How to use Google Search without AI: Bypassing the ‘udm=14’ work

Join us as we return to New York on June 5 to work with executive leaders to explore comprehensive methods for auditing AI models for bias, performance, and ethical compliance in diverse organizations. Find out how you can attend here. It’s hard to imagine given how popular and entrenched it is in modern society, but … Read more

Drug resistance pathway for glioblastoma identified – Neuroscience News

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Resume: Researchers identified a key signaling pathway, PI3K-beta, responsible for chemotherapy resistance in glioblastoma. Blocking this pathway makes tumor cells more sensitive to temozolomide, a standard chemotherapy drug. This discovery offers a potential new approach to treating glioblastoma, a deadly brain cancer, by overcoming drug resistance and improving patient outcomes. Key Facts: The PI3K-beta signaling … Read more

The 180-million-year-old secret of evolution: Scientists discover potential origin of the first ‘warm-blooded’ dinosaurs

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Recent research indicates that some dinosaurs may have evolved the ability to regulate their body temperature internally during the Early Jurassic period, allowing them to adapt to colder climates and survive environmental challenges. The artist’s impression shows a dromaeosaur, a type of feathered theropod, in the snow. This group of dinosaurs is popularly known as … Read more

Google Chrome is under attack: do this one thing now

This has been a nightmare week for Google and its more than 2 billion desktop Chrome users. The US government has now added a third serious zero-day security threat to its central catalog of Chrome vulnerabilities known to be behind active attacks. You need to ensure that your browser has been updated successfully. This is … Read more

GTA 6 could be the first game to go past the $70 mark

It was only about two years ago that the video game industry started charging $70 for major games instead of the usual $60, due to rising game development costs (and greed). This shift understandably hasn’t gone down well with players, as the cost of keeping up with modern gaming continues to rise, but that may … Read more

Android 15 Beta 2 fully restores Cast volume controls for speaker groups on Pixel phones

TL; DR With the release of Android 15 Beta 2, Pixel phones will once again be able to control the volume of Google Home speaker groups while casting. Google deliberately disabled this functionality on Pixel phones in late 2021 due to a legal dispute with Sonos. In late 2023, Google announced it would bring back … Read more

Lawmakers in New York are pushing to block lawsuits over government bond funds

Stay informed with free updates Simply log in to the Government bonds myFT Digest – delivered straight to your inbox. New York lawmakers are launching a new push to limit lawsuits by “vulture funds” against governments that default on their debts and cut the amount investors can recover through the courts on defaulted emerging market … Read more

Samsung’s Galaxy Book4 Edge is an ultra-thin Copilot+ PC with Galaxy AI as its secret sauce

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What you need to know Samsung has announced the new Snapdragon X-powered Galaxy Book4 Edge in 14 and 16-inch sizes. They are Copilot+ PCs with a Qualcomm Hexagon NPU with a speed of 45 TOPS. The laptops feature 2.8K AMOLED touchscreens, quad-speaker audio with Dolby Atmos and the Galaxy AI suite of tools. The 14- … Read more

We may have just witnessed some of the strongest auroras in 500 years

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This month’s increased auroras may have been even more remarkable than we thought. The auroral shows that astonishes observers around the world two weekends ago, including people as far south as Florida in the US and Ladakh in northern India, this could have been one of the strongest light shows since record keeping began. “With … Read more

The Perseverance Rover’s Mars rock sample may contain the best evidence of possible ancient life

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The chief scientist of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is excited about material stored in the rover’s sample tubes, dropped both on the surface of Mars and in the rover itself while orbiting Jezero Crater. Given the Martian samples Perseverance has collected so far, could one of those be what the rover was meant to look … Read more