By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – France’s privacy watchdog said on Thursday it will question DeepSeek to gain a better idea of how the Chinese startup’s AI system works and any possible privacy risks for users. DeepSeek attracted global attention after writing in a paper last month that the training of DeepSeek-V3 required less […]
Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency struggled to answer straightforward questions about science. At his confirmation hearing on Thursday, former Rep. Lee Zeldin faced scrutiny of his limited environmental experience. For one senator, Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, this took the form of a science pop quiz—asking, in his words, “really basic no-tricks questions […]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope that humanity has ever created, enabling scientists to gaze further into the universe than ever before. But more impressively, thanks to the (relatively) limited speed of lightthe JWST can effectively peer back in time to the early universe — over 13.5 […]
2024 was another year defined by generative AI, with software features put into the hands of millions of people worldwide and unavoidably built into popular services, like Google Search. While some AI tools, like ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode and Google’s NotebookLM, were delightful to interact with, the prevailing narrative remained on the technology’s inherent flaws, […]
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You think you’re a Dylan expert? Test your knowledge with Rolling Stone‘s 25-question challenge Bob Dylan has all sorts of fans. There are causal ones who dig “Mr. Tambourine Man” and “Like a Rolling Stone,” are fairly certain he didn’t write “Stuck in the Middle With You,” and know about his days as a protest […]
Psychology is a relatively young science. The first person to call himself a psychologist, Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt, began his work in the 1860s in Germany and established the first-ever psychology lab in 1879. In the early 1900s, the science of behaviorism arose. It focused less on the internal processes of the mind and more on […]
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From speculation that JFK’s assassination was an “inside job” to claims that vaccines contain microchips, the world is awash with conspiracy theories. The term was coined in the 1860sappearing in a letter in The New York Times that discussed British support during the Civil War. Fast-forward 150 years, and conspiracy theories are more prevalent than […]
