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Higgs boson's width measured with most accuracy yet

Higgs boson's width measured with most accuracy yet

Large Hadron Collider has helped determine the distribution of masses that the Higgs...

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The Peripheral review: William Gibson’s noir debuts on Amazon Prime

The Peripheral review: William Gibson’s noir debuts on...

In 2032, tech savvy Flynne Fisher helps her brother with a virtual reality game...

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Dyslexia linked to 42 genetic variants in biggest study of its kind

Dyslexia linked to 42 genetic variants in biggest study...

Better understanding the genetic variants associated with dyslexia could lead to...

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Hayabusa 2 has brought back gases from an asteroid for the first time

Hayabusa 2 has brought back gases from an asteroid for...

Gases brought back from the asteroid Ryugu by Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft are...

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Your smartphone could be used to estimate your risk of dying

Your smartphone could be used to estimate your risk of...

A study of more than 100,000 adults found that motion sensor data from just 6 minutes...

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Weather sensors could float forever in the stratosphere using sunlight

Weather sensors could float forever in the stratosphere...

A device that uses differences in temperature to levitate could keep small sensors...

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California has lost more groundwater than held in all its reservoirs

California has lost more groundwater than held in all its...

Pumping water from aquifers in California's Central Valley has caused the land to...

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IBM reports Q3 revenue up 6.5% YoY to $14.11B, vs. $13.51B est., software revenue up 7.5% YoY to $5.81B, vs. $5.54B est., and lifts its FY 2022 revenue forecast (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

IBM reports Q3 revenue up 6.5% YoY to $14.11B, vs. $13.51B...

Jordan Novet / CNBC:IBM reports Q3 revenue up 6.5% YoY to $14.11B, vs. $13.51B est.,...

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Meta AI unveils an open-source translator for spoken but unwritten languages, which currently translates one sentence at a time between Hokkien and English (Andrew Tarantola/Engadget)

Meta AI unveils an open-source translator for spoken but...

Andrew Tarantola / Engadget:Meta AI unveils an open-source translator for spoken...

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Analysis in 38 US cities: AT&T, Verizon, and others offer lower-income and least-white areas slow internet for the same price as faster service in other regions (The Markup)

Analysis in 38 US cities: AT&T, Verizon, and others offer...

The Markup:Analysis in 38 US cities: AT&T, Verizon, and others offer lower-income...

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A study of 1,063 US adults' YouTube browsing experience shows the site is more likely to suggest conservative-leaning videos regardless of the viewer's ideology (Katyanna Quach/The Register)

A study of 1,063 US adults' YouTube browsing experience...

Katyanna Quach / The Register:A study of 1,063 US adults' YouTube browsing experience...

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SpaceX unveils Starlink Aviation, promising 20ms latency and up to 350Mbps speeds in planes, requiring a $150K Aero Terminal and $12.5K to $25K in monthly fees (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

SpaceX unveils Starlink Aviation, promising 20ms latency...

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:SpaceX unveils Starlink Aviation, promising 20ms latency...

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Report: customers are using doorbell cameras like Amazon's Ring to monitor, control, and punish delivery drivers, such as sharing footage online to shame them (Edward Ongweso Jr/VICE)

Report: customers are using doorbell cameras like Amazon's...

Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE:Report: customers are using doorbell cameras like Amazon's...

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A look at "gradient accounts" on Twitter that have color gradients as profile pictures, post viral "relatable" content, and are often accused of stealing tweets (Kaitlyn Tiffany/The Atlantic)

A look at "gradient accounts" on Twitter that have color...

Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic:A look at “gradient accounts” on Twitter that have...

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Paris-based Aqemia, which aims to scale drug discovery using quantum physics algorithms and AI, raised a €30M Series A led by Eurazeo and Bpifrance (Patricia Allen/EU-Startups)

Paris-based Aqemia, which aims to scale drug discovery...

Patricia Allen / EU-Startups:Paris-based Aqemia, which aims to scale drug discovery...

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YouTube names Leo Olebe, who held executive roles in Google Play's games partnership unit and at Meta, as head of its gaming unit, after an eight-month vacancy (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

YouTube names Leo Olebe, who held executive roles in Google...

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:YouTube names Leo Olebe, who held executive roles...