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A three-metre rupture in the Kahramanmaraş-Gaziantep highway, close to the village of Tevekkelli in the earthquake zone. Credit: Hasan Sözbilir/Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Author provided The earthquakes that struck in Turkey and Syria in the early hours of February 6 have led to terrible destruction on a scale not seen in Europe for many decades. At the time of writing, the death toll has risen beyond 11,000 people and…

Ice core storing at Little Dome C. Credit: PNRA/IPEV In Antarctica, the second drilling campaign of the Beyond EPICA—Oldest Ice project, at the remote field site Little Dome C, has been successfully completed. This project is an unprecedented challenge for paleoclimatology studies and its goal is to go back 1.5 million years in time to reconstruct past temperatures and greenhouse gas concentrations through the analysis of an…

Barbara Treutlein, left, and Patrick Cahan, guest editors of the prestigious journal Stem Cell Reports, posed questions about computational systems biology to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Sometimes the answers the program gave were inaccurate, but even when they weren't, ChatGPT had a tendancy to demonstrate "a glaring lack of depth and insight." Cell PressMuch ink has been spilled of late about the tremendous promise of OpenAI's ChatGPT program for generating natural-language utterances in response to human prompts. There's…

I’ve been captivated by The Last of Us since I first played it shortly after it was released for the PS3 way back in 2013. Its ruined, dangerous but somehow beautiful post-pandemic world was compellingly rendered by developer Naughty Dog, and the tense combat driven by stealth and a need to conserve your resources felt more brutal and realistic than the Uncharted series the developer was known for. But the relationship between protagonists Joel and Ellie is the true heart of the game. The story of a broken father…

Adrienne Kline reflects on a multidisciplinary career that bridges medicine, machine learning, and engineeringIn the Author Spotlight series, TDS Editors chat with members of our community about their career path in data science, their writing, and their sources of inspiration. Today, we’re thrilled to share our conversation with Adrienne Kline.Photo courtesy of Adrienne KlineAdrienne Kline is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Preventative Medicine at Northwestern University. She completed her Ph.D. in biomedical…

Image: Andrew BallaghFollowing hot on the heels of our spectacular redesign earlier this year we're pleased to launch our newest feature: ZDNET In Depth.ZDNET In Depth aims to bring you original reporting and the human stories behind the most important issues and trends in tech.Every month we'll deliver to you another deeply reported story that allows you to understand the big issues. We're thrilled to present this in an immersive story-telling format that allows the narrative to unfold at exactly the right…

The European Commission has opened an “in-depth investigation” into Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard. In a statement issued yesterday (November 8), the Commission highlighted that Microsoft‘s acquisition could “significantly reduce competition on the markets for the distribution of console and PC video games, including multi-game subscription services and/or cloud game streaming services, and for PC operating systems.” “In particular, the Commission is concerned that, by acquiring Activision…

Image via Marvel Studios This Saturday has turned out to be a convention of controversial criticisms in the Marvel sphere, as one of the MCU’s biggest stars has spoken out about the franchise’s perceived lack of emotional depth while the fandom is yet again blasting Captain Marvel, but is this time defending its leading lady. Elsewhere, Wakanda Forever director Ryan Coogler talks about the big themes behind his incoming Black Panther sequel as a Spider-Man identity thief raises hopes and crushes dreams all in…

For many years, the home and lock screens for Apple’s iPhone largely remained unchanged; that is, until iOS 14 and iOS 16. With iOS 14, users were finally able to do some home screen customization by using custom app icons through the Shortcuts app. iOS 16 spruced up the lock screen with a few personalization options, as well as adding widgets. One of the cool things about iOS 16 lock screen customization is the depth effect that you can apply to most photo wallpapers. Here’s how to add some depth to your iOS 16…

One of the most celebrated, awe-inspiring images of modern astronomy, revealing colossal spires of interstellar gas and dust called the Pillars of Creation, has been rendered anew with greater depth, clarity and colour by the James Webb Space Telescope.The new view of the pillars, first made famous when captured in 1995 by Webb's predecessor observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, was unveiled by NASA on Wednesday, three months after Webb's inaugural batch of cosmic photos was unveiled as it began full operations.The…