Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One, 11 September 1773

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Compaq’s Rod Canion broke Big Blue’s hold on the PC market—and changed computing forever

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Apple announced a new $100 billion commitment to America, a significant acceleration of its U.S. commitment that now totals $600 billion over four years.

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How we optimized GPT OSS 120B for state-of-the-art latency and throughput on launch day.

The first aceclidine-based eye drop to improve near vision in adults with presbyopia, which affects more than 100 million adults in the US alone, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and will be available within three months.

We report on coronagraphic observations of the nearest solar-type star, $α$ Cen A, using the MIRI instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. With three epochs of observation (August 2024,...

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GPT-5 looks set for a Thursday launch

Debouncing, in the context of programming, means to discard operations that occur too close together during a specific interval, and consolidate them into a single invocation.

In July 1985, 40 years ago, the Commodore Amiga was officially introduced to the world.

Today, we’re introducing Gemini CLI GitHub Actions. It’s a no-cost, powerful AI coding teammate for your repository. It acts both as an autonomous agent for critical routine coding tasks, and an on-demand collaborator you can quickly delegate work to.