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2025-03-19

You May Be Horrified When You Learn What Chewing Gum Is Actually Made From

Plastic pollution may, as one researcher posits, be coming from a surprising source: chewing gum. In an essay for The Conversation, microplastics expert David Jones of the UK's University of...

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A UN World Meteorological Organization report “lists 151 unprecedented extreme weather events...

A UN World Meteorological Organization report “lists 151 unprecedented extreme weather events in 2024, meaning they were worse than any ever recorded in the region.” Heat, floods, storms — all...

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Will Xandeum’s pNodes Unlock Solana’s True Potential?

Xandeum launches pNodes on Solana devnet, a scalable storage solution for smart contracts. Learn how it boosts dApps and Web3 growth

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Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database

Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal.

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Can Blockchain and AI Finally Trust Each Other? Flare and Google Cloud’s Hackathon Says Yes

Explore how the Flare x Google Cloud Hackathon (March 7-9, 2025) united blockchain and AI. Over 460 developers showcased verifiable AI solutions using Google Cloud Confidential Space and Flare’s blockchain.

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Did Google Test an Experimental AI on Kids, With Tragic Results?

Halfway through our conversation, Megan Garcia pauses to take a call. "How are you? I'm good," Garcia, a mother of three based in Orlando, Florida, nods into her phone. "For...

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How Multi-Agent Systems Are Rethinking LLM Architecture

Large Language Models (LLMs) are capable of incredible feats in terms of natural language processing. But they frequently stumble when faced with complex, multi-step reasoning tasks where accuracy and transparency...

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How to Choose the Right Metrics to Evaluate Experiments

Choosing the right metrics is hard. Here's how to structure metrics evaluation frameworks for your experiments that helps you make trustworthy decisions.

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Meta Promises to Fight Misinformation in Australia With Same Strategy It Killed in the U.S. to Appease Trump

Meta is preparing for the Australian election by working closely with the government and news outlets that Zuckerberg said were “clearly political” and dismissed in the US.

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Trump Has Gone From Unconstitutional to Anti-Constitutional. “[Anti-Constitutionalism] rejects the premise that...

Trump Has Gone From Unconstitutional to Anti-Constitutional. “[Anti-Constitutionalism] rejects the premise that sovereignty lies with the people, that ours is a government of limited and enumerated powers and that the...

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Uber Drivers Say They're Getting Locked Out of the App and Trapped in a Kafkaesque Limbo When They Try to Dispute It

For nearly ten years, Bernard Moses had been ferrying passengers around Chicagoland as an Uber driver. After dropping off his umpteenth passenger one day in April 2024, Moses swiped to...

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Editorial from Nature magazine: Vaccines save lives. Leaders must champion them. “We...

Editorial from Nature magazine: Vaccines save lives. Leaders must champion them. “We urge policymakers to help boost people’s confidence in vaccines, and not to undermine scientific and medical institutions or...

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Dolphins Appear as Astronauts Splash Down in Ocean

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have finally returned after being stranded on board the International Space Station for nine months. The pair became stuck after Boeing's plagued Starliner...

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2+2=5

"America destroys one of its own symbols," by Stanislav Aseyev

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People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes

Instagram’s unwillingness to moderate AI-generated content finds a new low.

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Thinking in Systems - A Primer

"Thinking in Systems" provides a foundational framework for understanding how systems shape our world and how we can work with them more effectively. The book demystifies systems thinking by breaking...

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⭐ Outcomes over output - Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success

"Outcomes Over Output" challenges traditional product development approaches by shifting focus from feature delivery to achieving meaningful customer behavior changes. The book introduces a simple yet powerful framework for understanding...

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Lean UX - Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience

"Lean UX" presents a radical shift in how organizations approach user experience design, moving away from heavy documentation and towards rapid experimentation and validation. The book introduces a practical framework...

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You’ll Laugh at This Simple Task AI Still Can’t Do

Most human children learn how to tell time around ages six and seven — but artificial intelligence still, apparently, can't parse a clock face. Researchers from Scotland's University of Edinburgh...

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Podcast: The Websites an ICE Contractor is Monitoring

The sites an ICE contractor is pulling data from; why top scientists are considering leaving the U.S. for France, and why Super Nintendos are getting faster as they age.

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