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Children across Watauga County have penned their Christmas wishes to Santa Claus this year, and their letters reveal equal measures of childhood wonder and creativity.

At the core of every AI coding agent is a technology called a large language model (LLM), which is a type of neural network ...

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Robots have been a thing for a long time, but they've never quite met expectations. While AI has changed the game for chatbots, it's not quite so... It's actually really hard to make a robot, guys ...

Marvel's decision to reintroduce Chris Evans' character Steve Rogers in Avengers: Doomsday has prompted backlash online, with ...

China’s latest viral coding app has turned a niche developer tool into a mass-market spectacle, promising anyone a personal ...

Toy Story 3, Inside Out, and Finding Nemo are all among the very best and most purely entertaining Pixar animated movies of all time.

Growing a brain is nothing new. For the past 50 years, neuroscientists around the world have been studying the human brain in ...

Researchers created this first-of-its kind map by merging 40 ant brains into one. Every clonal raider ant lives a nearly identical life. Each new generation of these blind, queenless ants is born at ...

Every clonal raider ant lives a nearly identical life. Each new generation of these blind, queenless ants is born at the same time, eats the same things, lives in the same environment, and—as an ...

Wall-E, Toy Story 3, and Inside out are all among the absolute greatest Pixar animated movies are genuinely perfect.