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Mar 16, 2024
LinkedIn plans to add gaming to its platform
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: business, entertainment
LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social platform, has made a name for itself primarily as a platform for people looking to network and pick up knowledge for professional purposes, and for recruitment — a business that now has more 1 billion users. Now, to boost the time people are spending on the platform, the company is breaking into a totally new area: gaming.
TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that LinkedIn is working on a new games experience. It will be doing so by tapping into the same wave of puzzle-mania that helped simple games like Wordle find viral success and millions of players. Three early efforts are games called “Queens”, “Inference” and “Crossclimb.”
App researchers have started to find code that points to the work LinkedIn is doing. One of them, Nima Owji, said that one idea LinkedIn appears to be experimenting with involves player scores being organised by places of work, with companies getting “ranked” by those scores.
Mar 16, 2024
3 Reasons “You” Won’t Return After This Life
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
The idea that ‘you’ persist after death does not hold up to the current understanding of memory and identity.
Mar 16, 2024
Is OpenAI Opening up to Quantum?
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in categories: quantum physics, robotics/AI
Several sources are suggesting that OpenAI may be interested in pursuing quantum computing to power its artificial intelligence.
Mar 16, 2024
Squeezing Oscillations in a Multimode Bosonic Josephson Junction
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in categories: engineering, evolution, quantum physics
We use two 1D quasicondensates in a double potential well to realize a bosonic Josephson junction, a microscopic system that gives rise to interesting quantum phenomena resulting from the interplay of quantum tunneling and interaction. The multimode characteristics within the quasicondensates make the system suitable as a quantum field simulator. To prepare quantum states, we split a single condensate into two and, consequently, we witness the dynamical evolution of quantum fluctuations in the relative degree of freedom between the two split condensates. We demonstrate how to use these dynamics to effectively prepare more strongly correlated quantum states and how those influence spatial phase coherence.
Our work introduces innovative methods for engineering correlations and entanglement in the external degree of freedom of interacting many-body systems. It is a leap forward in understanding and harnessing quantum correlations, paving the way for exciting possibilities in quantum simulation research.
Mar 16, 2024
Australian farm grows world’s biggest blueberry
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: food, sustainability
The monster fruit is the size of a ping-pong ball and weighs 20.4g, about 10 times the average blueberry.
Mar 16, 2024
Incredible cancer breakthrough sees woman’s brain tumor almost disappear in just five days
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
They treated three patients with recurrent glioblastoma using a variant of an existing CAR-T therapy, adding additional antibodies to the treatment — and the results were truly astounding.
According to the paper published in The New England Journal of Medicine, one patient saw their tumor decrease in size by 18.5% two days after the treatment, and by day 69, the tumor had decreased by 60.7%, while another saw their ‘tumor regress rapidly’, according to Mass General Brigham.
After the third patient was treated, an MRI showed that a single infusion had led to a ‘near-complete tumor regression’ in just five days.
Mar 16, 2024
Cell-free DNA for Colorectal Cancer Screening
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: biotech/medical
Mar 16, 2024
Uber, Lyft leaving Minneapolis: City council passes measure forcing driver pay increase
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: transportation
Rideshare companies Uber and Lyft have both said they would be ceasing operations in Minneapolis on May 1 due to a dispute over driver wages.
Mar 16, 2024
Dark matter doesn’t exist and the universe is 27 billion years old • Earth
Posted by Paul Battista in category: cosmology
The fabric of the cosmos, as we currently understand it, comprises three primary components: ‘normal matter,’ ‘dark energy,’ and ‘dark matter.’ However, new research is turning this established model on its head.
A recent study conducted by the University of Ottawa presents compelling evidence that challenges the traditional model of the universe, suggesting that there may not be a place for dark matter within it.
Dark matter, a term used in cosmology, refers to the elusive substance that does not interact with light or electromagnetic fields and is only identifiable through its gravitational effects.