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British Google AI boss Sir Demis Hassabis among scientists awarded Nobel Prize for chemistry | UK News
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Briton Sir Demis Hassabis has been awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry, jointly with two other scientists. The trio of Sir Demis, as well as Americans Professor David Baker and Dr John Jumper, were honoured on Wednesday for their work on decoding the structure of proteins and creating new ones. The research has helped advances…
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Nobel physics prize awarded to ‘godfather of AI’ who warned the technology could end humanity | Science & Tech News
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The 2024 Nobel prize for physics has been awarded to two scientists who laid “the foundation” for artificial intelligence – although one of them recently warned the technology could be the end of humanity. John Hopfield from Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton from the University of Toronto spent decades developing our knowledge of artificial neural…
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Nobel Prize for medicine goes to American scientists who worked on microRNA | Science & Tech News
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This year’s Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine has been awarded to two American scientists who discovered how “microRNA” controls the decoding of genetic information in living organisms. Studying the tiny nematode worm C “elegans”, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun independently discovered that small sequences of RNA were essential in determining whether certain genes are…
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Esports World Cup: First event kicks off with record-breaking prize money up for grabs | Science & Tech News
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The world’s biggest gaming championship kicks off today in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Around 1,500 global esports champions are heading to Boulevard City, competing for eight weeks for a record prize pool of $60m (£47m). “The Esports World Cup is a major moment in esports history,” said Ralf Reichert, chief executive of the Esports World Cup…
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The Game Awards 2023: Baldur’s Gate 3 wins biggest prize – but show criticised over short speeches and lay-offs | Science & Tech News
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Baldur’s Gate 3 has been crowned game of the year at the industry’s biggest awards ceremony. Released for PC and PlayStation 5 earlier this year, and for Xbox consoles during Thursday night’s Game Awards, the fantasy epic wowed reviewers with the sheer scope of its world and story, which allows players to impact its direction…
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COVID vaccine scientists win Nobel Prize in medicine | Science & Tech News
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The Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to two scientists for their research which led to the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The accolade, among the most prestigious in the scientific world, went to Katalin Kariko, from Hungary, and Drew Weissman, from the United States. “Through their groundbreaking findings, which have fundamentally…
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Sony World Photography Award 2023 winner turns down top prize after admitting his image was created with AI | Science & Tech News
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The winner of a major photography award has turned down the prize after admitting the image he submitted was created by artificial intelligence. German artist Boris Eldagsen’s entry, entitled Pseudomnesia: The Electrician, was awarded a Sony World Photography Award last week in the creative open category. In a statement on his website, the artist said…
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God Of War Ragnarok sweeps BAFTA Games Awards as indie sleeper hit Vampire Survivors takes top prize | Ents & Arts News
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PlayStation action epic God Of War Ragnarok has dominated the BAFTA Games Awards, winning six of the 14 awards it was in the running for. The action adventure, with its stunning landscape, Norse gods and monsters, won best animation, audio achievement, music, while its stars – Christopher Judge and Laya DeLeon Hayes – won best…
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Three scientists win Nobel chemistry prize for ‘snapping molecules together’ to design medicines | World News
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The Nobel chemistry prize has been awarded to three scientists who have developed a way of “snapping molecules together” to design new medicines. “Click chemistry” or bio-orthogonal reactions can be used to produce new cancer drugs and map DNA. It is the work of US scientists Carolyn R Bertozzi and K Barry Sharpless, and Morten…
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Swedish scientist Svante Paabo wins Nobel Prize for work on human evolution | Science & Tech News
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A Swedish scientist who used DNA sequencing to find the link between extinct people and modern humans has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Svante Paabo was given what is arguably the most prestigious prize in the scientific world for discoveries “concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. He…