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- Scarlett Johansson takes legal action against OpenAI for new ChatGPT voice that sounds remarkably like her character from the movie Her. It’s almost like these AI companies have a problem with consent…
- Lifting the veil on near-death experiences.
- For the ancient Maya, cracked mirrors were a portal to the world beyond.
- Solving the mystery of the dancing honey bees.
- That time the U.S. tried to win World War II with radioactive foxes.
- The ‘dead internet theory’ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister.
- The Windover bog bodies – why were 177 corpses older than the pyramids found in a pond?
- Single brain implant restores bilingual communication to paralyzed man.
- The enigmatic ‘brain microbiome‘ could play a role in neurological disease.
- The rare Earth hypothesis: a hotly debated solution to the Fermi Paradox.
- Bizarre ‘lenticular’ galaxy surrounded by dark matter captured in new Hubble image.
- America’s first black astronaut candidate finally goes to space 63 years later, becoming the oldest person to go.
Quote of the Day:
Let’s stop calling it Artificial Intelligence and call it what it is: Plagiarism Software.
Noam Chomsky
