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Oil Nears 100 as Tanker War Sparks Market Rotation The smallest honest detail is a decimal: 2.01 percent. That is the loss on NVIDIA (NVDA) at 225.73 US dollars, a stock that sits at just 10 percent of its daily range pinned near the day's low, not the high. Around it, the tape is not uniformly red. Microsoft (MSFT)...
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Ig Nobel Awards Celebrate Science That Makes You Laugh Then Think Most award ceremonies follow a predictable script. Black tie, fine dining, long speeches, polite applause. Humor, when it appears at all, must be...
Science
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope survives political storms Nancy Grace Roman defied the advisers who told her a woman could not become a scientist. She went on to create NASA's first space astronomy programme and...
Science
Moon Formation Mystery Solved by Collision Temperature Imagine two balls of dough, one warm and soft, one cold and firm. Throw them both at a wall with the same force. The warm one splatters. The cold one might bounce...
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AI Oversight Fails When Explanations Hide Intentions When Watching the Watchers Fails Artificial intelligence systems are taking on more independent roles every day. They browse the web, manage data, and make decisions...
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Eggshell Particles Aim to Cool Earth by Reflecting Sunlight A chef sprinkling a pinch of anti caking powder into a bag of flour and a physicist launching particles into the stratosphere seem to share nothing in common....
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Joy Is a Trainable Skill Not a Fixed Trait For decades, the prevailing view in psychology held that each person has a happiness set point a genetic baseline that life events might temporarily lift or lower, but which we...
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Datacentre job forecasts dwarf actual employment records The jobs miracle that does not compute The fear, when a datacentre is planned near a town, is that the community will trade its water and electricity for jobs...
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OpenAI Cracks Half of Navier Stokes Problem in 88 Hours The Bot Swarm Against a Nine Decade Old Proof Eighty eight hours. That is how long, by OpenAI's account, it took a group of about 10,000 AI agents to crack a piece...
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AI Skill Reviews Force a New Arithmetic on Jobs Flood tide: a push with no paper trail No memo at the large consultancy tells Pamela to use artificial intelligence. Pamela, a senior executive in the United States, says...
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The Default Heir In 1540, Henry VIII's Parliament gave English landowners the right to decide who would inherit their property after death. Before that act, land followed blood; a person's wishes played almost no role....
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Markets
Oil Nears 100 as Tanker War Sparks Market Rotation The smallest honest detail is a decimal: 2.01 percent. That is the loss on NVIDIA (NVDA) at 225.73 US dollars, a stock that sits at just 10 percent of its daily range...
Markets
Italy Proposes Digital Euro Fee Exemption for Small Transactions What does a 2.01 percent slide in Nvidia have to do with the price of a coffee in Milan? On the surface, nothing: our market data, fetched this morning at...
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China EV Makers Recast Themselves as Robot Companies China's largest electric vehicle makers are repositioning themselves as robotics companies, a pivot driven by collapsing profit margins and intensifying competition....
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