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June 13th, 2022 - 8:58 pm § in Politics

Herschel Walker’s resume padding

Herschel Walker, 60, is a former NFL player whose qualifications to be a U.S. senator consist of winning the GOP nomination because of his name familiarity. That’s as far as he should get. There’s nothing wrong with the incumbent, Sen. Raphael Warnock, senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist C[...]

June 13th, 2022 - 7:56 pm § in Misc.

Google invents HAL … and doesn’t want you to know

Google has suspended a software engineer for revealing it has created a computer which he says thinks and has feelings. The company denies Blake Lemoine’s description of conversations with the artificial intelligence machine, asserts he breached its confidentiality policies, and says “he[...]

June 13th, 2022 - 12:56 pm § in Misc., Science

How old are you? How much would you pay to find out?

The calendar lies. You may be younger or older than you think. That’s because chronological and biological age are different. But measuring the latter is tricky. There are several ways to do it, some better than others. Scientists consider “epigenetics” the “gold standardR[...]