Psychic AI can read minds — and recreate our thoughts with frightening accuracy: ‘Sci-fi can come true’

Call it a Chat-scan. Just in case artificial intelligence didn’t spark enough privacy concerns: Israeli scientists have devised a mind-reading program named Brain-IT that can tell what people are thinking just by analyzing their brain scans — and then recreate that image with shocking accuracy. The technological telepath “produces reconstructions that more closely resemble the viewed images both structurally and semantically,” the researchers wrote in a paper submitted to the International Conference on Learning Representations. These precise reproductions entail everything from stop signs to an olive and tomato pizza with the exact number of slices people had envisioned, like the…

Former Yankees pitcher ‘Sudden’ Sam McDowell dead at 84

Sam McDowell, a former Yankees pitcher and six-time All-Star with Cleveland, died on Monday, per KDKA in Pittsburgh. He was 84. McDowell, who had to end his career due to substance abuse, debuted on the mound at 18 years old in 1961 for the then Cleveland Indians, now Guardians. Four…

Texas Dem Senate nominee James Talarico put on defense after 2020 comments about defunding police resurface: ‘We must replace’

Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico’s campaign is denying that he ever supported the “defund the police” movement after a video resurfaced showing the then-state lawmaker arguing at the height of the 2020 racial justice protests that it was “rich” for defunding police to be considered “off-limits” in political debate.…

Trump attacks Democratic Senate candidate Annie Andrews with anti-trans slur

President Trump repeatedly used an anti-trans slur against South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Annie Andrews Monday while imploring residents of the Palmetto State to vote for Republican incumbent Darline Graham Nordone next month. “Annie ‘Trannie’ Andrews is running against our wonderful Darline Graham for the Senate in South Carolina,” Trump…

I’m a doctor — the 4 symptoms I wish men would stop hiding

Man up and start sharing these symptoms with your doctor, guys. Between 2015 and 2022, men were more likely to be diagnosed with 16 different late-stage cancers than women, according to a new study published last week — with the biggest discrepancies for salivary gland cancer, oropharyngeal cancer, thyroid cancer and…

Your 401(k) could be at risk if the AI bubble bursts: Treasury report

A draft Treasury Department report is warning that an artificial intelligence bubble could put millions of Americans’ retirement savings at risk if the industry goes through a major downturn — even as leaders from Washington to Silicon Valley tout AI as the engine of a new economic boom. The internal…

Common gym supplement could help fight depression, new research suggests

Doctor calls creatine ‘promising but not definitive’ as a complement to depression care. A systematic review, published in Genomic Press’ Brain Medicine, found that creatine monohydrate may be beneficial as an add-on treatment for major depressive disorder, although the evidence remains preliminary. The Canada-based researchers analyzed data from five randomized controlled…

Rabid lefty Stephen King sticks by alleged rapist Graham Platner

Lefty horror author Stephen King is sticking by Graham Platner — even after the Maine Democratic Senate candidate was accused by his ex-girlfriend of breaking into her home and drunkenly raping her. Maine resident Jenny Racicot made the allegations against Platner in a bombshell report published in Politico on Tuesday…

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