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Strep A kills half a million per year; why don't we have a vaccine?

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When the team’s van arrives at Gulu Prison Primary School, students in maroon uniforms fill the...
When the team’s van arrives at Gulu Prison Primary School, students in maroon uniforms fill the courtyard, enjoying the end of their lunch break. Half a dozen American and Ugandan nurses, project coordinators and doctors file out and into a classroom, where they move benches to make room for padded exam tables and a...
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Rekhta

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Early term for the Hindustani language Not to be confused with Rekhta (website). Rekhta (Urdu: ریختہ...
Early term for the Hindustani language Not to be confused with Rekhta (website). Rekhta (Urdu: ریختہ [ˈreːxtaː]; Hindi: रेख़्ता [ˈreːxtaː]) was an early form of the Hindustani language. This style evolved in both the Perso-Arabic and Devanagari scripts and is considered an early form of Modern Standard Urdu and Mode...
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Promising new form of antibiotic that makes bacterial cells self-destruct

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Cuba's grid goes offline with blackout after a major power plant fails

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Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s electrical grid went down Friday...
Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s electrical grid went down Friday after one of the island’s major power plants failed, a day after a massive blackout swept across the Caribbean island and with no official estimate for when service will be restored.The Cuban en...

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Expanding Our Code of Conduct to Protect Private Conversations

wordpress.org

At the heart of our community is our shared pledge to create a space that is...
At the heart of our community is our shared pledge to create a space that is harassment-free, welcoming, and inclusive for all. Our Community Code of Conduct already outlines a clear set of expectations, while also providing examples of unacceptable actions. Today, we are reinforcing our values by adding another ele...
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Man Arrested for Using AI Songs and a Bot Army to Scam Spotify for Millions

vice.com

Is this the future of AI scamming? Michael Smith, a 52-year-old from Cornelius, North Carolina, allegedly...
Is this the future of AI scamming? Michael Smith, a 52-year-old from Cornelius, North Carolina, allegedly used AI to automatically generate hundreds of thousands of songs that he then put on streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music. He’s accused of using an army of bots to “listen” to the track...
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Our Boundless Love for Big Sur May Be Killing It

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You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Like many other top travel destinations worldwide, the California community of Big Sur faces the challenge of maintaining tourism while also limiting the impact visitors have o...
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Doctor Fukushi Masaichi and the Art of Preserving Tattooed Skin

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Dr. Fukushi Katsunari with a wet specimen from the preserved Japanese skin tattoo collection at Medical...
Dr. Fukushi Katsunari with a wet specimen from the preserved Japanese skin tattoo collection at Medical Pathology Museum of Tokyo University.Tattoos have different meanings across cultures, ranging from sacred symbols to marks of rebellion. In Japan, tattoos are part of a broader subculture called irezumi, an intric...
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Teaching old assert() new Tricks

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US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software in 2.4M cars after fatal crash

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Jury awards American Airline $9.4M from website behind 'skiplagging' hack

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TCAS averts possible head-on collision in Austin

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Stark et al. vs. Patreon, Inc. Class Action Settlement

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Canada finds some euthanasia deaths driven by homelessness fears, isolation

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LONDON (AP) — An expert committee reviewing euthanasia deaths in Canada’s most populous province has identified...
LONDON (AP) — An expert committee reviewing euthanasia deaths in Canada’s most populous province has identified several cases where patients asked to be killed in part for social reasons such as isolation and fears of homelessness, raising concerns over approvals for vulnerable people in the country’s assisted dying...

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New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)

mersenne.org
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.txt raises $11.9M to make language models programmable

techcrunch.com

As we’ve reported before, enterprise CIOs are taking generative AI slow. One reason for that is...
As we’ve reported before, enterprise CIOs are taking generative AI slow. One reason for that is AI doesn’t fit into existing software engineering workflows, because it literally doesn’t speak the same language. For instance, LLMs (aka large language models) require a lot of cajoling to deliver valid JSON. That’s whe...
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Beflix (Bell Labs Flicks)

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Programming language for animation BEFLIX is the name of the first embedded domain-specific language for computer...
Programming language for animation BEFLIX is the name of the first embedded domain-specific language for computer animation, invented by Ken Knowlton at Bell Labs in 1963.[1] The name derives from a combination of Bell Flicks. Ken Knowlton used BEFLIX to create animated films for educational and engineering purposes...
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Google Translate Learns Inuktut

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For years, Google Translate has helped break down language barriers and connect communities all over the...
For years, Google Translate has helped break down language barriers and connect communities all over the world. Recent technological advances, including leveraging the power of our PaLM 2 large language model, have helped us improve translation quality and expand Google Translate to hundreds of new languages. We’re ...

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Judge delays order in antitrust case requiring Google to open up its app store

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday delayed an order requiring Google to open...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday delayed an order requiring Google to open up its Android app store to more competition until an appeals court decides whether to block the shake-up because of legal questions surrounding a jury’s verdict that branded Google as an illegal monopolist.The delay granted dur...

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Express v5

expressjs.com

By Wes Todd and the Express Technical Committee 15 Oct 2024 Ten years ago (July 2014)...
By Wes Todd and the Express Technical Committee 15 Oct 2024 Ten years ago (July 2014) the Express v5 release pull request was opened, and now at long last it’s been merged and published! We want to recognize the work of all our contributors, especially Doug Wilson, who spent the last ten years ensuring Express was t...
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Sam Altman's eyeball-scanning crypto project has a new Orb and a new name

theverge.com

Worldcoin, the cryptocurrency / human identity network / UBI project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman,...
Worldcoin, the cryptocurrency / human identity network / UBI project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is now known as World. Along with the name change, World introduced an updated version of its eyeball-scanning Orb device which is designed to solve a problem that does not currently exist: authenticating that s...
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Focus on decisions, not tasks

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Dolphin Swimming – A Review (1991) [pdf]

psu.edu
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