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Regina Barzilay’s office at MIT affords a clear view of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research. Amgen’s drug discovery group is a few blocks beyond that. Until recently, Barzilay, one of the world’s leading researchers in artificial intelligence, hadn’t given much thought to these nearby buildings full of chemists and …

Booted While it’s extremely unlikely, there is a chance that incoming stars that whip past the Earth could fling it out of the solar system, argues astrophycisist Paul Sutter on Space.com — the same scientist, you’ll recall, who released instructions for building your own DIY wormhole last year. The apocalyptic …

Needless to say, that’s exactly the opposite of what a VPN is supposed to do. Based on the latest research, it seems over 100 million people could now be at risk of having their credit card details stolen, their private photos and videos leaked and every single minute of their …

Philips has been a well-established manufacturer across many different categories over the years. A few short months ago, the company launched its new series of luxury coffee machines with the Philips Saeco Xelsis and Philips 3200 ranges. A few days ago, the brand changed gears, switching to its shaving range, …

Huawei’s clearly been studying Apple’s playbook of late. Last year, it launched the Mate X, and this year, it’s the strikingly similar looking Mate Xs. What, no Mate Xs Max? You can say what you want about Huawei’s smartphone naming strategy, or its track record when it comes to security, …

Last Thursday (Feb. 14), the nonprofit research firm OpenAI released a new language model capable of generating convincing passages of prose. So convincing, in fact, that the researchers have refrained from open-sourcing the code, in hopes of stalling its potential weaponization as a means of mass-producing fake news. While the impressive …

Keeping semen shipshape and in good working order: no easy task. Across the globe, average sperm count and quality have been gradually declining for years. Scientists have theorized a number of potential causes ranging from household chemicals to microplastics. Another possible culprit may be a man’s diet. Now, a cross-sectional …

Thousands of Virgin Media customers are complaining of a major outage this afternoon that appears to be affecting TV and broadband services. The popular service appears to have hit troubles at around 3.30pm with reports coming in from across the UK. Most are complaining that the issue has left them …

The world of tech continued to pushing ahead at full throttle in 2019. While most brands push to provide more powerful, sleek and useful devices, there’s also the other end featuring bizarre and scary technology. We take a look back at the tech trends of 2019, as well as the …

Apple users: count down the days remaining for you to laud it over your Android brethren. On February 19, Google revealed its first developer preview for its upcoming operating system (OS), Android 11. At this stage, Android 11 probably isn’t for you. The OS is at a very early stage …