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AI 'wingmen' bots to write profiles and flirt on dating apps
AI bots will soon be rolled out on dating apps to flirt with people, craft messages...
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Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices
The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units...
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Discovering Errors in Donald Knuth's Taocp
As Donald Knuth has just published Volume 4, Fascicle 7 of The Art of Computer Programming...
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AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement
Two new AI tools check for errors in research papers including in the calculations, methodology and...
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Gene-edited non-browning banana could cut food waste
Many of us have been guilty of binning a mushy, overripe banana – but now scientists...
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The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome
The US Department of Justice wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of...
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Discworld Rules
The Contraptions Book club March pick is Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates....
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Learn Arabic
In the beginning, I found it difficult to learn Arabic. Now, since I overcame the first...
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New MacBook Air Fixes This Decades-Long Design Oversight
In a move that probably won't make headlines but should delight detail-oriented Mac users everywhere, Apple...
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Unpopular Defaults for High-Performing Tech Organizations
“No one ever quit!” “Look at our hackathon!” “We hard-allocate time to fight tech debt.” Ostensibly,...
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Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G
Last November, Nguyen Thi Que’s mobile phone suddenly stopped working as telecom companies in Vietnam permanently...