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Doctors Say They’ve Found a Way to Clean the Microplastics Out of Your Body
Image by Peter Dazeley via Getty / Futurism A high-end medical practice is offering clients the purported service of scrubbing their blood of microplastics. In an interview with Wired, Clarify Clinics CEO Yael Cohen said that her London facility’s bespoke blood-filtering service — which is otherwise known as apheresis and generally used for plasma donation or… Continue reading Doctors Say They’ve Found a Way to Clean the Microplastics Out of Your Body
Scientists Revive Organism Found Buried at Bottom of Ocean
A team of researchers in Germany have revived algae cells found buried at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, where they’d lain dormant for more than 7,000 years. For millennia, the cells, imprisoned under layers of sediment, were deprived of oxygen or light. But once revived, they showed full functional recovery, the researchers report in… Continue reading Scientists Revive Organism Found Buried at Bottom of Ocean
Google Is Allegedly Paying Top AI Researchers to Just Sit Around and Not Work for the Competition
Google apparently has one weird trick to hoard its talent from poachers: paying them to not work. As Business Insider reports, some United Kingdom-based employees at Google’s DeepMind AI lab are paid to do nothing for six months — or, in fewer cases, up to a year — after they quit their jobs. Known as “garden… Continue reading Google Is Allegedly Paying Top AI Researchers to Just Sit Around and Not Work for the Competition
Google Is Helping Government Build an AI-Powered Border Surveillance System
Remember the guys who found a way to turn your personal information into cold hard cash? It brings us no pleasure to report that they’re now expanding into the border surveillance industry. Google, once a company that simply tracked your every move to serve targeted ads, is now a key player in the US Customs… Continue reading Google Is Helping Government Build an AI-Powered Border Surveillance System
FTC v. Meta Trial: The Future of Instagram and WhatsApp Is at Stake
The US Federal Trade Commission’s trial against Meta begins in Washington, DC on Monday, as the tech giant fights to avoid the spinoff of Instagram and WhatsApp. The FTC alleges that Meta illegally acquired the two startups in an effort to suppress competition. Meta (then Facebook) bought the photo-sharing startup Instagram for $1 billion in… Continue reading FTC v. Meta Trial: The Future of Instagram and WhatsApp Is at Stake
MRI Scans Causing Nasty Material to Form Inside Body, Scientists Find
Image by Getty / Futurism Scientists believe they may have found the reason why some patients get so sick from the contrast dye they’re injected with before magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. As a University of New Mexico (UNM) press release explains, researchers at the institution’s medical school believe they’ve found a link between oxalic… Continue reading MRI Scans Causing Nasty Material to Form Inside Body, Scientists Find
Baby Born to Woman With Transplanted Womb
Image by Womb Transplant UK In Scotland, a woman successfully gave birth to a baby girl after getting a womb transplant from her sister. As the BBC reports, couple Grace and Angus Davidsin welcomed baby Amy after the mother’s sister, for whom she named her new child, donated her womb. Though it wasn’t the first in… Continue reading Baby Born to Woman With Transplanted Womb
Poll Finds Americans Are Largely Disgusted by AI-Generated News
As the United States’ biggest news brands experiment with artificial intelligence in their content, readers remain unimpressed. In a new poll conducted by Poynter and the University of Minnesota, nearly half of the survey’s respondents said they don’t want AI reporting the news to them — and 20 percent say that news publishers shouldn’t be… Continue reading Poll Finds Americans Are Largely Disgusted by AI-Generated News
Judge Goes Ballistic When Man Shows AI-Generated Video in Court
A 74-year-old entrepreneur played an entirely AI-generated video of a male avatar to address the judge during a court appearance on his behalf. And as The Register reports, the judge was extremely unimpressed by the stunt, and proceeded to chew him out. Plaintiff Jerome Dewald appeared before the New York State’s Supreme Court on March… Continue reading Judge Goes Ballistic When Man Shows AI-Generated Video in Court