Quake II runs on WHAMM, Microsoft’s experimental AI for real-time gaming
Microsoft’s World and Human Action MaskGIT Model, or WHAMM, builds on its earlier WHAM-1.6B version launched in February. Unlike its predecessor, this iteration introduces faster visual output using a MaskGIT-style architecture that generates image tokens in parallel. Moving away from the autoregressive method, which predicted tokens sequentially…
Eurochild supports Ukraine’s Coordination Center to leverage the EU accession to ensure children’s rights
Eurochild strengthens the capacity of the Coordination Centre for Family Upbringing and Child Care Development to engage with EU institutions to better leverage the EU accession process to sustain the reform of child care and protection systems in Ukraine. Last week, Eurochild hosted a 2-day training session to enhance partnerships with the European Commission for…
A moving story reveals hidden human cost of drug trials
Drug trials are vital to medicine, but what of those taking part? Jennie Erin Smith’s moving new book about what happened in a rural community hit by early-onset Alzheimer’s disease gives them a voice…A disgraced gene-editing scientist wants back in the lab
Chinese scientist He Jiankui was jailed after gene-editing human embryos to make babies immune to HIV. Now he’s out and — he claims — back on the tools…
More than 1,300 rallies worldwide protest Trump and Musk
People are gathering in cities all over the United States and globally to protest an “illegal, billionaire power grab” by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. They’re being put on by over 150 different organizations, including civil rights groups, labor unions, and LGBTQ+ advocates, and span more than 1,300 locations…
ZK can lock AI’s pandora’s box
The following is a guest post and opinion of Rob Viglione, CEO of Horizen Labs. Artificial intelligence is no longer a sci-fi dream — it’s a reality already reshaping industries from healthcare to finance, with autonomous AI agents at the helm. These agents are capable of collaborating with minimal human oversight…
Oxygen is running low in inland waters, and humans are to blame
Rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs aren’t just scenic parts of our landscape — they’re also vital engines for life on Earth. These inland waters ‘breathe’ oxygen, just like we do. But a new study shows that we’ve been suffocating them during the last century, an era also known as the Anthropocene…
“The Risk Of Injury Or Death Is Just Not Worth It”: 19 Seemingly Safe But Actually Dangerous Things We Dumb Humans Do All The Time
The risk of permanent injury or death is just not worth it.”View Entire Post ›…
Pop Star Kesha Tells Bob the Drag Queen She’ll Fight for LGBTQ+ Rights ‘Until the Day I Die’
The “Tik Tok” singer made her proclamation during an interview with Paper magazine’s Bob the Drag Queen. She said she wants to create a “safe space for people to feel fully embodied and liberated” with her new album. The post Pop Star Kesha Tells Bob the Drag Queen She’ll Fight for LGBTQ+ Rights ‘Until the…