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Is cognitive offloading harmless or does it have negative effects for cognition? A new study offers interesting insights.

Computer science has long operated on a foundation of trust: researchers publish findings, peers verify them, and the field ...

A nationwide study of more than 500 Australian primary school students in Year 2 has revealed how beginner writers' attitude and motivation toward writing is related to the quality of their writing ...

Abstract: Stunting, a critical health issue affecting child growth and development, is prevalent in developing countries and is characterized by significantly reduced height for age. Traditional ...

Just a few years ago, many researchers in quantum computing thought it would take several decades to develop machines that ...

As screens blur the line between work and home, some people are slowing down and disconnecting by looking to communication devices from the past.

The first open-source Artificial Narrow Intelligence generalist agentic framework Computer-Using-Agent that fully operates graphical-user-interfaces (GUIs) by using only natural language. Uses ...

Quantum computers need extreme cold to work, but the very systems that keep them cold also create noise that can destroy fragile quantum information. Scientists in Sweden have now flipped that problem ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Trump administration is planning to use artificial ...

Fara-7B is Microsoft's first agentic small language model (SLM) designed specifically for computer use. With only 7 billion parameters, Fara-7B is an ultra-compact Computer Use Agent (CUA) that ...

For most people, the IBM name is a fragment of the past, something that only comes up in old '80s sci-fi movies or in documentaries of ancient tech. The company's still up and running, and it does ...