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Readers of those other sites may not care much about font size and column widths. “40-character line lengths? In 18-point Comic Sans? I love it!” they say. But not you, because you are an Ars reader. And Ars readers are…
The large language model-based coding assistant GitHub Copilot will switch from using exclusively OpenAI’s GPT models to a multi-model approach over the coming weeks, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced in a post on GitHub’s blog. First, Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet…
The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but smaller than stars — beyond the Milky Way for the first time ever.
Delta and CrowdStrike have locked legal horns, threatening to drag out the aftermath of the worst IT outage in history for months or possibly years. Each refuses to be blamed for Delta’s substantial losses following a global IT outage caused…
Recently, construction company ICON announced that it is close to completing the world’s largest 3D-printed neighborhood in Georgetown, Texas. This isn’t the only 3D-printed housing project. Hundreds of 3D-printed homes are under construction in the US and Europe, and more…
The rise of powerful generative AI models in the last few years has led to plenty of stories of corporations trying to use AI to replace human jobs. But a recent New York Times story highlights the other side of…
Archaeologists in Sweden were expecting to find an ancient settlement, but they were surprised to discover a Viking Age cemetery with boat-shaped burial outlines.
A first-ever biomechanics study of two First Nations weapons systems has identified the design features that make them so formidable.
A new study published in Psychological Science has found that racial minorities face challenges when building connections on social media, and these challenges persist across political affiliations. The researchers conducted a large-scale field experiment on Twitter (also known as X)…
A new imaging technique enabled scientists to film every step of ovulation as it unfolds in mouse cells.
