This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 23)

Future Meet the Researcher Hosting a Scientific Conference by and for AIPeter Hall | MIT Technology Review “Agents4Science is a ...
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VR MMORPG Ilysia Goes Free-To-Play On Quest & Steam

VR MMORPG Ilysia is now free-to-play on Quest and Steam. Originally announced during the VR Game Spotlight at AWE USA, ...
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A Return to the Culture Wars? | Opinion

It’s almost a quarter of a century since Grand Theft Auto 3 launched, in the process
effectively heralding the beginning ...
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Visa shuts US open banking unit

Visa has shut down its US open banking unit amid regulatory uncertainty and bank plans to charge for customer data ...
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I gave the police access to my DNA—and maybe some of yours

This process, called forensic investigative genetic genealogy, or FIGG, has since helped solve hundreds of murders and sexual assaults. Still, ...
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Is Google’s Reveal of Gemini’s Impact Progress or Greenwashing?

According to a technical paper from Google, accompanied by a blog post on their website, the estimated energy consumption of ...
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Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s

Doctors soon discovered they were infected with the rare soil bacterium, which causes a disease called melioidosis. Dangerous infection Generally, ...
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The Trump-Intel Deal Is Official

The United States government is making an $8.9 billion investment in Intel, representing a 9.9 percent stake in the company, ...
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The case against humans in space

Mary-Jane Rubenstein, a scholar of religion at Wesleyan University, presents a thorough diagnosis of this exact pathology in her 2022 ...
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Apple accuses former Apple Watch staffer of conspiring to steal trade secrets for Oppo

Apple is suing a former employee on the Apple Watch team who left to join Oppo, alleging that he “conspired ...
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