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Environment, Transportation

Battery recycling 2.0, the tombstone on the topic of "electric car yes or no?"

The boom in renewables and the recycling of batteries will make the electric car increasingly sustainable, capable of equalizing the emissions of the combustion one in just a few months.

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Tesla, the cracks in the myth: declining sales, declining confidence, Musk in the crosshairs

Cybertruck recalled, Model 2 cancelled, competition growing: Tesla loses ground in the EV market. And Musk's leadership is increasingly in question.

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Artificial intelligence

Orwell Supermarket: shopping with facial recognition needs to be rethought

Facial recognition, cameras, padlocked trolleys: supermarkets will be digital fortresses. But at what cost to consumer rights?

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VASA-1, Microsoft's AI creates super realistic characters from just one photo

VASA-1, Microsoft's revolutionary AI model, takes computer-generated talking faces to a new level of realism.

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Medical Research

Synthetic but alive: cells that challenge the boundary between artificial and biological

DNA as a building material for multifunctional synthetic cells, stable up to 50°C. Potential applications in regenerative medicine, drug delivery and diagnostics.

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Cancer, frontier test detects it in a few minutes with micro drops of blood

Breakthrough in the fight against cancer: a new AI test analyzes a drop of dried blood and diagnoses three types of cancer in minutes with up to 100% accuracy

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