Ants vs. humans: Solving the piano-mover puzzle

Who is better at maneuvering a large load through a maze, ants or humans? The piano-mover puzzle involves trying to ...
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Apple will update iOS notification summaries after BBC headline mistake

Nevertheless, it’s a serious problem when the summaries misrepresent news headlines, and edge cases where this occurs are unfortunately inevitable. ...
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Meet the man keeping hope, and 70-year-old pinball machines, alive

It was about this time that something else began: The Pinball Resource. Becoming The Resource Young’s obsession with pinball dates ...
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VW fixes ID.4 door handles, will restart production, sales

Last September, faulty door handle hardware caused Volkswagen to take the rather drastic steps of suspending sales and production of ...
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Do Kwon, the crypto bro behind $40B Luna/Terra collapse, finally extradited to US

The US government finally got its metaphorical hands on Do Hyeong Kwon, the 33-year-old Korean national who built a financial ...
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Bob Dylan has some Dylanesque thoughts on the “sorcery” of technology

We might expect someone like Dylan, immersed as he has always been in folk songs, old standards, and American history, ...
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One less thing to worry about in 2025: Yellowstone probably won’t go boom

Underneath Yellowstone: Two large lobs of hot material from the mantle (in yellow) melt rock closer to the surface (orange), ...
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Appeals court blocks FCC’s efforts to bring back net neutrality rules

“The key here is not whether Broadband Internet Service Providers utilize telecommunications; it is instead whether they do so while ...
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Someone made a CAPTCHA where you play Doom on Nightmare difficulty

It’s a WebAssembly application, but it was made via a human language, prompt-driven web development tool called v0 that’s part ...
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Manta rays inspire faster swimming robots and better water filters

This robot can also dive and come back to the surface. Faster flapping results in strong downward waves that will ...
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