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

Artificial intelligence is being used to detect harassment in verbal communications for gaming and VR platforms, but such AIs face challenges in keeping up with evolving forms of extreme speech

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Google search page

Technology

AI search heats up as Google and Baidu race to launch ChatGPT rivals

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Plate, ca. 1885 from the Metropolitan Museum of Art鈥檚 Open Access collection
Technology

Can AI curate art better than a human?

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The coronavirus is continuing to mutate as it spreads

Health

Millions of coronavirus mutations offer a new insight into evolution

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The Imja glacial lake in Nepal

Environment

15 million people live in possible flood path for melting glaciers

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Vitamin D may help to lower blood sugar levels but high doses have been linked with kidney stones and other health problems

Health

High-dose vitamin D may prevent pre-diabetes becoming type 2 diabetes

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A pale gray and green parrot stands with its beak open, in the middle of a vocalisation

Life

Monk parakeets have unique 鈥榲oices鈥� that may identify friends and foes

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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.

Health

Genes for Gaucher disease may have protected Jewish people against TB

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A robot finger prods a shrimp

Technology

Robotic hand pokes food and water to tell if they have mercury in them

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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

Artificial intelligence models trained on millions of images can occasionally reproduce near-perfect copies, researchers have found, which could be significant for ongoing copyright infringement lawsuits

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Mind

Mild brain damage may affect memory more than severe injuries

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Life

Three nautilus species new to science have been found in the Pacific

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Technology

Suspected Chinese ‘spy balloon’ shot down by US fighter jet over sea

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Earth

Two major earthquakes cause devastation across Turkey and Syria

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