Fifty years of research on children's toy preferences shows that kids generally prefer toys oriented toward their own gender.

To enable speech recognition technology for many more languages spoken around the globe, Facebook AI is releasing wav2vec Unsupervised, a new method to train models with no supervision whatsoever. Wav2vec Unsupervised rivals the performance of the best supervised…

Papers in leading psychology, economic and science journals that fail to replicate and therefore are less likely to be true are often the most cited papers in academic research, according to a new study by the University of California San Diego’s Rady School…

The designer and artist Tamiko Thiel gets her due in a new show at MoMA.

The underrepresentation of women in academic science is typically attributed, both in scientific literature and in the media, to sexist hiring. Here we report five hiring experiments in which faculty evaluated hypothetical female and male applicants, using…

Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines, culminating in a 2m37s build on a 160-core ARM machine.
I don’t have a giant ARM behemoth, but I have been working on a tool I call Llama, which lets you offload computational…

Any cicada that tries to break the pattern is simply taking her offspring’s life into her own hands…

TLDR: My Macbook Pro 16" is hot and noisy when connected to a 2560x1440p60 monitor, even when idle and the lid is closed. This article…

Get any text on your screen into your clipboard. Contribute to schappim/macOCR development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Jim Waldo assesses how the internet fared during the pandemic and how well it stood up to huge shifts of work, education, and commerce online.

One of the oldest scams around -- the fake job interview that seeks only to harvest your personal and financial data -- is on the rise, the FBI warns. Here's the story of a recent LinkedIn impersonation scam that led…

Learn how we build Outer Wonders for Linux using our custom game engine.

Ancient latrine sediments, which contain the concentrated collective biological waste of past whole human communities, have the potential to be excellent proxies for human gastrointestinal health o...

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