Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, according to a new lawsuit.
Twenty-six former Meta employees are suing, accusing the company of using AI that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or workers who took medical leave in selecting people for mass layoffs.
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Endometriosis, a condition affecting 190 million women and girls worldwide and causes internal bleeding, was given funding for a study in 2013. Instead of studying the causes what could help cure or ease it and what may make one more susceptible to it... They studied the "Attractiveness " of women who had it. Yes, this is a real study.
@hajarkagalwa You’re quite right! I went to the same school as her (she was senior) and she was so focused as a student. Wanted to join the civil services if I remember correctly. Lovely person from a really lovely family.
NEW: Scientists have brought back dire wolves using ancient DNA, with the first born on October 1, 2024, over 10,000 years after their extinction
The genome was reconstructed by Colossal from ancient DNA found in fossils
The fossils date back 11,500 and 72,000 years
Colossal Biosciences said: "This moment marks not only a milestone for us as a company but also a leap forward for science, conservation, and humanity. From the beginning, our goal has been clear:
To revolutionize history and be the first company to use CRISPR technology successfully in the de-extinction of previously lost species.
By achieving this, we continue to push forward our broader mission on—accepting humanity’s duty to restore Earth to a healthier state."
Cancer breakthrough
New cancer therapy ‘disguises’ tumors as pork to trigger immune attack, 90% effective - Chinese researchers turned the immune response to organ transplant rejection to cure cancer with a 90% success rate.
"Called a 'tumor-to-pork' strategy, a new study published in Cell earlier this year demonstrated immense success in engineering a virus that tricked the human body into believing that cancer cells were pig tissue, thereby triggering a hyperacute inflammatory response. The virus began attacking the tumor with a staggering 90% success rate, to the point of curing a patient with advanced cervical cancer."
A thing I love about humans is that we've always had a compulsive need to make art. We can't help it. It's who we are. We will never stop.
(fish bowl from Iran, thirteenth century)