Seagrass ‘Neptune Balls’ Sieve Millions of Plastic Particles From Water, Study Finds
Underwater seagrass in coastal areas appear to trap plastic pollution in natural bundles of fiber known as “Neptune balls,” researchers…
Facebook Uses AI To Predict If COVID-19 Patients Will Need More Care
Facebook is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to help doctors predict whether they will need more resources, such as…
MacOS Malware Used Run-Only AppleScripts To Avoid Detection For Five Years
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: For more than five years, macOS users have been the targets of…
Amazon.com and ‘Big Five’ Publishers Accused of eBook Price-Fixing
Amazon.com and the “Big Five” publishers — Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster — have been…
Apple Plans First iMac Desktop Redesign In Nearly a Decade
In addition to upgraded MacBook Pros, Bloomberg reports that Apple is also “planning the first redesign of its iMac all-in-one…
Calculations Show It’ll Be Impossible To Control a Super-Intelligent AI
schwit1 shares a report from ScienceAlert: [S]cientists have just delivered their verdict on whether we’d be able to control a…
Xbox’s ‘Instant On’ Feature Could Consume 4 Billion kWh By 2025
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The “instant on” feature that’s activated by default on new Xbox…
University of Florida Asks Students To Use App To Report Professors Who Don’t Teach In Person
jyosim writes: Professors at the University of Florida are outraged that the university essentially put a “tattle” button on a…
Google Removing Inadvertent Ability for Chromium Browsers To Access Chrome Bookmarks, Sync
Besides the intended differences, web browsers based on Chromium offer an underlying experience that’s mostly identical to Chrome. Google recently…
Amazon Warehouse Workers To Decide Whether To Form Company’s First US Union
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Some 6,000 workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., will begin voting…