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US's AI Lead Over China Rapidly Shrinking, Stanford Report Says(2025-04-08 05:00:03)

The U.S. is still the global leader in state-of-the-art AI, but China has closed the gap considerably, according to a new report from Stanford. Axios: Institutions based in the U.S. produced 40 AI models of note in 2024, compared with 15 from China and three from Europe, according to the eighth edit...
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States Are Banning Forever Chemicals. Industry Is Fighting Back(2025-04-08 00:00:05)

New Mexico's legislature passed bills last week that would ban consumer products containing PFAS, joining a small but growing number of states taking action against these persistent "forever chemicals." If signed by the governor, the legislation would prohibit the sale of many products with added pe...
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China Launches GPMI, a Powerful Alternative To HDMI and DisplayPort(2025-04-07 20:00:30)

AmiMoJo writes: The Shenzhen 8K UHD Video Industry Cooperation Alliance, a group made up of more than 50 Chinese companies, just released a new wired media communication standard called the General Purpose Media Interface or GPMI. This standard was developed to support 8K and reduce the number of ca...
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Scientists Debate Actual Weight of the Internet(2025-04-07 15:00:04)

The internet's physical mass remains contested among scientists, with estimates ranging from a strawberry to something almost unimaginably small. In 2006, Harvard physicist Russell Seitz calculated the internet weighed roughly 50 grams based on server energy, a figure that would now equate to potato...
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America's NIH Scientists Have a Cancer Breakthrough. Layoffs are Delaying It.(2025-04-07 10:00:14)

Scientists "demonstrated a promising step toward using a person's own immune cells to fight gastrointestinal cancers" at America's National Institutes of Health (or NIH), reports the Washington Post. But the results were published in Nature Medicine on Tuesday — "the same day the agency was ...
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