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HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

The OEMs disabling codec hardware also comes as associated costs for the international video compression standard are set to increase in January, as licensing...

Infant botulism outbreak doubles; ByHeart confirms bacteria in formula

ByHeart voluntarily recalled two batches of formula on November 8, but said the decision “was made purely out of caution, to go above and...

Study: Kids’ drip paintings more like Pollock’s than those of adults

Taylor thought there might be a way to put this new hypothesis to the test, particularly in light of numerous experimental studies showing the...

“We’re in an LLM bubble,” Hugging Face CEO says—but not an AI one

Instead, he imagines the eventual outcome to be “a multiplicity of models that are more customized, specialized, and that are going to solve different...

GOP overhaul of broadband permit laws: Cities hate it, cable companies love it

US Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.), the subcommittee chairman, defended the bills at today’s hearing. “These reforms will add much-needed certainty, predictability, and accountability to...

Faced with naked man, DoorDasher demands police action; they arrest her for illegal surveillance

“The only justice I’m getting is exposing this man and having posted that video,” she added. “And it has gone viral. Now he can...

Trump admin axed 383 active clinical trials, dumping over 74K participants

“A betrayal” Jena and colleagues examined the greater context, comparing the number of cancelled trials in each treatment category to the total number of...

With a new company, Jeff Bezos will become a CEO again

Jeff Bezos is one of the world’s richest and most famous tech CEOs, but he hasn’t actually been a CEO of anything since 2021....

The evolution of rationality: How chimps process conflicting evidence

In the first step, the chimps got the auditory evidence, the same rattling sound coming from the first container. Then, they received indirect visual...

Wyoming dinosaur mummies give us a new view of duck-billed species

As a result, the Edmontosaurus image got updated one more time. And some of the updates were rather striking. Delicate elephants Sereno’s team analyzed...

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