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 ...

Make your client-side apps load fast and provide a good user experience.

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.

“It’s an open secret that every company is on fire,” says Kintaba co-founder John Egan. “At any given moment something is going horribly wrong in a way that it has never gone wrong before.” Code failure downtimes, server outages and hack attacks plague engineering…

The Pentagon is proposing a $15.4 billion fiscal 2021 budget for the Space Force, the newly minted sixth branch of the military.

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Ed Pratt unicycled 21,000 miles over three years. These were his critical items.

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