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It’s a breakthrough in the field of random walks.

Dr. Mohamed Ismail concludes that what we are developing today are not “minds” in the human sense, but systems capable of ...

Using the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have performed the largest direct numerical ...

Whether it’s crypto, prediction markets or union scandals, corruption is no longer hidden and only a rort if you’re not in on it in this new transactional world.

New research suggests that the distinctive cognitive traits associated with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, may provide a specific advantage in how people tackle creative challenges ...

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From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...

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