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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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Decision Models Explained: Why Agents Are Getting Tiny Models That Never Write a Word
Jev, OpenAI Decisions, Cloudflare Clef and Amazon Strands Decider return probabilities for fixed answers in one pass. How they work, what they…
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A Flick of Blue Light, a Nobel Prize: How Optogenetics Turned an Algal Protein Into a Brain Switch
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for optogenetics. Here is how…
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Nothing Headphone 1 Pro Review: Triple Drivers, Awkward Case
Nothing Headphone 1 Pro review: $399 spec sheet, SoundGuys isolation data, and where Gizmodo, T3, SlashGear and Creative Bloq agree and split.
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State AI Laws in 2026: Which States Have Them and What They Cover
No federal statute overrides state AI laws yet. A state-by-state look at Texas, California, Colorado and Illinois, what each covers, and what…
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Turn an Old ATX Power Supply Into a Bench Supply Safely
How the green PS_ON wire starts an ATX supply, which wires carry 3.3, 5 and 12 V, why a minimum load matters,…
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Octupolar Magnetism and the Phonon Splitting Proposed to Reveal It
A Toronto theory paper proposes that octupolar magnetism splits a Raman-active phonon by about 1.5 meV. What the prediction says and what…
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How Cosmic-Ray Muons Measure Ocean Tides From Inside a Tunnel
A Korean team used cosmic-ray muons to follow the tide above an undersea tunnel, resolving about a meter of seawater. How it…
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How GLP-1 Drugs Are Made, and Why Supply Ran Short
Semaglutide starts in yeast, tirzepatide is built chemically, and sterile filling capacity was the real choke point. A look at both routes,…
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In Vivo Gene Editing in October 2026: What the Human Data Actually Show
One phase 3 win in hereditary angioedema, early cholesterol and AATD data, and a fatal liver event in a paused trial: a…
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What Is the Hard Problem of Consciousness? A Plain Guide
Why does brain activity come with felt experience? A plain guide to the hard problem, the thought experiments, the rival answers and…
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An Agent Reliability Benchmark That Grades the Database, Not the Reply
ThinkingBox is an agent reliability benchmark that checks database state over 20 runs. See why 66.5% pass@1 becomes 47.5% and what it…
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Log Temperature, Humidity and Pressure With a BME280 and Python
Wire a BME280 to a Raspberry Pi, log readings to CSV with Python, and plot them with matplotlib, with the datasheet’s accuracy…
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