The genetic treatment targeted a particular kind of congenital deafness and will soon be tried in children who are younger.

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Detecting text generated by modern large language models is thought to be hard, as both LLMs and humans can exhibit a wide range of complex behaviors. However, we find that a score based on...

From bite marks to shaken babies, the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences is debunking bad science.

A unique, topological, view on rivers & waterways in OpenStreetMap, showing how they are connected. Find mistakes and make better maps.

By the Leeham News Team Jan. 15, 2024, © Leeham News: It’s not supposed to happen. The door plug on the Boeing 737-9 MAX isn’t supposed to separate from the airplane in flight, as it did on Alaska... Read More

Cases like this are exactly why the Fourth Amendment was adopted in the first place, wrote federal Judge Milan D. Smith Jr.

On the SIMH group, Al Kossow and others have been discussing how .tap is a terrible archival container format that also has a bunch of problems for use in emulation and simulation of systems. This …

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Up to 200x Faster Dot Products & Similarity Metrics — for Python, Rust, C, JS, and Swift, supporting f64, f32, f16 real & complex, i8, and bit vectors using SIMD for both AVX2, AVX-...

the wheel of a Delta Boeing 757 just flew off while it was preparing to take off at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The wheel then rolled down the runway...

could have been catastrophic if it happened a few seconds later

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OXCCU was launched to address the escalating impact of greenhouse gas emissions, especially from fossil fuels. Carbon is an incredibly useful element, especially when used in hydrocarbons and some sectors have no viable alternatives. Using renewable electricity…

Scrapscript is a small, pure, functional, content-addressable, network-first programming language. It’s designed to allow creating small, simply shareable programs. The language was created by Taylor Troesh and the main implementation was created by me and…

The 1980s law is considered one of the country's strongest privacy protections.

She was pressured into convicting a man she believed was innocent—and was haunted by remorse. Three decades later, she did something about it.