Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a crippling psychiatric disorder characterized by intense fear or anxiety in social situations and their avoidance...

Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would quickly die from it. Now, most children in rich countries are cured.

The ancestors of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin built earthen mounds to grow crops. The site could be the largest preserved archaeological field system in the eastern United States

The Netscape/Microsoft browser wars in the mid-90's were really vicious and competitive. They really had it out for each other. Netscape had...

This talk presents new work on high performance vector path and text rendering, to make it not only fast but easier to integrate with other code. Multiple modes are supported, including CPU, GPU, and hybrid. At the heart is a new efficient representation…

The natural history presenter, who turns 99 today, has an obsession with sea life that began in boyhood. Here he reflects on his most moving encounters

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed...

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Previously I have covered a relatively obscure now-removed placeholder string in Android that doubles as an easter egg, the fictitious carrier by the name of El Telco Loco. But this time it is about methods and other parts of the publicly facing Android API…

New research could have big implications for copyright lawsuits against generative AI.

Telephones-Exchanges - compiling an illustration and information on telephone exchanges spanning the United Kingdom.

A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one another. Physicists are both interested and skeptical.

C++ implementation of a simplest callback