How scientists are trying to use AI to unlock the human mind 
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How scientists are trying to use AI to unlock the human mind 

Compared with conventional psychological models, which use simple math equations, Centaur did a far better job of predicting behavior. Accurate predictions of how humans respond in psychology experiments are valuable in and of themselves: For example, scientists could use Centaur to pilot their experiments on a computer before recruiting, and paying, human participants. In their

LIVE Amazon Prime Day 2025: We’re Tracking Deals & Trends All Day
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LIVE Amazon Prime Day 2025: We’re Tracking Deals & Trends All Day

Photograph: AeroPress AeroPress Coffee Maker, Original Good morning and happy Prime Day! We are logged on, locking in, and about to spend four straight days bringing you bargains and/or trenchant observations on the liveblog. It will be fun; It always is. We’ll be running from 5 am to “close” daily—that will be no earlier than

Inside the most dangerous asteroid hunt ever
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Inside the most dangerous asteroid hunt ever

Once it was logged by the MPC, it was Farnocchia’s job to try to plot out 2024 YR4’s possible paths through space, checking to see if any of them overlapped with our planet’s. He works at NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) in California, where he’s partly responsible for keeping track of all the

UAE proptech Huspy raises M to scale in Europe
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UAE proptech Huspy raises $59M to scale in Europe

If you walked into a Dubai bank to apply for a mortgage in 2020, chances are you’d spend months buried in paperwork or face a huge price discrepancy when it came to listings. Such experiences led Jad Antoun to start Huspy, a startup streamlining how people in the UAE buy homes digitally. Over the past

Attention isn’t all we need; we need ownership too
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Attention isn’t all we need; we need ownership too

July 8, 2025 Ryan welcomes Illia Polosukhin, co-author of the original “Attention Is All You Need” Transformers paper and co-founder of NEAR, on the show to talk about the development and impact of the Transformers model, his perspective on modern AI and machine learning as an early innovator of the tech, and the importance of

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