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Titanic Mass Grave Site To Be Pillaged For NFTs
RMS Titanic Inc (RMST), which has been collecting artifacts associated with the ship since the 1980s, has hooked up with NFT flinger Artifact Labs and Venture Smart Financial Holdings to “bring the RMS Titanic and its physical artifacts into Web3.” The Register reports: Aiming to “place the legacy of the Read more…
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Researchers Discover Why Zebras Have Stripes
According to research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, zebra fur is thinly striped and sharply outlined to thwart horsefly attacks. “These characteristics specifically eliminate the outline of large monochrome dark patches that are attractive to horseflies at close distances,” adds Phys.Org. “The team theorizes that the thin back Read more…
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Texas Is Planning To Make a Huge Public Investment In Space
As part of the state’s biennial budget process, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called on the state legislature to provide $350 million to create and fund a Texas Space Commission for the next two years. “With companies seeking to expand space travel in coming years, continued development of the space Read more…
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Subway To Build EV Charging Playgrounds, ‘Oasis’ For Diners
Subway said on Tuesday it plans to add charging parks to select restaurants. “Dubbed Subway Oasis, the EV parks will be outfitted with ‘charging canopies with multiple ports, picnic tables, Wi-Fi, restrooms, green space, and even playgrounds,’” reports Insider. From the report: Subway is working with EV tech startups GenZ Read more…
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Google Warns Internet Will Be ‘A Horror Show’ If It Loses Landmark Supreme Court Case
The U.S. Supreme Court, hearing a case that could reshape the internet, considered on Tuesday whether Google bears liability for user-generated content when its algorithms recommend videos to users. In the case, Gonzalez vs, Google, the family of a terrorist attack victim contends that YouTube violated the federal Anti-Terrorism Act Read more…
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Almost-unbeatable AI Comes To Gran Turismo 7
Last year, Sony AI and Polyphony Digital, the developers of Gran Turismo, developed a new AI agent that is able to race at a world-class level. At the time, the experiment was described in a paper in Nature, where the researchers showed that this AI was not only capable of Read more…