Every season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has exactly one very silly Vulcan-focused episode. Spock (Ethan Peck) and his fiancé accidentally swap bodies after doing a mind-meld ceremony in season 1’s “Spock Amok.” Highly advanced aliens turn Spock into a human in season 2’s “Charades.” The season 3 episode “Four-and-a-Half Vulcans” instead turns four of the Enterprise’s human crew …
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In an early scene from Netflix’s new film adaptation of The Thursday Murder Club, about a quartet of senior citizen crime solvers, retired spy Elizabeth (Helen Mirren) and retired nurse Joyce (Celia Imrie)—the former in a lumpy cardigan with a scarf tied around her hair—approach the village police station. Joyce enthuses about the trick the pair are about to play on the …
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CHICAGO — Heatwaves aren’t the only thing that have driven up ComEd bills this summer. Electricity rates went up this summer thanks, in part, to increasing demand for electrical power brought on by the explosion of artificial intelligence — and their required data centers — across the country, experts said. Companies that provide cloud computing and artificial intelligence services — …
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It is hard to deny that Sydney Sweeney has some big things in front of her, but back-to-back box office bombs were probably not part of the plan for 2025. While Sweeney found huge success with the sleeper hit Anyone But You, pushed along by a flurry of tabloid headlines about her possible real-life romantic link with leading man Glen …
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Thirty-two-year-old Charlotte Chapman-Hart experienced ear-splitting headaches from the age of thirteen, leading to multiple incorrect dietary disorder-related diagnoses. It would take eight years before doctors discovered that she had cysts on her backbone and her brain was pressing down on her spinal column. Despite the pain, she continued dancing ballet during this period and graduated from university with a health …
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A survey of doctors released Wednesday showed how pervasive medical falsehoods have become — not only online, but also within the walls of medical exam rooms where doctors and patients talk. The survey from the Physicians Foundation, a nonprofit research group, found that 61% of doctors said they encountered patients influenced by misinformation or disinformation a moderate amount or a …
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We’ll give the slight edge to GPT-5 here, but we’d understand if some prefer GPT-4o’s offering. Public figures Prompt: Give me a short biography of Kyle Orland GPT-5 gives a short bio of your humble author. OpenAI / ArsTechnica GPT-5 gives a short bio of your humble author. OpenAI / ArsTechnica GPT-5’s bio, continued. OpenAI / ArsTechnica GPT-5’s bio, continued. …
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Artificial intelligence tools have been shown to help doctors detect pre-cancerous growths in the colon—but don’t even think about taking those tools away once you’ve introduced them. A new study published this week in The Lancet found that doctors who are given AI tools to assist with identifying potential cancer risks in patients get worse at making those same observations …
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