labs Announces Financial Results for the Year Ended December 31, 2023 and Significant Progress in Its Strategic Initiatives

2024-03-15 12:00:00 UTC

ProPhase Labs Announces Financial Results for the Year Ended December 31, 2023 and Significant Progress in Its Strategic InitiativesNebula Genomics secures major international B2B deal – Additional significant B2B deals in final stages Ahead of schedule, Pharmaloz... Read more at GlobeNewswire


Study Reveals How Ancient Humans Escaped Climate Extinction 900,000 Years Ago

2024-03-17 23:30:11 UTC

Study Reveals How Ancient Humans Escaped Climate Extinction 900,000 Years AgoSome 900,000 years ago, humans nearly went extinct.
Read more at ScienceAlert


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Genetics

The Scientist: A Physician Who Heals Himself and Others

2024-03-15 08:53:28 UTC

The Scientist: A Physician Who Heals Himself and OthersThe breakthrough studies of a world-renowned Crohn’s researcher have helped millions – including himself
Read more at WebMD


Cracking the pear genome: How students helped unlock a new tool for the pear industry

2024-03-15 18:13:24 UTC

Cracking the pear genome: How students helped unlock a new tool for the pear industryPears are big business in the Pacific Northwest US. But did you know that traditional pear breeding has remained largely unchanged for centuries? Read more at Phys.Org


We were wizards – a foreword to Learning Perl

2024-03-17 04:34:53 UTC

placeholder imgIn the 1990s, computers were magic and we were wizards. Want proof? I offer below, Larry Wall’s foreword to Learning Perl from 1993. It greatly inspired a very young me who wandered into a book shop, picked up an odd book with llama on the cover and a seeming… Read more at Jwgoerlich.com


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GWAS

Bidirectional associations between mental disorders, antidepressants and cardiovascular disease

2024-03-15 13:28:53 UTC

Background Mental disorders have a high comorbidity with cardiovascular disease (CVD), but the causality between them has not been fully appreciated. Objective This study aimed to systematically explore the bidirectional causality between the two broad categ… Read more at The BMJ


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Data science

Amazfit Balance Review: Most Improved, Still Exasperating

2024-03-16 15:00:00 UTC

Amazfit Balance Review: Most Improved, Still ExasperatingIt’s much better than previous ones I’ve tried, but exasperating software does not make up for great-looking hardware.
Read more at Wired


I spent 10 minutes shopping for a mattress topper online, and it dispelled all notions of online privacy I ever held

2024-03-15 08:57:01 UTC

I spent 10 minutes shopping for a mattress topper online, and it dispelled all notions of online privacy I ever heldAfter I briefly browsed a website, the company sent me an unsolicited email. Data-privacy experts say companies know more about you than you think. Read more at Business Insider


Finally, engineers have a clue that could help them save Voyager 1

2024-03-15 23:23:49 UTC

Finally, engineers have a clue that could help them save Voyager 1A new signal from humanity's most distant spacecraft could be the key to restoring it.
Read more at Ars Technica


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Population genetics

9 Causes Of Insomnia And What You Can Do To Get Better Sleep

2024-03-15 18:29:57 UTC

9 Causes Of Insomnia And What You Can Do To Get Better SleepUnderstanding some common causes of insomnia and poor sleep can help you get to the root of the problem and improve your sleep quality.
Read more at Forbes


Stephen King, Shakespeare, and Many Writers Agree: Eclipses Are Doom

2024-03-16 12:00:00 UTC

Stephen King, Shakespeare, and Many Writers Agree: Eclipses Are DoomWhether you’re an avid consumer of literature or more of a five-books-a-year type, it doesn’t take much reading to realize that some themes appear over and over in fiction, from Charles Dickens to Stefanie Meyer. Readers should never trust a stranger in a glo… Read more at Atlas Obscura


Evolutionary graph theory beyond pairwise interactions: Higher-order network motifs shape times to fixation in structured populations

2024-03-15 14:00:00 UTC

Evolutionary graph theory beyond pairwise interactions: Higher-order network motifs shape times to fixation in structured populationsAuthor summary Accelerating the rate of solution discovery has been a long-standing goal in directed evolution and evolutionary optimization problems. One way to accelerate evolutionary search is to design population structures that control the mode and tempo… Read more at Plos.org


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Inheritance

I was in debt and struggling when a $45,000 inheritance changed my life

2024-03-16 10:38:02 UTC

I was in debt and struggling when a $45,000 inheritance changed my lifeI had debt and was struggling financially as a father when I received an unexpected inheritance of $45,000. I learned about finances and investing. Read more at Business Insider


Understanding Trust Funds: How They Work and Who They Benefit

2024-03-15 14:39:14 UTC

Understanding Trust Funds: How They Work and Who They BenefitTrust funds allow you and your heirs to earn an annual income. Learn what a trust fund is, how to set one up, and the types of assets it can hold. Read more at Business Insider


Family man loses his life savings after sophisticated email scam

2024-03-17 19:45:00 UTC

Family man loses his life savings after sophisticated email scamA 60-year-old Australian man who was looking forward to a comfortable retirement is now struggling to make ends meet after he fell victim to a cruel scam, according to the New York Post. Renato Calalang had worked hard his entire career, working in different … Read more at TheBlaze


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Bioinformatics AI

想读Transformers for Machine Learning

2024-03-16 22:33:44 UTC

想读Transformers for Machine LearningTransformers are becoming a core part of many neural network architectures, employed in a wide range...
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Precision medicine

Custom GPTs: Precision, Personalization and Performance in AI

2024-03-16 13:00:55 UTC

Custom GPTs: Precision, Personalization and Performance in AICustom GPTs: Precision, Personalization and Performance in AI In the dynamic landscape of artificial intelligence, one concept has been making waves in recent years: custom GPTs. These customized iterations of OpenAI’s powerful language model, GPT (Generative… Read more at Socialnomics.net


AION Labs launches CombinAble.AI to design antibodies for therapeutic development

2024-03-15 19:15:03 UTC

AION Labs launches CombinAble.AI to design antibodies for therapeutic developmentThe Israel-based company is the result of AION Labs' fifth startup challenge.
Read more at MobiHealthNews


3 Precision Medicine Stocks That Could Benefit From the Industry’s Rise

2024-03-15 18:32:14 UTC

3 Precision Medicine Stocks That Could Benefit From the Industry’s RiseThese stocks are strong buys for targeting growth Now might be a great time for investors to consider investing in precision medicine stocks. For those who don’t know, precision medicine is an approach to disease treatment and prevention that tailors medical … Read more at Biztoc.com


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Health

Amazfit Balance Review: Most Improved, Still Exasperating

2024-03-16 15:00:00 UTC

Amazfit Balance Review: Most Improved, Still ExasperatingIt’s much better than previous ones I’ve tried, but exasperating software does not make up for great-looking hardware.
Read more at Wired


A Pill That Kills Ticks Is a Promising New Weapon Against Lyme Disease

2024-03-15 12:00:00 UTC

A Pill That Kills Ticks Is a Promising New Weapon Against Lyme DiseaseYour pets can already eat a chewable tablet for tick prevention. Now, a pill that paralyzes and kills ticks has shown positive results in a small human trial. Read more at Wired


Czechs struggle to contain surge of whooping cough

2024-03-17 12:43:06 UTC

Czechs struggle to contain surge of whooping coughPrague's elderly mayor coughs and splutters during a public meeting as authorities battle increase.
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Technology

McDonald's outlets across Australia, New Zealand, and Japan have been hit by a technical outage

2024-03-15 08:01:53 UTC

McDonaldA McDonald's Australia spokesperson told BI that a "technology outage" was affecting their restaurants nationwide.
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The Most Famous Room In Rock-n-Roll You’ve Never Seen

2024-03-17 08:00:35 UTC

The Most Famous Room In Rock-n-Roll You’ve Never SeenThe study of audio technology has a lot of fascinating branches, and one or two of them even take the curious engineer not into electronics but into architecture. There’s the anechoic chamber… Read more at Hackaday


A Startup Will Try to Mine Helium-3 on the Moon

2024-03-15 10:00:00 UTC

A Startup Will Try to Mine Helium-3 on the MoonThe Earth is in short supply of helium-3. The lunar surface may hold the answer.
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Scientific publications

Analyzing KOSA’s Constitutional Problems In Depth

2024-03-15 19:35:53 UTC

Analyzing KOSA’s Constitutional Problems In DepthWhy EFF Does Not Think Recent Changes Ameliorate KOSA’s Censorship  The latest version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) did not change our critical view of the legislation. The changes have led some organizations to drop their opposition to the bill, bu… Read more at EFF


Sernova : Corporate Presentation March 2024

2024-03-15 18:13:03 UTC

Sernova : Corporate Presentation March 2024(marketscreener.com) A future where chronic conditions are no longer insurmountable obstacles March 2024 Disclaimers and Forward-Looking Statements This presentation is confidential and for your information only and is not intend… Read more at Marketscreener.com


Vermeer’s Enduring Appeal for Filmmakers

2024-03-16 11:00:41 UTC

Vermeer’s Enduring Appeal for FilmmakersIf you missed the once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of his work in Amsterdam, this documentary is the next best thing.
Read more at Foreign Policy


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