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Blake Crouch Writes the Way He Likes to Read—and Somehow That Sounds Revolutionary

Crouch writes the sort of books he wants to encounter as a reader. And yet I stared at that sentence longer than I expected, ...
The Debrief

MIT Team Reverse-Engineers a Curious 2000-Year-Old Roman Technology to Create Modern Material That Heals Its Own Cracks

MIT researchers are reverse-engineering an ancient Roman technology to create an environmentally friendly modern building ...

A Simple, One-Word Trick to Turn Everyday Life Into Grand Fantasy

Early editions of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons handbooks sketch a magical world that features “tomes of arcane lore” and ...

Biotechs hit a post-pandemic high after mRNA trial win for Moderna, Merck

Biotech stocks hit a post-pandemic high after a late-stage trial win for Moderna (MRNA) and Merck's (MRN) mRNA-based cancer ...
Blizzard Watch

The World of Warcraft achievement pane has a new ‘Back’ button…what’s it for?

Here's some good news for meticulous-minded achievement hunters: Midnight's patch 12.1 has added a 'Back' button to the ...
MIT Technology Review

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

Forecasts of explosive AI progress predict that what researchers call recursive self-improvement is on the horizon.  But a new study suggests that it might take a while for us to get there. The ...
Psychology Today

Why We Learn Connections That Aren't Really There

We learn from experience, but not always from the parts that actually matter. What happens when our brains assign meaning to ...

Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon

Recursive’s $410 million outlay represents the bulk of the company’s fundraising to date— but on a call with TechCrunch, Socher emphasized that he expected it to be the first of many such deals. Today ...