The Download: CRISPR in court, and the police’s ban-skirting AI
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world ...
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How to Set the Number of Trees in Random Forest
Scientific publication T. M. Lange, M. Gültas, A. O. Schmitt & F. Heinrich (2025). optRF: Optimising random forest stability by ...
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RFK Jr’s plan to ban fluoride supplements will “hurt rural America,” dentists say
“Harmful” While fluoride can kill bacteria, particularly at high levels, it’s used in oral health to inhibit the demineralization of ...
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We Hand-Picked the 24 Best Deals From the 2025 REI Anniversary Sale
It’s nearly summer. The flowers are in full bloom, the birds are well north, and REI is kicking off its ...
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The Download: the first personalized gene-editing drug, and Montana’s Right to Try experiment
Doctors say they constructed a bespoke gene-editing treatment in less than seven months and used it to treat a baby ...
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Meta faces Democratic probe into plans to power a giant data center with gas
Meta’s building a new AI data center so massive in Louisiana that the local utility company has plans to construct ...
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The Trump Memecoin Dinner Winners Are Getting Rid of Their Coins
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Next week, a coterie of crypto investors will share an extravagant dinner with US president Donald Trump at his golf ...
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Amazon’s Delivery Drones Are Crashing, and We Finally Know Why
Amazon, the multi-trillion dollar e-commerce monolith, seemingly cheaped out on on a key feature installed on its six-propeller delivery drones. ...
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‘Fortnite’ Players Are Already Making AI Darth Vader Swear
On Friday, Epic Games announced Darth Vader would be returning to Fortnite as an in-game boss—but this time, players would ...
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Meta delays ‘Behemoth’ AI model, handing OpenAI and Google even more of a head start
Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Last month, Meta hosted its first generative AI developer conference, LlamaCon, where it planned to ...
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