On paper the market should be great, not on edge. That’s the opportunity
When I look at Thursday’s rally, I am beginning to realize that we have become so binary and so up close that we have lost our ability to think about …
Technology
Hollywood icons of the past are coming back in AI voice cloning deals
Stars from Hollywood’s golden age are being reborn through celebrity estate AI voice cloning deals, a sign of how some of the “Wild West” concerns about unauthorized AI impersonation are …
Would you trust an ant to amputate your limb? Science is showing they are skilled surgeons
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An insect bites off another insect’s leg. Is this predatory behavior, aggression, defense, competition or something else? In the case of carpenter ants, it’s for the …
Research shows the Great Barrier Reef is the hottest it’s been in 400 years
Mass coral bleaching in recent decades has devastated the reef. Credit: UQ The Great Barrier Reef is vast and spectacular. But repeated mass coral bleachings, driven by high ocean temperatures, …
Study unveils limits on the extent to which quantum errors can be ‘undone’ in large systems
Credit: Quek et al. Quantum computers have the potential of outperforming conventional computers on some practically relevant information processing problems, possibly even in machine learning and optimization. Yet their large-scale …
Mars and Jupiter get chummy in the night sky. The planets won’t get this close again until 2033
This combination image, created from two photos provided by NASA, shows Jupiter pictured on April 3, 2017, left, and Mars pictured on Aug. 26, 2003, right. Credit: NASA via AP …
How tea plants combat drought through protein phosphorylation
Effects of drought stress on the biosynthesis of flavonoid in tea leaves. Credit: Horticulture Research (2024). DOI: 10.1093/hr/uhae136 Drought stress poses a significant challenge to agriculture, causing substantial yield losses …
Historic fires trapped in Antarctic ice yield key information for climate models
Credit: University of Cambridge Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey tracked fire activity over the past 150 years by measuring carbon monoxide trapped in Antarctic …
How do butterflies stick to branches during metamorphosis?
Caterpillars spin silky carpets and seatbelt-like structures to protect themselves during metamorphosis. Credit: ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.4c00237 Most of us learned about butterfly metamorphosis as a …
Elon Musk’s Support For Trump Finally Hits Tesla’s Sales
Good morning! It’s Friday, August 9, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are …