In the early 1960s, Douglas Engelbart started investigating how computers could augment human intelligence: "If, in your office, you as an ...

A major challenge when using k-means clustering often is how to choose the parameter k, the number of clusters. In this letter, we want to point out that it is very easy to draw poor conclusions...

For most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.

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“Do you think you can trust Putin?” German Brig. Gen. Ralf Hammerstein asks with a wry smile.

Browsers have always been an arena for fighting and flaming over why your browser is the best and has the most features, while all others are inferior and un...

On 19 March 2025, the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission released its first batch of survey data, including a preview of its deep fields. Here, hundreds of thousands of galaxies in different shapes and sizes take centre stage and show a glimpse of their…

Openspot is the next-gen talent marketplace that empowers job seekers to create modern and engaging profiles beyond traditional resumes and static formats, using multi-modality capabilities like video, audio, and written text. Create in minutes and stand…

The Race for AI Progress In 2019, Richard Sutton, wrote his groundbreaking essay noscriptd ‘The Bitter Lesson’. Simply put, the essay concludes that systems which get better with higher compute beat the systems that do not. Or specifically in AI: raw computing…

Why loneliness is akin to smoking, democracy depends on bowling leagues, and how to make new friends as an adult.

Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code.
But …

Documents and insiders reveal how one of the world’s major money laundering networks operates.

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Nature - A textile fibre computer combining sensing, memory, processing and communication in a 5-g mass has been developed, enabling distributed computation on the human body through garments.

Have you ever heard of a Perkins Tractor? If you lived in London in the 18th Century, you could buy a pair of Perkins Tractors (shown above) for the steep price of five guineas, and wave them over an aching part of your body for about twenty minutes as a…

Examining RDNA 4's out-of-order memory accesses in detail, and investigating with testing

This project is designed to showcase the first known photographs of living specimens of any species. Note that by 'first known' I'm referring to the first known photographs of a species anywhere, not just the first photographs to be submitted to iNaturalist.…