👨🔬 Lab-grown woolly mammoths could walk the Earth in six years if geneticist's new start-up succeeds
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Lab-grown woolly mammoths could walk the Earth in six years if geneticist's new start-up succeeds. Tech entrepreneur Ben Lamm is helping to fund a project by Harvard geneticist George Church to revive the woolly mammoth. The project, called Colossal, aims to create a calf in as little as six years, Church told CNBC. (Cat Clifford via CNBC)
Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show. About a year ago, teenager Anastasia Vlasova started seeing a therapist. She had developed an eating disorder, and had a clear idea of what led to it: her time on Instagram. (Georgia Wells via Wall Street Journal)
A horrifying new AI app swaps women into porn videos with a click. From the beginning, deepfakes, or AI-generated synthetic media, have primarily been used to create pornographic representations of women, who often find this psychologically devastating. (Karen Hao via MIT Technology Review)
Apple patches a new zero-day flaw affecting all devices. Apple has released security updates for a zero-day vulnerability that affects every iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Citizen Lab, which discovered the vulnerability and was credited with the find, urges users to immediately update their devices. (Zack Whittaker via TechCrunch)
South Korea Fines Google for Abusing Smartphone Dominance. Company said to have impeded development of competing software Regulator orders change to Google contracts with manufacturers South Korea fined Alphabet Inc. 's Google $177 million for hampering the development of rivals to its Android operating… (Sohee Kim via Bloomberg)
Leaked documents reveal the special rules Facebook uses for 5.8M VIPs. Facebook had a problem on its hands. People were posting things to their accounts that would get caught in the company's automated moderation system or taken down by its human moderators. (Tim De Chant via Ars Technica)
Revolt of the delivery workers. The Willis Avenue Bridge, a 3,000-foot stretch of asphalt and beige-painted steel connecting Manhattan and the Bronx, is the perfect place for an ambush. (Josh Dzieza via The Verge)
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