Deep within a cave on New Zealand’s North Island, scientists have uncovered a long-lost record of life from a million years ago. In a cave system near Waitomo on Aotearoa’s North Island, scientists have uncovered a packed deposit of ancient…
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Paleontologists Discover a Lost World: Ancient Cave Preserves Life From 1 Million Years Ago
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When Amazon badly needed a ride, Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket delivered
The Ariane 64 flew with an extended payload shroud to fit all 32 Amazon Leo satellites. Combined, the payload totaled around 20 metric tons, or about 44,000 pounds, according to Arianespace. This is close to maxing out the…
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A $319 mini PC with a Ryzen PRO chip is a sneaky-good way to upgrade a desk setup
Mini PCs are having a moment because they solve a real problem: you want desktop power without a tower, the noise, or the space commitment. The GMKtec M8 mini PC is $319.99 for a limited time, down from $479.99 for 33% off. If you need a…
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A Giant Star Vanished, And Scientists Think a Black Hole Is to Blame : ScienceAlert
One of the brightest stars in the Andromeda galaxy quietly collapsed into a black hole without any of the fanfare of a spectacular supernova.
What makes this startling discovery even more remarkable is that the first signs of the…
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New J-PAL research and policy initiative to test and scale AI innovations to fight poverty | MIT News
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT has awarded funding to eight new research studies to understand how artificial intelligence innovations can be used in the fight against poverty through its new
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For $1 million, you can pay Bryan Johnson (or BryanAI?) to teach you how to live longer
It’s the middle of February, and the air is dry. There are fine lines emerging on my forehead, maybe because I don’t moisturize enough, but maybe as a harbinger of something greater: each day I grow closer to my own death. Soon, I will be…
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New Study Looks At Young Adolescents Who Own Smartphones
A recent study analyzed the likelihood of young children receiving their owns smartphone, often before fourth grade.
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Amid disappointing earnings, Pinterest claims it sees more searches than ChatGPT
After a particularly poor performance on its fourth-quarter earnings, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready attempted to favorably compare the digital pinboarding site to the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT.
Trying to highlight its potential as a unique search…
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OpenAI Releases a Research Preview of GPT‑5.3-Codex-Spark: A 15x Faster AI Coding Model Delivering Over 1000 Tokens Per Second on Cerebras Hardware
OpenAI just launched a new research preview called GPT-5.3 Codex-Spark. This model is built for 1 thing: extreme speed. While the standard GPT-5.3 Codex focuses on deep reasoning, Spark is designed for near-instant response times….
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OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips
But 1,000 tokens per second is actually modest by Cerebras standards. The company has measured 2,100 tokens per second on Llama 3.1 70B and reported 3,000 tokens per second on OpenAI’s own open-weight gpt-oss-120B model,…
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