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Microsoft AI reactivates, promptly becomes druggie
23+ hour, 9+ min ago (308+ words) Itamar Sharon is a news editor at The Times of Israel Microsoft's terrible teen is at it again. Tay, the company's new twitterbot, ended its first foray into semi-sentience prematurely last week when it became a xenophobic, foul-mouthed sex-maniac less…...
Type 2 diabetes patients more likely to develop schizophrenia, Israeli researchers find
6+ mon, 1+ day ago (1053+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 751 A researcher at the University of Haifa says he has found that people diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes face a 50 percent higher risk of developing late-onset schizophrenia compared to people without diabetes. For women, the risk may…...
Blood test 95% accurate in spotting suicide risk in bipolar patients, says Israeli scientist
6+ mon, 5+ day ago (1021+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 746 A researcher from the University of Haifa says that she has developed a new method to predict a high suicide risk among patients with bipolar disorder through a simple blood test. Prof. Shani Stern of Haifa's…...