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The Trevisan Award and the Decimal Digits of Powers of 2

Scott

WHOA Ive won the inaugural Luca Trevisan Award for Expository Work in Theoretical Computer Science! This has a particular meaning for me as someone who knewLuca Trevisan as well as I did for 25 yea

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Warriors get no luck in NBA draft lottery. Heres when theyll ...

Evan Webeck

SAN FRANCISCO No lottery luck this time around for the Warriors. The team will pick 11th in next months NBA draft after their most likely combination of ping-pong balls was pulled Sunday in Chicago

New York Post

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'Incredibly concerned': Zero dog fighting-related charges lai...

Eden Gillespie

The number of charges addressing illegal dog fighting in Queensland has plummeted to zero in the years since a special taskforce was disbanded, the ABC can reveal. The dog fighting and cockfighting

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Rep. Clyburn Tells Republicans Be 'Careful What They Pray For...

Heather

South Carolina is the latest state that has moved to cancel their primary election, even though people are already voting: South Carolina Republicans took the first step Friday to cancel the states

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Washington wins NBA draft lottery, chance to pick No. 1 overa...

TIM REYNOLDS

CHICAGO (AP) The leagues worst team this season is getting the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft. The Washington Wizards won the draft lottery on Sunday and are poised to pick first overall for the first

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Can AI Understand Us Without Consciousness?

Darren J. Edwards Ph.D.

Artificial intelligence is becoming astonishingly capable. It can write essays, identify patterns, summarize research, generate images, reason through problems, and hold conversations that feel incre

Psychology Today

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As hantavirus fears mount, birders defend Argentine cruise ci...

Dennis Romero, Marlene Lenthang

The first cases, a Dutch man and his wife, who died nearly three weeks after him, had spent more than three months traveling through Argentina, Chile and Uruguay on a birding trip before they boarded

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She Was Tired of a Customers Rude Behavior, so the Restaurant...

Jayne Elliott

Pixabay Imagine working at a restaurant, and a customer comes in to pay for their order with cash. Would you expect them to hand the cash to you, or would expect them to simply fling it on the count

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'90s Sci-Fi Shows That Still Hold Up Today

staff@tvline.com (Jeff Ames)

"Farscape" stands out from the pack thanks to its absurd weirdness. Crafted by the wizards at Jim Henson's Creature Shop, this slickly designed sci-fi saga follows a motley crew of space adventurers

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Mortal Kombat II Star Karl Urban Explains Johnny Cage's Silli...

staff@slashfilm.com (Bill Bria)

As Karl Urban explained, while the actual move of Johnny Cage's "windmill arms" came from working on the fight sequences, the intention of it spoke directly to the core of the character: "It was my

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Body of soldier who went missing in Morocco recovered, U.S. A...

Emily Mae Czachor

The body of an American soldier who went missing while in Morocco for an annual training exercise has been recovered, the U.S. Army announced on Sunday. First Lieutenant Lamont Key Jr. was one of t

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NBA mock draft live updates with instant reactions to lottery...

Bryan Kalbrosky, USA TODAY

Follow along for live updates and results from the 2026 NBA Draft Lottery. The 2026 NBA Draft Lottery is one of the most anticipated prospect-related events in recent memory. Results will significan

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GM Secretly Sold California Drivers' Data, Agrees to Pay $12....

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"General Motors sold the data of California drivers without their knowledge or consent," says California's attorney general, "and despite numerous statements reassuring drivers that it would not do s

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Your new graphics card is disappointing because of one hardwa...

Dave Meikleham

Buying a new GPU is the ultimate thrill when it comes to putting together a rig. Though be sure youre not slipping into eight catastrophic mistakes first-time PC builders make. Yet no matter how powe

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Review: PEOPLE OF NOTE is Fun Despite Missing the Occasional ...

Tommy Williams

Last month, Annapurna Interactive released People of Note by Iridium Studios. The team at Annapurna Interactive were kind enough to supply me with a Steam code for this review, but you can play the g

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10 of Trump's claims about Obama that we've investigated over...

Joey Esposito

Associated Press. "Barack Obama Wins Election." YouTube, 4 Nov. 2008, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci1Srhtuejk. Accessed 8 May 2026. "Hawaii Verifies Obama's Birth Records to Arizona." Cbsnews.com, CBS N

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Your iPad's Magic Keyboard Could Have A Backlight Here's How...

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If you have your Magic Keyboard attached to your iPad Air or iPad Pro, you can manually adjust the brightness of the keys by going to Settings, then General, scrolling to Keyboard, and then Hardware

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The Hantavirus Cruise Has Been Evacuated

Nicola Bambini

The passengers of cruise ship MV Hondius are finally evacuating the vessel, but their journey isn't over yet. The ship, which is now famous as the site of an outbreak of hantavirus, a potentially fat

Vanity Fair

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The battle between Matt Gay, Kansei Matsuzawa shouldnt be ove...

Ray Aspuria

The battle is simple in concept: The grizzled aging veteran looking to recapture former glory versus an intriguing and accurate (but older) undrafted free agent. Thats the easiest way to sum up the

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Why Some Victims of Child Abuse Repeat What Was Done to Them

Beverly Engel L.M.F.T.

In previous posts, I wrote about the phenomena of re-victimizationreenactments based on my recent book, Putting the Past in the Past. But thereis another type of reenactmentwhen a former victim of ch

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Food inflation hammers households in war-hit Iran

Maziar Motamedi

Tehran, Iran Skyrocketing inflation is jeopardising food security among households in conflict-hit Iran, new figures show, as diplomatic efforts to end the war launched by the United States and Israe

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Inside Team Vijay: The strategists, influencers, loyalists, a...

Arun Janardhanan

The new Tamil Nadu Cabinet sworn in alongside Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay on Sunday reflects the unusual architecture of the Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK).First in the order is N Bussy Anand, Vijay

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Lawyers: Biden to fight DOJ plan to release audio of his talk...

Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney

Former President Joe Biden intends to intervene in litigation to block the Trump administrations effort to release 70 hours of partially redacted audio recordings of interviews he conducted in 2017 w

Politico

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