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Regarding the Compact
The U.S. Department of Education recently sent MIT and eight other institutions a proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," along with a letter asking that MIT review the document.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,693 posts.
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Boston Fed releases report, source code of digital currency prototype study
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Digital Currency Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today released the findings of their initial technological research into a central bank digital currency, or CBDC. The published research describes a theoretical high-performance and resilient…
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For life expectancy, money matters
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that income is closely correlated with life expectancy, with the richest Americans living as much as 15 years longer than the poorest — and even the poor living longer in wealthy areas.
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HealthBench – An evaluation for AI systems and human health
HealthBench is a new evaluation benchmark for AI in healthcare which evaluates models in realistic scenarios. Built with input from 250+ physicians, it aims to provide a shared standard for model performance and safety in health.
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65k fake students enrolled in the California junior college system
Can't we all agree that college students should be real?
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Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Preview
We would like to introduce you to our next generation command-line tools for Azure: Azure Command-Line Interface (Azure CLI) 2.0 Preview.
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Difficult Times at Our Credit Union
Brewster Kahle, Chairman of the Internet Archive Federal Credit Union, November 2015 [NYtimes story, Motherboard, BoingBoing. Liquidation.] All deposits are safe, all loans performing, great and dedicated staff, wonderful members. So why difficult? Despite five years of effort, $1 million in donations spent (from the…
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Address Verification and Full PGP Support
Address Verification allows you to be sure you are securely communicating with the right person, while PGP support adds encrypted email interoperability.
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Caltech to launch space solar power technology demo into orbit
The launch represents the first in-situ test of the technology to harvest solar energy in space and transmit it to Earth.
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Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began
Rates of new-onset type 2 diabetes climbed 62%—and type 1 diabetes increased 17%—among US youth after the COVID-19 pandemic began, especially in Black and Hispanic children, according to a study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open .
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Redesigning the Windows Logo
Get to know Windows 11, the Windows that brings you closer to what you love.News and features for people who use and are interested in Windows, including announcements from Microsoft and its partners.Guidance to help developers create products and se
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Exploring strategies to decarbonize electricity
The Google Research team built a tool that allows users to quickly see how different factors affect the future cost to generate electricity and the amount of carbon diox…
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Reentry of International Space Station Batteries into Earth's Atmosphere
UPDATE (8 March, 20:00 CET): The reentry of the ISS batteries is now expected between approximately 19:30 CET and 21:08 CET on 8 March. This will be the final update ...
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DirectX Adopting SPIR-V as the Interchange Format of the Future
Today the Direct3D and HLSL teams are excited to share some insight into the next big step for GPU programmability. Once Shader Model 7 is released,
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Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam
OpenTTD has been available on the Steam Store for the past five years. During that time, we’ve built up an incredible player base, attracting lots of new players to the game. Starting today however, OpenTTD will no longer be directly available as a standalone game on Steam. It can instead be obtained as part of a…
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Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows
The Edge team added support for respecting the Windows ClearType Tuner values in Chromium directly, resulting in better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows.
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A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL
By now you've heard the announcement that the Perl 6 team is cautiously hopeful that Perl 6.0.0 will be released this year. There are three things they need to finish:
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JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier
All JetBrains AI tools – including our improved AI Assistant and new coding agent Junie – are now available within our IDEs under a single subscription and come with a free tier.
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Discord Reduced WebSocket Traffic by 40%
How we rolled out zstandard and other improvements across our gateway cluster to reduce the amount of bandwidth that’s used by our clients.
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What Are Your GCC Flags?
What Are Your GCC Flags ? 09 March 2014 Say What ? Your GCC build...
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Official Warning: Zero3K
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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The new Google Calendar for web
Check out Google Calendar's new look and features for businesses.
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Love letter to Vue
In the frustratingly fast-paced, ever-shifty and profoundly fashion-driven JavaScript web development ecosystem, it’s not easy to find something that one can even stand to use, to say nothing…
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AWS Graviton 3 Instances
We announced the first generation AWS-designed Graviton processor in late 2018, and followed it up with the second generation Graviton2 a year later. Today, AWS customers make use of twelve different Graviton2-powered instances including the new X2gd instances that are designed for memory-intensive workloads. All…