Rewriting

Executives and politicians across the world worry about the havoc that next-generation artificial intelligence will wreak on industries from finance to health-care. For the $200 billion games sector, the revolution has already begun.From San Francisco to Tokyo and Hong Kong, the plethora of companies that power the digital entertainment sphere are responding to decades of escalating costs and stagnant prices by feverishly adopting and developing new AI tools. Hundreds of thousands of jobs are on the line. Yet company…

Image via Marvel Comics Ahead of Secret Invasion premiering on Disney Plus this Wednesday, the streamer just unveiled another Marvel Studios production over the past week. The simply titled documentary film Stan Lee offered a tribute to the beloved Marvel Comics creator, who would’ve turned 100 in 2022. However, the film is proving to be controversial for failing to address a long-held intellectual property issue, leading to the family of another comic book legend hitting back at the documentary. As Marvel fans…

There’s a widespread misconception about whether or not federal law protects your privacy. It doesn’t, at least not explicitly. Congress has managed to squander a decade’s worth of bipartisan agreement about the internet’s data problems. In the absence of legislation, one group of regulators recently stepped in to fill the void. It’s a ragtag group of government cowboys that calls itself the Federal Trade Commission.The FTC Just Prescribed a Can of Whoop Ass on Health DataOver the past year, the FTC picked up the few…

Too Long; Didn't ReadGit is a system for recording snapshots of a filesystem in time. A Git repository has three “states” or “trees”: the index, the staging area and the working tree. A working dir(ectrory) is any directory on our file system which has a Git repo associated with it. Too Long; Didn't ReadGit is a system for recording snapshots of a filesystem in time. A Git repository has three “states” or “trees”: the index, the staging area and the working tree. A working dir(ectrory) is any directory on our file…

You wait ages for the return of The Beyonder, and then Marvel Comics gives you three of them all at once.You wait ages for the return of The Beyonder, and then Marvel gives you three of them all at once. The one over in Monica Rambeau: Photon, the one who was recently in Marvel's Defenders and then the one in today's Avengers Beyond, revealed (by the front cover) as the voice that has been narrating and arranging the All-Out Avengers comic books that have been playing out from Derek Landy and Greg Land of late. Almost as…

In Punisher #10 out today, we step between the events of the war and the deaths of his family to find Frank Castle is very much a proto-Punisher.In recent Punisher comic books from Marvel Comics, Jason Aaron, Jesus Saiz, and Paul Azaceta have been telling stories of Frank Castle's past and in doing so, revealing that The Beast and The Hand have always been interested in him, and revealing his first vigilante kill long before the events of Vietnam – now the Siancong War – and the murder of his wife and children, affected…

If you want to get under the skin of politics, nothing beats a good diary.And what distinguishes the best – from Alan Clark and Tony Benn to Alastair Campbell and more recently Sasha Swire – is the willingness to be vulnerable. A diarist’s job is to capture how it felt in the heat of the moment, however mortifying it might be to read in retrospect. Everything else is just publicity. Or in the case of Matt Hancock, who never actually kept a diary but hasn’t let that stop him publishing one, a book concocted after the event…

Pfizer has rejected allegations made by rival Moderna that its Covid-19 vaccine is a copy, accusing the Boston biotech company of rewriting history to lay claim to technology developed by a field of scientists over many years.Pfizer asked a federal court in Massachusetts on Monday to dismiss Moderna's lawsuit seeking monetary damages for alleged patent violations related to the Boston company's Covid vaccine. Pfizer asked the court to stop Moderna from suing it or its partners again over three alleged patent…

Rachel Aviv was just six when she stopped eating and drinking. She is unable to recall why and her medical records paint an unclear picture, offering psychological assessments that might apply to almost anyone. Nevertheless, she found herself admitted to an anorexia unit, where she was denied contact with her family until she began eating again. After almost two weeks she managed breakfast, then lunch. Once her parents were allowed to visit “it was as if the spell had been broken”, she recounts.Was she truly anorexic at…

Ferns are vascular plants that reproduce through spores and do not have seeds or flowers.A new study reveals ferns’ history of DNA hoarding and kleptomania.Ferns are infamous for having an enormous number of chromosomes and massive amounts of <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>DNA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around…