Monthly Archives: July 2022

Microbes Found Thriving in a Low-Oxygen, Super-Salty, Sub-Zero Spring in Canadian Arctic

Scientists have managed to find signs of microbial life in one of the harshest spots on Earth, giving further hope that life may also be found in some of the unknown environments of space. In the depths of the Canadian Arctic, scientists managed to identify signs of life in the low-oxygen, super-salty waters of the…

Government Warns Google Chrome Users of ‘Highly Severe’ Vulnerabilities, Urges to Install Latest Update

Google Chrome on desktop is affected by multiple ‘highly severe’ vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to gain access to sensitive user data, the government’s nodal cybersecurity agency CERT-In has issued a warning and urged users to install the latest version of the Web browser to fix its known issues.Read More

Google’s Powerful AI Spotlights a Human Cognitive Glitch: Mistaking Fluent Speech for Fluent Thought

When you read a sentence like this one, your past experience tells you that it’s written by a thinking, feeling human. And, in this case, there is indeed a human typing these words: [Hi, there!] But these days, some sentences that appear remarkably humanlike are actually generated by artificial intelligence systems trained on massive amounts…