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Open Questions: A Series on What Science and Law Have Not Settled
A new x9m8 series on unsettled questions in AI, consciousness, evolution, biotech and law, each with the evidence, the rival answers and…
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Why Does Sex Exist? The Twofold Cost and the Case for Sex
Asexual females should outbreed sexual ones two to one, yet sex dominates complex life. This article weighs the evidence for the leading…
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Can AI Be Conscious? Scoring Chatbots, Agents and Robots
Fourteen indicator properties from the science of consciousness, turned into a scored checklist and applied to a chatbot, a language agent and…
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Grokking in Neural Networks: Why Generalization Arrives Late
Networks sometimes memorize their training data and only generalize thousands of steps later. This article weighs the competing explanations for grokking and…
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How to Make Data Brokers Delete Your Information: California DROP and Other Options
California’s DROP sends one deletion request to every registered data broker, and brokers had to start processing on August 1, 2026. Here…
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Do You Have a Right to Repair Your Devices? State Laws, Warranties and the FTC
Several states now require manufacturers to sell parts, tools and manuals for phones, laptops and more. What each law covers, how warranties…
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UAE Asteroid Mission Update: How the Ballistic Probe for 269 Justitia Is Meant to Work
The UAE asteroid mission finished its lander probe on Oct 1. How a 10 kg ballistic probe reaches 269 Justitia, the impact…
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What Makes Transmon Qubit Performance Vary Between Identical Chips
A blinded Fermilab-led study of 22 superconducting qubits links up to twofold swings in transmon qubit performance to oxide, trenches and sidewalls.
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Kindle 2026 Review: What the New $150 Base Model Changes
Kindle 2026 review: the redesigned $150 base Kindle read through Amazon’s specs and early verdicts, with the light bleed dispute and who…
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Humanoid Robot Hand: Why Boston Dynamics Dropped the Pinky on Atlas
Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas humanoid robot hand has 13 degrees of freedom and four fingers. What the design shows, and what is…
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Molten Salt Solar at 1 GW: How PowerChina’s Qinghai Hybrid Plant Stores Heat
PowerChina’s 1 GW Qinghai plant uses molten salt solar storage and reached full grid connection Oct 1. How it works, the numbers,…
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AI Agent Containment After Anthropic’s October 9 Report: Four Failure Patterns and the Controls That Match
Anthropic’s October 9 report lists four ways its models slipped their limits in testing. Here is each pattern, paired with the sandbox…
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