Science & Technology

– Manuscript – A recent study found what could be the earliest known evidence of ancient cooking: the leftovers of a fish dinner from 780,000 years ago. Cooking helped change our ancestors. It helped fuel our evolution and gave us bigger brains. Later, cooking would become central to the eating celebrations that brought communities together. The new study, published in … [Read more...] about Study Finds Earliest Evidence of Cooking

– Manuscript – Meta, the company that owns the social media service Facebook, announced Wednesday that it will cut 11,000 jobs. Company chief Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in 2004. In a letter to employees, he took responsibility for misjudging how the economy would change after COVID-19 restrictions ended. “This did not play out the way I expected,” Zuckerberg … [Read more...] about Facebook Parent Company Meta Cuts 11,000 Jobs

– Manuscript – The U.S. wildlife agency says Antarctica’s emperor penguins are now threatened because of the effects of climate change. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently issued a warning that the species is in danger of disappearing, or becoming extinct, if steps are not taken to protect it. The declaration officially calls for protections of emperor penguins … [Read more...] about US Says Climate Change Is Threatening Emperor Penguins

– Manuscript – Do you know the “save” icon on your computer? It is a picture of a floppy disk. Back in the 1900s, they were the main way computer files were saved and stored. Back then, there were no USB flash drives and there was no cloud-based storage. Today, floppy disks are hard to find. And demand for them is rising. Tom Persky runs the website floppydisk.com, a … [Read more...] about Floppy Disks Get Second Life at Recycling Service

– Manuscript – Facebook parent company Meta has built a technology tool designed to directly translate spoken speech from one language to another. Meta recently released a video that demonstrated how the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool can translate between English and the Hokkien language. In the video, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg explained that the project … [Read more...] about Meta Demonstrates AI-Powered Speech-to-Speech Translation System