A new study from the University of Massachusetts Amherst has pitted English teachers against crowdsourced workers at Amazon Mechanical Turk in assessing the output of Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems, concluding that lax standards and the 'gaming'…

AMD is coming-out swinging

With native Rust support announced for Cloudflare Workers, one may be eager to jump in head first. I know I wanted to. However, I tested out a few use cases and found it too limiting. Either the desired APIs weren’t available, code size was too large, or…

The idea behind the new surgery is to help patients’ brains superimpose a phantom limb over a prosthetic one — and allow them to perceive the prosthetic as their own arm or leg.

In this blog post we’ll explain how an attacker can get access into a cloud environment by sending a malicious pull request.

Ireland's data privacy regulator on Friday said it had asked Facebook to demonstrate that an LED indicator light on the social media giant's newly launched smart glasses is "an effective means" to let people know they are being filmed or photographed.

Radiative cooling is a passive cooling technology that offers great promises to reduce space cooling cost, combat the urban island effect, and alleviate the global warming. To achieve passive daytime radiative cooling, current state-of-the-art solutions often…

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WireGuard for Windows has finally switched on WireGuardNT, the accelerated kernel driver, by default for everybody, which means we're now in phase 2 of the transition plan of lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wire…, with downloads available on wireguard.com/install/…

A Dataset of Python Challenges for AI Research. Contribute to microsoft/PythonProgrammingPuzzles development by creating an account on GitHub.

Summary Presently, Alpine provides the rust programming language in the community repository. However, this has resulted in many packages...

A CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology that has shown promise in clearing HIV from mice is headed into human testing. | A CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology that has shown promise in clearing HIV from mice is headed into human testing. Excision BioTherapeutics…

Some would say that the operation succeeded in throwing Iran’s nuclear program into chaos for some months, but that Tehran has long since recovered.

by Robin Rowe
July 4th, 2002, updated Feb. 20th, 2005