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Supercomputers can be measured in several ways, but the vital statistic is their ability to perform floating-point operations per second,…

War, it is said, is a continuation of policy by other means. State-backed violence, too, can be a continuation of…

Just before 8am one day last April, an office manager who went by the name Amani sent out a motivational…

Villages looked for niches they could fill in the global market. The town of Xuchang, for instance, capitalized on its…

THE symbolism was clear last June when Emmanuel Macron, surrounded by factory workers, held up a sleek lithium battery in…

A girl is found on a street in Ma’Anshan, China, in May 1993. Her paternal grandfather, the story goes, set…

At the start of 2024, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI were united against military use of their AI tools. But…

Pat expresses especially acute concern about the have and have-not dynamics that pervade any major disaster. “I’m not so sure…