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The world's major tech titans must crack down on illegal content and keep European users safe online from Friday, when far-reaching EU rules force digital...
2023-08-25 17:57

EU tech chief calls for voluntary AI code of conduct within months
By Philip Blenkinsop LULEA, Sweden The United States and European Union should push the artificial intelligence (AI) industry
2023-05-31 19:15

Teardown to land on PlayStation 5 in November
Tuxedo Labs CEO Marcus Dawson has teased the launch of 'Teardown'.
2023-09-29 20:25

Scientists discover that people who live past 90 have key differences in their blood
Centenarians have become the fastest-growing demographic group in the world, with numbers approximately doubling every 10 years since the 1970s. Many researchers have sought out the factors and contributors that determine a long and healthy life. The dissolution isn't new either, with Plato and Aristotle writing about the ageing process over 2,300 years ago. Understanding what is behind living a longer life involves unravelling the complex interplay of genetic predisposition and lifestyle factors and how they interact. In a recent study published in GeroScience, researches have unveiled common biomarkers, including levels of cholesterol and glucose, in people who live past 90. The study is one of the largest that has been conducted in this area, comparing biomarker profiles measured throughout life among those who lived to be over the age of 100 and their shorter-lived peers. Data came from 44,000 Swedes who underwent health assessments at ages 64-99. These participants were then followed through Swedish register data for up to 35 years. Of these people, 2.7 percent (1,224) lived to be 100 years old. 85 percent of these centenarians were female. The study's findings conduced that lower levels of glucose, creatinine - which is linked to kidney function and uric acid, a waste product in the body caused by the digestion of certain foods - were linked to those who made it to their 100th birthday. The findings suggest a potential link between metabolic health, nutrition, and exceptional longevity. In terms of lifestyle factors, the study didn't allow for any conclusions to be made, but the authors of the study added that it's reasonable for factors such as nutrition and alcohol intake play a role. Overall, the fact that differences in biomarkers could be observed a long time before death suggests that genes and lifestyle play a role, but of course, chance likely has an input too. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-10-17 00:21

Google Bard gets a massive upgrade. See the new AI chatbot features.
Google is outfitting Bard with some meaningful upgrades with an assist from Adobe. As anticipated,
2023-05-11 01:52

Cleanlab Emerges with $5 million to Automate Data Curation for LLMs and the Modern AI Stack
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2023-07-20 21:57

Archer is the new 'social-first' dating app for queer men
To kick off this year's Pride Month, Match Group announces the newest addition to its
2023-06-01 20:19

Is Amouranth close to her father? ASMR queen reveals dad's '7 guns' trick that keeps trolls at bay
It is unclear how much Amouranth's parents know about what she does; they have visited her residence but not the hot tub area
2023-07-25 21:48

China presses Dutch minister for access to chipmaking tech blocked on security grounds
China’s foreign minister has pressed his Dutch counterpart for access to advanced chipmaking technology that has been blocked on security grounds and warned against allowing what he said were unfounded fears of Beijing to spoil relations
2023-05-24 00:16

Twitter finally adds secure messaging to DMs – but Elon Musk tells people not to ‘trust it’
Twitter says it has launched new, more secure messages – but even chief executive Elon Musk has warned users not to “trust it”. The social network has long been working on encrypted messages, which ensure that messages cannot be intercepted while they are being delivered. That is already possible on most other major messaging platforms, such as WhatsApp and iMessage. Now Twitter has released what it says is the first step towards integrating that security technology into its own product. But it says that it is not fully safe, and that users should not rely on it to keep messages secure. “Early version of encrypted direct messages just launched,” Mr Musk wrote on Twitter. “Try it, but don’t trust it yet.” On its support pages, Twitter’s aim is that “if someone puts a gun to our heads, we still can’t access your messages”. But it says it is “not quite there yet” and still “working on it”. That suggests that the messages are not end-to-end encrypted. While messages are secured from some attackers, anyone at Twitter or with access to its servers may still be able to access them. What’s more, Twitter’s implementation comes with a host of other limitations. It is only available when both of the users are verified and pay for Twitter’s $8 a month service, and users must turn it on rather than it being enabled by default. The messages also cannot be sent to groups, include pictures or other attachments, cannot be joined by new devices, are only supported on a limited number of devices per account and do not have proper protection against certain cyber attacks. When those various conditions are satisfied, users will be informed they are having an encrypted conversation by a message that appears within the chat. The other user’s profile picture will also show a lock icon over it. Twitter said that it would be updating the feature to remove some of those limitations, and would provide more information about the technology underpinning it in releases later this year.
2023-05-12 01:25

Chipmaker Intel soars on signs of PC market recovery
By Samrhitha A Intel rose nearly 8% on Friday and sparked a jump in chip stocks after its
2023-10-27 21:54

Olivia Dunne candidly shares her views about Alabama, Internet says 'we don't care'
Olivia Dunne's appearance in this word association game has not only entertained her fans but has also left them with plenty to ponder
2023-09-19 17:24
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