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The Nobel Prize Selection Committee has announced that Swedish scientist Svante Pääbo has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for his discoveries about the genome of extinct ancient humans and human evolution.” Humans have always been interested in their origins. Where are we from? What made us Homo sapiens different from […]

In 2018, young blogging service Tumblr announced that it would block all adult content. In 2019, Verizon sold Tumblr to Automattic, the parent company of WordPress. Three years later, many people are discussing that Tumblr might reinstate adult content and lift the ban. Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg responded to this personally , saying that Tumblr

The Debian project announced the results of a vote on whether to allow non-free firmware to be loaded by default. There are six options in total, and the fifth option – “Change SC for non-free firmware in installer, one installer” was selected . SC stands for Social Contract, a basic document of the Debian project,

Google confirmed that it shut down the Chinese version of the translation service, citing low usage. Visiting the domain name http://translate.google.cn will be redirected to Google’s Hong Kong domain name, and users can continue to use the translation service through translate.google.com.hk under the Hong Kong domain name. This change occurred in the past few days

Xinhua announced that COMAC’s C919 aircraft received a type certificate from the Civil Aviation Administration of China this month, but did not specify the date of the certificate’s issuance. This means that the aircraft has reached China’s commercial operation standards. This is an important step in delivering the aircraft to the customer. According to the

The civil case of Jingyao Liu v. Liu Qiangdong reached an out-of-court settlement two days before the Oct. 3 trial. Details of the settlement were not disclosed. Jingyao Liu accused Liu Qiangdong in 2018 of molesting and raping her when he sent her home after a banquet. Liu Qiangdong denied any wrongdoing, insisting that both

The developers of the Matrix message protocol have released an update that fixes the end-to-end encryption vulnerability . Matrix is ​​an end-to-end encrypted and decentralized instant messaging system. It does not have a central server and communicates with other platforms through bridges. Its ecosystem consists of fully interoperable open source and private IM collaboration clients

Google is working to simplify the search for forum-like information like Reddit. Forums such as Reddit contain a lot of useful personal experience-based information, and the Google search engine will add a new module called “discussions and forums” to make it easier for users to search for information from the forums . Google has also

Following the popularity of text-to-image generators, Meta announced Make-A-Video , a text-to-video generator that generates video content from text or image cues. Meta demonstrates the effect of generating a video from a text description or a still image, such as a turtle image that is processed into a turtle swimming video. Make-A-Video is based on

NASA announced Thursday that it will study the possibility of using the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft to lift the Hubble Space Telescope to a higher orbit . NASA and SpaceX signed a Space Act Agreement to conduct a six-month study to determine the feasibility of docking the Dragon spacecraft with the 32-year-old Hubble and then

NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew by Jupiter’s moon Europa from a distance of 352 kilometers on Thursday. Europa is the fourth largest of the 79 known moons of Jupiter, slightly smaller than the moon, has a thin atmosphere, and is thought to have a liquid ocean beneath its surface ice. Scientists hope that the Juno spacecraft

Saudi government-funded The Savvy Gaming Group is set to invest $37.8 billion in gaming as it plans to acquire gaming companies and start its own game studio. Savvy has set aside more than $13 billion to acquire a game publisher as a strategic development partner, investing $18 billion to acquire minority stakes in gaming companies.

The high probability that Google’s products or services will shut down is almost a self-fulfilling prophecy. The search giant is now preparing to shut down its already struggling streaming service Stadia. The official Google Blog announced that Stadia will be shutting down on January 18, 2023. Players continue to use it until this date, which