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The Grand Canyon is known as a world-renowned tourist destination for its breathtaking vistas and outdoor adventures. But within the striated canyon walls, a hidden world of microscopic marvels reveals the region’s role as an evolutionary hotbed teeming with prehistoric life. In a study published in July, researchers from the University of Cambridge announced a first-of-its-kind discovery of thousands of …
Read More »A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like N.B.A. Stars. The New York Times Not a single person has accepted the offer: Mira Murati on her team rejecting Mark Zuckerberg’s $1 billio The Times of India Mark Zuckerberg Details Meta’s Plan for Self-Improving, Superintelligent AI WIRED AI researcher ‘turns down $1bn pay offer from Mark Zuckerberg’ The Telegraph Why AI researchers are …
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Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge. Today, I’m joined by Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter. We’re talking about the AI talent wars and why some researchers are suddenly getting traded like they’re NBA superstars. If you’ve been paying attention at all to the AI …
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Meet the potato’s unexpected ancestor: the tomato. That’s right, a fruit. Potatoes and tomatoes don’t look alike, smell alike or taste alike, but in a study published Thursday in the journal Cell, scientists said that the potato evolved from a tomato ancestor around 9 million years ago. “We’ve finally solved the mystery of where potatoes came from,” corresponding author Sanwen …
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As companies like Amazon publicly announced AI-driven workforce reductions, workers are scrambling to understand which careers might soon disappear and be outsourced to technology. A new report from Microsoft researchers studying the occupational implications of generative AI, offers some clarity. Translators, historians, and writers are among the roles with the highest AI applicability score, meaning the job’s tasks are most …
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When it comes to the senses, there could not be a greater difference between Friday night chips and juicy Mediterranean tomatoes. However, scientists have discovered that these two foods are not so far from each other after all. Landmark research has found the potato evolved from a tomato ancestor nearly 9 million years ago. Wild tomatoes, which grew in the …
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A paper describing the findings of the study was published July 29 in Nature. Zou and John Pak, PhD, a scientist at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, are the senior authors of the paper. Kyle Swanson, a computer science graduate student at Stanford University, is the lead author. Running a virtual lab The virtual lab begins a research project just like any …
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Israeli researchers find way to boost cancer-fighting The Jerusalem Post Powering up T cells: A new path in cancer immunotherapy Medical Xpress T cells require mitochondria to proliferate, function and generate memory Nature Mitochondria Support T-cells Proliferation and Memory Formation Northwestern University Source link
Read More »A team of researchers in California drew notoriety last year with an aborted experiment on a retired aircraft carrier that sought to test a machine for creating clouds. But behind the scenes, they were planning a much larger and potentially riskier study of salt water-spraying equipment that could eventually be used to dim the sun’s rays — a multimillion-dollar project …
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