Insect-inspired “sparse coding” does fast learning, avoids catastrophic forgetting. Fruit flies aren’t exactly famous for their brainpower; you’ve probably drowned […]
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Trump’s 100% tariff on drones will be disaster for the US, critics warn
Americans fear there are no cheap alternatives as tariffs suddenly hit drones. A DJI Mavic Pro 3 camera drone. On […]
Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners
The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and “24/7″ lectures. Ig Nobel Master of Ceremonies Marc Abraham. Credit: […]
Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion
“We will have to get through all the regulatory review. But we think overwhelmingly they’re going to see this as […]
Perplexity Open Sources Lily: A Rust + Metal Inference Engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple Silicon
Perplexity has open sourced Lily, the local inference engine behind Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer. It is a single-process runtime: […]
Qwen Developers Open-Sources zg (zvec-grep): A Local-First Search Layer Unifying ripgrep, BM25, and Vector Search
Coding agents spend a large share of their tool budget on search. When the target is a known symbol, ripgrep […]
Spending deal comes with a bonus: Blocking political control of grants
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a stopgap measure that would continue funding the US government through early December. […]
I rented a car, and within hours, my driver’s license was for sale
The timing of newly available scans—typically within a day, if not hours, of me and a small sample of other […]
FCC plans robocall scorecard to grade phone companies on spam call blocking
Carrier scorecards may include call-blocking stats and data on customer complaints. Credit: Getty Images | BestForBest The Federal Communications Commission […]