U.S. adults are smoking less. Cigarette smoking dropped to another new all-time low last year, with 1 in 9 adults saying they were current smokers. Meanwhile, e-cigarette use rose, to about 1 in 17 adults.

It’s not just porn that’s getting deleted from Imgur. Millions of images that are embedded elsewhere will also eventually be taken down.

Now that's a C change we can back

Across academia, men and women tend to publish at unequal rates. Existing explanations include the potentially unequal impact of parenthood on scholarship, but a lack of appropriate data has prevented its clear assessment. Here, we quantify the impact ...

Trippy trailer, fun demo have us excited for Tetris Effect publisher's May game.

Studies show that human factors most influence the quality of our work. So why do we put so much stake in technical solutions?

The generative AI legal tech startup Harvey has raised $21 million in a Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital.  When I first wrote about Harvey in November, the previously stealth startup had...

The JavaScript library for exploratory data visualization

Proposed legislation would require developers to list copyright material used in generative artificial-intelligence tools.

OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images - dynobo/normcap

We are proud to announce that starting the firmware version 0.82, your Flipper Zero's battery life will last up to 1 month! It took us 2 years to resolve all firmware issues that prevented Flipper Zero from switching to power-saving mode, resulting in the…

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Hidet is a powerful deep learning compiler that simplifies the process of implementing high-performing deep learning operators on modern accelerators (e.g., NVIDIA GPUs). With the new feature of torch.compile(...) in PyTorch 2.0, integrating a novel compiler…

Most school children have a Chromebook, and every day, it's a war between kids, teachers, and the developers trying to entertain bored students.

Meta's first quarter was better than expected overall. Sales were up 3% while its $28.65 billion revenue beat analysts' expectations. The company also issued upbeat guidance for...

I read a blog post by Alex Muscar, “Beautiful Binary Search in D”. It describes a binary search called “Shar’s algorithm”. I’d never heard of it and it’s i…