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…

That USA no-show let down everyone who got fired up about their World Cup

The default position in international competitions like this is pride. Win or lose, each player representing his nation should feel honored. Win or lose, all fans should be proud when their country takes the main stage and earns the world’s attention and perhaps its admiration. But man, it was tough…

Colorful ‘painting-like’ ripples cover an ancient seafloor structure the Bahamas — Earth from space

QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Great Bahama Bank, Bahamas [23.547188707, -76.46352937]What’s in the photo? Submerged sandbanks and seagrass beds in shallow waterWhich satellite took the photo? Landsat 8When was it taken? Feb. 15, 2020This ethereal satellite snap shows beautiful, “painting-like” folds within an ancient underwater structure in the Bahamas.The Great Bahama…

Shohei Ohtani hits 299th career home run as Dodgers down Rockies

Another milestone is within Shohei Ohtani’s reach. Ohtani’s next home run will be his 300th in the major leagues. No. 299 came in a wild 11-inning, 8-7 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Monday night — the Dodgers’ first extra-inning game of the season. The game had everything. A middle-inning…

Belgium exposed the defensive cracks USMNT showed all World Cup long

SEATTLE — The United States men’s national team finally showed the cracks along the fault lines that had been there from the beginning. Their vulnerable defense that bent through friendlies, shined and survived in the group stage, and escaped against Bosnia and Herzegovina, finally fractured Monday night. “Today wasn’t a…

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