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Dinosaur-killing impact crater might have been teeming with life. Hot, nutrient water might have lasted for over 5 million years after the impact.

A local network of implants uses your body as the wiring. It's possible to send electrical signals right through human tissues.

Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins. Intended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool.

Things are changing behind the scenes, so you must decide: do you want human civil servants or AI bots? | The civil servant. Rapidly expanding AI use within the government is numbing departments to its profound threats. And try arguing with a faceless digital bureaucrat Another day, another apocalyptic warning about the likelihood that rampantly uncontrollable artificial intelligence will solve all of our problems, including the problem of being alive. Hot on the heels of disgruntled Anthropic researchers announcing the end of civilisation by 2030, we’ve now had the portentously named Hugging Face incident , as well as the Australian.