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Popular chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT are powered by models trained on enormous amounts of information, which means spending billions on vast data centers that take more power and water than entire cities. Instead, roboticists like Matthias Scheutz are thinking small. They’re designing AI systems compact enough to fit on a single computer chip.

"Perhaps it’s unreasonable to expect everyone in the U.S. to push through relentless negative headlines and develop a nuanced view of a complex reality in Haiti," writes Wynn Walent. "It is reasonable, however, to expect our country, and our government in particular, to view Haitian people as human beings worthy of respect and dignity."

Physician Raj Panjabi joined WBUR's All Things Considered to discuss how meeting people where they are can help improve medical outcomes.

Three Massachusetts organizations and four staffers who prescribe and mail abortion pills to patients in states where the practice is restricted are facing their first legal challenge since the Supreme Court struck down the national right to an abortion in 2022. 

With up to 460 kW DC fast charging, the new BMW iX5 can add up to 170 miles in just 10 minutes. BMW proved it during a live public event for the first time.

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Amy Acton: I won't normalize somebody who has said that my childhood is something I'm 'just complaining about.' Who just released an ad using my birth mother, who I was removed from at the age of 12 for severe abuse. It's going to take courage from all of us to stop normalizing this rhetoric.

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Young Woman on a Couch, 1885 #impressionism #berthemorisot

The Procession to Calvary, 1564 #bruegel #northernrenaissance

The midterms will mark the beginning of the end of Donald Trump’s second presidency. This season, the podcast asks, “What happens next?” Host Anne Applebaum sits down with leaders in politics, technology, and culture to discuss what can be done now to reverse the slide toward autocracy. 

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Rep. Drunken Van Orden was campaigning for reelection in La Crosse, Wisconsin, with five other Republican congressmen stumping for him, including Rep. Tom Emmer, when a reporter asked DVO about the economy and its effect on homelessness in the district. DVO immediately beca...

Trump-endorsed candidate for NV-03 Marty O’Donnell moderated an online forum with thousands of posts containing racial slurs, pro-Hitler content, and white nationalist conspiracy theories.

Review of Blood Mercenaries Origins (book, 2021), by Ben Wolf, ISBN 9781942462347. Finished on 19 October 2026. Rated 4 out of 5. This was the first Ben Wolf book I've read, and I enjoyed it very much. It's basically four origin stories in one, setting up the rest of his Blood Mercenaries series. It grabbed my attention right away, and I binged it over a couple of weeks. I liked how different each origin story was.

Bill McClintock mashes up Ray Parker Jr. with a dozen other ’80s songs

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P.J. Vogt, host of the Search Engine podcast, interviews writer Meghan O’Gieblyn, “who started lying to herself about her relationship to alcohol and God. And afterwards wondered: when did it start? Why did it happen? How do you make peace with the part of yourself that want...

Huawei’s secret weapon wasn’t the CCP. It was IBM How did Huawei become one of the world’s most formidable tech companies? Washington blames the CCP. But Huawei’s rotating chairman, Eric Xu, credits IBM. Huawei paid IBM nearly $600 million between 1997 and 2006 to build a pr...

HPE won’t merge Aruba Central and Mist, but the platforms will share AI, applications and hardware

My latest on Fierce Network: Merging Aruba Central and Juniper Mist is unnecessary, HPE networking chief Rami Rahim says.

Instead, HPE is converging what’s underneath, sharing its Marvis AI engine and new access points and switches across both platforms.

HPE trails Cisco, the campus networking big dog, and Cisco is growing nearly four times faster, according to analyst reports. HPE says it’s integrating faster than Cisco did with Meraki, but the market numbers don’t show it yet.

And it was absolutely an effective use of my time.

TP-Link can't sell latest routers in US despite rivals getting FCC approvals.

Ars Technica is here to help with a guide to the medium-lift space race.