An international consortium of scientists, engineers, urban planners has launched a design competition for a massive multi-generational spaceship that could sustain transport humans on a long journey across the interstellar expanse. And the parameters are wild.
For one, the generation ship needs to be "self-sustaining" to allow the "initial crew" to "live, reproduce, die on the ship, with their descendants continuing the journey until reaching the destination."
In other words: It must be able to support agriculture or an alternative method for growing food, include medical facilities capable of hosting procedures such as childbirth, have ways to handle dead bodies. The ship should be "designed to span 250 years."
Needless to say, the project, organized by Project Hyperion, is more of a brain teaser than anything else. It could take more than 1,000 years to reach the closest star system (Proxima Centauri) with current technology,...
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For one, the generation ship needs to be "self-sustaining" to allow the "initial crew" to "live, reproduce, die on the ship, with their descendants continuing the journey until reaching the destination."
In other words: It must be able to support agriculture or an alternative method for growing food, include medical facilities capable of hosting procedures such as childbirth, have ways to handle dead bodies. The ship should be "designed to span 250 years."
Needless to say, the project, organized by Project Hyperion, is more of a brain teaser than anything else. It could take more than 1,000 years to reach the closest star system (Proxima Centauri) with current technology,...
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Employees at the hot upstart social media platform are looking up at a blue sky. Literally. As in, the name of the chief executive officer of Bluesky means, well, the company's exact name.
Jay Graber's mother, who grew up in China and moved to the United States in the 1980s, named her "Lantian" in Mandarin — which translates directly to "blue sky."
Graber recalled last year that her mother gave her that name "because she wanted me to have boundless freedom. The opportunities she didn't have."
The 33-year-old tech exec was already working for Bluesky when she was offered the top job in 2021. Her profile has risen again this fall as users flocked to the microblogging site, many searching for an off-ramp for the platform formerly known as Twitter.
The name is, however, just a coincidence. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey named Bluesky in 2019, before Graber came on board. But it's nonetheless serendipitous.
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Jay Graber's mother, who grew up in China and moved to the United States in the 1980s, named her "Lantian" in Mandarin — which translates directly to "blue sky."
Graber recalled last year that her mother gave her that name "because she wanted me to have boundless freedom. The opportunities she didn't have."
The 33-year-old tech exec was already working for Bluesky when she was offered the top job in 2021. Her profile has risen again this fall as users flocked to the microblogging site, many searching for an off-ramp for the platform formerly known as Twitter.
The name is, however, just a coincidence. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey named Bluesky in 2019, before Graber came on board. But it's nonetheless serendipitous.
Read what Graber is saying about the...
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Quick: What's a dense, wet, biodiverse, tree-filled ecosystem that at some point or another has seemingly existed on every continent? A rainforest, of course.
We know what you're thinking. Antarctica and all. But scientists have discovered amber in a sediment core recovered thousands of feet below surface of Antarctic, a baffling finding that could indicate existence of an ancient temperate rainforest in now-frozen region.
In a new paper, researchers detailed "first discovery of Antarctic fossil resin." It's believed to date to Cretaceous Period around 90 million years ago.
Back in 2020, same team wrote about prospect of temperate rainforests near South Pole that may have flourished in "one of warmest intervals of past 140 million years." At time, researchers used sedimentary samples recovered from West Antarctic shelf to suggest that rainforests may have existed so far south as to be within Antarctic Circle.
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We know what you're thinking. Antarctica and all. But scientists have discovered amber in a sediment core recovered thousands of feet below surface of Antarctic, a baffling finding that could indicate existence of an ancient temperate rainforest in now-frozen region.
In a new paper, researchers detailed "first discovery of Antarctic fossil resin." It's believed to date to Cretaceous Period around 90 million years ago.
Back in 2020, same team wrote about prospect of temperate rainforests near South Pole that may have flourished in "one of warmest intervals of past 140 million years." At time, researchers used sedimentary samples recovered from West Antarctic shelf to suggest that rainforests may have existed so far south as to be within Antarctic Circle.
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Ancient Egyptians may have lived thousands of years ago, but they let loose in much the same way many of us do today.
Drugs.
Researchers who analyzed the contents of a mug have discovered the first-ever physical evidence that ancient Egyptians got messed up on rowdy cocktails of hallucinogens, findings that lend credence to the centuries-old myths surrounding the rituals and practices of these peoples.
On the interior of the mug, which is housed at a museum in Florida, the researchers found remains of several compounds — "all of which have psychotropic and medicinal properties," one anthropologist said. It once held an astonishing "cocktail of psychedelic drugs, bodily fluids, and alcohol," he added.
But these substances might not have been used exclusively for recreation. See what other scenario experts are pointing to at the link in our bio.
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Drugs.
Researchers who analyzed the contents of a mug have discovered the first-ever physical evidence that ancient Egyptians got messed up on rowdy cocktails of hallucinogens, findings that lend credence to the centuries-old myths surrounding the rituals and practices of these peoples.
On the interior of the mug, which is housed at a museum in Florida, the researchers found remains of several compounds — "all of which have psychotropic and medicinal properties," one anthropologist said. It once held an astonishing "cocktail of psychedelic drugs, bodily fluids, and alcohol," he added.
But these substances might not have been used exclusively for recreation. See what other scenario experts are pointing to at the link in our bio.
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NASA scientists were flying over Greenland, trying toudy the effects of climate change on the Arctic, when they made a chilly discovery: an abandoned "city under the ice" once used to test the feasibility of launching nuclear missiles.
The extremely remote outpost, dubbed Camp Century, includes a massive network of tunnels dug into the surface layers of the ice roughly 150 miles inland. It's not visible from the surface but was captured by the radar instrument aboard NASA's Gulfstream III aircraft.
"We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century," a cryospheric scientist part of the research team said. "We didn’t know what it was at first."
The radar data shows severalructures reaching into the icy surface underneath a 100-foot layer of ice and snow that has accumulated in the half-century since the US Army Corps of Engineers abandoned the site.
Scientists can now see the camp in more detail than ever before. They can also...
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The extremely remote outpost, dubbed Camp Century, includes a massive network of tunnels dug into the surface layers of the ice roughly 150 miles inland. It's not visible from the surface but was captured by the radar instrument aboard NASA's Gulfstream III aircraft.
"We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century," a cryospheric scientist part of the research team said. "We didn’t know what it was at first."
The radar data shows severalructures reaching into the icy surface underneath a 100-foot layer of ice and snow that has accumulated in the half-century since the US Army Corps of Engineers abandoned the site.
Scientists can now see the camp in more detail than ever before. They can also...
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The next innovation in personal hygiene might treat you like your gnarly frying pan after a particularly messy meal. Meet the "human washing machine of the future."
A Japanese showerhead company is set to debut the dishwasher-like machine, which will wash and dry willingmans in about 15 minutes, at an exposition next year. And it's touting benefits beyond just a new, if awfully strange way, to move beyond the old-school shower.
A newspaper reported that "sensors scanning the person's back measure their levels of stress and fatigue, and in response, the device outputs imagery in pace with their state of body and mind to create a relaxing space for them."
Imagine that: A device that resembles a hypersleep chamber from Aliens (1986) to an uncomfortable degree is not only washing you, it's making sure you exit the pod more relaxed than you entered it.
The concept may sound futuristic, but its roots date back half a century. In fact, the first-ever...
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A Japanese showerhead company is set to debut the dishwasher-like machine, which will wash and dry willingmans in about 15 minutes, at an exposition next year. And it's touting benefits beyond just a new, if awfully strange way, to move beyond the old-school shower.
A newspaper reported that "sensors scanning the person's back measure their levels of stress and fatigue, and in response, the device outputs imagery in pace with their state of body and mind to create a relaxing space for them."
Imagine that: A device that resembles a hypersleep chamber from Aliens (1986) to an uncomfortable degree is not only washing you, it's making sure you exit the pod more relaxed than you entered it.
The concept may sound futuristic, but its roots date back half a century. In fact, the first-ever...
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It makes no sensehat a light can cast a shadow. It's also somethinghat just happened.
Conventional knowledge presupposeshat ifwo light beams cross, nothing of note happens. But researchers foundhat a narrow green laser beam, when shothrough a larger blue laser beam inside a ruby crystal, created a shadow.
"Our demonstration of a very counter-intuitive optical effect invites uso reconsider our notion of shadow," one researcher, Raphael Abrahao, said.
To makehe discovery,heeam shot a high-power green laserhrough a cube-shaped ruby crystal,hen directed a different blue laserhroughhe same material at a perpendicular angle. Lo and behold, sensor readings showed a shadow inhe shape of ...he green laser beam.
In simpleerms,hat laser acted more like an objecthan a beam of light. The researchers measured a maximum contrast of around 22 percent,he rough equivalent ofhe shadow aree casts on a sunny day.
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Conventional knowledge presupposeshat ifwo light beams cross, nothing of note happens. But researchers foundhat a narrow green laser beam, when shothrough a larger blue laser beam inside a ruby crystal, created a shadow.
"Our demonstration of a very counter-intuitive optical effect invites uso reconsider our notion of shadow," one researcher, Raphael Abrahao, said.
To makehe discovery,heeam shot a high-power green laserhrough a cube-shaped ruby crystal,hen directed a different blue laserhroughhe same material at a perpendicular angle. Lo and behold, sensor readings showed a shadow inhe shape of ...he green laser beam.
In simpleerms,hat laser acted more like an objecthan a beam of light. The researchers measured a maximum contrast of around 22 percent,he rough equivalent ofhe shadow aree casts on a sunny day.
See whathis means forhe future of light at...
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A groundbreaking study found that recirculating a cocktail of preserving agents through a severed pig’s head caused the animal’s brain to show signs of life.
While the pig brain wasn’t exactly oinking at the farm after the treatment, its basic cellular functions were restored, something that was previously thought impossible following the cessation of blood flow.
Now, some scientists are looking to try the technique on human brains — efforts that could have thorny ethical ramifications.
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While the pig brain wasn’t exactly oinking at the farm after the treatment, its basic cellular functions were restored, something that was previously thought impossible following the cessation of blood flow.
Now, some scientists are looking to try the technique on human brains — efforts that could have thorny ethical ramifications.
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Lighten up, people: a fascinating new paper has dropped that describes the shape of a single photon, the smallest possible form of energy in an electromagnetic field that we commonly know as light.
The work goes into extreme detail to predict how these quanta of light are emitted by atoms and defined by their environment. There are limitless possibilities for how those interactions could unfold, but the researchers say they’ve developed a practical method for predicting them.
“Our calculations enabled us to convert a seemingly insolvable problem into something that can be computed,” said study lead author Benjamin Yuen, a physicist at the University of Birmingham. “And, almost as a byproduct of the model, we were able to produce this image of a photon, something that hasn’t been seen before in physics.”
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The work goes into extreme detail to predict how these quanta of light are emitted by atoms and defined by their environment. There are limitless possibilities for how those interactions could unfold, but the researchers say they’ve developed a practical method for predicting them.
“Our calculations enabled us to convert a seemingly insolvable problem into something that can be computed,” said study lead author Benjamin Yuen, a physicist at the University of Birmingham. “And, almost as a byproduct of the model, we were able to produce this image of a photon, something that hasn’t been seen before in physics.”
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Scientists have made a big-brain discovery about past humans, and we mean that literally. Researchers are suggesting that a "large-headed"oup of extinct humans once lived at the same time as homo sapiens hundreds of millennia ago.
Two experts say that bone fragments currently ascribed to a subspecies of archaic humans should actually be assigned to their own species. That archaicoup, known as Denisovans, lived across Asia from 285,000 to 25,000 years ago.
This new species, which could've lived as far back as 300,000 years ago, likely hunted wild horses in smalloups, made tools from stone, and used animal hides for survival.
"I think the record is more expansive than most specialists have been assuming," wrote a paleontologist uninvolved with this research.
It's the latest example, the study authors say, of how our understanding of evolution is changing as the fossil recordows.
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Two experts say that bone fragments currently ascribed to a subspecies of archaic humans should actually be assigned to their own species. That archaicoup, known as Denisovans, lived across Asia from 285,000 to 25,000 years ago.
This new species, which could've lived as far back as 300,000 years ago, likely hunted wild horses in smalloups, made tools from stone, and used animal hides for survival.
"I think the record is more expansive than most specialists have been assuming," wrote a paleontologist uninvolved with this research.
It's the latest example, the study authors say, of how our understanding of evolution is changing as the fossil recordows.
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Savvy internet users have figured out how to stump ChatGPT, and it doesn't require inputting a long string of weird characters or trying to trick the system. All it takes is entering an unremarkable name: David Mayer.
Write a message including the name, and the most prominent AI chatbot gives a puzzling reply: "I'm unable to produce a response." Then the chat abruptly ends, and users must open a new window to keep using the bot.
The company has said nothing about what's going on, and netizens have yet to find an obviouson why.
There's a mildly prominent adventurer by that name who happens to be the heir to a banking fortune, spawning several far-fetched conspiracy theories. Some people are pointing to a Chechen ISIS member who used the name as an alias, speculating OpenAI blocked the name for that reason.
And David Mayer isn't the only one. At least eight other names prompt a similar response, though there seem to be more obvious...
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Write a message including the name, and the most prominent AI chatbot gives a puzzling reply: "I'm unable to produce a response." Then the chat abruptly ends, and users must open a new window to keep using the bot.
The company has said nothing about what's going on, and netizens have yet to find an obviouson why.
There's a mildly prominent adventurer by that name who happens to be the heir to a banking fortune, spawning several far-fetched conspiracy theories. Some people are pointing to a Chechen ISIS member who used the name as an alias, speculating OpenAI blocked the name for that reason.
And David Mayer isn't the only one. At least eight other names prompt a similar response, though there seem to be more obvious...
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A research consortium has made a stunning finding: A significant share of dementia cases can be treated or even cured, because they're caused by fungus and bacteria in the brain.
In a paper published last year, the researchers outlined several cases in which people with dementia symptoms were found to have infections in their brains. When they took antiviral or antifungal medications, those symptoms abated.
Many of the people whose cases the consortium studied, one researcher said, essentially discovered the link by accident when their dementia symptoms "went away" after being treated with the drugs.
One of the main drivers behind this discovery was not a professional scientist but a 30-something pharmaceutical representative, Nikki Schultek, who suddenly developed debilitating cognitive symptoms. Eventually, she figured out that she had concurring chronic infections from a bacteria that causes Lyme disease — and one of them had reached her...
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In a paper published last year, the researchers outlined several cases in which people with dementia symptoms were found to have infections in their brains. When they took antiviral or antifungal medications, those symptoms abated.
Many of the people whose cases the consortium studied, one researcher said, essentially discovered the link by accident when their dementia symptoms "went away" after being treated with the drugs.
One of the main drivers behind this discovery was not a professional scientist but a 30-something pharmaceutical representative, Nikki Schultek, who suddenly developed debilitating cognitive symptoms. Eventually, she figured out that she had concurring chronic infections from a bacteria that causes Lyme disease — and one of them had reached her...
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You could one day drive a car powered by an unsightly, beach-tarring, environmentally harmful substance. Seaweed, of course.
A group of scientists in the Caribbean recently launched the first-ever vehicles converted to run on sargassum, an invasive seaweed that has turned popular beaches into an unsightly mess, and they're optimistic about its future.
First, experts put mounds of the brown, sludgy weed inside a bioreactor with rum distillery wastewater to make a biogas. Then, they use a conversion kit that can turn a conventional gas-powered car into one that runs on the seaweed product.
Researchers at the University of the West Indies in Barbados — where the sargassum invasion is a national emergency — have developed such a kit for just $2,500.
The group is now working to scale up their efforts. See what's next at the link in our bio.
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A group of scientists in the Caribbean recently launched the first-ever vehicles converted to run on sargassum, an invasive seaweed that has turned popular beaches into an unsightly mess, and they're optimistic about its future.
First, experts put mounds of the brown, sludgy weed inside a bioreactor with rum distillery wastewater to make a biogas. Then, they use a conversion kit that can turn a conventional gas-powered car into one that runs on the seaweed product.
Researchers at the University of the West Indies in Barbados — where the sargassum invasion is a national emergency — have developed such a kit for just $2,500.
The group is now working to scale up their efforts. See what's next at the link in our bio.
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Just over a year before United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered in Midtown Manhattan this week, the insurance company he helmed was sued for using an AI algorithm to override claims that had been approved.
The estates of two former UHC patients allege that the company used nH Predict to deny claims to elderly patients that had been approved by their doctors — despite knowing that it had an error rate of 90 percent.
As that lawsuit makes its way through the courts, anger regarding the massive insurer's predilection towards denying claims has only grown, and speculation about the assassin's motives suggests that he may have been among those upset with UHC's coverage.
Police have not identified a suspect in the Wednesday morning shooting, but the gunman reportedly wrote the words "deny," "defend," and "depose" on the shell casing of bullets used in the killing — words that bear a striking resemblance to practices used in the insurance...
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The estates of two former UHC patients allege that the company used nH Predict to deny claims to elderly patients that had been approved by their doctors — despite knowing that it had an error rate of 90 percent.
As that lawsuit makes its way through the courts, anger regarding the massive insurer's predilection towards denying claims has only grown, and speculation about the assassin's motives suggests that he may have been among those upset with UHC's coverage.
Police have not identified a suspect in the Wednesday morning shooting, but the gunman reportedly wrote the words "deny," "defend," and "depose" on the shell casing of bullets used in the killing — words that bear a striking resemblance to practices used in the insurance...
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Haliey Welch, who you know as "The Hawk Tuah Girl," has been in the news for running what seems like almost certainly a cryptocurrency scam. But there is one unlawful act she has unquestionably committed: not naming said currency spitcoin.
Welch this week launched a Solana-based memecoin called "$HAWK," a glaring oversight that, for reasons we cannot comprehend, neither she nor her advisors appeared to think of.
On a serious note, online commentators are fuming at Welch because the coin has the hallmarks of a pump and dump scheme. It soared to a peak market cap of $490 million soon after launch, then plummeted more than 90 percent.
Welch denied any wrongdoing and said she attempted to "stop snipers," but one crypto wallet managed to snap up 17.5 percent of the supply and make a lightning-fast $1.3 million profit.
It's the latest only-in-2024 moment for Welch, who burst onto the scene earlier this year when a video of her explaining her fellatio...
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Welch this week launched a Solana-based memecoin called "$HAWK," a glaring oversight that, for reasons we cannot comprehend, neither she nor her advisors appeared to think of.
On a serious note, online commentators are fuming at Welch because the coin has the hallmarks of a pump and dump scheme. It soared to a peak market cap of $490 million soon after launch, then plummeted more than 90 percent.
Welch denied any wrongdoing and said she attempted to "stop snipers," but one crypto wallet managed to snap up 17.5 percent of the supply and make a lightning-fast $1.3 million profit.
It's the latest only-in-2024 moment for Welch, who burst onto the scene earlier this year when a video of her explaining her fellatio...
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Fast radio bursts, discharges of energy so powerful they can release in one millisecond what the Sun emits in three days, have long confounded scientists. But one group of researchers believe they may have an explanation for how they form: collisions between asteroids and neutron stars.
To reach their conclusions, these experts estimated the number of interstellar asteroid collisions with neutron stars, and concluded that it appeared to correlate with the estimated number of FRBs, which emanate from the furthest reaches of outer space, observed in the universe.
That fact makes this theory of FRB origins potentially more promising than others that have been floated, like neutron stars slamming into each other or even black holes. A asteroid-neutron star collision would release less energy than those others — but still an unfathomably large amount.
Read more details about the theory, including some nearly incomprehensible numbers, at the link in our...
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To reach their conclusions, these experts estimated the number of interstellar asteroid collisions with neutron stars, and concluded that it appeared to correlate with the estimated number of FRBs, which emanate from the furthest reaches of outer space, observed in the universe.
That fact makes this theory of FRB origins potentially more promising than others that have been floated, like neutron stars slamming into each other or even black holes. A asteroid-neutron star collision would release less energy than those others — but still an unfathomably large amount.
Read more details about the theory, including some nearly incomprehensible numbers, at the link in our...
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The suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was reportedly carrying a several-page document when he was arrested — and it offers promise of fleshing out worldview that drove him to murder a healthcare executive in broad daylight.
A police official who viewed document found with Luigi Mangione at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania on Monday said it was two pages long and included phrase "these parasites had it coming."
"I do apologize for any strife and trauma," missive reportedly reads, "but it had to be done."
The document also claimed that protest was ineffective and that violence was only answer.
Social media accounts linked to suspect, meanwhile, show how Mangione, a prep school valedictorian and Ivy League graduate found nearly 300 miles from site of Wednesday shooting, apparently morphed from disgruntled academic to angry manarchist over course of this year.
See more about his arrest at...
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A police official who viewed document found with Luigi Mangione at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania on Monday said it was two pages long and included phrase "these parasites had it coming."
"I do apologize for any strife and trauma," missive reportedly reads, "but it had to be done."
The document also claimed that protest was ineffective and that violence was only answer.
Social media accounts linked to suspect, meanwhile, show how Mangione, a prep school valedictorian and Ivy League graduate found nearly 300 miles from site of Wednesday shooting, apparently morphed from disgruntled academic to angry manarchist over course of this year.
See more about his arrest at...
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The suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was reportedly carrying a several-page document when he was arrested — and it offers promise of fleshing out worldview that drove him to murder a healthcare executive in broad daylight.
A police official who viewed document found with Luigi Mangione at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania on Monday said it was two pages long and included phrase "these parasites had it coming."
"I do apologize for any strife and trauma," missive reportedly reads, "but it had to be done."
The document also claimed that protest was ineffective and that violence was only answer.
Social media accounts linked to suspect, meanwhile, show how Mangione, a prep school valedictorian and Ivy League graduate found nearly 300 miles from site of Wednesday shooting, apparently morphed from disgruntled academic to angry manarchist over course of this year.
See more about his arrest at...
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A police official who viewed document found with Luigi Mangione at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania on Monday said it was two pages long and included phrase "these parasites had it coming."
"I do apologize for any strife and trauma," missive reportedly reads, "but it had to be done."
The document also claimed that protest was ineffective and that violence was only answer.
Social media accounts linked to suspect, meanwhile, show how Mangione, a prep school valedictorian and Ivy League graduate found nearly 300 miles from site of Wednesday shooting, apparently morphed from disgruntled academic to angry manarchist over course of this year.
See more about his arrest at...
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OpenAI's latest AI is showing signs of a drive for self-preservation. That's according to third-party researchers who say the company's o1 large language model resisted efforts to try to shut it down through an oversight protocol.
In some cases, the AI even lashed out when it realized it might be replaced with a more obedient model: o1, red teaming organization Apollo Research said, attempted to copy itself to overwrite the new model.
These scenarios occurred a minority of the time — resisting shutdown efforts five percent of the time and seeking to copy itself in two percent of cases. Those slim shares are nevertheless meaningful proportions given millions of people use OpenAI products.
This is far from the first AI model to scheme, of course, but experts say o1 is on a different scale to previous ones.
"In our suite, o1 showed the most concerning instances of scheming but does not reveal its internal reasoning to the user and remains the most...
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In some cases, the AI even lashed out when it realized it might be replaced with a more obedient model: o1, red teaming organization Apollo Research said, attempted to copy itself to overwrite the new model.
These scenarios occurred a minority of the time — resisting shutdown efforts five percent of the time and seeking to copy itself in two percent of cases. Those slim shares are nevertheless meaningful proportions given millions of people use OpenAI products.
This is far from the first AI model to scheme, of course, but experts say o1 is on a different scale to previous ones.
"In our suite, o1 showed the most concerning instances of scheming but does not reveal its internal reasoning to the user and remains the most...
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On the same day UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed in Midtown Manhattan, a fellow healthcare chief executive made some striking comments defending the very practices Americans have been criticizing en masse.
"Our role is a critical role, and we make sure care is safe, appropriate, and is delivered when people need it," UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty said in an internal virtual address seen by journalist Ken Klippenstein. "And we guard against the pressures exist for unsafe care or for unnecessary care to be delivered in a way which makes the whole system too complex and ultimately unsustainable."
Witty's "unnecessary care" remark drew a swift rebuke from online critics. One recalled how a brain surgery was deemed unnecessary because it was a "cosmetic" issue. Another said his mother couldn't get a necessary medication without trying a different one first — leading her to become temporarily blind.
The data shows...
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"Our role is a critical role, and we make sure care is safe, appropriate, and is delivered when people need it," UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty said in an internal virtual address seen by journalist Ken Klippenstein. "And we guard against the pressures exist for unsafe care or for unnecessary care to be delivered in a way which makes the whole system too complex and ultimately unsustainable."
Witty's "unnecessary care" remark drew a swift rebuke from online critics. One recalled how a brain surgery was deemed unnecessary because it was a "cosmetic" issue. Another said his mother couldn't get a necessary medication without trying a different one first — leading her to become temporarily blind.
The data shows...
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Google says its recently unveiled quantumuter chip can do "astonishing" things, and it has an eyebrow-raising explanation for how: It may be tapping into parallel universes.
The chip, dubbed Willow, rapidlyleted autation that "one of today’s fastest supercomputers" would need 10 septillion years to finish, theany said. As executives were keen to note, that's longer than the age of the universe.
"It lends credence to the notion that quantumutation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch," Google's Quantum AI founder wrote in a blog post. Deutsch is a physicist who laid out his multiverse hypothesis in a 1997 book in which he suggested that quantumuters' calculations take place across multiple universes at the same time.
The claim isn't going down so well on the internet. Some commentators have pointed out that the calculation Willowleted isn't useful in any tangible...
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The chip, dubbed Willow, rapidlyleted autation that "one of today’s fastest supercomputers" would need 10 septillion years to finish, theany said. As executives were keen to note, that's longer than the age of the universe.
"It lends credence to the notion that quantumutation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch," Google's Quantum AI founder wrote in a blog post. Deutsch is a physicist who laid out his multiverse hypothesis in a 1997 book in which he suggested that quantumuters' calculations take place across multiple universes at the same time.
The claim isn't going down so well on the internet. Some commentators have pointed out that the calculation Willowleted isn't useful in any tangible...
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