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Every year, employees worldwide enter annual performance reviews with mixed feelings. Do employees enter these…
Israel’s AI can produce 100 bombing targets a day in Gaza. Is this the future of war?
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How ChatGPT can help you do archival research — but never replace archivists
Archivists assist users like historians, genealogists, students or citizens in locating, accessing and interpreting archives.…
We thought we’d find 200 species living in our house and yard. We were very wrong
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How bird feeders help small species fight infection
Every day, throughout the world, people put huge quantities of food out at feeding stations…