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A federal judge ruled that Meta must pay $942 million to address the harm its platforms cause to children, marking one of the largest penalties in a social media case. The decision follows years of l…
When porting Command & Conquer to the Atari ST, Jonas Eschenburg faced the challenge of playing Westwood's VQA videos on hardware limited to 16 colors and an 8 MHz CPU. Instead of giving up, he creat…
ASR Age Gap is an open-source benchmark that challenges the assumption that speech recognition degrades with speaker age. Using matched Common Voice clips, it shows that Whisper and wav2vec2 transcri…
New Orleans is testing AI to answer 911 calls, aiming to reduce dispatcher workload by triaging calls and providing automated responses for incidents with high call volumes. The AI, developed by Carb…
The Sylvester–Gallai theorem states that any finite set of points in the Euclidean plane, not all collinear, has a line passing through exactly two of them. This article presents a concise proof by m…
A new preprint audits sample-based quantum diagonalization (SQD/QSCI) benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters, asking whether converged energies actually correspond to the target singlet spin state. Using…
Across Estonia, residents transform their gardens, garages, and even bedroom windows into temporary cafés for one day each summer, a tradition that began on Hiiumaa island in 2007. With over 150 even…