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Drylands Now Make Up 40% of Land on Earth, Excluding Antarctica, Study Says(2024-12-10 00:00:06)

An area of land nearly a third larger than India has turned from humid conditions to dryland -- arid areas where agriculture is difficult -- in the past three decades, research has found. From a report: Drylands now make up 40% of all land on Earth, excluding Antarctica. Three-quarters of the world'...
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Scientists Advise EU To Halt Solar Geoengineering(2024-12-09 21:00:04)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Scientific advisers to the European Commission are calling for a moratorium across the EU on efforts to artificially cool Earth through solar geoengineering. That includes controversial technologies used to reflect sunlight back into space, primarily by sending r...
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IT Giant Favored Indian H-1B Workers Over US Employees(2024-12-09 18:00:13)

chiguy writes: In October, a jury in a federal class-action lawsuit returned a verdict that found Cognizant intentionally discriminated against more than 2,000 non-Indian employees between 2013 and 2022. The verdict, which echoed a previously undisclosed finding from a 2020 US Equal Employment Oppor...
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Scientific Breakthrough Gives New Hope To Building Quantum Computers(2024-12-09 15:00:04)

Google has achieved a major breakthrough in quantum error correction that could enable practical quantum computers by 2030, the company announced in a paper published Monday in Nature. The research demonstrated significant error reduction when scaling up from 3x3 to 7x7 grids of quantum bits, with e...
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Microsoft AI Chief Says Conversational AI Will Replace Web Browsers(2024-12-09 12:00:09)

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicts conversational AI will become the primary way people interact with technology, replacing traditional web browsers and search engines within the next few years. In an interview with The Verge, Suleyman, who oversees Microsoft's consumer AI products including...
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