Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Videos of children opening boxes of toys and playing with them have become a feature of online marketing—making stars out of children as young as two. Twelve-year-old influencer Ryan Kajifor example, earns US$30 million a year on YouTube leading one of the most popular children’s channels. His empire was built on […]
A 20-month investigation by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee found that Justice Clarence Thomas failed to report jet and yacht trips.
The global probiotic market is now worth billions of dollars.Credit: d3sign/Getty Images When she had her daughter in 2008, microbiologist Deanna Gibson rarely saw probiotics in the baby formula on supermarket shelves. “Then when I had my son in 2012, it was pretty much in every formula,” recalls Gibson, who is at the University of […]
In 2022, surgeons transplanted the first genetically engineered pig heart into a human. Fifty-seven-year-old David Bennett, a patient with heart failure, survived almost two months with a pig heart beating in his chest, one of five people who have received pig organs as a part of an experimental procedure called xenotransplantation — the transplanting of […]
Universal Music Group, led by chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge, is teaming up with L.A.-based AI music company Klay Vision on what they described as “a pioneering commercial ethical foundational model for AI-generated music that works in collaboration with the music industry and its creators.” Klay is positioning itself to become “the backbone for a new era of […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As interest grows in geoengineering as a strategy for tackling global warming, the world’s largest association of Earth and space scientists has launched an ethical framework as a guide to responsible decision-making and inclusive dialogue. The report, facilitated by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and advised by a global panel of […]
Sound designer Johnnie Burn — a newly-minted Oscar winner for his acclaimed work on “The Zone of Interest” — has detailed the thorough and deeply considered process that went into recreating the sounds of Auschwitz for Jonathan Glazer‘s Holocaust drama. With the film telling the real-life story of German SS officer Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, […]
