Welcome back to the Abstract! We’re back to our regularly-scheduled programming this week, so here are the studies that flooded...
How Severe Illness During Pregnancy Alters Fetal Brain Development
Salk scientists discover how severe illness during pregnancy alters fetal epigenomes, increasing the risk for autism and neurodevelopmental […]
Daytona Beach approves police facial recognition searches of driver’s license photos
Daytona Beach City Commission has approved a proposed agreement between the city’s police chief and Florida Department of […]
A16z Says You Actually Love Social Media, Enshittification Isn’t Real
Yesterday a16z published an article in which NYU Professor of Design, AI and Media Theory Ruby Thelot argued […]
This ‘Digital Camouflage’ Shirt Confuses AI-Powered Surveillance Cameras
I am standing in front of a camera that’s streaming to a giant video screen. The image recognition […]
Google’s Calling Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ Now
On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order demanding Lake Ontario be renamed to Lake America. At the signing […]
When expressive humanoid robots are awkward, people become wary – new brain study
Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash. By Hasan Ayaz, Drexel University; Ewart J. de Visser, United States Air […]
