by bleffel | Nov 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
It’s Black Friday, and if you’re in the market for a smartwatch, the Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 is $70 off. That makes it $230, a record low for the device. Our team tried out the Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 at the Paris Galaxy Unpacked event earlier this year (Samsung’s...
by bleffel | Nov 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
Not unlike a used car, the average iPhone has three owners throughout its lifespan. A couple years ago, just before Black Friday, I decided to replace my old, cracked Apple Watch with a non-cracked equivalent. One thing led to another, and I had spent less than I’d...
by bleffel | Nov 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
Who couldn’t use a good massage right now? This Black Friday sale slashes $50 off one of our favorite gifts for moms: the compact and triangular Theragun Mini 2.0 massage gun. It can soothe aches and pains and easily slide into a small purse, backpack or gym bag. The...
by bleffel | Nov 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
When Rafael Yuste was a teenager growing up in Madrid in the 1970s, he had two great loves: the brain and the piano. At age 15, he started working at a clinical laboratory run by his mom, where he was tasked with looking through a microscope and counting blood...
by bleffel | Nov 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
Being a scientist is hard. Being a young scientist is harder. Academic institutions squeeze cheap labor out of graduate students and postdocs who are busy competing for publications and increasingly limited faculty jobs, sucking joy from once-enthusiastic...
by bleffel | Nov 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
You may have heard the idea that AI is a “stochastic parrot,” mechanistically repeating our words back to us without actually understanding them. But Shannon Vallor, a philosopher of technology at the University of Edinburgh, thinks there’s a better metaphor: AI, she...
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