For the first time in years, Apple Inc. gave up its crown as the world’s most valuable publicly traded company on Monday, at least for part of the trading day.

Lettuce contaminated with pathogens have sickened and killed people. But the FDA has shelved Obama-era plans to test the culprit: farms’ irrigation water.

On Monday afternoon, NASA’s InSight spacecraft will try to land on Mars.

Original air date: November 26, 2018 11 a.m. PT (2 p.m. ET)

See inside mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as signals return from the InSight mission as it lands on Mars. Landing commentary includes interviews with team members. https://…

AI art using GANs (generative adversarial networks) is new enough that the art world does not understand it well enough to evaluate it. We saw this unfold last month when the French artists’ collective Obvious stumbled into selling their very first AI artwork…

I feel you, #Mars – and soon I’ll know your heart. With this safe landing, I’m here. I’m home. #MarsLanding https://t.co/auhFdfiUMg

In one industry after another, big companies have become more dominant over the past 15 years, new data show.

East German secret police guide for identifying youth subcultures. Circa 1985. #yesreally

OVER half of UK adults who experience loneliness are afraid that no one will notice if something bad happens to them, a tragic new report has found. Around nine million people in the UK say they of…

If China is the Saudi Arabia of data, its data factories are the refineries, turning raw data into the fuel that can power China’s goal of A.I. supremacy.

General-purpose computers have become ubiquitous and important for everyday life, but they are difficult for people with paralysis to use. Specialized software and personalized input devices can improve access, but often provide only limited functionality.…

A concise masterclass on how to write infrastructure code

As China grew richer, the West assumed, political freedoms would follow. Now it is an economic superpower — and the opposite has happened.

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we have explored some of the basic architecture concepts in Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) such as graphics pipeline, vector processing, primitive processing, rasterization, fragment processing, pixel operations, graphics architecture and shader programming…

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