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Everything to Know About OpenAI's New Text-to-Video Generator, Sora

March 5, 2024 -- This week, what you need to know about OpenAI's new video generator, cyberattacks on the U.S. health insurance system, and a new satellite is launched to track methane emissions. All that and more below!

--Andrea Gawrylewski, Chief Newsletter Editor

A person holding a smart phone playing video generated by Sora AI of a woman walking down a city street at night

Everything to Know About OpenAI's New Text-to-Video Generator, Sora

A machine-learning tool that transforms text prompts into detailed video has generated excitement—and skepticism

Close Up Of Father With Mobile Phone And Son Using Digital Tablet Reading With Headphones At Home

Debating Screen Time? Here's Why Reading Might Tip Your Scales

Digital books will never replace the tactile experience of paper books, but as part of bedtime reading and improving access to reading materials, they shouldn't be counted as screen time

Natalia Kucirkova

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Cyberattack Sabotages a Major U.S. Health Insurance System: What to Know

A cyberattack on Change Healthcare, a company owned by UnitedHealth Group, had a wide impact that's expected to grow

Darius Tahir; KFF Health News

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Artists Are Slipping Anti-AI 'Poison' into Their Art. Here's How It Works

Digital cloaking tools such as Nightshade and Glaze help artists take back control from generative AI—but they're no forever fix

Hacking Dreams Could Help People Heal

Stimulating the sleeping brain may ease suffering from memory loss, stroke or mental health problems

Ingrid Wickelgren

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Making Alarms More Musical Can Save Lives

Medical alarms don't have to be louder to be more effective

Rachel Berkowitz

A hand holding a 3-D-printed globe against a green background.

Inside a 3D-Printed Universe

Three-dimensional printouts of stellar nurseries are helping to reveal how stars are born

Illustration of a polar bear and a penguin walking away from each other, each holding one end of a magnetic pole.

Can a Magnet Ever Have Only One Pole?

Electron tornadoes that mimic "magnetic monopoles" emerge from specks of rust

A natural gas flare burns next to an oil pump jack

New Satellite Will Launch to Track Methane Emissions

Observations from MethaneSat could be used to independently verify industry reports and enforce regulations on fossil fuel companies

Chelsea Harvey; E&E News