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In a model of the cow reproductive tract, sperm from bulls clump together in groups of two to four cells, according to a study published in the journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. This seems to help them swim upstream. Scientists point out that swimming in groups can help sperm make their way up […]

American Doreen Bogdan-Martin has been selected as the next secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) , succeeding China’s Houlin Zhao. She is also the first female secretary-general of the ITU. She won 139 votes to rival Rashid Ismailov of Russia with 25 votes. In her victory statement, she said the world faces enormous

According to Sensor Tower data , Mihayou’s “Genshin Impact” has achieved global revenue of $3.7 billion in the two years since its release. Its revenue over the past two years is second only to Tencent’s two mobile games: PUBG Mobile at $4.9 billion and Honor of Kings at $5.3 billion. Genshin Impact’s $2.5 billion outside

The EU proposed the AI ​​Liability Directive to reduce the burden of proof in prosecuting AI products. Self-driving cars, voice assistants and search engines are all likely to fall under the directive’s jurisdiction. If passed, the directive would go hand in hand with the proposed AI law – the first to set limits on AI

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1162 to formally make pay transparency into law. The law requires employers with more than 15 employees to disclose salary ranges in job postings, and California-based companies with more than 100 employees to disclose median pay gaps by gender and race. California businesses have until January 2023 to

U.S. regulators have announced settlements with more than a dozen Wall Street banks for breaching regulatory requirements for record-keeping using encrypted messaging apps such as WhatsApp, totaling more than $2 billion in fines . The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a $1.1 billion fine, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced a

solids wrote , “After Google announced its withdrawal from China, it only kept the translation service and the map service without search in China. Later, the map service was closed, but now it seems that it will also close the translation service. Recently, someone found that visiting Google The translated Chinese site http://translate.google.cn has a

TSMC is preparing to mass-produce 3-nanometer chips, and Apple is most likely to be the first company to make chips using the 3-nanometer process. But according to Taiwan’s “Economic Daily” report , Apple refused to raise prices. TSMC’s original plan was to raise prices by 6%-9%, but Apple, which accounts for a quarter of TSMC’s

Cloudflare has launched Turnstile , a free alternative to CAPTCHA that anyone can use, whether they are a Cloudflare customer or not. Turnstile leverages Cloudflare’s Managed Challenge system to take cues from user behavior, browser data, and Private Access Tokens on Apple devices to differentiate between humans and bots. Cloudflare claims its Managed Challenge system

Researchers at security firm Lumen have discovered a never-before-seen cross-platform malware that infects Windows and Linux devices, including small office routers, FreeBSD boxes and large enterprise servers. The researchers named the malicious program Chaos because the word appears repeatedly in the malicious program’s function names, certificates, and file names. It may have appeared as early

Amazon has released a 10.2-inch e-book reader Kindle Scribe that supports handwriting. There are three versions of 16GB/32GB/64GB, starting at $340. It is currently open for pre-order (sold out and out of stock), and users in China can use JD.com Purchase (in stock), the price including tax is 4299/4429/4699 yuan (with ordinary stylus), and with

According to a study published in Nature The viral replication mechanism laid the key theoretical foundation. They also analyzed the molecular mechanism by which the old drug suramin can effectively inhibit the activity of Ebola virus polymerase, providing new targets and directions for the development of anti-Ebola virus drugs. This article is reprinted from: https://www.solidot.org/story?sid=72918

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), a research arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), launched The Human Interpretable Attribution of Text Using Underlying Structure (HIATUS) research project to develop software that can recognize language fingerprints. Human-authored texts contain linguistic features of authors that can be used to reveal authorship.