Why the NSA Is Right About Restarting Your Smartphone Weekly

Why the NSA Is Right About Restarting Your Smartphone Weekly

Yep, the Galaxy S24 Ultra.Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo Oh, the irony of the National Security Agency suggests that smartphone users turn off their phones occasionally. But the NSA is right: you do need to restart your phone regularly to rid it of demons. Some phones even let you schedule the restart, so you don’t …

Read more

Palmer Luckey Says It’s a ‘Certainty’ That Future AI Will Kill Innocent People

Palmer Luckey Says It’s a ‘Certainty’ That Future AI Will Kill Innocent People

Palmer Luckey says it’s a “certainty” that artificial intelligence systems will kill innocent bystanders in wars of the future, according to a recent interview the tech mogul did with Bloomberg News. This is why Luckey stresses it’s absolutely crucial to keep human beings in the loop when AI systems are deployed by the U.S. military. …

Read more

This Startup Raised $38 Million To Fill One Of The Biggest Gaps In Drug Discovery

This Startup Raised  Million To Fill One Of The Biggest Gaps In Drug Discovery

Vivodyne CEO Andrei Georgescu (L) and Chief Commercial Officer Susan Billings (R). VivoDyne Only about 10% of drugs in development ever make it to market. That number has remained largely unchanged since the early 1990s, despite milestone advances in science — genomics, automated systems for conducting experiments and artificial intelligence. One big reason: lab research …

Read more

New Drug Combo Shows Results Against Earlier-Stage Colorectal Cancer

New Drug Combo Shows Results Against Earlier-Stage Colorectal Cancer

Pathologist Erika Hissong (L) and Oncologist Pashtoon Kasi (R) were two of the scientists involved in a new study demonstrating efficacy of a new immunotherapy against colorectal cancer. Weill-Cornell Medicine A combination immunotherapy developed by biotech company Agenus administered before surgery destroyed over 80% of a tumor before it was removed. Colorectal cancer is one …

Read more