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Can Hillel listen to its Jewish neighborhood?

General

(RNS)-- The fall term is underway, and returning with the trainees are the stress and debate that emerged over the Israel-Hamas war last spring. For all the events in this broader discourse, I'll confess a current rift within the Jewish university neighborhood stands out. Today, brand-new fliers appeared throughout Harvard's school portraying a picture of a sobbing kid in Gaza surrounded by debris and destruction. Beneath the image is text obtained from the Yom Kippur Liturgy in both Hebrew and English, specifying: anachnu chatanuwe have actually sinned. These posters were produced by a group called the Halakhic Left, a brand-new progressive Jewish company that looks for to develop a home for watchful Jews who protest the Israeli profession of Palestinian area and who promote for a cease-f...

Vertex will pay 10s of millions to accredit a questionable CRISPR patent

Technology

Vertex Pharmaceuticals has actually consented to purchase rights to utilize a dominant CRISPR patent owned by the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, preventing a possible suit over its brand-new gene-editing treatment for sickle-cell illness. The contract permits Vertex to begin offering its treatment, authorized last Friday, without worry of patent violation claims. The one-time treatment will be amongst the most costly ever offered, with a cost of $2.2 million. The patent on CRISPR has actually been the fulcrum off a decade-long legal battle after the Broad Institute, a proving ground in Cambridge, Massachusetts, took rights to the most crucial usages of the gene-editing tool in 2014. Broad's patent claims have actually been opposed by the University of California, Berkeley, which st...

AI is changing the English dictionary

Artificial Intelligence

AI has actually made another attack on the English language. After taking the title of the Collins Dictionary word of the year, expert system today assaulted the Cambridge variation. This time, the effect is more subtle-- however much deeper. The very first example emerged from Cambridge's word of the year for 2023: "hallucinate." It's an old word, however the award is because of a brand-new significance. In the current variations of the Cambridge Dictionary, "hallucinate" has an additional meaning: "When an expert system (= a computer system that has a few of the qualities that the human brain has, such as the capability to produce language in a manner that appears human) hallucinates, it produces incorrect info." The