In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...

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The technical failure coincided with TikTok’s ownership transition, leading users to question whether videos criticizing ICE raids in Minnesota were being intentionally censored. TikTok is currently ...

A new data structure and compression technique developed by engineers at UC San Diego enables the field of pangenomics to handle unprecedented scales of genetic information. Illustration by Alice ...

OpenAI may soon be forced to explain why it deleted a pair of controversial datasets composed of pirated books, and the stakes could not be higher. At the heart of a class-action lawsuit from authors ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Donald Trump’s stance on Covid-19 turned out to be a prelude for his second term. The U.S. president, who in 2020 argued that “If we stopped testing right ...

In his 1960 book Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, the critic and historian Reyner Banham presciently noted a growing chasm between technological change and the capacity of designers to ...

Abstract: The fast and efficient in situ inspection of aircraft engine blades is crucial for maintaining the safety and reliability of aircraft engines. The automation and intelligence of aeroengine ...

People store large quantities of data in their electronic devices and transfer some of this data to others, whether for professional or personal reasons. Data compression methods are thus of the ...

The majority of books banned last school year highlighted stories featuring people of color and LGBTQ+ characters and subjects. A recent analysis of thousands of banned titles by PEN America found ...

Despite a 4.3% decline in December sales at the 1,279 publishers that report their revenue to the Association of American Publishers’ StatShot program, preliminary data for the full year indicates ...