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Republicans expected to abandon $1B security proposal for White House and ballroom...
Mary Clare Jalonick, Kevin Freking, Joey Cappelletti
WASHINGTON (AP) Senate Republican leaders are expected to abandon a proposal for $1 billion in security money for the White House complex and President Donald Trumps ballroom on Thursday after member ...[Continue Reading]
Associated Press
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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