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‘I was one of the world’s greatest fundraisers; now I’m the fallen wreckage of one.’

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the former chief executive of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange Futures Exchange (FTX), has asserted that FTX is still solvent and plans to raise money even while the formal bankruptcy procedure is underway.

“I have 2 weeks to raise $8 billion; that’s basically all that matters for the rest [of] my life.” he wrote, responding to a question about his plans.

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Models that map spoken language to objects in an image would make it easier for customers to communicate with multimodal devices.

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Many have believed Earth might have a spirit, but Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis contemplates this as a scientific possibility. Could our world be alive itself?

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What should be the future goal of the Moon exploration (after the Artemis launch was finally successful): A human base! We could do some amazing science with a human base on the Moon.

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Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again!

Never email yourself a file again!

Replacing a gene in a common maize line leads to higher seed protein content and improved nitrogen use.

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According to modern cosmology, one day all the stars will burn out and the Universe will be full of dead planets, black holes, and other stellar remnants, slowing decaying till entropy brings the Heat Death of the Universe. But could this fate be postponed or even reversed?

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The image you’re seeing isn’t a hole in the Universe, and the cosmic voids that do exist aren’t hole-like at all.