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Artificial intelligence went mainstream in 2023. The watershed moment arrived at the end of the previous year, with the November 30 release of ChatGPT. Just two months later, the OpenAI system was reaching an estimated 100 million active users. According to analysts at investment bank UBS, the headline-grabbing chatbot had become the fastest-growing consumer app of all time. Over the remaining course of 2023, the hype train went into overdrive. Suddenly, AI seemed to be everywhere. It was…

A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 379, Issue 6631.Download PDF Off the Canary Islands in Spain—Sometimes salvation arrives in the darkest hours. After nearly 4 days and nights of futility, the cry came from the back of the small fishing boat 3 hours after sunset. “Azul! Azul! Azul!” Rayco Garcia Habas stood at the railing near the stern, straining against the fishing rod as a massive fish—a blue (azul) shark, he was sure—tugged…

When Megan Fox Chose To Wear A Lacy Lingerie Set To Wreak Hell On Her Fans(Photo Credit –Instagram) Confidence and fashion go hand in hand; if you have the right amount of confidence then you can pull off anything and everything, and not everyone has that in them. But Hollywood actress Megan Fox is definitely one who can turn heads even if she wears an old rag. Her social media accounts are filled with amazing pictures of the actress, especially the ones from her photoshoots. With over 20 million followers on her…

It takes chutzpah to write a synoptic history of the world in the second half of the 20th century, a period within living memory of the reading public. But it is a history Jonathan Sperber handles with brio, summoning evidence from personal anecdotes and high theory, vignettes and statistics. In its range of themes and reconstructions, The Age of Interconnection invites favourable comparison with that other survey of the 20th century, Eric Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes. Yet it is quite unlike it. Where the Marxist…

Covid-19 is the first pandemic in which molecular genomics has been applied at scale. Thanks to this science, researchers were able to publish the genome of the novel coronavirus, Sars-CoV-2, in record time and keep pace with the emergence of new variants. And thanks to the allied science of molecular phylogenetics, a method for reading the deep evolutionary history of viruses, we have been able to trace its divergence from other known coronaviruses, including other Sars-like coronaviruses harboured by bats and whose…

via 20th Century Fox This summer marked the 20th anniversary of Minority Report, the first-time collaboration between director Steven Spielberg and star Tom Cruise that delivered exactly the sort of high quality cinema you’d expect from two undisputed titans of their respective professions. An all-star partnership that lived up to the lofty billing and then some, the breathless sci-fi chase thriller netted $358 million at the box office and rave reviews from critics and fans alike, with the frantically…

13 years later, James Cameron returns with `Avatar : The Way of Water` and the teaser is finally out and promises a breathtaking experience. Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, `Avatar: The Way of Water` begins to tell the story of the Sully family -- Jake, Neytiri and their kids -- and the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive and the tragedies they endure. "I know one thing," Sam Worthington`s Jake Sully tells Zoe…