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Florida women wear ‘granny’ disguise to try to get Covid vaccine
Drone Swarms Are Getting Too Fast For Humans To Fight, U.S. General Warns — Previously: Autonomous killer drones
Citibank can’t get back $500 million it wired by mistake, judge rules
Air pollution is associated with poorer quality sperm, finds study
The coronavirus is here to stay — many scientists expect the virus that causes COVID-19 to become endemic, but it could pose less danger over time
Cinemas rent out their auditoriums to gamers to bring in a new revenue stream ($90 for two hours)
Women better at reading minds than men, study
Findings suggest that individuals are unable to accurately identify AI-generated artwork
The Most Powerful Artificial Intelligence Knows Nothing About Investing
we developed an experimental “stock market”’ task in which cohorts of 4 rats drove asset prices up and down by selecting and subsequently buying, selling, or holding “stocks” to earn sweet liquid reward. […] Rats’ choice of the sell option demonstrated a robust tendency toward realizing gains more quickly than losses, which is characteristic of the “disposition effect” in human stock markets. Our results indicate that rats exhibit behavioral biases similar to human investors
The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%
Fake Amazon reviews ‘being sold in bulk’ online
Silicon Valley-backed groups sue Maryland to kill country’s first-ever online advertising tax [Washington Post]
Free Trading Isn’t Free: How Robinhood Makes Money
List Of Fictional Cryptocurrencies Banned By The SEC
The 25 Greatest Art Heists of All Time
The essence of zero-knowledge proofs is that it is trivial to prove that one possesses knowledge of certain information by simply revealing it; the challenge is to prove such possession without revealing the information itself or any additional information
How do you access the contents of a safe without ever opening its lock or otherwise getting inside? This riddle may seem confounding, but its digital equivalent is now so solvable that it’s becoming a business plan. IBM is the latest innovator to tackle the well-studied cryptographic technique called fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), which allows for the processing of encrypted files without ever needing to decrypt them first.
