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A 'Third State' Between Life and Death That Suggests Your Cells Are Conscious

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The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we’re born, we live, we die. The...
The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we’re born, we live, we die. The end. But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a bit more interesting. You, me, and all of the 108 billion or so Homo sapiens who’ve ever walked the Earth have all been our own constellatio...

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Agno: Agent framework 10,000x faster than LangChain

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OpenAI Plots Charging $20k a Month for PhD-Level Agents

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Encrypt Images Without a Key Using Visual Cryptography

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Cognitive Behaviors That Enable Self-Improving Reasoners

arxiv.org

Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Test-time inference has emerged as a powerful paradigm...
Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Test-time inference has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enabling language models to ``think'' longer and more carefully about complex challenges, much like skilled human experts. While reinforcement learning (RL) can drive self-improvement in language mod...
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Humans Have a Third Set of Teeth. New Medicine May Help Them Grow.

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Yagi Studio//Getty ImagesA study out of Japan showed how targeting genes can regrow teeth in animals....
Yagi Studio//Getty ImagesA study out of Japan showed how targeting genes can regrow teeth in animals. Now, the team has turned to a human clinical trial. By targeting the USAG-1 gene, researchers believe that they can help people without a full set of teeth regrow teeth. The team says that humans have a third set of...

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Tesla gets more than 20% of parts from Mexico, it will be affected by tariffs

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Tesla gets more than 20% of its parts from Mexico, as well as some from Canada...
Tesla gets more than 20% of its parts from Mexico, as well as some from Canada on top of it. So, yes, Tesla will be negatively affected by the tariffs. However, there’s another one-month delay. I didn’t think I would have to write this article, but I have seen plenty of “Tesla influencers” claim that Tesla would not...
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Nebu: A Spreadsheet Editor for Varvara

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Ask HN: Best Windows/Linux developer laptop in 2025

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A few words about FiveThirtyEight

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Last night, as President Trump delivered his State of the Union address, the Wall Street Journal...
Last night, as President Trump delivered his State of the Union address, the Wall Street Journal reported that ABC News would lay off the remaining staff at 538 as part of broader cuts within corporate parent Disney. Having been through several rounds of this before, including two years ago when the staff was cut by...
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The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide

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NEW DELHI (AP) — The U.S. government will stop sharing air quality data gathered from its...
NEW DELHI (AP) — The U.S. government will stop sharing air quality data gathered from its embassies and consulates, worrying local scientists and experts who say the effort was vital to monitor global air quality and improve public health.In response to an inquiry from The Associated Press, the State Department said...

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DeepSeek-R1-671B-Q4_K_M with 1 or 2 Arc A770 on Xeon

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Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi Positioning Systems [video]

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Strategic Corruption Reserve

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(Photo Illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images)President Trump is hawking a memecoin and collecting most of the revenue...
(Photo Illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images)President Trump is hawking a memecoin and collecting most of the revenue from the sale of a separate coin from a company called World Liberty Financial. Meanwhile, Trump is plowing ahead with his plan to create a federal "Crypto Strategic Reserve."It started with an execut...
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The "Take It Down" Act

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Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope, Aaron Mackey | February 27, 2025 The U.S. Court of Appeals...
Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope, Aaron Mackey | February 27, 2025 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit correctly held that Grindr, a popular dating app, can’t be held responsible for matching users and enabling them to exchange messages that led to real-world harm. EFF and the Woodhull Freedom Foundation fi...
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Exploring the Paramilitary Leaks

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SepLLM: Accelerate LLMs by Compressing One Segment into One Separator

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Volkswagen Introduces ID. EVERY1, Its Most Affordable EV

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VW on March 5 presented the compact ID. EVERY1 concept car that will cost around €20,000...
VW on March 5 presented the compact ID. EVERY1 concept car that will cost around €20,000 ($21,000) — its lowest-priced EV yet. (Volkswagen AG) [Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Volkswagen AG became a global car giant thanks to the Beetle, an affordable model for the masses. Now, the Ger...

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The Rise of the Brutal American

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NASA Turns Off 2 Voyager Science Instruments to Extend Mission

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An artist’s concept depicts one of NASA’s Voyager probes. The twin spacecraft launched in 1977. Credit:...
An artist’s concept depicts one of NASA’s Voyager probes. The twin spacecraft launched in 1977. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The farthest-flung human-made objects will be able to take their science-gathering even farther, thanks to these energy-conserving measures. Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory i...
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In Severance, Office Perks Couldn't Be More Sinister

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The Severance innies. (Credit: Apple)When we first meet Dylan G (Zach Cherry) in Severance, Apple TV+’s...
The Severance innies. (Credit: Apple)When we first meet Dylan G (Zach Cherry) in Severance, Apple TV+’s Sci-Fi series now in the throes of its second season, he comes off as the most well-adjusted innie in his team. He stays motivated by working towards company “perks”, like finger traps and waffle parties, which he...
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Emmy Noether: the genius who taught Einstein

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Emmy Noether is responsible for an idea so important that it ranks alongside Charles Darwin’s concept...
Emmy Noether is responsible for an idea so important that it ranks alongside Charles Darwin’s concept of evolution by natural selection as a central and unifying principle in science. It made possible the Standard Model—the high-point of 350 years of physics, which explains how the building blocks of matter, the qua...
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Compare OpenAI Models

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Threat to UK Nuclear Deterrent

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Something seismic has changed in the US-British relationship that will require the UK to look elsewhere...
Something seismic has changed in the US-British relationship that will require the UK to look elsewhere for allies and accept that deals such as cooperation over the British nuclear deterrent are now in question, a former British ambassador to Washington has said.Sir David Manning told a Lords select committee on in...
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