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A strange thought experiment known as Newcomb’s paradox has baffled philosophers and scientists for decades. In the puzzle, a supercomputer predicts human decisions with near-perfect accuracy and ...

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Another day, another Google AI model. Google has really been pumping out new AI tools lately, having just released Gemini 3 in November. Today, it’s bumping the flagship model to version 3.1. The new ...

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It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's happening. Two of our best ways of measuring the cosmic expansion rate, the ...