Fare Evasion
Artificial Intelligence Predicts Earthquakes With Unprecedented Accuracy
1 in 10 Minors Say Their Friends Use AI to Generate Nudes of Other Kids, Survey Finds
As twenty-something-year-old investors enter the venture landscape, they bring fresh vibes and spot new trends […] She likes technologies like the a16z-backed party-planning app Partiful, which helps merge the online world with the in-person — an effort she calls “IRL to URL.” She’s also into “AI social rehab,” or looking for tools that can make people better people and citizens of the world. She says right now that many of the AI companion apps, those that purport to be one’s friend or partner, are reinforcing self-isolation.
Shortages of rice have recently been seen across Japan, and the price of the staple food is soaring. But close to 100% of Japan’s rice is domestically produced and the yield of crops appears normal, so why is this happening? […] The reason there is a shortage of rice is because of the acreage reduction policy which decreases the amount of land devoted to cultivation. […] Even if around 3 million visitors were to stay in Japan each month for a week and eat rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner like many Japanese people, it would still only account for around 0.5% of total consumption.
Researchers in California are working to genetically engineer the cow microbiome — and in the process, eliminate methane emissions — There are approximately 1.5 billion cattle on the planet. […] Cattle, one of the most-consumed creatures on the planet, produce enormous amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that is responsible for 30 percent of global warming. Using tools that snip and transfer DNA, researchers plan to genetically engineer microbes in the cow stomach to eliminate those emissions. If they succeed, they could wipe out the world’s largest human-made source of methane and help change the trajectory of planetary warming. […] Unable to process the gas, cows burp it up. The average cow produces around 220 pounds of methane per year, or around half the emissions of an average car; cows are currently responsible for around 4 percent of global warming.
Microwaves: A Haven for Bacterial Diversity
Fare Evasion Surges on N.Y.C. Buses, Where 48% of Riders Fail to Pay
The Aryan Book Store opened in March of 1933 i Los Angeles […] On a typical Friday evening, twenty-five people visited, mostly men in their twenties who drove Pontiacs, Buicks, and Studebakers. We know these details, as well as their plate numbers and the exact times at which they arrived and departed, because just around the corner was a spy.
