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A Star’s Auroras Light the Way to a New Exoplanet

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Jupiter’s moon Io—the solar system’s most volcanic world—has inspired a new way to find distant exoplanets. As the moon orbits Jupiter, it tugs on the planet’s magnetic field, generating bright auroras in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Even if we couldn’t see Io itself, the enormous auroras, pulsing to the beat of a hidden orbiting body, would tell us that something was out there. Original story reprinted with permission from Simons Foundation whose mission is to enhance public understanding of science by covering research developments and trends in mathematics and the physical and…

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A Cruise Ship Quarantine, a Hunt for Cheaters, and More Car News This Week

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Turns out transportation angles lurk in every story. This week, the global reach of the coronavirus was top of mind, so we investigated how cruise ships—and one cruise in particular—helped spread the virus worldwide. Then, for a change of pace (pun intended), we looked into how digital footprints helped one data obsessive track down (we did it again) marathon cheats. Meanwhile, in California, a labor law is changing the way Uber and its drivers do business, which may end up affecting the price of a ride. Plus, check out this…

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9 Types of Dreams You Have And What They Actually Mean

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Kim Quindlen Updated February 23, 2020 By SplitShire 1. Dreams About Your Teeth A dream like this may involve your teeth falling out, breaking apart, coming out from a slight tap, or crumbling into pieces after eating a particularly challenging mouthful of Jujubes. (No? Just me on that last one?) However it happens, this is an incredibly common and disturbing dream for many people. Many of you are probably clutching your mouth or skipping over this section as we speak. Experts say this dream could have both positive or negative meanings.…

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For the second time this week in New Orleans, a person was fatally hit by a float during Carnival parade

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(CNN)A person was killed Saturday night at the Krewe of Endymion parade in New Orleans when they were hit by a float, authorities said. Cantrell said police responded to the fatality “in record time.” The final part of the parade was canceled, NOLA Ready tweeted. It is the second death during the Carnival season that precedes Mardi Gras. A woman was killed Wednesday night during the Krewe of Nyx parade. She was hit by a tandem float, authorities said. In 2017 a pickup truck went into the crowd and dozens…

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While You Were Offline: Oh Hey, Julian Assange Is Back in the News!

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These days it's hard to tell for sure, but its seems as though, if anything, the biggest news of the last week was the most dying from Covid-19, and Ben Affleck is opening up about will officially step down as royals at the end of March, and both E*Trade are being sold, but sadly not as a bundle. (If only.) What can we say? It’s been that kind of a week. What else happened over the last seven days? Well, all of this. Presidential Pardons What Happened: President Trump announced…

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This Technique Uses AI to Fool Other AIs

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Artificial intelligence has made big strides recently in understanding language, but it can still suffer from an alarming, and potentially dangerous, kind of algorithmic myopia. Research shows how AI programs that parse and analyze text can be confused and deceived by carefully crafted phrases. A sentence that seems straightforward to you or me may have a strange ability to deceive an AI algorithm. That’s a problem as text-mining AI programs increasingly are used to judge job applicants, assess medical claims, or process legal documents. Strategic changes to a handful of…

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