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Goffin's cockatoo using tools

Life

Cockatoos understand when a job requires a toolkit

Goffin’s cockatoos know when they need to bring more than one tool to retrieve some food – something only chimpanzees have demonstrated before among non-human animals

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Paranthropus, early human relative

Humans

Early hominin Paranthropus may have used sophisticated stone tools

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A man man playing videogames

Technology

AI is listening in on gamer chat for toxic and abusive language

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Plate, ca. 1885 from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access collection

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Can AI curate art better than a human?

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Light micrograph of a section through the spleen of a patient with Gaucher's disease. Small lymphocytes and large macrophage cells (Gaucher?s cells, pink, a type of white blood cell) are present. Gaucher's disease is an inherited metabolic disorder in which a fatty substance called glucocerebroside accumulates in the spleen (in macrophages), lungs, liver and bone marrow, and sometimes the brain. This is due to an absence of the enzyme glucocerebrosidase (GC). The disease appears in childhood, and some forms are fatal in the first few years. Other forms cause enlargement of the affected organs, weak and painful bones and anaemia. Some forms also cause severe nervous system damage. There is no cure, but enzyme replacement therapy using GC can relieve the symptoms. Haematoxylin-eosin saffron (HES) stain. Magnification: x400 at 24x36 mm size.

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Genes for Gaucher disease may have protected Jewish people against TB

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Two images of a women, one generated by AI, look very similar

Technology

AI image generators that create close copies could be a legal headache

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Straight-tusked elephant bones hint at routine hunting and butchering by Neanderthals

Humans

Neanderthals hunted enormous elephants that fed 100 people for a month

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We need to accept that deepfakes are here to stay in film and TV

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We need to accept that deepfakes are here to stay in film and TV

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Technology

DeepMind AI is as fast as humans at solving previously unseen tasks

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Polycystic ovary syndrome

Health

A better understanding of PCOS offers fresh hope for new treatments

New insights into polycystic ovary syndrome are revealing more about the causes of this common but misunderstood whole-body condition, and these could lead to new treatments

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Technology

Google's AI is best yet at answering medical and health questions

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AI detects if YouTubers are infected with omicron coronavirus variant

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Technology

Smart office chair recognises what position you are sitting in

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Technology

Huge AI models can be halved in size without degrading performance

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