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AI is giving people bad money advice. Here's what I worry about most, as a finance professor.When managing your money, take a chatbot's ‘confidence’ with a grain of salt
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Does fast charging damage your battery more than regular charging?Life's Little Mysteries From phones to electric vehicles, some batteries take an hour to charge, while others can take up to half a day.
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New sodium metal battery design charges in just 4 minutes and retains its capacity for yearsChinese researchers say they have overcome one of the trickiest problems of battery chemistry by developing a special gel.
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Scientists build tiny 'diving suit' for cockroaches, turning them into search-and-rescue cyborgsResearchers in Singapore and Japan have built a waterproof shell for cyborg cockroaches that could be deployed in disaster zones to investigate flooded areas.
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Quantum computing wielded to create extremely rare material critical to nuclear fusionNuclear fusion inches closer after scientists combine supercomputing, AI and quantum computing to blueprint a way to create more tritium.
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Are CAPTCHAs obsolete in the age of AI?Life's Little Mysteries How are CAPTCHAs being threatened by AI?
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Dead-end bitcoin mining wastes as much energy as Switzerland's entire hydropower generation capacityResearchers reveal that we waste a huge amount of energy on redundant bitcoin mining operations — where different miners try to grab the same bitcoin.
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Scientists figured out how to shrink huge ultrafast lasers so they fit on a tiny chip — the 'holy grail' of the fieldScientists have managed to get ultrafast lasers running on tiny chips, paving the way for miniature-but-powerful diagnostic devices.
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Chinese supercomputer leapfrogs best US machines to be ranked world's fastestChina's Line Shine supercomputer is the most powerful in the world and the first the country has hosted since 2017.
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