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This chip uses light to supercharge AI and cut energy use:
Convolutional neural networks, or CNNs, are the workhorses behind many of AI's greatest hits, like spotting faces in photos, reading handwriting, or translating languages.
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02 October 2025.
MIT's concrete battery just got 10 times more powerful:
Scientists have been working for the last few years on enhancing concrete – arguably the most common construction material on the planet – to store energy.
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02 October 2025.
Senator Cassidy Takes To ExTwitter, Radio To Rail Against RFK Jr., Whom He Voted To Confirm:
I’ll start with this: I am certainly not fully politically aligned with Senator Bill Cassidy, but I have typically found him to be genuine and intelligent.
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02 October 2025.
Top 10 AI Tools That Will Transform Your Content Creation in 2025:
Looking to level up your content creation game in 2025? You're in the right place! The digital landscape has evolved dramatically, and AI tools have become essential for creators who want to stay ahead of the curve.
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02 January 2025.
New Cornell Tech faculty Allison Koenecke is making AI work for everyone:
Artificial intelligence is everywhere, from the apps people use to the systems that shape hiring decisions and healthcare.
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02 October 2025.
Kido nursery hackers say they have deleted stolen data:
Experts say attempting to extort children lost Radiant group credibility in hacking world, which made it take actionCybercriminals who stole pictures and the private information of thousands of nursery children have deleted the data after a backlash against the hack.
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02 October 2025.
Dame Jane Goodall obituary:
Pioneering scientist whose breakthrough studies of chimpanzees changed how the animals were perceived and led to greater protectionDuring the final months of 1960, in what is now Gombe national park, Tanzania, Jane Goodall, then 26 years old, made two discoveries that established her name and reputation as a field scientist studying wild apes.
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02 October 2025.
10 Linux tips I give to both beginners and professionals for improved productivity:
Linux isn't just about picking a distro or desktop environment - it's also about optimizing how you interact with your PC for maximum efficiency.
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02 October 2025.
Dame Jane Goodall revolutionised our understanding of our closest primate cousins:
The conservationist, who died aged 91 on Wednesday, challenged how we relate to the natural world.
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01 October 2025.
AI's getting better at faking crowds. Here's why that's cause for concern:
Crowd scenes have been challenging to create in a seamless fashion using AI, as the recent controversy over a Will Smith concert video shows.
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02 October 2025.
New approach to gravitational wave detection opens the milli-Hz frontier:
Scientists have unveiled a new approach to detecting gravitational waves in the milli-Hertz frequency range, providing access to astrophysical and cosmological phenomena that are not detectable with current instruments.
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02 October 2025.
We Finally Have Free Anti-Robocall Tools That Work:
A new feature for iPhones screens calls, similar to a technology available for Android users.
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02 October 2025.
New York-based DualEntry, which offers AI-powered ERP software, raised a $90M Series A led by Lightspeed and Khosla Ventures, valuing the company at $415M:
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02 October 2025.
The Big Bad Wolf Is Afraid of You:
Researchers found that the predatory canines were far more likely to flee recordings of human voices than they were to run away from other sounds.
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02 October 2025.
AI designs for dangerous DNA can slip past biosecurity measures, study shows:
Companies that make DNA for science labs screen out any requests for dangerous bits of genetic material.
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02 October 2025.
White House asks 9 universities to sign agreement to guarantee funding:
A White House compact asks universities to freeze their tuition for five years and ban the use of sex and gender as criteria used in admissions.
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02 October 2025.
AMD In Early Talks To Make Chips At Intel Foundry:
"Your AMD chips may have Intel Inside soon," writes longtime Slashdot reader DesScorp.
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02 October 2025.
China’s humanoid robots are gaining ground – but they’re not there yet:
The U.S. and China are racing to build humanoid robots capable of performing many daily tasks – but the complexity of home and business environments makes that challenging.
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29 August 2025.
From tool use to warfare — here are 5 ways Jane Goodall revolutionized our knowledge of chimpanzees:
Pioneering primatologist Jane Goodall has died at age 91.
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02 October 2025.
Some of the tech in my workday
Best programming language?
The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.
The TIOBE Programming Community index measures popularity based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses, third party vendors and search engine activity.
w3techs analyses page content to determine the technology used, and also uses publicly available information from sources such as Alexa, Google, Microsoft and ipinfo.io.
While Java and Python top the popularity charts, more than 80% of all websites run on PHP.
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