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The feud between a weed influencer and scientist over puking stoners

The group had been started by a CHS patient named Erica, a 37-year-old artist who had looked online for resources after her diagnosis and, finding nothing, had decided to establish “basically a... Read more »

Deep learning delivers proactive cyber defense

The increased pace of high-profile threats (e.g., ransomware) is up to double–digit (15.8%) growth. The result is a dangerous path most likely to lead to continued losses for organizations that fall victim... Read more »

The Download: a cannabis disorder conflict, and ever-hotter heatwaves

Alice Moon couldn’t stop throwing up.  She had made a name for herself as an online cannabis influencer, but after a weed-infused dinner in a Malibu home in 2018, she spent more... Read more »

The weed influencer and the scientist feuding over why some stoners incessantly puke

The group had been started by a CHS patient named Erica, a 37-year-old artist who had looked online for resources after her diagnosis and, finding nothing, had decided to establish “basically a... Read more »

The Download: how a racing AI won, and taking on biotech’s big challenges

“Wait, what? How?” Emily Jones wasn’t used to being left behind. A top sim-racing driver with multiple wins to her name, Jones jerked the steering wheel in the esports rig, eyes fixed... Read more »

Sony’s racing AI destroyed its human competitors by being nice (and fast)

But Sony soon learned that speed alone wasn’t enough to make GT Sophy a winner. The program outpaced all human drivers on an empty track, setting superhuman lap times across three different... Read more »

Customer and employee experience: The new normal

In fact, Pew Research found that a full 86% of respondents to a survey about post-pandemic life expect the pandemic to have lasting effects on everyday experiences. In the context of retail... Read more »

The Download: a novel form of censorship in China, and a self-taught robot dog

Imagine you are working on your novel on your home computer. It’s nearly finished; you have already written approximately one million words. All of a sudden, the online word processing software tells... Read more »

This robot dog just taught itself to walk

The team’s algorithm, called Dreamer, uses past experiences to build up a model of the surrounding world. Dreamer also allows the robot to conduct trial-and-error calculations in a computer program as opposed... Read more »

A million-word novel got censored before it was even shared. Now Chinese users want answers.

The news blew up on social media on July 11 after a few prominent influencer accounts belatedly picked it up. It became the top trending topic on Weibo that day, with users... Read more »