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How AI can help with early schizophrenia diagnosis
1+ day, 41+ min ago (607+ words) Listening for schizophrenia: how AI can help with early diagnosis The speech of people with schizophrenia sounds subtly different from their healthy counterparts. Can AI hear those differences better than human psychiatrists? By Astrid Landon & Knowable Magazine “We have the…...
The data center backlash comes for SpaceXAI’s Colossus
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (829+ words) Dozens of temporary gas turbines are powering SpaceXAI’s expansion—and fights over permits and pollution By Austyn Gaffney edited by Eric Sullivan SpaceXAI’s Southaven power plant feeds one of its data centers across the Tennessee state line in Memphis. By…...
Does the U.S. need more spaceports?
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (304+ words) How many spaceports does the U.S. need? A new executive order calls for more than 1,000 U.S. rocket launches per year by the end of the decade. Rethinking the nation’s spaceports will be key By Elizabeth Howell edited by Lee Billings Forget boot…...
What’s the tech behind this new record-setting crypto crack?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (457+ words) Was this record-setting encryption crack a fluke—or the new normal? A researcher’s social media post revealing how to break part of a popular encryption protocol has gone viral. But did he really do it with just “good old pencil…...
UN admits exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius global warming target is "unavoidable"
1+ week, 3+ day ago (588+ words) UN admits exceeding the 1.5 degrees Celsius global warming target is "unavoidable" Blowing past the Paris Agreement's long-time threshold is set to happen “within the next few years,” according to a new report The world is on track to exceed the…...
SpaceX to expand beyond Texas Starbase with new Louisiana spaceport dedicated to Starship
2+ week, 4+ day ago (270+ words) The new spaceport will support thousands of launches each year, according to SpaceX. SpaceX’s Starship lifts off from Starbase in Texas on March 6, 2025. RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk's SpaceX is ready to expand its horizons beyond its…...
60 years ago NASA took the first ever photo of Earth from the moon
3+ week, 2+ hour ago (182+ words) By Adam Kovac edited by Claire Cameron Lunar Orbiter 1’s image of Earth. A view of the moon and a crescent Earth from Lunar Orbiter 1. Without Lunar Orbiter 1, Anders might never have taken his iconic "Earthrise," seen below. Anders shot…...
The national debt is $40 trillion. What does that mean mathematically?
3+ week, 2+ day ago (448+ words) The mathematical reality behind a $40-trillion national debt An investigation into the incomprehensibly, unfathomably large amount of money the U.S. owes By Clara Moskowitz edited by Claire Cameron The U.S. national debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time on Wednesday. That’s a…...