For those who have used PCs for a sufficiently long time, you probably remember trying to insert a USB plug into a port, only to have to flip it upside-down to get it in there. The advent of USB-C in ...

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From simple text generation to autonomously powering robotic arms on production lines, AI technology offers enterprises a kaleidoscope of new capabilities. So which aspects of AI advancement have ...

Is a mysterious visitor from the depths of space trying to tell us something? According to a controversial theory, the interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS is not just a silent traveller but a ...

Recursion Pharmaceuticals trades at a $2.65bn valuation despite slow clinical progress, high cash burn, and no late-stage assets. RXRX's AI-driven drug discovery model is ambitious, but pipeline value ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

When Fibonacci introduced what would become an eponymous sequence, he did so using rabbits as an analogy. Breeding pairs of rabbits are able to multiply within their ranks infinitely. Unfortunately, ...

Recursion Pharmaceuticals is laying off a fifth of its workforce in connection with a previously announced streamlining of the AI biotech’s pipeline. Shrinking the Salt Lake City-based company’s ...

Recursion said it will end development for four of its 11 pipeline programs—one of which the company will consider outlicensing to a partner instead—and pause a fifth program, in a pruning designed to ...

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