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ARTISTS CAN (MAYBE) SLEEP SOUNDLY AS NEW AI TOOLS MIGHT COPY MACHINES MORE THAN HUMANS

If AIs were able to truly be intelligent, they could be considered humans without all the bothersome baggage such as limbs and organs. But as we all know, it's impossible to cut a person in half (safely), card tricks are sleight of hand or manipulations, and the rabbit was there the whole time. So, how does AI's magic trick hold up? Are they close to becoming human? Not quite. Disassembling & Packaging

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ONE OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST LASERS COULD BE USED TO DETECT ALIEN WARP DRIVES

Scientists have proposed another use for the world's largest gravitational wave observatory: scanning for the ripples in space‑time left in the wake of gargantuan alien spaceships. Space.com

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FINALLY, THE PERFECT WATER BOTTLE

This is it. Someone actually innovated the water bottle. Cirkul invented a water bottle that can not only help control how much you can sip at a time, but with their special flavor cartridges, how flavorful you want your water to be. Between different styles of bottle — including custom bottles and sizes for everyone — and a myriad of flavors from tea to energy drinks and more, Cirkul is the next-level water bottle you never knew you needed.

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ROBOTIC BOATS ARE SURVEYING SEABEDS AT OFFSHORE WIND FARMS

Swedish multinational power company Vattenfall announced today that it has successfully conducted large-scale seabed surveys with uncrewed robotic boats at several of its offshore wind farms in Denmark, Sweden, and the U.K. Electrek

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A DRUG TO TREAT AGING MAY NOT BE A PIPE DREAM

Throughout most of human history, you had a roughly 50/50 chance of making it into your twenties, mainly due to deaths from infectious diseases and accidents. Thanks to medical advances, we've gradually found ways to avoid and treat such causes of death; the end result is perhaps humanity's greatest-ever achievement — we've literally doubled what it means to be human, increasing lifespans from 40 to 80 years. On the other hand, this has allowed one scourge to rise above all the others to become the world's largest cause of death: aging. Wired

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