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•In a significant leap forward for brain-machine interfaces, a team of researchers from Kobe University used an artificial intelligence (AI) neural decoding program to successfully predict mouse movements with near-perfect accuracy.
•A groundbreaking medical achievement has been reached as a Chinese patient undergoes the world’s inaugural successful gene-edited pig liver transplant.
•Researchers have unveiled the remarkable ability of specially trained dogs to detect post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from human breath samples.
•In an innovative leap within the cybersecurity landscape, researchers have unveiled a novel acoustic side-channel attack, capable of discerning what a user types merely by analyzing the sound of keystrokes. More

•Researchers have found that AI-generated propaganda is just as effective as propaganda written by humans, and with a bit of tweaking can be even more persuasive.
•A study has found that electric vehicles pollute the environment at least 1,850 times more than their fossil fuel-based counterparts.
•The government is working on a new system to enable the identification and tracking of individuals and motor vehicles through different video sources.
•A single bitcoin transaction consumes as much energy as the average American household uses in a day.
•Scientists have created a new weapon for fighting crop-damaging birds: a technology they are calling ‘Laser Scarecrows.’ More

•The French government just passed a law to fine and imprison people for refusing to get injected with mRNA (modRNA) “vaccines.”
•New research shows that those who received the COVID shots emit a fluorescent orange glow in their faces that is visible under a UV light of 365 nano-meters.
•A new study just came out showing that a pesticide linked to infertility was found in upwards of 80 percent of people in America.
•The first human patient implanted with a brain chip from Neuralink has made a “full recovery” and “can control the mouse around the screen just by thinking.” More

•You can successfully control a virtual object while lucid dreaming.
•Research over recent years suggests that our gut bacteria may have a role in helping us maintain our brain health as we age.
•Buildings of the future could be transformed into batteries that store excess green power and backup the grid during blackouts, as scientists claimed a breakthrough in how to improve the efficiency and strength of such systems. More

•A recent study has found that ChatGPT will lie and strategically deceive users when put under pressure.
•Scientists have now uncovered a role for a gene called OXR1 that is necessary for the lifespan extension seen with dietary restriction and is essential for healthy brain aging.
•More than 70,000 lone-parent households are facing eviction this winter amid warnings that they are “bearing the brunt” of the housing crisis in England.
•The world’s first fully autonomous restaurant controlled and operated by robots that prepare and serve the food has been officially launched in Pasadena, California. More

•The FDA released the final batch of documents it relied upon in licensing Pfizer’s Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine for ages 16 and up—more than 800 days after the agency approved the shot.
•Researchers have succeeded in creating an oral peptide, which has the potential to usher in a new era in drug development.
•Social media platforms are meticulously designed to trigger the release of dopamine in our brains, creating a neural reward system that keeps us coming back for more.
•There have been significant problems with AI’s training data, with various complaints already filed by those who claimed their work was stolen, but the most recent discovery saw child sexual abuse images in their dataset. More

•In Nordic countries like Sweden and Finland, no deaths of children were reported even though they were not required to wear face masks.
•Researchers have built a hybrid biocomputer, combining a laboratory-grown human brain tissue with conventional electronic circuits that can complete tasks such as voice recognition.
•World War II started 80 years ago, but it wasn’t because the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. New information tells a different story.
•Australian researchers are putting together a supercomputer designed to emulate the world’s most efficient learning machine – a neuromorphic monster capable of the same estimated 228 trillion synaptic operations per second that human brains handle. More

•A team of neuroscientists and neurosurgeons from Duke University have developed a promising technique for telepathic-like communication from thoughts alone by directly reading people’s thoughts.
•A team of Japanese scientists has developed a groundbreaking drug that stimulates the growth of new teeth—the first of its kind in the world.
•Chicken feathers can replace ‘Forever Chemicals’ in renewable hydrogen fuel cells, lowering cost.
•Microsoft is working on a new kind of storage technology, called Project Silica, that could store data essentially forever without any electricity. Instead of writing data to a magnetic storage medium, it encodes that data in a sheet of glass smaller than a DVD. More

•Swedish researchers have developed a new method of recycling batteries from electric vehicles that allows recovery of 100 percent of the aluminum and 98 percent of the lithium.
•Russia and China, along with France and Finland, have taken the lead in nuclear electricity generation.
•US banks closed over 3,000 branches last year while opening just 1,000. More

•Agriculture’s share of global GDP has shrunk to just 3 percent.
•Cell phone signals can be used to release biological or chemical payloads from graphene oxide that’s introduced into the human body.
•In the far future there will be only one supercontinent on earth, too hot for most species to survive. More

•A brain implant and digital avatar can made it possible for a stroke survivor to communicate more naturally through facial expressions alone.
•Scientists from the City College of New York (CCNY) developed a way to effectively trap light inside a metamaterial, and in turn make the light 10 times more magnetic.
•Bitcoin as a policy issue in the 2024 US election is being driven by 44% of voters coming from the Millennials and Gen-Z demographic. More