Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy
Last month, we reported on a troubling incident at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in New Orleans. On June 5, five leading scientists were ousted for…
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Mosquito-killing drone blasts bloodsuckers to bits
The buzzing sound outside isn’t a blood-sucking mosquito. It’s a mosquito’s worst nightmare. That’s the goal, at least, for French startup Tornyol. The company is building a tiny, autonomous quadcopter…
Legendary WW2 submarine heads to Wisconsin for major facelift
One of the most decorated submarines of World War II is finally receiving some much needed restoration work. The USS Silversides recently arrived at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay,…
The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science
Climate change is being driven largely by the greenhouse gases we’ve pumped into the atmosphere, which trap more of the Sun’s energy there. That added energy increases the odds of…
HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs
The Indian government has fined HP India and its partners a total of 1.4 billion rupees (about $14.4 million) for working with reseller partners in the “cartelization” of computers, ink…
Now, even Russia’s most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices
One of the Russian government’s most elite hacking groups has adopted an attack, known as Clickfix, to compromise devices belonging to sensitive organizations in Ukraine, the latter country’s CERT center…
This font uses an optical illusion to hide from AI
Despite increasing pushback from the public and some lawmakers, there still isn’t much preventing tech companies from training their generative artificial intelligence programs on internet content without the author’s consent.…
We’ve seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet’s atmosphere
Most of the gas in the Universe is a mixture of hydrogen and helium. It’s thought that the initial atmospheres of most planets also start out that way. However, over…
Could China and Russia really destroy Starlink? Only with a boomerang.
One week ago, three widely respected European news outlets published the results of an investigation into what they described as a “joint plan” by China and Russia to “defeat Elon…
Ontario Wildfire Smoke Moves East
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