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MIT Turbocharges Python’s Notoriously Slow Compiler (ieee.org)

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Scientists observe flattest explosion ever seen in space (phys.org)

11 hours ago | pseudolus | phys.org | frontpage

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Big Tech Companies Are Testing How Far They Can Slash Staff (vanityfair.com)

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I Gave ChatGPT an IQ Test. Here’s What I Discovered (scientificamerican.com)

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Satellite photos from space show California’s transformation from dry to lush (latimes.com)

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Milton Glaser made America cool again (newyorker.com)

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Magnon-based computation could signal computing paradigm shift (phys.org)

a day ago | pseudolus | phys.org | frontpage

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Libraries Need More Freedom to Distribute Digital Books (theatlantic.com)

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The 70s nuclear relic that may be about to open at last (bbc.com)

a day ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | frontpage

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Rural children now grow slightly taller than city children in wealthy countries (scientificamerican.com)

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Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way (quantamagazine.org)

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Chronic pain: the long road to discovery (nature.com)

3 days ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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Tinkering with ChatGPT, Workers Wonder: Will This Take My Job? (nytimes.com)

3 days ago | pseudolus | nytimes.com | newest

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Carrier pigeons used by police in the Indian state of Odisha (theguardian.com)

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Where have all the sacked tech workers gone? (economist.com)

3 days ago | pseudolus | economist.com | best

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Who Leaked Twitter’s Source Code? (nymag.com)

3 days ago | pseudolus | nymag.com | newest

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Exploring the neural mechanisms behind how social networks shape our decisions (medicalxpress.com)

4 days ago | pseudolus | medicalxpress.com | newest

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Crypto king kidnapped, tortured in attempt to get millions in ransom, documents (cp24.com)

4 days ago | pseudolus | cp24.com | newest

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A different tipping culture compared to a few years ago (cnn.com)

5 days ago | pseudolus | cnn.com | frontpage

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Internet Governance Project – TikTok and US National Security (internetgovernance.org)

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The Amazon’s Largest Isolated Tribe Is Dying (nytimes.com)

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Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay? Universities Aren’t Ready for the Answer (thewalrus.ca)

6 days ago | pseudolus | thewalrus.ca | newest

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Music-Making Artificial Intelligence Is Getting Scary Good (scientificamerican.com)

5 days ago | pseudolus | scientificamerican.com | frontpage

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Who Will Take Care of Italy’s Older People? Robots, Maybe (nytimes.com)

6 days ago | pseudolus | nytimes.com | newest

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America’s online privacy problems are much bigger than TikTok (washingtonpost.com)

a week ago | pseudolus | washingtonpost.com | best

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In-car subscriptions are not popular with new car buyers, survey shows (arstechnica.com)

a week ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Scientists uncover startling concentrations of pure DDT along seafloor off L.A (latimes.com)

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If We Don’t Master A.I., It Will Master Us (nytimes.com)

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Study: SARS-CoV-2 can alter genome structure of our cells (phys.org)

a week ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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America's electrical grid is headed for a total meltdown (businessinsider.com)

a week ago | pseudolus | businessinsider.com | frontpage

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Without downtime, artificial neural networks become catastrophically forgetful (nautil.us)

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Tech makers must provide repairs for up to 10 years under proposed EU law (arstechnica.com)

a week ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Chinese startup invents long-distance kissing machine (theguardian.com)

a week ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | newest

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Moviemaking and gamemaking are converging (economist.com)

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Panicky call from a relative? It could be a thief using a voice clone, FTC warns (npr.org)

a week ago | pseudolus | npr.org | newest

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A surprisingly simple explanation for 'Oumuamua's weird orbit (phys.org)

a week ago | pseudolus | phys.org | frontpage

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Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is suing social media companies (cnn.com)

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FCC Fines 15 Year-Old Pirate Radio Station in NYC $2M (vice.com)

a week ago | pseudolus | vice.com | frontpage

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From high-speed rail to the Olympics, why do big projects go wrong? (economist.com)

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I’m Lost All the Time. So I Went on a Labyrinth Vacation (nytimes.com)

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Mathematician wins Abel Prize for ‘smooth’ physics (nature.com)

a week ago | pseudolus | nature.com | newest

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Deeply, truly, sorry: How tech CEOs talk when they lay off workers (washingtonpost.com)

a week ago | pseudolus | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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America’s banks are missing hundreds of billions of dollars (economist.com)

a week ago | pseudolus | economist.com | best

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The Supreme Court wrestles with questions over the Navajo Nation's water rights (npr.org)

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Airbnb criticized after 1 killed, 6 missing after building destroyed by fire (globalnews.ca)

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Calls for stricter Airbnb regulations following deadly fire in Old Montreal (globalnews.ca)

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Going phone-free 'sets up for failure' (bbc.com)

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Alzheimer’s disease: problems with the brain’s energy supply could be a cause (theconversation.com)

a week ago | pseudolus | theconversation.com | newest

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Growing number of high-security pathogen labs around world raises concerns (science.org)

a week ago | pseudolus | science.org | newest

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Team first to detect neutrinos made by a particle collide (phys.org)

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OpenAI: ChatGPT Could Disrupt 19% of US Jobs, Is Yours on the List? (pcmag.com)

a week ago | pseudolus | pcmag.com | newest

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Fate of 1k trafficked lab monkeys at center of US investigation in limbo (theguardian.com)

a week ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | newest

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The creepy race to read workers’ minds (latimes.com)

a week ago | pseudolus | latimes.com | newest

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Nerds, ninjas, and neutrons: The story of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team (thebulletin.org)

a week ago | pseudolus | thebulletin.org | newest

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Colorectal cancer is rising among Gen X, Y and Z. Ways to protect yourself (npr.org)

a week ago | pseudolus | npr.org | newest

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To protect human artistry from AI, new safeguards might be essential (washingtonpost.com)

a week ago | pseudolus | washingtonpost.com | newest

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A Cognitive Revolution in Animal Research (theatlantic.com)

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I used an incredible X-ray machine to look inside my gadgets – let me show you (theverge.com)

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Bent nails at Roman burial site form “magical barrier” to keep dead from rising (arstechnica.com)

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AI makes plagiarism harder to detect, argue academics – paper written by chatbot (theguardian.com)

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BBC urges staff to delete TikTok from company mobile phones (theguardian.com)

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Prelude to a Supernova: The James Webb Captures a Rare Wolf-Rayet Star (universetoday.com)

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Rolls-Royce gets funding to develop miniature nuclear reactor for moon base (space.com)

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Will AI Actually Mean We’ll Be Able to Work Less? (thewalrus.ca)

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The Novelist Whose Inventions Went Too Far (newyorker.com)

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Personality change during the coronavirus pandemic in adults in the US (plos.org)

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Where Did All Your Zoom Friends Go? (nytimes.com)

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‘He passed the bee baton on to me’: people who inherit hobbies (theguardian.com)

a week ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | best

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Study hints at the promise of non-hallucinogenic LSD for treating mood disorders (medicalxpress.com)

a week ago | pseudolus | medicalxpress.com | best

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How do you protect two rare birds when one keeps attacking the other? (washingtonpost.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | washingtonpost.com | newest

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How to insure bank deposits beyond the FDIC limit (businessinsider.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | businessinsider.com | newest

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Satellites spoiling more and more Hubble images (science.org)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | science.org | newest

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A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future Influences the Past (vice.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | vice.com | frontpage

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What Happens to Silicon Valley Without Silicon Valley Bank? (vox.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | vox.com | newest

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America’s bad bet on expanding legal sports gambling (vox.com)

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Faint gravitational waves may be from primordial fractures in space-time (space.com)

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I Tried to Stop Snoring, Fix My Sleep Habits, and Confront My Mortality (thewalrus.ca)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | thewalrus.ca | newest

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The Rogue Theory That Gravity Causes IBS (theatlantic.com)

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Active volcano on Venus shows it’s a living planet (science.org)

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Highways fatalities up 22%. Our smartphone addiction is a big reason why (latimes.com)

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Swiss Google workers stage walkout as job cuts hit Europe (reuters.com)

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EPA sets limits on some “forever chemicals” as low as they can go (arstechnica.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Do Covid-19 vaccine mandates still make sense? (science.org)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | science.org | newest

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Super-AI gameplay spurs humans to novel, winning strategies (techxplore.com)

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Researcher solves nearly 60-year-old game theory dilemma (phys.org)

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Global Microbiome Study Gives New View of Shared Health Risks (quantamagazine.org)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Pi Day: How One Irrational Number Made Us Modern (nytimes.com)

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Silicon Valley, once the underdog, is now too big to fail (washingtonpost.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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How Can We Measure Droughts and Deluges? Weigh the Planet (nytimes.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | nytimes.com | newest

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Shadows in the Big Bang Afterglow Reveal Invisible Cosmic Structures (quantamagazine.org)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | quantamagazine.org | best

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What if Pi was a song? What would it sound like? (youtube.com)

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Why we usually can't tell when a review is fake (npr.org)

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If the Mathematical Constant Pi Was a Song, What Would It Sound Like? (scientificamerican.com)

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Lord of the Rings–quoting performance wins this year’s Dance Your PhD contest (science.org)

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UPenn Accuses a Law Professor of Racist Statements. Should She Be Fired? (nytimes.com)

2 weeks ago | pseudolus | nytimes.com | newest

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India floats idea of dedicated tribunal to handle online offences (theregister.com)

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Online tests suggest IQ scores in US dropped for first time in nearly a century (phys.org)

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Monkey rock bashing resembles tools made by early human ancestors (science.org)

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Saudi Aramco’ s $161B profit is largest recorded by an oil and gas firm (theguardian.com)

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Scientists warn of ‘phosphogeddon’ as critical fertiliser shortages loom (theguardian.com)

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