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Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook expressed cautious optimism about the flood of new artificial intelligence services, saying that while the technology has huge potential, there also are “a number of issues that need to be sorted.” Speaking on an earnings call Thursday, Cook noted that Apple already uses AI across much of its lineup, including in features like fall detection on its smartwatch. The company will continue to add the technology to more of its products, he said, but on a “very thoughtful basis.”…

June Wan/ZDNETWhen was the last time you restarted your phone? And I don't mean opening up the active apps tray and swiping them all away. When was the last time you turned off the device completely and then turned it back on?Restarting a phone is typically brought up when you're experiencing lag, misfunctioning apps, and other software defects, but it's also a healthy practice even if your phone is working as intended, or is the best on the market. You can compare it to giving your car an oil change; it's not…

Twitter to allow media publishers to charge users on per article basis from May, says Elon Musk (file photo)Since Elon Musk took over Twitter last year, the microblogging site has been introducing new features and charges. The recent among them was the blue tick verification. And now, the social media platform's CEO has announced that Twitter will allow media publishers to charge users on a per-article basis with one click. He said this is going to start next month. In a tweet on Saturday, Musk wrote,…

Twitter Inc CEO Elon Musk said on Saturday that the social media platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click, calling it a win for both the public and media organizations.The feature, to be rolled out in May, will enable users who do not "sign up for a monthly subscription to pay a higher per article price for when they want to read an occasional article," billionaire owner Musk tweeted.On Friday, Musk had said that Twitter will take a 10% cut on content subscriptions after…

A fruit fly in the wild selects food in the form of dewdrops on a tree branch. The two colors of the food signify a difference in pH, with neutral food in golden brown and the alkaline food in blue. Mi et al. discovered a taste receptor named Alka responsible for sensing alkaline pH. Alka is a chloride channel that is directly activated by hydroxide ions (OH-), enabling avoidance of potentially harmful alkaline foods. Credit: Yali Zhang, Monell Chemical Senses CenterResearch using fruit flies sheds light on how other…

Recent research discovered several genetic variants linked to mathematical abilities in children, with three specific genes associated with subtraction, spatial conception, and division skills.A recent study published in the journal Genes, Brain and Behavior has uncovered several genetic variations that could be linked with mathematical abilities in children.The research involved conducting genome-wide association studies on 1,146 elementary school students from China, focusing on 11 categories of mathematical ability.…

The government of India has made it mandatory for every individual who has been allotted a Permanent Account Number (PAN) as on July 1, 2017, and is eligible to obtain Aadhaar, to link both these documents. The last day to link Aadhaar and PAN is March 31, 2023. If you miss linking your Aadhaar and PAN, from April 1, 2023, the unlinked PAN will become inoperative, the Income Tax Department had informed.Notably, PAN can be linked with a valid Aadhaar by visiting the official website of on www.incometax.gov.in after paying…

Photo by Richard Horvath on UnsplashNBEATS and other Interpretable Deep Forecasting ModelsForecasting is a critical aspect of many industries, from finance to supply chain management. Over the years, researchers have explored various techniques for forecasting, ranging from traditional time-series methods to machine learning-based models.In recent years, forecasters have turned to deep learning and have gotten promising results with models such as Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks and Temporal Convolution Networks…

A human interactome to prioritize drug discovery. Credit: Karen Arnott/EMBL-EBIScientists at Open Targets, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), and GSK are revealing the shared basis of diseases using a map of interacting human proteins. By helping to understand how biological processes affect human traits and diseases, this work will prioritize new targets for drug discovery and identify drug repurposing opportunities.Proteins are molecules that do most of the work in…

If you've ever wanted different dock settings for different displays, then here the app for you. It's called HiDock, and it's a very simple little app that does an epic job at something that's been a bugbear for quite some time. In essence, it changes the properties of a Mac's app Dock depending on which display setup you have connected.Say, for example, that when you're working on your best MacBook that you want the Dock to hide itself, but when you've connected a bigger external display you want the Dock nice and big…