Your Teeth Could Hold a Neanderthal Legacy, Study Reveals

Well, you shouldbecause it might be partially determined by your Neanderthal ancestry. Notably, 17 of these regions were identified for the first time as being connected to tooth dimensions. Researchers also noted that individuals with this variant tended to have smaller teeth overall. A gene inherited from Neanderthals influences the thickness of certain teeth, according to new research.© Arvind Philomin/Pexels Simply put, the researchers arent sure why the genes developed to impact tooth shape in this way....

December 21, 2024 · 1 min · 164 words · Jerry Davies MD

AI Chatbots Can Be Jailbroken to Answer Any Question Using Very Simple Loopholes

Anthropic, the maker of Claude, has been a leading AI lab on the safety front. Unfortunately, it turns out that chatbots are easily tricked into ignoring their safety rules. It is unclear why exactly these generative AI models are so easily broken. Anthropic has published new research showing how AI chatbots can be hacked to bypass their guardrails.Kimberly White/Getty Images One AI company that likely is not interested in this research is xAI....

December 20, 2024 · 1 min · 115 words · Joseph Martinez

Archaeologists Unearth Rare ‘Fish Scale’ Armor From 2,000-Year-Old Chinese Tomb

At the time of his death years later, he was known as the Marquis of Haihun. Archaeologists discovered hiswell-preserved tombin east Chinas Jiangxi Province in 2011. The armor stood out for the distinctive size and material of its scales. A closeup of the armor scales.© Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology This is also unusual, as Rongjin noted that Han Dynasty armor was usually composed of a single material....

December 20, 2024 · 1 min · 109 words · Troy Anderson

Dog Arthritis Treatment Under Fire After Reports of Severe, Even Fatal, Side Effects

A popular arthritis drug for dogs may be riskier than we knew. Librelas active ingredient, bedinvetmab,is a lab-made antibody developed by the company Zoetis. In 2023, the FDAapprovedit to treat osteoarthritis in dogs. A Great Pyrenees/Lab Mix dog laying on a rug.© KJG Photography, Kim Guisti via Getty Its the first monoclonal antibody-based drug ever approved in dogs, and the second ever approved for pets. And some dog owners have reported very seriouseven fatalsymptoms in their pets after they started taking Librela....

December 20, 2024 · 2 min · 240 words · Aaron Jones

Elon Musk Says Only Far-Right Extremist Group ‘Can Save’ Germany

It probably has something to do with AfDs racism, xenophobia, andlinks to neo-Nazis. Only the AfD can save Germany, the billionairewrotein the early morning hours of Friday. You are perfectly right! U.S. oligarch Elon Musk at the U.S. Capitol after a meeting with Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., while on the Hill to talk about President-elect Donald Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” on Thursday, December 5, 2024© Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images...

December 20, 2024 · 1 min · 159 words · Courtney Williams

Here’s WhatSonic the Hedgehog 3‘s Tantalizing End-Credit Scenes Mean

The announcement of aSonic the Hedgehog 4comes as no surprise if youve seen Paramount Pictures latest installment in theSonicfranchise. Its nighttime and eerie when hes all of a sudden attacked by Metal Sonic. The timeline feels very tight for that unless were getting into timey-wimey fun. © Paramount Pictures And who arrives to save the day? None other than Amy Rose, complete with hooded robe and magical staff. The second end-credit scene reveals that after the giant blast, Shadow survived....

December 20, 2024 · 1 min · 184 words · Charles Edwards

HowCobra KaiDoes (and Doesn’t) Tie IntoKarate Kid: Legends

Netflix adds aGhostbustersanimated movie to its list of bustin projects.Squid Games creator is getting a little sick ofSquid Game. Plus, get a new look at Oz Perkins Stephen King adaptationThe Monkey, and whats next onCreature Commandos. I was excited about the idea that the films and the series can all be part of one family. © Sony Pictures Were really excited that weve added another piece to the overall universe....

December 20, 2024 · 1 min · 202 words · Michelle Ramsey

James Gunn Explains How theClayfaceMovie Seemed to Happen so Fast

ASupermanmovie,which is coming soon.Creature Commandos,happening right now.Supergirlisin the works soon. Things likeClayfacewhich, from our perspective, wasseemingly greenlit out of nowhere. Not the case, Gunn told io9 earlier this week at theSupermantrailer launch event. Mike Flanagan’s Clayface is coming in 2026.Image: Warner Bros. Which is kind of how all things at DC work nowadays. I didnt plan on making a Clayface movie, Gunn told io9. He pitched this wonderful idea. I was like, Damn, I cant believe you got me to want to make a Clayface movie....

December 20, 2024 · 2 min · 237 words · April Gamble

Lenovo’s Roll-Out Display Laptop Is So Pleasingly Weird

We have to give Lenovo its kudos this year. Take Lenovos ThinkBook Plus laptop, which has been circling the airwaves this weekthrough leaks. Im just guessing; the leaks dont offer exact display sizes. © Evan Blass I wouldnt be surprised if we saw it pop up next month at CES. Looking at the renders, I cant figure out how this works. How does the laptop stay balanced on its bottom if the top part is heavier?...

December 20, 2024 · 2 min · 223 words · Jasmine Martinez

Lower Decks‘ Finale Got Some Additions When the Reality of Its End Kicked In

Making that episode was really interesting. It felt like there was a little bit of like, Is thisreallyending? Because we kept re-recording it. © Paramount It just felt like the end of a season. But, as Newsome also notes,Lower Decksdoesnt exactly definitively kill the books on itself. Its an end of a chapter,' Newsome concluded. It could go on. Its perfect harmony to make them share this position, Newsome added of the ending....

December 20, 2024 · 1 min · 99 words · Andrew Gibson

NASA’s Proposed Mars ‘Chopper’ Is Ingenuity on Steroids

Ingenuity walked so Chopper could run. NASA recentlyconcluded that in-flight navigation errorscaused high horizontal velocities at touchdown. Even after it crashed, Ingenuity still delivers weather and avionics data to Perseverance on a weekly basis. NASA’s Mars Chopper concept shown in a design software rendering.NASA/JPL-Caltech News from the future, delivered to your present. NASA’s Mars Chopper concept, shown in a design software rendering. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

December 20, 2024 · 1 min · 64 words · Michael Garcia

NYPD Arrests Teamsters for ‘Disrupting Traffic’ During Historic Amazon Driver Strike

Amazon workers are striking across the country. The strike began at seven delivery hubs on Thursday and was organized by the Teamsters union. The Union says that it started the strike because Amazon has refused to negotiate with them. An inflatable rat is on display as workers picketing in front of an Amazon Logistic Station on December 19, 2024 in Skokie Illinois.© Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Being a delivery driver for Amazon sucks....

December 20, 2024 · 1 min · 211 words · Jenny Cook

OpenAI Skips o2 and Debuts New o3 ‘Reasoning’ Model

The model is not yet available for general use, but safety researchers cansign up for a previewstarting today. When asked a question, reasoning models pause and consider related prompts that could help produce an accurate answer. Reasoning models are supposed to do this additional work for you. OpenAI has debuted o3, its latest AI reasoning model.Mike Coppola/Getty Images o3 is the successor to o1, OpenAIs first chain-of-thought reasoning model. The company says the new model comes with the ability to adjust its reasoning time....

December 20, 2024 · 2 min · 280 words · Tanya Shepherd