New Gene Drive Stops the Spread of Malaria—Without Killing Any Mosquitoes

New Gene Drive Stops the Spread of Malaria—Without Killing Any Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes are an uncomfortable, itchy nuisance. But for people in sub-Saharan Africa, a bite could mean death. The pests are ...
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Meta Interaction SDK Gets Hand Tracking Climbing, ‘Telepath’ & ‘Walking Stick’ Locomotion

Meta Interaction SDK Gets Hand Tracking Climbing, ‘Telepath’ & ‘Walking Stick’ Locomotion
Meta’s Interaction SDK for Unity got a major update that adds new locomotion modes for hand tracking and enables more ...
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[2504.03197] Explain with Visual Keypoints Like a Real Mentor! A Benchmark for Multimodal Solution Explanation

[2504.03197] Explain with Visual Keypoints Like a Real Mentor! A Benchmark for Multimodal Solution Explanation
[Submitted on 4 Apr 2025 (v1), last revised 17 Dec 2025 (this version, v5)] View a PDF of the paper ...
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The AI doomers feel undeterred

The AI doomers feel undeterred
It’s a weird time to be an AI doomer. This small but influential community of researchers, scientists, and policy experts ...
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A Practical Toolkit for Time Series Anomaly Detection, Using Python

A Practical Toolkit for Time Series Anomaly Detection, Using Python
fascinating aspects of time series is the intrinsic complexity of such an apparently simple kind of data. At the end ...
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NASA finally—and we really do mean it this time—has a full-time leader

NASA finally—and we really do mean it this time—has a full-time leader
Now, finally, he will get a chance to act, rather than react to everyone else. As the Project Athena plan ...
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Quantum navigation could solve the military’s GPS jamming problem

Quantum navigation could solve the military’s GPS jamming problem
Other teams, like Q-CTRL, an Australian quantum technology company, are focusing on using software to build robust systems from noisy ...
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The ChatGPT app store is here

The ChatGPT app store is here
On Wednesday evening, OpenAI launched an App Directory to browse all the tools currently available and opened its SDK for ...
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Hacker Busts Startup Running Huge Web of AI-Generated “Influencers” on Instagram

Hacker Busts Startup Running Huge Web of AI-Generated “Influencers” on Instagram
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Doublespeed / Getty Images Back in October, word started making the rounds of ...
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Kubuntu vs. Fedora: Which Linux distro is right for your KDE Plasma desktop?

Kubuntu vs. Fedora: Which Linux distro is right for your KDE Plasma desktop?
Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key ...
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