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[:es]Study Finds Women and Minorities in STEM Are Discriminated Against, to the Shock of No One[:]

Diversity efforts in science and technology aren’t successfully combating discrimination, finds Pew Research Center.
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[:es]Someone Programmed an Arduino Board with a Worm’s Brain[:]

302 simulated roundworm neurons running on a cheap hobbyist hardware platform.
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[:es]Study That Claimed AI Could Determine a Person’s Sexuality Is Under Ethical Review[:]

The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology is reexamining a Stanford study after it received significant backlash.
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[:eu]Today’s Kids Could Live Through Machine Superintelligence, Martian Colonies, and a Nuclear Attack[:]

If humanity realizes the best possible future, we could quite possibly usher in an era of unprecedented human flourishing, happiness, and value. But if the great experiment of civilization fails, […]
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[:eu]Monster Icebergs Crowding Canada’s Coast Are Likely Harbingers of Climate Change[:]

They’re a beautiful sight, and a looming reminder of our changing planet.
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[:eu]Can We Turn Our Intuition Into a Real-Life Superpower?[:]

US military scientists are trying to identify where “gut feelings” come from in an effort to create the perfect soldiers.
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[:eu]This Kaleidoscopic Visualization Maps Earth’s Mysterious Magnetic Anomalies[:]

Our planet is sculpted by hidden magnetic flourishes.
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[:eu]NASA Will Create the Coldest Spot in the Known Universe Onboard the ISS[:]

This summer, NASA scientists will create the chillest zone in the known universe inside of cooler-sized payload, appropriately named the Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL). The small suite of instruments is […]
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[:eu]The Real Threat Is Machine Incompetence, Not Intelligence[:]

There is a real AI threat, but it’s not human-like machine intelligence gone amok. Quite the opposite: the danger is instead shitty AI. Incompetent, bumbling machines.