Mark Zuckerberg. Credit: Meta Meta's new prototype chatbot (BlenderBot 3) has told the BBC that Mark Zuckerberg is exploiting users for money. Meta claims the chatbot makes use of artificial intelligence and can converse about "nearly any topic". While asking about the chatbot's thoughts on the firm's CEO and founder, it responded to the BBC reporter: "our...
A 99-million-year-old piece of amber trapped this worker hell ant grasping an ancient relative of modern cockroaches in its unique jaws, which swung upwards unlike all modern ants. The 99-million-yr-old ant had scythe-like jaws that swung upward to pin prey against a horn-like head appendage. Some 99 million years back, an ant, unlike any alive today,...
Credit: Guido Mieth/Getty Images Doctors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say an abnormally high number of harmful viral infections have been detected among infants throughout the United States this year, including one uncommonly large cluster of almost two dozen cases at a single hospital in Tennessee. The infections- a result of a typical...
A vandalized pipeline in Nigeria The Ashcraft Centre for Social Science Research has expressed its condemnation of the destruction of national assets, particularly in the telecommunications, oil and gas, transportation, and power sectors. In response to this situation, the group has organized a zonal summit in Port Harcourt to address the legal responsibility of stakeholders...
The all-in-one Camper, Trike, and Boat The BeTriton, a Latvian-made recreational vehicle, intends to transform the way individuals travel locally. As founder and CEO Aigars Lauzis puts it, "instead of globe-trotting and hopping on planes, you would really travel and engage with the surrounding landscapes around where you are." The inspiration for BeTriton came to Aigars Lauzis...
The commitments by telecoms firms include allowing customers struggling with bills to move to cheaper packages without charge or penalty. Credit: Rui Vieira/PA The UK's broadband and biggest mobile companies have agreed on a strategy to help consumers struggling to pay bills amid the cost of living crisis, including moving to permit switching to cheaper deals...
Credit: Caiaimage/Chris Ryan As parents, we all want to create intelligent and focused kids, especially in a world where digital distraction seems inescapable. (Also, tech titans like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have strategies for restricting their children's screen time.). Why? Because in the future, there will undoubtedly be two kinds of people in the world:...
Credit: durantelallera/Shutterstock A study looks to find the reason for males having more upper-body mass than women. The research is based on the assumption that men have been fighters for so long that evolution has chosen those best equipped for the task. If men combated other men, winners would have survived and reproduced, losers not...
Smart people are not afraid to say "I don't know." In the age of social networks and rolling information, there's a continuous pressure to be in the know, always available with an aperçus or two (2). Today, intellectual humility, therefore, feels more significant than ever-- having the insight and honesty to hold your hands up and...
Whether they are studying bioinformatics, history, or astrophysics, Ph.D. recipients in France will have to take an integrity oath on the day they efficiently defend their thesis in what seems to be the very first national initiative of its kind. Few scientists in France or somewhere else believe the oath alone is most likely...
