Monthly Archives: October 2022

2022 Nobel Physics Prize goes to seminal tests of spooky action at a distance

Enlarge / The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger, “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” (credit: Niklas Elmehed/Nobel Prize Outreach) Cornell University physicist N. David Mermin once described quantum entanglement as “the closest thing we have…

China officially bans fruit flavorings in e-cigarettes

China has joined a handful of countries in banning flavored vapes to combat underage use of nicotine. Starting October 1, e-cigarette companies are only allowed to sell tobacco-flavored vapes in the country, an effort by the government to “standardize” the production, sales and consumption of the novel tobacco product. China’s e-cigarette makers had a short-lived…

White House proposes voluntary safety and transparency rules around AI

The White House this morning unveiled what it’s colloquially calling an “AI Bill of Rights,” which aims to establish tenets around the ways AI algorithms should be deployed as well as guardrails on their applications. In five bullet points crafted with feedback from the public, companies like Microsoft and Palantir and human rights and AI…

Anti-abortion Republicans will stand behind scandal-plagued Herschel Walker because ‘he’s still the lesser evil on policy’: GOP strategist

Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker speaks at a campaign event in Gwinnett, Ga., on September 9, 2022. Megan Varner/Getty Images MAGA world will excuse Walker’s abortion scandal rather than vote for a democrat: GOP operative. Conservatives are already saying paying for one abortion is preferable to funding all abortions. “Walker can’t say anything about…