The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge against the USPTO by a computer scientist. The latter claims that their patent should attribute their AI system as the inventor.
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Here's the rundown of a location in space where a scientist from SETI believe extraterrestrial microbial life could be found. It largely reinforces what other scientists have said in the past.
A recent misleading story implied that Twitter was releasing all of its data to unknown scientists that could use it any which way. However that couldn't be further from the truth.