NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider ‘Scientific Exile,’ French University Says

Last week, Aix Marseille University, France’s largest university, invited American scientists who believe their work is at risk of being censored by Donald Trump administration’s anti-science policies to continue their research in France. Today, the university announced that it is already seeing great interest from scientists at NASA, Yale, Stanford, and other American schools and…

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Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data

A Saudi Arabian company that was created by the Saudi Arabian government just purchased Pokémon Go, the most popular augmented reality game of all time, with a collective worldwide player base of more than 100 million people and their locations in the real world.  Niantic is selling Pokémon Go, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now…

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Google and Amazon AI Say Hitler’s Mein Kampf Is ‘a True Work of Art’

Google’s featured snippet is pulling in an Amazon AI summary of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi manifesto Mein Kampf that calls it “a true work of art” in the latest AI-related fuckup affecting top search results. As of writing, searching for “mein kampf positive reviews” returned a result that was pulled from an AI-generated summary of an…

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