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Google AI Research Scientist Timnit Gebru speaks onstage during Day 3 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 7, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Photo: Kimberly White (Getty Images)A recurring theme at Google’s AI@ event was one of supposed reflection and cautious optimism. That sentiment rang particularly true on the topic of AI Ethics, an area Google’s struggled with in the past and one increasingly important in the emerging world of wild-generative AI. Though Google touted its own AI principles…

A dam collapse at a diamond mine in Jagersfontein, South Africa, on September 11, 2022, released sludge that poured across the landscape, destroying homes, inundating rivers and grazing land, and injuring dozens.Nearly one month after the collapse of a tailings dam, the South African mining town Jagersfontein and nearby water systems remained capped with muddy debris.On September 11, 2022, at a diamond mine in Jagersfontein, South Africa, a dam collapsed, releasing a watery mixture of mining waste known as tailings. The…

Image via Warner Bros Pierce Brosnan appears as Dr. Fate in Black Adam, and he’s gone into a little bit of detail around the process behind bringing the character to life. As it turns out, the James Bond actor is a little bit self-conscious of his ankles, bless him – and he was thankful that Warner Bros.’ CGI efforts managed to bury that insecurity in the final product that we see onscreen.  Brosnan detailed the intricacies behind his costume, noting that there were two versions of Dr. Fate’s helmet used during…

Paleontologists have discovered a bizarre worm-like creature from the Cambrian Period that has features associated with three groups of living animals. Just a half-inch long and covered in bristles, the armored Wufengella is providing clues as to how ancient filter-feeders evolved.Wufengella is about 518 million years old, timing it toward the tail-end of the Cambrian explosion. The Cambrian explosion was a period of remarkable evolutionary diversification in animal life. Life on the seafloor particularly flourished:…

In late August, it was revealed that Sylvester Stallone’s wife of 25 years, Jennifer Flavin, had filed for divorce, and one of the big indicators that there was trouble brewing between the couple was Stallone having covered up a tattoo of Flavin’s face on his shoulder. In that spot, Stallone now has the face of Butkus, his late dog who appeared in the first two Rocky movies. In the midst of this split though, it’s been revealed that Stallone almost replaced the tattoo of Flavin’s face with a DC Comics superhero…

Artistic rendition of the exoplanet TOI-1452 b, a small planet that may be entirely covered in a deep ocean. Credit: Benoit Gougeon, Université de MontréalWith the help of instruments designed partly in Canada, a team of astronomers has discovered an <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>exoplanet</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>An exoplanet (or extrasolar planet) is a planet that is located outside our Solar System,…

Scientists have long believed that the now dusty Red Planet was once home to rivers, lakes, and other assorted bodies of water. But proving the existence of that water and what happened to it has always been difficult. Data collected over the past decade has allowed scientists to create a map of ancient water traces, confirming Mars was once covered in water. New map reveals Mars’ water history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPCamm_iU7A Mars is an intriguing planet. Once believed to be abundant in water,…

Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur fossil that looks like an armored T-Rex. The new fossils were discovered in the Candeleros Formation in Argentina. Scientists have named this new dinosaur Jakapil kaniukura, and they say it belongs to the thyreophorans group, the same group that houses the armored stegosaurus and ankylosaurus. Scientists uncovered a new armored dinosaur unlike anything we’ve ever seen Image source: Riguetti, F.J., Apesteguía, S. & Pereda-SuberbiolaJ. kaniukura may look like an…

A map of hydrated mineral deposits on Mars. Green represents hydrated sulphates; red is hydrous clays; orange is carbonate salts; and blue is hydrated silica and aluminosilicate clays.The history of water on Mars flows a lot deeper than scientists once believed. A new project has mapped hundreds of thousands of rock formations on the Red Planet that may have been altered by large amounts of water in the past. Data from two Mars orbiters was used to create a detailed global map of mineral deposits on Mars, pinpointing…

PNY isn’t the only brand putting its memory products on sale for Prime Day, in fact Crucial has a handful of options for you to choose from. During the remainder of the sale event, you can grab internal SATA SSD drives, NVMe SSDs, RAM, and more for some pretty nice discounts.Take for instance this humble Crucial 3D NAND SATA internal SSD drive. It’s a 2.5-inch drive with 250GB of storage space and it’s only $39.99! Crucial is dumping the price down from $49.99 so you save $10 off the original price of this drive. And…