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Watching Houston activists deal with the Texas Department of Transportation can feel like the story of King Canute trying to turn back the tides. No amount of community organizing can convince the ...

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As a space scientist, every time I go outside with my family, I tell my children to look up at the sky. The front door of our home looks southeast, and on winter nights the constellation Orion hangs ...

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While conducting research on how AI was changing daily work at a U.S. technology company, UC Berkeley Haas doctoral student Xingqi Maggie Ye noticed a pattern that raised a provocative question: What ...

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You notice it at 2 a.m. when she hauls herself up with a fever to comfort a crying child while he lies curled up on the couch. This post examines that pattern and why many moms end up carrying the ...

Rylee Arnold brought a polished dose of city-night glam to Instagram on Tuesday, February 10, sharing a glowing snapshot from the heart of New York City that quickly caught fans’ attention. The dancer ...

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Large-language models (LLMs) have taken the world by storm, but they’re only one type of underlying AI model. An under-the-radar company, Fundamental, is set to bring a new type of enterprise AI model ...