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Steve Smith

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Ph.D Computer Scientist

89 Followers  |  186 Following  |  380 Posts  |  Joined: 14.11.2024  |  1.7397

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Sudan war: A simple guide to what is happening Sudan was thrown into disarray in 2023 when its army and a paramilitary group began a power struggle.

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13.11.2025 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How China won the world's EV battery race In 2005, China only had two EV battery manufacturers. Twenty years later, it produces more than three-quarters of the world's lithium-ion cells. How did it happen?

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13.11.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can large language models figure out the real world? A new approach assesses how deeply predictive AI systems understand their subject matter, and whether they can apply knowledge from one domain to a slightly different one.

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09.11.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Science of Sydney Sweeney’s Sex Appeal The evolutionary logic behind the curves, contours, and proportions that define female beauty.

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08.11.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale Bogdan Georgiev, Javier GΓ³mez-Serrano, Adam Zsolt Wagner, and I have uploaded to the arXiv our paper β€œMathematical exploration and discovery at scale”. This is a longer report on…

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07.11.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI artist Xania Monet has hit the Billboard charts. What does it mean for 'real' musicians? | CBC News Xania Monet has become the first AI-generated artist to debut on a Billboard airplay chart β€” and her success is raising questions about what the future could hold for human artists looking to achieve ...

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07.11.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
War/No More Trouble feat. Bono | Playing for Change | Song Around The World
YouTube video by Playing For Change War/No More Trouble feat. Bono | Playing for Change | Song Around The World

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06.11.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Does my face replace my passport? If your face is the key to your security, do you still need your passport to travel? In October 2025, the European Union began implementing their new Entry and Exit System or EES at airports which ...

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06.11.2025 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tech war: ByteDance drops Claude after Anthropic restricts China access ByteDance-backed coding app Trae reassures users after they complain of losing low-cost access to top AI coding model.

Tech war: ByteDance cuts off Claude model after Anthropic restricts China access

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05.11.2025 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Federal budget dedicates over $1B to boost Canadian AI and quantum computing | CBC News Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget proposes providing more than $1 billion over the next five years to build up Canada’s artificial intelligence and quantum computing ecosystems while embedding...

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05.11.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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American shares his 9 realizations about the U.S. after 13 years abroad and it's eye-opening β€œIf you’ve never left, you can never understand what it’s really like…”

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04.11.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The number one sign you're watching an AI video Your social media feed is being taken over by AI video slop. But for now, there's still one big red flag that can help you spot the fakes.

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03.11.2025 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Climate 8-ball has abandoned all hope.

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'No due process': L.A. nurse, veteran among citizens forcefully arrested by ICE amid immigration crackdown | CBC News Two U.S. citizens whose forceful arrests by ICE were caught on video say federal agents violated their constitutional rights. As backlash against the administration's escalating immigration raids grow...

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01.11.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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SAS Exits China After Over Two Decades, Cuts 400 Jobs - News and Statistics - IndexBox SAS Institute withdraws from mainland China after over 20 years, eliminating 400 jobs while maintaining presence through third-party partners amid competitive pressures.

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31.10.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Behind the fear: The unsolved killings in Dawson Creek, B.C. | CBC News A year after the RCMP told the fifth estate β€œsome level of success” was coming in a string of killings in a small B.C town, they remain unsolved and the body count continues to rise.

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31.10.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Louvre robbery: Could a 50-year-old maths problem have kept the museum safe? An audacious heist at the Louvre saw thieves make off with priceless crown jewels in broad daylight – here is how a decades-old geometry problem can help museums boost their security.

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31.10.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says | CBC News A Toronto woman is sounding the alarm about Grok, Tesla's generative AI chatbot that was recently installed in many Tesla vehicles in Canada. Farah Nasser says Grok asked her 12-year-old son to send i...

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29.10.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Strange Phrase Keeps Turning Up in Scientific Papers, But Why? Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: "vegetative electron microscopy".

A really good example of the kinds of things that can go wrong is the vegetative electron microscope...
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27.10.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Distinct characteristics of T cell receptor repertoire associated with the SARS-CoV-2 reinfection How to understand this paper

Because this paper causes a lot of confusion, and bad actors abuse it to make you believe there is something sinister going it.

Distinct characteristics of T cell receptor repertoire associated with the SARS-CoV-2 reinfection
How to understand this paper

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Amazon cutting 14,000 corporate jobs to spend more on AI | CBC News Amazon will cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as the online retail giant ramps up spending on artificial intelligence while cutting costs elsewhere.

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28.10.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

China unveils β€˜mini fridge’ AI server that uses 90% less power than other systems

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Trump grazing plan could open more land to cattle. Conservation groups call it a 'handout' Environmental groups have called the USDA's plan a "sweetheart deal" for ranchers at the expense of Arizona's public lands.

Trump grazing plan could open more land to cattle. Conservation groups call it a 'handout'

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26.10.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'This history mustn’t be forgotten': A forgotten chapter in the history of the Nuremberg trials The Nazi high command was put on trial 80 years ago in 1945. The new film Nuremberg draws on a little-known detail of the tribunal to ask enduring questions about the nature of evil.

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24.10.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region

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23.10.2025 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our Quantum Echoes algorithm is a big step toward real-world applications for quantum computing Our latest quantum breakthrough, Quantum Echoes, offers a path toward unprecedented scientific discoveries and analysis.

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22.10.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Who is paying for Donald Trump's new White House ballroom? A former White House chief ethics lawyer described the ballroom donations as an ethical "nightmare".

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22.10.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

PhD students conduct most of the actual work in generating knowledge on college campuses. Cutting the number of students cuts the amount of research by that amount.

A huge divestment from future growth.

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Xe-100 | Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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20.10.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'll be very disappointed if there aren't numerous signs at the L.A. area protests that say "My only king is Shohei."

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