Computer scientists always consider the worst case scenario because it allows us to edge against the risk—or, well, certainty—that something will go wrong.
The Web Environment Integrity proposal championed by a small group of Google employees is an example…

Nature Biotechnology - So sweet, no spike

Traits in psychopaths may be present to some extent in all of us. New research is reframing this often maligned set of attributes and finding some positive twists

One of the unsung disasters of contemporary academic life is the death of the physical library. There are so many disasters in current year academia, I doubt as anyone else grouses much about this,…

A deep dive into Transformer, a neural network architecture that was introduced in the famous paper “attention is all you need” in 2017, its applications, impacts, challenges and future directions

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Forced rhubarb – a vegetable deprived of sunlight for extra sweetness – has been eaten in Yorkshire since the 19th Century. Now the culinary treasure is having a renaissance.

An AI upgrade for your car

The most widely used technique for finding the largest or smallest values of a math function turns out to be a fundamentally difficult computational problem.

Authors are at the mercy of people who don’t bother reading their work.

Scientists have discovered what they believe to be the central mechanism behind cognitive decline associated with normal aging.

It’s a simple bargain: The rich get huge tax breaks by donating art, property and company shares to benefit the public. But some donors collect millions while offering little or no public access.

A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux. - GitHub - grassmunk/Chicago95: A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux.

Today is a great day for Emacs - Emacs 29.1 has just been released1! Every Emacs release is special, but I haven’t been so excited about a new version of Emacs in ages. Why so? Reason #1 - pure GTK front-end (a.k.a. pgtk). This also means that now Emacs supports…

Modern XMPP ("Jabber") Chat Client using GTK/Vala. Contribute to dino/dino development by creating an account on GitHub.

The D programming language is often advertised as a system programming language due to its static typing and metaprogramming capabilities.