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This App Can Diagnose Rare Diseases From a Child’s Face

In 2012, Moti Shniberg sold his face recognition startup to Facebook and started looking for a new challenge. “We wanted to take our expertise and…

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Are These Chimpanzees Using Insects as Medicine?

In 2019, Alessandra Mascaro, a research assistant at the Loango Chimpanzee Project, was filming the chimps for fun when she saw a female named Suzee…

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Watch Today’s iPhone Launch Event Right Here

Another possibility is a new 13-inch MacBook Pro, likely with an option that utilizes Apple’s latest processor, the M2 chip. There’s also a possible successor…

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High-Difficulty Games Don’t Have to Be Toxic

Leaving the mechanical to the side for the moment, interpretive and affective difficulty are hard to disentangle. Scholars have long debated how the two relate:…

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War Is Calling Crypto’s ‘Neutrality’ Into Question

Whose side is cryptocurrency on? If you had asked Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous person (or persons) who created the Bitcoin platform in 2008, he/they likely…

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‘I’m the Operator’: The Aftermath of a Self-Driving Tragedy

The media descended on the story the next day. Right away, experts were quoted lambasting Arizona’s lax regulatory environment, calling for a national moratorium on…

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‘Radically Different’: This Could Be The Most Accurate Flat World Map Ever Made

Admit it. We all have our favorite world map, where the place we call home sits right at the center. When that world map is…

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Astronomers Identify The Largest Molecule Ever Found in a Planet-Forming Disk

The largest molecule yet found in a roiling disk of dust and gas around a baby star has been identified, scientists report. In this swirling…

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Cellular ‘Rejuvenation’ Experiment in Mice Reverses Signs of Aging, Scientists Say

With age comes experience. And with experience come sore backs, tired bones, and increased risks from a large number of diseases. Scientists have long been…

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The Great Tech Hub Exodus Didn’t Quite Happen

Last October a local couple from the small midwestern city of Greensburg, Indiana offered to be people’s grandparents on demand. The couple, Tami and Dan…

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