Generative AI develops potential new drugs for antibiotic-resistant bacteria
<div>With nearly 5 million deaths linked to antibiotic resistance globally every year, new ways to combat resistant bacterial strains are urgently needed.</div>
<div>With nearly 5 million deaths linked to antibiotic resistance globally every year, new ways to combat resistant bacterial strains are urgently needed.</div>
<div><img width="373" height="210" src="https://scitechdaily.com/images/Cold-Brain-Ice-Frozen-373x210.jpg" class="attachment-cp-thumb-xl size-cp-thumb-xl wp-post-image" alt="Cold Brain Ice Frozen" style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high"><p>The research on oral temperature perception was funded by the NIH. Christian Lemon, Ph.D., an associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the...</p></div>
<div><img src="https://www.freethink.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/bipedal_Robot.jpg?quality=75&w=1067&h=600&crop=1">LimX Dynamics’s bipedal robot, P1, can keep its footing, even when traversing rough terrain unlike any it’s seen before.</div>
<div>Artificial intelligence excels at sorting through information and detecting patterns or trends. But these machine learning algorithms need to be trained with large amounts of data first.</div>
<div><p>Video game giant Activision is investigating a hacking campaign that’s targeting players with the goal of stealing their credentials, TechCrunch has learned. At this point, the hackers’ specific goals — apart from stealing passwords for various types of accounts — are unclear. Somehow, the hackers are getting malware on the victim’s computers and then stealing […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p></div>
<div>In a new book co-edited by UdeM's Catherine Régis and Jean-Louis Denis, experts from a dozen countries and a dozen disciplines argue for a more human-centered approach to artificial intelligence.</div>
<div><p>Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X), where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech; now, it’s the one-year anniversary since he made his […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p></div>
<div><div><img src="https://cdn.analyticsvidhya.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot_from_2024-03-21_15-07-33.png" style="width: 100%;"><div>Face recognition challenges arise from vast identities vs. GPU limits. Partial FC innovates, optimizes, enables scalable, accurate training.</div></div></div>
<div><img width="373" height="210" src="https://scitechdaily.com/images/Weight-Loss-Scale-Concept-1-373x210.jpg" class="attachment-cp-thumb-xl size-cp-thumb-xl wp-post-image" alt="Weight Loss Scale Concept" style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async"><p>Following weight loss, individuals previously classified as overweight or obese exhibit increased levels of the protein Kallistatin in their subcutaneous white adipose tissue, according to...</p></div>
<div><p>Even though X seems to be working on this NSFW Communities feature, that doesn't mean it'll come to fruition.</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p></div>
<div><p>Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, was sentenced to 25 years in prison by Southern District of New York (SDNY) Judge Lewis Kaplan, about five months after he was found guilty on all seven counts related to fraud and money laundering during his trial. “When […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p></div>
<div><p>We last checked in on Zaver, a Swedish B2C buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) provider in Europe, when it raised a $5 million funding round in 2021. The company has now closed a $10 million extension to its Series A funding round, bringing its total Series A to $20 million. Total investment to date stands at $30 million. […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p></div>
<div>Recently, the research findings of Professor Xie's group (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) were published in Science Bulletin. This study proposed a simple, efficient, and low-energy chemical leaching strategy, utilizing a lithium extraction solution composed of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon reagents and ether solvents to directly extract active lithium from retired batteries.</div>
<div>Amazon listings for low-cost tech products can send shoppers down a rabbit hole of weird brand names, duplicate listings, and suspect reviews. Data from Fakespot shows bug zappers are ascendant.</div>
<div>Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, a critical component of building energy consumption, are prone to faults that can reduce their efficiency. Traditional data-driven fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) models often suffer from limited generalizability, making their application across diverse systems challenging.</div>
<div><p>All parents know that raising kids is expensive. Especially in those early years when they quickly outgrow clothes or toys, leaving parents on a never-ending cycle of buying new stuff when the old stuff is hardly worn or used. Enter Kidsy, a new Chicago-based e-commerce startup that aims to give consumers greater access to discounted […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p></div>
<div><p>Welcome to TechCrunch Crypto, formerly known as Chain Reaction. This is the last edition of this newsletter. I want to personally thank each of you for reading this and if you would like to stay in touch, you can follow me on X here for future updates. With that said, the show goes on. This […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p></div>
— LionsgateRemember A Simple Favor? It’s okay if you don’t: the 2018 film belongs to something of a bygone era. The 2010s was the decade of Gillian Flynn, desperate housewives, and psychosexual mysteries. A Simple Favor caught the tail end of those trends, but the film was still enough of a commercial success that producers at Lionsgate are set to continue its twisty story with a sequel. Directed by Ghostbusters’ Paul Feig, A Simple Favor stars Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively as two very differ
<div><p>YouTube is launching “members only” Shorts, allowing creators to share short-form videos exclusively to their paying viewers.</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p></div>
<div><img width="373" height="210" src="https://scitechdaily.com/images/Bad-Sleep-Woman-Upset-373x210.jpg" class="attachment-cp-thumb-xl size-cp-thumb-xl wp-post-image" alt="Bad Sleep Woman Upset" style="margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async"><p>It’s always darkest before the dawn for many people, and now, a University of Michigan and Dartmouth Health study has looked into the science of...</p></div>