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Faced with new legislation, Iowa's Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books 'contain a description or depiction of a sex act.'

The Basic HTML function was helpful for people dealing with a slow internet connection but wanted to read their email.

Faced with new legislation, Iowa's Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books 'contain a description or depiction of a sex act.'

Countries with higher species of bird diversity saw the biggest jump in searches for proper wild bird feeding.

Retrofitted with 123-foot ‘WindWings,' 'Pyxis Ocean' is testing two giant sails on its six-week journey from China to Brazil.

This drone is small, quiet, and highly maneuverable. Back in April, it even explored the collapsed parking garage in New York City.

Article on popular science: prompt injection attacks are a new risk associated with the interation if llms into other services. •prompt injection attacks imply the use of a prompt that bypass safety restrictions of a given ai / llm, which cannot differentiate between illicit instructions and inputs. •a proper prompt...

They have already invested $800 million in the secretive urban project, while recently revealed plans remain vague.

The shrimp-sized, strong-armed creature dating back 520 million years is filling in some evolutionary gaps.

Pilots in U-2 spy planes rely on food in tubes for their in-flight meals. Here's how this cuisine is made, and what it tastes like.

Despite becoming a cultural phenomenon, two of the men behind Jaws worried about the impact of their fictional predator on real-life sharks.

Some participants remembered deepfaked remakes of movies like the Matrix coming out in theaters after watching doctored clips.

The 'ultracool' star is possibly around 44 times as dense as our solar system's largest member—the gas giant Jupiter.

The GE⊕-LPS includes V-shaped solar panels positioned in a helix configuration over one-square-kilometer in length.

Gene editing can streamline the process of wood fiber production, by modifying poplar trees to reduce the amount of their hard lignin.

Twitter under Elon Musk’s chaotic reign has seemingly created an opportunity for an alternative microblogging service.

The CDC says the draft guidelines are not final. Nurses, researchers, and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reduce protection against the coronavirus and other airborne pathogens in hospitals.

A new wormy robot could help with jet engine inspections at GE Aerospace, according to an announcement this week. Sensiworm, short for “Soft ElectroNics Skin-Innervated Robotic Worm,” is the newest outgrowth in GE’s line of worm robots, which includes a “giant earthworm” for tunneling and the “Pipeworm” for...

Designed by researchers at Bangor University, Trisofuel could help provide energy not only on the moon and Mars, but both here on Earth.