Tech founder charged with fraud for ‘AI’ that was secretly overseas contract workers
The US Department of Justice has indicted Albert Sangier for defrauding investors with misleading statements about his Nate financial technology platform. Founded by Sangier in 2018, Nate claimed it could offer shoppers a universal checkout app thanks to artificial intelligence. However, the indictment states that the so-called AI-powered transactions in Nate were actually completed by…
This isn’t a galaxy — it’s a map of a mouse’s brain
Scientists created a map of a mouse’s brain while it watched clips of The Matrix. They say this research is a step toward discovering how human brains work…
Denisovans first discovered in Russia reached Taiwan Strait, fossil gene evidence suggests
The discovery of archaic human jawbone shatters assumptions about the geographic limits of the Denisova hominin…Monomers and short oligomers of human RAD52 promote single-strand annealing
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 14, April 2025. SignificanceDNA repair is critical to maintaining genetic information. Accumulation of genomic errors can lead to serious diseases and cancer. Recently, RAD52, a repair protein involved in numerous pathways, has become a promising cancer drug target…Disease resistance is more costly at younger ages: An explanation for the maintenance of juvenile susceptibility in a wild plant
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 14, April 2025. SignificanceJuveniles play a major role in maintaining and spreading infectious disease in a wide range of hosts including humans, wildlife, and plants. This occurs because juveniles are typically more susceptible to infection than mature individuals…
The genetic architecture of and evolutionary constraints on the human pelvic form | Science
Human pelvic evolution following the human-chimpanzee divergence is thought to result in an obstetrical dilemma, a mismatch between large infant brains and narrowed female birth canals, but empirical evidence has been equivocal. By using deep learning on …
Extremely rare Denisovan jawbone confirms human cousins spread across Asia
Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, proving that the archaic humans were distributed widely over Asia…
Ancient jawbone from Taiwan belongs to a mysterious group of human ancestors, scientists say
Researchers say a fossil jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors. Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens. The probable identification expands the region where scientists know these ancient people once lived…
‘AI-powered’ shopping app alleged to have been human-powered
You may have occasionally joked about how companies these days seem to be falling over themselves to launch something, anything, that has AI, even just a little bit, somewhere under the hood. That way they can run dazzling ad campaigns that make the product sound like it’s at the cutting-edge…