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First clear evidence cell phone radiation can cause cancer in rats

Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years

Thethrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft just did what we thought was impossible. After 37 years of inactivity,NASA just received response from spacecraft 13 billion miles away, NASA said in a statement on its website. Voyager 1 is NASA’s farthest and fastest spacecraft.

Tesla in fatal California crash was on Autopilot

Electric carmaker Tesla says a vehicle involved in a fatal crash in California was in Autopilot mode, raising further questions about the safety of self-driving technology.

Startups not status: Japan’s top grads rethink success

The trend is such that Tokyo’s Hongo district, where the university’s campus is located, has earned the nickname ‘Hongo Valley.’ Japan’s version of Silicon Valley is buzzing with startups that specialize in fields such as wealth management, health care, home sharing and space debris collection.

Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained neural network

Scientists say we’re on the cusp of a carbon dioxide–recycling revolution

Swift for TensorFlow

Swift for TensorFlow is a result of first-principles thinking applied to machine learning frameworks, and works quite differently than existing TensorFlow language bindings. Whereas prior solutions are designed within the constraints of what can be achieved by a (typically Python or Lua) library, Swift for TensorFlow is based on the belief that machine learning is important enough to deserve first-class language and compiler support.

Amazon Takes Fresh Stab at $16B Housekeeping Industry

Now Amazon is quietly hiring house cleaners in Seattle as direct employees. The online retailer is swapping the low cost of contract workers for the greater control of employing its own people. Doing so puts it on the hook for things like minimum wage, workers compensation and overtime pay.

Brains Cling to Old Habits When Learning New Tricks

The hallmark of intelligence is the ability to learn. As decades of research have shown, our brains exhibit a high degree of “plasticity,” meaning that neurons can rewire their connections in response to new stimuli. But researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have recently discovered surprising constraints on our learning abilities.

In to Asia

Modern humans arose only once, in Africa, about 200,000 years ago. They then spread across Eurasia some time after 60,000 years ago, replacing whatever indigenous populations they met with no interbreeding. This is the ‘Out of Africa’ model, as it’s commonly known.