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How to spot fake reviews online (www.bbc.com)

Worldcoin says will allow companies, governments to use its ID system (finance.yahoo.com)

After 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives (lailluminator.com)

This new malware is going after Facebook Business accounts (www.techradar.com)

Estate of Henrietta Lacks reaches settlement with biotech company for nonconsensual use of her cells in medical research (www.cnn.com)

Estate of Henrietta Lacks reaches settlement with biotech company for nonconsensual use of her cells in medical research::The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells have been used for scientific research for decades, reached a settlement Tuesday with the biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific, the family’s...

Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing (www.tomshardware.com)

Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing::It’s been a rough few days in the condensed matter physics realm following claims of the world’s first room-temperature superconductor being achieved. However, work to verify and replicate the results

The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor (arxiv.org)

Human Powered Air Compressor and Energy Storage System | Low Tech Magazine (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

Heat pumps sold so fast in Maine, the state just upped its target (www.canarymedia.com)

Heat pumps sold so fast in Maine, the state just upped its target::undefined

Erection Tech Is Rising as Younger Patients Treat Dysfunction with AI (www.vice.com)

Meta releases AudioCraft AI tool to create music from text (www.reuters.com)

China considers limiting kids' smartphone time to two hours per day | Younger children would face even stricter terms. (www.engadget.com)

China considers limiting kids’ smartphone time to two hours per day | Younger children would face even stricter terms.::China is mulling a two-hour daily limit on phone screen time for anyone under 18…

Alleged video of LK-99 fully afloat (nitter.net)

"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate (www.salon.com)

Google’s generative search feature now shows related videos and images (techcrunch.com)

Hackers steal Signal, WhatsApp user data with fake Android chat app (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Hackers are using a fake Android app named ‘SafeChat’ to infect devices with spyware malware that steals call logs, texts, and GPS locations from phones....

FBI Made 'Inappropriate Use' of Foreign Surveillance Program To Spy on Americans (reason.com)

Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel (scitechdaily.com)

Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel::Researchers have developed a highly robust material with an extremely low density by constructing a structure using DNA and subsequently coating it in glass. Materials possessing both strength and lightness have the potential to enhance...

Hacking group plans system to encrypt social media and other apps (www.washingtonpost.com)

Nvidia released a paper about a 100KB text-to-image model that only trained for 4 minutes but claims to be better than bigger models (research.nvidia.com)

They also claim that it only takes about 8 seconds to generate various good images.

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