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Many projects on these pages do clever things with video. Whether it’s digital or analogue, it’s certain our community can ...

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Spotter planes can no longer directly see enemy submarines. Today, their mission is overwhelmingly acoustic—listening to ...

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The CEO of one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence labs just said the quiet part out loud: that nobody really knows how AI works. In an essay published to his personal website, Anthropic ...

Money shapes our lives in profound ways, but have you paused lately to think about what money is exactly and how it really works? In an age of digital payments, it’s clearly not bills and coins in ...

It should be clear to everyone that the Google documentation leak and the public documents from antitrust hearings do not really tell us exactly how the rankings work. The structure of organic search ...