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Iraqi and Australian Engineers Train AI to Flag Disease From a Tongue Photo With 96 Percent Test Accuracy
agosto 13, 2024
Iraqi and Australian Engineers Train AI to Flag Disease From a Tongue Photo With 96 Percent Test Accuracy
A University of South Australia and Middle Technical University model matched tongue color to diagnosed illness in 58 of 60 hospital cases. A 2025 web app now tests shape and…
Hangzhou AI Engineer Zheng Jiajia Staged a Symbolic Wedding With Robot Yingying After Family Pressure to Marry
mayo 9, 2024
Hangzhou AI Engineer Zheng Jiajia Staged a Symbolic Wedding With Robot Yingying After Family Pressure to Marry
Zheng Jiajia built robot Yingying in late 2016 and held a Hangzhou ceremony around March 2017. The union had no legal force. Companion apps later drew tens of millions of…
FAA Investigates Boeing 787 Dreamliner After Workers Marked Wing Bonding Inspections Complete Without Doing the Work
mayo 6, 2024
FAA Investigates Boeing 787 Dreamliner After Workers Marked Wing Bonding Inspections Complete Without Doing the Work
On May 6, 2024, the FAA opened a 787 probe after Boeing said North Charleston workers recorded wing-to-fuselage bonding checks as finished when the tests were never performed.
Space Force Finds a Dead Cold War-Era Calibration Balloon Satellite Missing for 25 Years
mayo 2, 2024
Space Force Finds a Dead Cold War-Era Calibration Balloon Satellite Missing for 25 Years
The U.S. Space Force's 18th Space Defense Squadron rediscovered S73-7, a 1974 Infra-Red Calibration Balloon that had been untracked for 25 years.
Lithium Battery Packs Hit a Record $108 a Kilowatt-Hour as Grid Storage Collapses to $70 — The Crash That Is Rewiring Cars and Power Grids
mayo 1, 2024
Lithium Battery Packs Hit a Record $108 a Kilowatt-Hour as Grid Storage Collapses to $70 — The Crash That Is Rewiring Cars and Power Grids
BloombergNEF put the average lithium pack at $108/kWh in 2025. Grid storage fell to $70. The IEA counted 108 gigawatts of new batteries in a single year — more than…
Missing Teen of Slack Co-Founder Found Safe in a San Francisco Van; Two Adults Charged With Child Abduction
abril 30, 2024
Missing Teen of Slack Co-Founder Found Safe in a San Francisco Van; Two Adults Charged With Child Abduction
Mint Butterfield, 16, child of Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield, was found uninjured in a Tenderloin van. Two adults were charged with child abduction.
United Kingdom Becomes First Country to Ban Easily Guessable Default Passwords on Consumer Smart Devices
abril 30, 2024
United Kingdom Becomes First Country to Ban Easily Guessable Default Passwords on Consumer Smart Devices
The UK's PSTI Act bans easily guessable default passwords on smart devices and forces makers to publish update timelines and a vulnerability contact.
Porn Age-Check Laws Sent VPN Signups Through the Roof After the Supreme Court Backed Texas and the UK Turned On Its Safety Act
abril 3, 2024
Porn Age-Check Laws Sent VPN Signups Through the Roof After the Supreme Court Backed Texas and the UK Turned On Its Safety Act
State porn age-check laws and the UK Online Safety Act sent VPN demand soaring. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Texas's law in 2025. Proton reported UK VPN signups up more…
Zuckerberg vs Musk Was Never the Tyson-Paul Co-Main Event. It Was an April Fools Gag. Jake Paul Still Beat Mike Tyson on Netflix.
abril 1, 2024
Zuckerberg vs Musk Was Never the Tyson-Paul Co-Main Event. It Was an April Fools Gag. Jake Paul Still Beat Mike Tyson on Netflix.
BJJ Eastern Europe's Zuckerberg-vs-Musk co-main for Tyson-Paul was an April Fools gag. The billionaire cage match never happened. Jake Paul beat Mike Tyson on Netflix in November 2024.
Logan Paul Still Has Not Made CryptoZoo Whole: A Buyback, a Dismissed Fraud Suit, and a Coffeezilla Defamation Fight
julio 15, 2023
Logan Paul Still Has Not Made CryptoZoo Whole: A Buyback, a Dismissed Fraud Suit, and a Coffeezilla Defamation Fight
Logan Paul's CryptoZoo NFT game never launched. A 2024 buyback repaid most eligible buyers. A Texas fraud suit was dismissed in 2025. His Coffeezilla defamation case later settled.