Forty years after the AIDS pandemic began, we may finally be close to its conclusion.

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Nature - Pachyderms have extra copies of a key tumour-fighting gene.

Author, doctor and inventor of the term lateral thinking who wrote more than 60 books on his original and unorthodox theories

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There was a marked acceleration in deforestation in the 20th century. But, global deforestation peaked in the 1980s. Since then, it has slowed.

`atan2f` is an important but slow trigonometric function. In this article we'll explain how to approximate it, and implement a version 50x faster than `glibc` on batches of inputs.

I am a solopreneur.
What’s a solopreneur? An entrepreneur that works solo. Alone. In total control of the direction and the operations of his/her own company. With no hires, and no boss.
In my case no contractors, too.
This has always been my dream, and I’m…

Selling the story of disinformation

The COVID-19 pandemic has suddenly raised the need for technological solutions capable to trace contacts of people and provide location-based analytics. Several countries have adopted proximity-based (short- range) technologies, such as Bluetooth, which however…

Hamburg’s state government has been formally warned against using Zoom over data protection concerns.

Lemonadejs is a lightweight vanilla javanoscript micro-library (4Kb) that helps the integration between the JavaScript (controllers) and the HTML (view).

"With blockchain analytics the thing we say over and over is that all this activity is on this ledger forever, and if you did something bad 10 years ago you can be caught and arrested for it today. The fact that they're pulling up those transactions is really…

The long read: The creators of the Aibo robot dog say it has ‘real emotions and instinct’. This may seem over the top, but is it? In today’s AI universe, all the eternal questions have become engineering problems

By training Atlas to maneuver its way through complex parkour courses, our engineers push the humanoid robot to its limits.

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Answer (1 of 23): There are lots of dimensions to “computer programming” and “programming languages”, so simple sorting won’t be satisfactory. But there is also a dilemma — I think — in that “something happened” in the 80s to what were major improvements…

That chronic Lyme exists in the realm of experience doesn’t mean it isn’t real. When medicine does not acknowledge the reality of the subjective—the thick reality of lived experience—we fall laughably short in our efforts to serve patients. When it comes…

This post is co-authored with a team of researchers who have chosen to remain anonymous. They uncovered most of the evidence reported in this post. These researchers are not connected in any way to the papers described herein. *** In 2012, Shu, Mazar, Gino…