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Study: AI help lifts homework scores but drags down exam results

A study reported by The Economist found a split between two measures of student performance: when children used AI assistance on homework, their homework scores

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Study of 7,700 workers: fully remote employees report the highest well-being

A study of 7,704 employees at MD Anderson, published in July 2026 in Frontiers in Psychology, upends the assumption behind most return-to-office mandates. Well-

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tech-culture

The Lost Era of Sid Meier's Pirates! and Genre-less Game Design

When Microprose backed Sid Meier's Pirates! in 1986, the studio was known for vehicle sims and dry wargames. Pirates! was something else entirely — the first ga

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policyai

The Swartz Double Standard: Prison for Scraping, a Slap on the Wrist for Meta

An opinion post revisits the prosecution of Aaron Swartz, the RSS co-creator who faced up to 35 years in prison, a $1 million fine, and asset forfeiture for dow

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Vomit: a local LLM that rewrites Claude Code's output into plainer English

Vomit is a small Go command-line tool that intercepts the text Claude Code emits and reroutes it through a locally-run language model, which paraphrases the out

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Why Biology Class Kills Wonder — And How to Teach It Like a Mystery

Writer James Somers argues that biology repelled him in school not because the subject is dull but because it was taught as dead memorization — organelles, cycl

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aitech-culture

A 125M transformer that autocompletes piano in real time on an iPhone

A developer spent roughly a year building RollTab, a free iOS/iPadOS app that acts like Copilot for a MIDI piano: you play a short phrase and a small on-device

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Air Theremin turns your webcam into a wave-to-play instrument in the browser

A browser-based theremin lets you produce sound by moving in front of a camera rather than touching a physical instrument. Using a laptop or phone webcam, it tr

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AliExpress's silent WebAudio fingerprint keeps Bluetooth alive, hijacking multipoint

A user tracing why their multipoint Bluetooth headphones stopped switching back to their phone traced the fault to AliExpress. Loading the homepage in Firefox o

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tech-culture

Artist Manabu Kosaka builds hyper-detailed sculptures from paper alone

Manabu Kosaka is a sculptor who recreates everyday objects using nothing but paper. Each piece is assembled entirely by hand — cutting, shaping, and joining man

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Brain scans show finishing a TikTok you like quiets self-control circuits

A Zhejiang University team scanned 56 young adults with fMRI while they freely watched short clips, and found that the two hubs of the brain's cognitive-control

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Computing the day of the week in three CPU instructions

Ben Joffe dismantles the assumption that converting a day-count (rata-die) into a weekday is a trivial modulo operation. Because the divisor 7 is a Mersenne num

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