'Google' is most searched word on Bing, Google says
Oct 2021, BBC News
But isn't that exactly what Google would say?
Image credit: Anatoly Fomenko's Topological Zoo, 1967
KP Snacks hack prompts crisp and nut supplies warning
Feb 2022, BBC News
This is what English must look like to a non-English speaker.
(Translation for Americans: KP is a brand of potato chips etc. who got hacked.)
Repurposed drug-seeking AI system generates 40,000 possible chemical weapons in just six hours
Mar 2022, phys.org
Maybe one of the greatest scifi headlines of all time?
via Collaborations Pharmaceuticals and King's College London: Fabio Urbina, Filippa Lentzos, Cédric Invernizzi & Sean Ekins, Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery, Nature Machine Intelligence (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s42256-022-00465-9
Dyson headphones come with air vacuum for mouth
Mar 2022, BBC News
Does not sound appetizing.
Major cryptography blunder in Java enables “psychic paper” forgeries: A failure to sanity check signatures for division-by-zero flaws makes forgeries easy.
Apr 2022, Ars Technica
Another one, this headline makes me feel as if English is my second language; a combination of words, each of which I know, but when combined don't mean anything to me, and fills my brain with a flickering Necker cube of autocompletes.
Algorithm predicts which students will drop out of math courses
May 2022, phys.org
Eight weeks in advance: We can say when they develop a latent tendency to drop out, which is not yet directly observable at the time, based on their own statements about how they feel and how they are doing in their studies. Their data was a pile of five-minute surveys, three times a week, over 131 semester days.
via University of Tübingen: Augustin Kelava et al, Forecasting Intra-individual Changes of Affective States Taking into Account Inter-individual Differences Using Intensive Longitudinal Data from a University Student Dropout Study in Math, Psychometrika (2022). DOI: 10.1007/s11336-022-09858-6
Scientists observe large-scale, ordered and tunable Majorana-zero-mode lattice
Jun 2022, phys.org
Because the future is a majorana fermion.
via Chinese Academy of Sciences: Meng Li et al, Ordered and tunable Majorana-zero-mode lattice in naturally strained LiFeAs, Nature (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04744-8
In trial, brain zaps gave seniors a month-long memory boost
Aug 2022, phys.org
They call it "transcranial alternating current stimulation".
via Cognitive & Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory at Boston University: Robert Reinhart, Long-lasting, dissociable improvements in working memory and long-term memory in older adults with repetitive neuromodulation, Nature Neuroscience (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-022-01132-3
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