After many years of attempting a Battlestar Galactica feature film, The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Universal…
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Cause of Alzheimer’s disease traced to mutation in common enzyme
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered a new mechanism by which clumps of tau protein…
RIAA blitz takes down 18 GitHub projects used for downloading YouTube videos | ZDNet
Main target of the takedown was the youtube-dl project, a Python library that had amassed more…
Scientists Found an Ancient Tectonic Plate Buried Deep Inside the Earth’s Mantle – ExtremeTech
Geologists have found the remains of a previous continental plate that had only been theorized to…
Scientists discover new organ in the throat
A secret set of salivary glands has been hiding behind the nose. Read more at livescience.com…
Evidence of broadside collision with dwarf galaxy discovered in Milky Way
Nearly 3 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy plunged into the center of the Milky Way…
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft touches down on asteroid Bennu
The mission marks the space agency’s first landing on an asteroid. Read more at CNET…
A Supernova Exploded Perilously Close To Earth 2.5 Million Years Ago
The Earth has been through a lot in the 4.5 billion or so years it’s been…
A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data
“Less than one”-shot learning can teach a model to identify more objects than the number of…
How to extract structured data from invoices
This blog is a comprehensive overview of techniques for structured key-value pair information extraction from invoices.…
Finally, the First Room-Temperature Superconductor
It conveys electricity in the climate of a crisp fall day, but only under pressures comparable…
It’s 2020 and a rogue ICMPv6 network packet can pwn your Microsoft Windows machine
Redmond urges folks to apply update ASAP – plus more fixes for Outlook and software from…
The Nvidia Geforce RTX 3090 is very good at cracking passwords and that’s bad news
Yet another reason to use strong, complex passwords Read more at TechRadar…
AI Is Throwing Battery Development Into Overdrive
Improving batteries has always been hampered by slow experimentation and discovery processes. Machine learning is speeding…
Still filing your emails? Science says it’s a waste of time | Torsten Bell
Inbox slobs who just leave messages where they land are 10% more productive Read more at…
A powerful iPhone jailbreak also cracks Apple’s Mac security chip
The Checkm8 vulnerability, which could jailbreak generations of iPhones, has now been used against the company’s…
Physicists Just Confirmed The Upper Limit For The Speed of Sound in The Universe
Einstein’s theory of special relativity gave us the speed limit of the Universe – that of…
‘Farewell Convolutions’ – ML Community Applauds Anonymous ICLR 2021 Paper That Uses Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
ICLR 2021 paper An Image Is Worth 16×16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale suggests…
Inside the strange new world of being a deepfake actor
In 2019, two multimedia artists, Francesca Panetta and Halsey Burgund, set about to pursue a provocative…
More people have died from Covid-19 than in the past 5 flu seasons combined
Coronavirus isn’t just deadlier than the flu — it’s also more contagious. These illustrations show why.…