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Bacteria could be the secret sauce to keeping your computers cool
Your PC and laptop runs hotter every year, especially now that AI tools and heavy software push it harder than ever. Heat is a real bottleneck for performance, which is why people have gone to wild lengths to solve...
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Bored of reading papers? This AI tool turns them into TikTok-like videos
Academic papers aren’t what you’d consider a fun read. For the average person, the dense, long, and field-specific language-filled papers can be quite intimidating to get into. These are usually packaged as PDFs that look like they were designed...
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Can video games help us better understand quantum mechanics?
The blocks keep falling. A pale yellow square awkwardly lands on a green block shaped like the letter “z”....
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Europe’s heatwave is the hottest and most humid ever
This week’s heatwave is the hottest three-day period ever recorded in Europe, as well as the most humid, and...
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The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns | TechCrunch
OpenAI’s release of its newest model, GPT 5.6, reportedly won’t be like its previous releases. Instead of distributing it to the public, the company plans to share it only with a select group of close partners because the Trump...
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Big Tech is all in on AI. Now all they need is customers.
This week's selloff in technology stocks underscores a gnawing anxiety among investors: What happens if you throw a big party and few people show up?The Nasdaq Composite Index has slipped nearly 3% this week as Wall Street...
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Why Does a Bank Need a Chief Scientist?
This article is brought to you by Capital One.After five years leading natural language understanding and eventually the entire Alexa AI organization at Amazon, Prem Natarajan made a nontraditional move: He became Chief Scientist at a bank. Not just...
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Where, when and how to watch the 2026 solar eclipse
On 12 August, a total solar eclipse will sweep across parts of Europe and the Atlantic ocean as the...
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What it Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the Math
In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph.D. in applied mathematics. My research focused on simulating how...
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IBM unveils technology for chips it says pack performance leap and use much less power
IBM unveiled semiconductor technology Thursday that it says could deliver computer chips with 50 percent better performance while dramatically lowering power consumption. The technology developed by IBM isn't ready for industrial use yet, but the...