For the past several years, a clinical trial from Washington University (St. Louis) has been underway in people with genetic mutations that lead to early-onset Alzheimer's. The Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's Network (Trials Unit), DIAN-TU, has been dosing…

Prelude: In 1998, Robert Solovay wrote an email to John Nash to communicate an error that he detected in the proof of the Nash embedding theorem, as presented in Nash's well-known paper "The Imbedd...

The 1.2 release of the fyne toolkit marks an exciting milestone in the project as we now support building for iOS and Android devices as well as macOS, Windows, Linux and BSD. We also vastly improv...

  Let ICANN Know if You Support .Com Price Hikes ICANN is the organization in charge of the domain name system.   Its staff wants to increase .COM prices by 30% over the next four years.  Use this tool to quickly and easily share your opinion about the price…

Meet the icy continent's menagerie of microbes.

When the enterprising cybercriminal Eric Eoin Marques pleaded guilty in an American court this week, it was meant to bring closure to a seven-year-long international legal struggle centered on his dark web empire.  In the end, it did anything but. Marques…

Not many readers of the 21st century seek out the work of popular writers of the 19th century, but when they do, they often seek out the work of Jules Verne.

Sun's mysteries and origin of violent storms that spew plasma across space to be studied.

Multiple confidential documents obtained by Motherboard show the sort of companies that want to buy data derived from scraping the contents of your email inbox.

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This figure was adapted from a similar image published in DistilBERT. Turing Natural Language Generation (T-NLG) is a 17 billion parameter language model by Microsoft that outperforms the state of the art on many downstream NLP tasks. We present a demo of…

White House proposes big cuts to NIH, DOE, NASA and other programs

The latest trend in AI is that larger natural language models provide better accuracy; however, larger models are difficult to train because of cost, time, and ease of code integration. Microsoft is releasing an open-source library called DeepSpeed, which…

ICANN has announced significant changes to the contract it has with Verisign, Inc. to operate the top-level domain .COM, including .COM price increases.

AT&T's EO Personal Communicator was going to change everything. Too bad nobody cared.

In March 2009, Golan Levin, the director of Carnegie Mellon University’s interdisciplinary STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, invited an enigmatic and famed ...

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We've all read blog posts by techies leaving the valley -- but why are they doing it? This meta study examines 100+ stories to find out.