- Study examined the impact of voice assistant personalities (when a smart speaker sounds like us) on user engagement and decision-making and found that it affects how users process misinformation: 38% of the participants changed their minds from against to pro Covid-19 vaccines https://news.njit.edu/voice-assistants-us-affect-how-users-process-misinformation-study-suggests 14 comments science
- The oldest known fossil of an army ant, preserved in Baltic amber about 35 million years ago, provides first evidence that now-extinct lineages swarmed Europe in the Eocene epoch https://news.njit.edu/oldest-army-ant-ever-discovered-reveals-iconic-predator-once-raided-europe 6 comments science