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Maths behind Hormuz toll: Is paying Iran for transit cheaper than blockade?
Yashraj Sharma
Eleven weeks after the start of the Iran war, the Strait of Hormuz has remained closed to naval traffic, bleeding the global economy far beyond the Gulf. Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRG ...[Continue Reading]
Al Jazeera English
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Can Smart Glasses Ever Be Privacy-Friendly? These Companies Think So
James Pero
When Google Glass was unleashed onto the world some 13 years ago, a consensus was quickly reached: smart glasses suck, and anyone who decides to put them on their face sucks just as much for wearing ...[Continue Reading]
Gizmodo.com
1 day ago
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A Department of Justice for an Age of Conspiracy Theories
Quinta Jurecic
Not so very long ago, the Justice Department stood as a bulwark of facts against Donald Trumps wildest claims. During his first term, a pattern emerged: Trump would make a bizarre assertion (say, th ...[Continue Reading]
The Atlantic
1 day ago
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My PC was talking to more servers than I expected
Tashreef Shareef
I always assumed I had a rough idea of what my PC does in the backgrounda few update checks, antivirus phoning home, a sync client or two. Sure, Windows 11 has a built-in packet analyzer that's more ...[Continue Reading]
MakeUseOf
1 day ago
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OpenAI Claims It Solved an 80-Year-Old Math Problem
BeauHD
OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdos in 1946. If this sounds fami ...[Continue Reading]
Slashdot.org
1 day ago
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2 Commonly Overlooked Signs of Intelligence
Mark Travers Ph.D.
Most of us have a fairly tidy mental image of what an intelligent person looks like: someone with good habits, whos always articulate, composed, and chooses their words with the utmost care. The allu ...[Continue Reading]
Psychology Today
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