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Image Source : FILE Representational Image Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea have suggested to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) that the government should create a policy to shut down 2G and 3G networks in India. Both telecom operators argue that moving existing users to 4G and 5G networks would enhance the ecosystem for 5G use cases. The suggestion was in…

Screengrab via Walt Disney Pictures Alright, folks, let’s unpack this one. The other day, Amanda Grace, the founder of Ark of Grace Ministries (which, frankly, I don’t have the gumption to learn about at the moment), spoke at ReAwaken America, a far-right Christian nationalist event held at Miami’s Trump National Doral hotel, and we’ve never seen a call to action that weaves neuroticism and confidence quite like this one. At Trump Doral, Prophet Amanda Grace warned of technologically advanced “mermaids and…

New AI systems have shown incredible improvements and can today tackle complex problems we thought would be unaddressed for decades. These range from DeepMind’s Alpha Fold AI to solve a 50-year-old problem, protein folding, which is now deployed to accelerate drug discovery, to the recent generative AI with OpenAI Copilot to help developers complete their code automatically.But those AI models often need huge datasets to be trained on, and with great datasets comes great responsibility. This is especially true in…

A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 378, Issue 6615.Download PDF This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. As Americans began to stir in the early morning hours of Thanksgiving Day 2021, a rapt international press corps was listening as a pony-tailed scientist in South Africa announced the identification of a worrisome new SARS-CoV-2 variant. Tulio de Oliveira, a Brazilian-born bioinformatician, explained that many of the variant’s…