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Public records clearly shows that for the past 25 years, CERN has repeatedly built inadequate FPGA-based Level-1 Triggers, necessitating multiple rebuilds. During the Higgs boson discovery ...

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The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short video platform TikTok has once again come under the ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...

Microsoft has announced a new small language model called Fara-7B, which can be used to perform agentic tasks directly on the user’s device. Termed as a Computer Use Agent (CUA) model, Fara-7B uses ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.