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I traced a single credit-scoring algorithm from a Singapore startup to loan denials in Lagos and job rejections in São Paulo, ...

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. This week we explore Sam Altman’s battery theory of humanity, talk ...

When a videogame wants to show a scene, it sends the GPU a list of objects described using triangles (most 3D models are broken down into triangles). The GPU then runs a sequence called a rendering ...

On 1 March 2026, the revised Arbitration Law of the People’s Republic of China (the "PRC") (the “Law”) came into effect, ...

The next phase of AI, already underway, will integrate text with vision, sound, motion and even touch. This will produce systems that no longer 'read about' the world but perceive it.

Michael Pollan’s A World Appears tackles the lofty question of consciousness.

A faint hum of gravitational waves rippling across the cosmos is now telling scientists what no telescope could show them: the dense, hidden structures buried at the centers of galaxies. A team of ...

Objectives The optimal maternal age at childbirth has been a topic of bourgeoning literature, with earlier ages offering physiological benefits for maternal recovery. In contrast, later ages to give ...

To enable more accurate estimation of connectivity, we propose a data-driven and theoretically grounded framework for optimally designing perturbation inputs, based on formulating the neural model as ...