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For many people, the aroma of freshly brewed coffee is the start of a great day. But caffeine can cause headaches and jitters in others. That’s why many people reach for a decaffeinated cup instead. I’m a chemistry professor who…

When Pradhanang found a trash mix that could be fashioned into a platform and resist breaking down with age, she began talking to her colleagues in Nepal. By 2021, they had secured $78,000 in funding from the Asia-Pacific Network for…

When Reddit said last month it would block unauthorized data scraping from its site, most of us assumed it was to tackle chatbot training. It turns out the site/service/fandom battleground also appears to be blocking search engines other than Brave…

Tycho Brahe is best known as a Danish Renaissance astronomer. But he was also a bit of an alchemist, and a first-ever analysis on shards found at his former home from the 1500s has shed some light on just what…

The Google Pixel 9 series is expected to come in three sizes with a vanilla Pixel 9 joined by the Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL. Evan Blass shared an additional set of renders for all three devices…

Nine in 10 of IT leaders have said that the risk and severity of cyber-attacks has increased over the past year, while 61% believe the attack surface is now ‘impossible to control’, according to a new report from Appsbroker CTS.…

The collaboration between Nintendo and LEGO has been growing at an exponential rate ever since we got our first look at Mario in brick form way back in 2020. In 2024, there’s not only been a plethora of Mario-focused sets,…

Machine learning is key to developments in medical diagnostics Mario Heller/Panos Pictures Why Machines LearnAnil Ananthaswamy (Allen Lane (UK); Penguin Random House (US)) As someone who writes for a living, I routinely feel assaulted by the onslaught of generative artificial intelligence. How long…

Meta’s Oversight Board is urging the company to update its rules around sexually explicit deepfakes. The board made the recommendations as part of its decision in two cases involving AI-generated images of public figures. The cases stem from two user…