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> A key feature in the current U.S. fuel economy standards is its… more
> Traders bet more than $59 million on whether Polymarket would launch its US… more
> We introduce SCONE-bench—the first benchmark that evaluates agents’ ability… more
> Before 2006, the Takeover Panel had no statutory authority at all, but… more
> Among the age-related-hearing-loss set, getting into the Fortell beta test… more
> More than 200,000 additional children under 5 are expected to die this year,… more
> FEX allows you to run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices, similar to… more
> Dell Technologies founder and CEO Michael Dell and his wife, Susan, said… more
> Claude Code ships as a Bun executable to millions of users. If Bun breaks,… more
This blog post has an overview of what GiveWell has been doing this year in… more
> Across four days, my colleague Andrea and I tested prices on 80 different… more
> Sergey Brin gave away more than $1.1 billion worth of Alphabet Inc. stock… more
> Type checkers are a piece of software that feel incredibly simple, yet… more
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> Climate models recently indicated that a collapse before 2100 was unlikely… more
> Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has suggested his country's capital will… more
> Prasad's emailed memo, a copy of which was reviewed by Axios, said no fewer… more
> We first reported on this online community, which is titled the Spiral… more
> Par (⅋) is an experimental concurrent programming language. It's an attempt… more
> For Thomas and Turner, a mature writing style is defined by making a… more
> Homicides and much of the high-impact crime rate are declining, a reason for… more
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> This super-heavy version of New Glenn will feature nine of the company’s… more
> An article about Zeman’s second paper appeared in the New York Times, and,… more
> Working closely with Good Ventures — the foundation built by Facebook and… more
> Fishing crews across a broad expanse of the world’s oceans, ranging from the… more
> The microrobot the researchers use comprises a proprietary spherical capsule… more
> According to Runet Monitor, which tracks the state of connectivity in Russia,… more
> Prices have risen so high at the iconic fast food chain that traffic from one… more
> The U.S. Army aims to buy at least a million drones in the next two to three… more
> Over the last decade, farms in the region have increased their use of the… more
> A common childhood virus appears to be the trigger for the autoimmune disease… more
> Reflect Orbital is looking to send giant mirrors in space to “sell sunlight… more
> This technology has “opened up a new realm of creative possibility,” Arter… more
> In mid-September 2025, we detected suspicious activity that later… more
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> The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego,… more
> Earlier in the day, the House voted to reopen federal agencies — the first… more
> According to Taiwan tech publication DigiTimes, most AI firms are unwilling… more
> [R]efrigerators are not only appliances: they are also a key component in the… more
> For years, synagogue leaders have said they can’t find enough clergy to fill… more
> Waymo said Wednesday it will begin offering robotaxi rides that use freeways… more
> A recent study from Harvard University caught my attention and provides… more