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Get ready for a return of Apple’s October gadget-a-thon. All the rumors are coalescing around a few key updates to well-worn products. This month’s big gadget…

So I’ve been waiting for this meeting for twenty years, actually. And it’s not that everything’s a hundred percent understood or known, but I think we’ve…

A fascinating situation is currently unfolding at Shriners Hospital in Pasadena that has captivated the medical community and is raising tons of intriguing questions for future…

Here’s a rather lovely thing from back in the day, a wonderful insight into the joys (and otherwise – very much otherwise) of working in a…

In brief Hallucinations are structural, not glitches. OpenAI shows LLMs bluff because training rewards confidence over accuracy. A simple fix: reward “I don’t know.” Changing scoring…

In an inspiring story emerging from a therapist’s office in Seattle, WA, 29-year-old Allie Cervesi is realizing in real time that her relationship is finally in…

Tech companies keep telling everyone that this or that AI feature is going to change everything. But when you press them for examples, real, concrete examples…

A quarterly column, steady as ever – – -“What do ­twenty-first-century people have an appetite for? I’m leaving myself out of this. I’m a twentieth-century person,…

Science biology Poke Staff. Updated July 30th, 2025 Over on TikTok someone called @knowledgesaurus created a whole series of videos called ‘How Rare Are…