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Relatives of known proteins were sought not by sequence but by three-dimensional shape — and it led to the protein TM184C: it works on internal vesicles and helps build bridges…
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TypeSafe AI has released System One, a class of models that output structured decisions with probabilities instead of text. The first release, Jev, is by the company's own measurements two…
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On September 16, 1959, the first commercial photocopier, the Xerox 914, was presented to the public in the United States — with it, document copying became a routine office procedure.
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Oracle has launched a new round of layoffs: employees are being told their roles are being eliminated due to "organizational changes." The exact number of those laid off is not…
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MediaTek has unveiled its flagship Dimensity 9600 Pro: a claimed 2nm process node, 61% lower power consumption in multi-core tasks, and two NPUs for on-device models of up to 30…
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Among Marines with traumatic brain injury, higher pre-deployment levels of natural anti-NMDA receptor autoantibodies went hand in hand with milder depression and PTSD symptoms; no such link was found for…
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Microsoft is gradually rolling out Administrator protection: administrative tasks run with temporary privileges thanks to profile isolation. The feature is off by default.
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Fields Medalists have signed a declaration: solving open problems has become a benchmark for AI companies, and this harms mathematics and its living culture.
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The domain appeared before the company itself: at that time Google was still a research project called BackRub by two Stanford graduate students, and the name was coined as a…
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On September 14, 2000, Microsoft released Windows Millennium Edition, the successor to Windows 98. The system promised more multimedia but quickly earned the nickname "Mistake Edition" due to instability, freezes,…
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Microsoft confirmed an issue with USB Audio Class 1.0 after patch KB5124008 from September 8: devices show a 'Code 10' error, audio disappears, and volume controls stop working. The company…
Read the newsOpenAI's new model handled Neal Agarwal's browser CAPTCHA challenge, where you have to re-prove your humanity. An OpenAI engineer showed the completion, and the blog author tried it himself and…
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