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New research by the University of Portsmouth reveals that during the Great Plague of 1665, Londoners used published death figures to make daily, life or death decisions, reshaping how governments ...

Wikipedia editors are discussing whether to blacklist Archive.today because the archive site was used to direct a distributed ...

There's been a seismic shift in science, with scientists developing new AI tools and applying AI to just about any question that can be asked. Researchers are now putting actual seismic waves to work, ...

A brisk theatrical thriller, “Data” perfectly captures the slick, grandiose language with which tech titans justify their ...

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OpenAI launches GPT-5.3 Codex Spark powered by Cerebras chips, signaling a shift from Nvidia reliance and intensifying the AI infrastructure race.

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Chile has launched the first open-source AI language model trained on Latin American culture. Called Latam-GPT, the two-year effort is led by Chile's National Center of Artificial Intelligence and ...

Machine learning is an essential component of artificial intelligence. Whether it’s powering recommendation engines, fraud detection systems, self-driving cars, generative AI, or any of the countless ...