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Owning a car in Singapore, one of the world’s most expensive countries, has always been something of a luxury. But costs have now soared to an all time high.

The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

This is a global company that needs to investigate why its payment systems have failed so many small businesses

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Fluid simulation is a great example of simulating natural phenomena using a feedback system. It approximates complex phenomena represented by equations that are very challenging to solve by breaking them down into multiple relatively simple steps of approximations…

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In 2009, astronomers watched a bizarre mystery unfold. An enormous star, with 25 times the mass of the Sun, faded away and disappeared. Although it had been long theorized, it's believed this was a type of failed supernova, where a giant star imploded into…

Following preliminary objections over Google's data terms, set out back in January by Germany's antitrust watchdog, the tech giant has agreed to make Following preliminary objections against Google's data terms, set out back in January by Germany's antitrust…

The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan…

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Untruths spouted by chatbots ended up on the web—and Microsoft's Bing search engine served them up as facts. Generative AI could make search harder to trust.

Pipes are ubiquitous in Unix --- but how fast can they go on Linux? In this post we'll iteratively improve a simple pipe-writing benchmark from 3.5GiB/s to 65GiB/s, guided by Linux `perf`.

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Windows Copilot is an AI feature that launches in October 2023 officially on Windows 11. It may show third-party ads to users, which is a problem in itself.

Before I joined Replit, I had never written a line of code.

A few weeks ago, I built a Slack Bot that uses Google LLMs to provide daily channel summaries. You can fork the template or get started with 100 Days of Code.

None of this was possible without…