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Edward Matthes, 51, has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison after the $2.6 million investment scheme in which he defrauded 27 victims. He also stole money from his parents and to a cognitively disabled person. Matthes, who is now in Milwaukee, pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud in November …
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Sometimes, the best inventions are accidental. A Japanese AI that originally had nothing to do with medicine could just inadvertently made a great contribution to global health. BakeryScan is – like its name implies – a computer AI system for bakeries. Developed in 2013 by computer engineer Hisashi Kambe, bakeries use the AI to identify …
Continue reading “AI Built to Identify Pastries Recognizes Cancer with 99% Accuracy”
Rats don’t often get a lot of praise. Despite their surprising intelligence and actually high hygiene, people consider them nothing but vermin to be eradicated. But even the most ostracized of creatures can become a hero. Magawa, an African giant pouched rat, is one of them. Instead of roaming through sewers, Magawa has spent the …
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We’ve never seen an elephant rampage and, frankly, we don’t want to. It doesn’t sound like a good time for anyone involved. Unfortunately for the residents of Yunnan Province in Southwestern China, they’ve had to deal with one for a couple of months now. A herd of 15 wild Asian elephants has blazed a 500-mile …
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A while back we featured a story about the Brood X cicadas that are emerging in the eastern U.S. More specifically, it was about the psychedelic fungus that makes their butts fall off. But the fungus isn’t the only threat the cicadas face as they crawl out of the ground for the first time in …
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You really shouldn’t attempt something just because you saw someone do it on the internet. The all too real chances are that something could go horribly, horribly wrong. In a grim reminder of that fact, a 13-year-old Destini Crane from Portland, Oregon, was rushed to the intensive care unit. She accidentally set herself on fire …
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A Walmart Supercenter in Mexico, ME, clearly doesn’t give a hoot or the holler for the public opinion. Case in point, on May 26, they called the cops on a grandpa who was just trying to clean up the mountains of trash the store had neglected for years. If you love nature, you want to …
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Love thy neighbor, right? Or if you can’t love them, at least do them no harm?This neighbor didn’t exactly feel this way. So much so he did actually attempt harm in the form of a fire. An Iowa man set his neighbor’s house a blaze on Saturday, and not because of something they did, but …
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It’s the crowning moment of any kid’s birthday to blow out the candles on their cake. There’s just one, pretty gross-out inducing problem with it. Young children, in particular, might not be all that great at controlling their air output. It’s highly likely that in addition to blowing out the candles, they’ll spew a generous …
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He was blind, but now he sees. A man who lost his eyesight decades ago is now able to see objects on a table and the stripes of a pedestrian crossing – all thank to algae. The borderline miraculous recovery was detailed recently in the journal Nature Medicine. It promises to be a breakthrough in …
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