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Exclusive: German research into responses to health queries raises fresh questions about summaries seen by 2bn people a month How the ‘confident authority’ of AI Overviews is putting public health at ...

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Hydrogen, a clean energy source, requires a highly reliable and safe storage system, which is currently lacking. Layered hydrogen silicane (L-HSi) is a promising, safe, lightweight, and ...

A home phone could be the only thing keeping you connected to the world when there's a massive mobile outage. Ian Sherr Contributor and Former Editor at Large / News Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in ...

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Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results. The study divided 54 subjects—18 to 39 year-olds from the Boston ...

Technology adoption continues to grow, but it varies based on farm size and purpose. USDA asked farm operators about their use of a variety of precision ag technologies. Here are some of the responses ...