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Speaking without vocal cords, thanks to a new AI-assisted wearable device
Key takeaways Bioengineers at UCLA have invented a thin, flexible device that adheres to the neck...
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Antithesis of a One-in-a-Million Bug: Taming Demonic Nondeterminism
Editor’s note: The one-in-a-million bug detailed below has never been reported by customers of Cockroach Labs....
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Git Worktrees and GitButler
Last week, I gave a talk at DevWorld with more "So You Think You Know Git"...
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Don't Mock Your Machine Learning Models in Unit Tests
I’ve been applying typical unit testing practices to machine learning code and it hasn’t been straightforward....
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MIT and IBM Find Clever AI Ways Around Brute-Force Math
Since the days of Isaac Newton, the fundamental laws of nature—optics, acoustics, engineering, electronics—all ultimately reduce...
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A weird CPIO discrepancy
We learnt previously that an initramfs in Linux is a “CPIO archive”, so I set out...
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Lessons from debugging a tricky direct memory leak
Sanchay Javeria | Software Engineer, Ads Data InfrastructureTo support metrics reporting for ads from external advertisers...
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Meet 'Coscientist,' your AI lab partner
In less time than it will take you to read this article, an artificial intelligence-driven system...
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Veins of bacteria could form a self-healing system for concrete infrastructure
Drexel researchers are developing a structural fiber system that could one day enable damaged concrete structures...
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Innovative wireless light switch could cut house wiring costs in half
A University of Alberta engineering researcher has developed a wireless light switch that could reduce the...
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The Weirdest Bug I've Seen Yet
Photo by Mariusz Dabrowski / UnsplashDuring one of my on-call rotations for our internal tools team,...