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How architects turned a hulking brick box into MIT’s newest academic hub
It started with a vision: Move MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) into the Metropolitan Storage Warehouse, an unoccupied, fortress-like brick building on MIT’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.After all, SA+P needed more space and new facilities. And here,...
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Jobseekers warned over online interview and recruitment scams
Cyber-security researchers from Have I Been Squatted carried out an analysis of how the attack worked and say the new wave of recruitment scams are hard to spot."This wasn't a badly written email with a suspicious attachment - this...
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A Transplanted Pig Kidney Is Still Working After a Record-Setting 9 Months in a Patient
A woman has lived with a pig kidney for more than nine months without needing dialysis, a record-setting achievement.The woman underwent the operation at Massachusetts General Hospital on November 22 last year. As of Thursday, the kidney has been...
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Startup ARR is less secure than ever, new research shows | TechCrunch
AI has ushered in a lot of never-happened-before moments, but one of the most transformative is its impact on enterprise IT. Companies that have historically been cautious and committed long-term to what they buy are on pace to spend...
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The Cybercab is Tesla’s ‘fork in the road’ moment | TechCrunch
Today could be the day Tesla changes forever. In a couple of hours, Tesla will “launch” the Cybercab — a small, gold, two-seater sedan with no steering wheel or pedals that uses cameras and AI to navigate the world —...
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OpenAI’s New Reasoning Technique Alarms AI Safety Experts – Slashdot
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI's new Astra model will use a reasoning technique called "recurrent depth" that allows it to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models, The Information reported...
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Nvidia strikes $12.9bn deal to buy AI platform Hugging Face
Nvidia has agreed to buy artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face in a deal valued at about $12.9bn (£9.5bn), one of the AI chipmaker's biggest acquisitions as it expands into software. Hugging Face, founded in 2016, has become a...
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Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, Its Third Flash Model In Six Weeks – Slashdot
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Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks, claiming it's their best reasoning and coding model yet (topping the DeepSWE leaderboard). Ars Technica reports: Gemini 3.8 Flash comes in two variations. There's the...
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Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella | TechCrunch
Scientists at Google Deepmind and Google Research released a new artificial intelligence model for weather forecasting today that sees our changing atmosphere more clearly and predicts its behavior more often.WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change...
Social Media
How to Make YouTube Shorts: A Guide for Newbies
The advent of TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube shorts and other changes in the marketing industry and the type of content we like to consume means that video is hotter than ever. And this trend has transitioned to the marketing...
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Ukraine tennis player’s apartment destroyed in Russian strike
Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska has said her family's flat has been destroyed in a Russian aerial strike on...