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FinTech Studios® Launches Apollo PRO® and RegLens PRO® Market Intelligence and Regulatory Intelligence Apps Powered with Conversational Generative AI 

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FinTech Studios Inc., a leading Gen AI platform for enterprise search, market intelligence and regulatory intelligence, announced Apollo PRO and RegLens PRO, the most advanced generative AI enterprise search, market intelligence and regulatory intelligence apps that includes a “conversational chat” interface and contextually relevant “suggested prompts”, seamlessly integrated with millions of authoritative sources of web and enterprise content.

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China Builds First Dedicated Drone Carrier

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China has built the world's first dedicated drone carrier. The ship has not been reported however and many of the circumstances surrounding it remain a mystery.

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Why a New Yorker Story on a Notorious Murder Case Is Blocked in Britain

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The article challenges the evidence used to convict Lucy Letby, a neonatal nurse, of multiple murders last year, and has led to a debate about England’s restrictions on trial reporting.

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Six charts help to explain 2024's freakish temperatures

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Could the end of El Niño bring some relief?

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later

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A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.

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Will Better Superconductors Transform the World?

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Scientists are pursuing materials that can conduct electricity with perfect efficiency under ambient conditions. In this episode, the physicist Siddharth Shanker Saxena tells co-host Janna Levin about what makes this hunt so difficult and consequential.

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OpenAI created a team to control 'superintelligent' AI – then let it wither

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A source reveals that OpenAI's Superalignment team, which was created to develop was to control 'superintelligent' AI, wasn't set up for success.

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Personality changes associated with organ transplants

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Personality changes have been reported following organ transplantation. Most commonly, such changes have been described among heart transplant recipients. We set out to examine whether personality changes occur following organ transplantation, and specifically, what types of changes occur among heart transplant recipients compared to other organ recipients.

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A huge animation scene with many references to memes, games, films, series, anime, music groups

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Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources

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Amid an explosion in AI, energy use and water consumption hit an all-time high in 2023 as Redmond's data centers kick into high gear to compete.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Radio Caroline turns 60

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A circle of swashbuckling radio enthusiasts in the United Kingdom who have kept the rogue seaborne radio station, Radio Caroline, afloat now for the past 60 long years.

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Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time

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In a breakthrough research experiment, scientists have managed to thaw frozen human brain tissue without damaging it.

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The Iberian lynx doubles its population in just three years

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Despite the good data, 344 more breeding females are still needed for the species to reach a favorable status

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On English Melancholy

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An excerpt from Iris Moon’s “Melancholy Wedgwood,” an experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood.

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Calculus with Julia

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Neural network trained on 'Friends' can detect sarcasm 75% of the time

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Researchers say their new algorithm trained on a database of TV show clips can detect sarcasm 75% of the time.

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The Ambling Mind

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The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates

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Getting Materials Out of the Lab

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Inventing new materials is only the first step. Getting them into mass production and use is just as hard.

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Disabling Modernism

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During the first decade of the New Deal, modernist architects designed schools for disabled children that proposed radical visions of civic care.

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Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure

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How we spent the last 3 years restructuring the AntennaPod code base.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag

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Many players said afterward: "This was the best game of Capture the Flag, like. EVER.

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Petosemtamab Receives FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation: Head / Neck Cancers

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The FDA has granted breakthrough therapy designation to petosemtamab in recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

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Rebuilding my homelab: Suffering as a service

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With additional Kubernetes mode!

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A kids traffic mat in Elm

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A wrap-up of several years of development and the alpha release of Liikennematto.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Fixing the iterative damping interpolation in video games

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The Myth of Medieval Small Beer (2017)

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There is a story repeated so often that it has become a truth -- that medieval folk drank weak beer to avoid the perils of drinking water -- but it's a myth.

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When the movies went west (2018)

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Scorned by stage actors and mocked by the theater-going upper classes, filmmakers nevertheless developed a bold new art form — but they needed better weather.

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Apache NuttX RTOS on Sophgo SG2000 RISC-V SoC (Milk-V Duo S SBC)

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Soon we'll see many new 64-bit RISC-V SBCs based on the Sophgo SG2000 RISC-V SoC. Will they work with Apache NuttX RTOS? Let's find out!

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?