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If there’s one thing Donald Trump hates more than losing an election, it’s people thinking he isn’t as rich as he claims he is. On Monday, lawyers for the former president indicated he had been unable to secure the $464 million bond needed to appeal a massive New York civil fraud ruling against him and his company. The filing revealed that 30 underwriters declined to back the bond, which was worth 130 percent of the $355 million civil fraud judgment leveled against him and the Trump Organization in February.…

All levels of research are being changed by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Don’t have time to read that journal article? AI-powered tools such as TLDRthis will summarise it for you. Struggling to find relevant sources for your review? Inciteful will list suitable articles with just the click of a button. Are your human research participants too expensive or complicated to manage? Not a problem — try synthetic participants instead. Each of these tools suggests AI could be superior to…

The amount of time Reddit reports that users spend with its service hasn’t significantly budged either. In September 2021, the company said that US users on average engaged for 28 minutes a day. It ticked up to 30 minutes that December. In December of 2023, the company specified a figure only for “logged-in” US users, though it clocked in at a similar 25 minutes to 30 minutes per day.Other data suggests that the stock of content on Reddit for users to peruse has been roughly constant recently, despite users’ continued…

Large online platforms have largely given up on the news business. Meta finally removed its dedicated tools for news publishers. Google is experimenting with removing the news tab from search results. AI chatbots are eating the last remaining ways that publishers can drive traffic to their sites. And Elon Musk, the owner of X, the site formerly known as Twitter, spends most of his days railing against the mainstream media. All of this has led to some pretty serious soul-searching among America’s journalists. Is the future…

Social media was flooded Monday with claims that King Charles III has died, with some people pointing to a video of a flag at Buckingham Palace being flown at half-mast. Others passed around an official announcement made to look like the king passed away on Sunday. But they’re all fake. The king is alive, as far as we can tell.Do We Have to Send Humans to Mars for Exploration?“Flag is half mast in Buckingham palace. News circulating either King Charles or Kate Middleton is no more,” one common tweet from a blue checkmark…

If you’re going to tie the knot and (hopefully) spend the rest of your life with your fiancé, that means that you trust him enough to go to Las Vegas with his friends for his bachelor party. Or not.A woman went viral on TikTok for exposing a man who wasn’t as interested in monogamy as he appeared.The fitness and lifestyle creator, Tiana Wiltshire, recounted how she was vacationing in Vegas with her friends when she saw a group of men celebrating a bachelor party at the pool.A woman then revealed to Tiana that she’d seen…

June 2023 Astronomy should, in principle, be a welcoming field for blind researchers. But across the board, science is full of charts, graphs, databases, and images that are designed to be seen. So researcher Sarah Kane, who is legally blind, was thrilled three years ago when she encountered a technology known as sonification, designed to transform information into sound. Since then she’s been working with a project called Astronify, which presents astronomical information in audio form.  For millions of blind and…

What’s your ideal Saturday night? Are you going out with friends until 3am, or staying home to watch a movie and snuggle with your cat? At the end of a long day, would you rather call your family and chat for hours, or turn off your phone and finally enjoy the peace of being alone? There’s no right or wrong answer, but if you're choosing the latter options, you just might be an introvert. So if you’d like to bond with your fellow homebodies (without having to see anyone in person), you’ve come to the right place. We’ve…

A Study in Primates Reveals How the Brain Encodes Complex Social Interactions The research tracks, at the level of individual neurons, what happens when a monkey hangs out with other monkeys. It even found a possible neural code for empathy By Lydia Denworth Credit: Zane Michael Cooper/Getty ImagesReciprocity—I scratch your back; you scratch mine—has long been thought to be one of the hallmarks of friendship and other close relationships. In the world of nonhuman primates, the back-scratching is literal. Monkeys take…

Donald Trump took to Truth Social in the early morning hours of Tuesday to opine on the state of his race to win back the White House this November. And while that’s not unusual, Trump decision to coin a new nickname for himself certainly is. The new name? Honest Don, if you can believe it.Trump started his tweet (or his Truth, in the parlance of his social media platform) by mentioning Dean Phillips, the Democratic challenger to President Joe Biden who had a less than impressive primary race before finally dropping out…