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www.livescience.com/health/viruses-infections-disease/ai-can-now-be-used-to-design-brand-new-viru...www.livescience.com
Scientists have used AI to design bacteriophages, or viruses that infect only bacteria. Does the prospect of designing viruses with AI pose threats to biosecurity?
Interstellar object spotted shedding metals in way that defies science
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Scientists have been left puzzled after spotting that the mysterious interstellar object in our Solar System is 'bleeding' metals in a way that has never been observed before.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2025/toxins-tech-tumors-is-modern-life-fueling-rise-can...What researchers suspect may be fueling cancer among millennials
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Studies suggest modern life may be fueling the rise of cancer in younger adults, with factors like ultra-processed foods and chemicals under scrutiny.
Scientists have created artificial skin that can sense, heal and adapt
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Researchers have developed a synthetic fabric that can sense, adapt to its environment, respond to stimuli and repair itself when it breaks. According to the researchers, this technology could...
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OpenAI researchers tried to train the company's AI to stop "scheming," but their efforts backfired in an ominous way.
According to msn.com links another Beverly Hills Cop, Ghostbusters, Punisher and Austin Powers films are being planned. I won’t be surprised if a someone in the film industry plans to remake Equus(the movie). To answer the question bungalow or bunker? I prefer a highly advanced, user friendly, ecofriendly and energy efficient spaceship. Love the show.
The lives of Che and Liberace might come to the big screen. Benecio Del Toro as Che, Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as Liberace’s so called lover who sued Liberace for more than $100 million dollars. (Sources:imdb.com and msn.com)
What movies would you like to see remakes of?
I like Peter Hyams’ “Capricorn One,” but would love to see a new version. Of course it would have new surveillance technology used to track down the astronauts and computer generated effects to pull off the hoax.
Drone aircraft flying through the desert in search of Brubaker, Willis and Walker. No O.J. in the remake, of course. He kinda stunk in the original anyway.
“2010: The Year We Make Contact” MUST be remade. It was just crap.
“Contact” was okay, but I want to see a remake with more from Carl Sagan’s novel. No Jodie Foster, no stupid religious fanatic, A little more science, more of H.R. Hadden.
I’d like to see someone else in the role of Clarice Starling in “Silence of The Lambs.” I don’t know what it is about Foster than sort of annoyed me. I think she overacts at times and the alpha-female thing was pushed too hard. Clarice Starling needs to be more timid, but highly intelligent. She matches Lecter’s intellect, but lacks his psychopathy. her humanity and cunning is what gets her into Lecter’s head. Her drive to save the lives of victims, not the motivation of advancement.
I wouldn’t have minded much if Dr. Lecter ended up eating Clarice Starling. That’s the problem.
I’m glad to have come across Night Shift on WBAI a few years ago.
Ennio Morricone
The mini-series created by NHK (Japan) called “Musashi” had great music composed by Ennio Morricone.
The credits were in Japanese, and because I’m illiterate in that language, I had no idea who composed the music. It’s beautiful stuff.
If I get a copy somewhere of the soundtrack, I’d like to share the music with anyone interested.