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New Automated Extortion Software Is So Devious You Won't Believe It

A new form of "infostealer" malware can automatically detect when you open porn on your browser, screenshot what you're looking at, take a photo of you through your webcam, and send it all to a hacker, Wired reports. It's a horrifying evolution in sextortion schemes, the criminal act of coercing someone ...

8 hours ago

Futurism

New Automated Extortion Software Is So Devious You Won't Believe It

Futurism

Amazon Startup Announces Plans to "Finish" Orson Welles' Lost Film With 43 Minutes of AI-Generated Footage

Recently, a minor miracle was achieved in the world of film preservation. A long-lost version of "A Better Tomorrow II," John Woo's sequel to his stone cold, heroic bloodshed classic "A Better Tomorrow," was recently discovered and is now slated to be released to the public. For nearly 40 years, Woo's ...

9 hours ago

Futurism

Amazon Startup Announces Plans to "Finish" Orson Welles' Lost Film With 43 Minutes of AI-Generated Footage

Futurism

Scientists Intrigued by Pill That May Heal Brain After Stroke or Brain Injury

Researchers are working on a pill that could allow patients' brains to recover from a traumatic injury or stroke, defying conventional thinking that the brain cannot regenerate following such a traumatic event. As the New York Times reports, researchers previously discovered a gene coded for a receptor ...

11 hours ago

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Scientists Intrigued by Pill That May Heal Brain After Stroke or Brain Injury

Futurism

Scientists Intrigued by Non-Human Skull Embedded in Cave Wall

Scientists believe they're close to solving an ancient mystery involving a strange hominin skull that was neither Neanderthal nor human found fused to a cave wall with a stalagmite sticking out of the top in Northern Greece. In a new study published in the Journal of Human Evolution, researchers from ...

12 hours ago

Futurism

Scientists Intrigued by Non-Human Skull Embedded in Cave Wall

Futurism

ChatGPT Told a Man His Symptoms Were Fine, But Then He Saw a Real Doctor and Realized He Was Dying

With at least one murder-suicide under its belt, it looks like OpenAI's ChatGPT's poor medical advice may end up claiming yet another life. In an interview with the Daily Mail, 37-year-old Warren Tierney explained how he went from a concerned and doting husband during his wife's difficult pregnancies ...

15 hours ago

Futurism

ChatGPT Told a Man His Symptoms Were Fine, But Then He Saw a Real Doctor and Realized He Was Dying

WIRED Science

Real Estate Speculators Are Swooping In to Buy Disaster-Hit Homes

“We buy homes” companies are procuring disaster-damaged properties for cheap. Survivors say they’re taking advantage of tragedy.

15 hours ago

WIRED Science

Real Estate Speculators Are Swooping In to Buy Disaster-Hit Homes

New York Times Science

Get to Know the Ratfish and the Forehead Teeth It Uses During Sex

Scientists studied how the sea creatures, also known as chimaeras or ghost sharks, ended up with one of evolution’s most bizarre appendages.

17 hours ago

New York Times Science

Get to Know the Ratfish and the Forehead Teeth It Uses During Sex

Futurism

Scientists Boast That Their AI-Powered Stethoscope Only Fails Two-Thirds of the Time

A team of researchers in the UK say their AI-powered stethoscope can detect three different heart conditions in just 15 seconds. It also, apparently, can be horribly inaccurate. Placed over the heart like an old-fashioned stethoscope, the "smart" gizmo analyzes the rhythms of the heartbeat and blood ...

17 hours ago

Futurism

Scientists Boast That Their AI-Powered Stethoscope Only Fails Two-Thirds of the Time

Singularity HUB

Watch Earth’s Seasons Change the Face of the Planet in a New Animated Map

Scientists mapped the timing of plant growth cycles around the globe with 20 years of satellite imagery. The post Watch Earth’s Seasons Change the Face of the Planet in a New Animated Map appeared first on SingularityHub.

1 day ago

Singularity HUB

Watch Earth’s Seasons Change the Face of the Planet in a New Animated Map

New York Times Science

Where and When to See the Blood Moon and Total Lunar Eclipse

People in the Eastern Hemisphere may see Earth’s shadow pass over the lunar surface, covering our world’s natural satellite in a flush of red.

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New York Times Science

Where and When to See the Blood Moon and Total Lunar Eclipse

Singularity HUB

New mRNA Cancer Vaccine Wipes Out Multiple Types of Cancer in Mice

The treatment takes a step towards a universal cancer vaccine by making multiple cancers more susceptible to current immunotherapies. The post New mRNA Cancer Vaccine Wipes Out Multiple Types of Cancer in Mice appeared first on SingularityHub.

2 days ago

Singularity HUB

New mRNA Cancer Vaccine Wipes Out Multiple Types of Cancer in Mice

New York Times Science

Quakes on Mars Reveal New Features of the Planet’s Interior

Using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, two separate teams of researchers found evidence of a sluggish Martian mantle and a solid inner core.

2 days ago

New York Times Science

Quakes on Mars Reveal New Features of the Planet’s Interior

New York Times Science

Could a Pill Fix the Brain?

Neurologists are exploring medications that would help the brain recover after a stroke or traumatic injury.

2 days ago

New York Times Science

Could a Pill Fix the Brain?

WIRED Science

It’s Possible to Remove the Forever Chemicals in Drinking Water. Will It Happen?

New research shows that filtration systems that remove PFAS can also get rid of other harmful substances. Whether they’ll actually be introduced is a different matter entirely.

2 days ago

WIRED Science

It’s Possible to Remove the Forever Chemicals in Drinking Water. Will It Happen?

National Science Foundation

NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory speeds into the design phase

The U.S. National Science Foundation National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NSF NQVL) is coming into sharper focus with the selection of the first four teams that will design high-tech infrastructure...

2 days ago

National Science Foundation

NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory speeds into the design phase

WIRED Science

This Blood Thinner Is More Effective Than Aspirin at Preventing Heart Attacks

Aspirin is commonly prescribed to patients with coronary artery disease to prevent heart attacks and strokes, but a new analysis has found that another drug, clopidogrel, is more effective and just as safe.

2 days ago

WIRED Science

This Blood Thinner Is More Effective Than Aspirin at Preventing Heart Attacks