Artificial intelligence, once the realm of science fiction, claimed its place at the pinnacle of scientific achievement Monday in Sweden. In a historic ceremony at Stockholm’s iconic Konserthuset, John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering work on neural networks — systems that mimic the brain’s architecture and form the bedrock of modern AI. Meanwhile, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper accepted the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold, a system […]

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Many Americans wonder if any jurist on the U.S. Supreme Court will ever be able to fill the shoes of the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed in 2016. President Trump has—so far—appointed three avowedly originalist justices with the potential to do so. Continue Reading…

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An overview of Google’s latest funding announcement for computer science education and the newest AI Quest.

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Clark Packard Last week, Disney+ released a restored version of The Beatles Anthology, the landmark 1995 ABC eight-part documentary series that remains the closest thing to a definitive account of the band’s extraordinary journey. I binge-watched the updated Anthology over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, which brought back memories of watching the original with my parents 30 years ago. Now I’m the parent, though my wife and four-year-old son were less enthusiastic about the marathon viewing sessions. Last year, I […]

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Patrick G. Eddington US Sen. Mark Kelly (D‑AZ). In mid-July 1941, anti-interventionist Senator Burton Wheeler (D‑MT) sent 1,000,000 postcards to Americans across the country, urging them to write President Franklin Roosevelt to keep America out of the raging war in Europe. Two of those postcards were received, respectively, by Staff Sergeant William L. White at Fort Benning, Georgia, and 1st Lieutenant Alford T. Hearns at Fort McIntosh, Texas. The two soldiers dutifully notified their chains of command about […]

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Krit Chanwong The federal government uses the Federal Highway Trust Fund to administer funding to highways and mass transit. Unfortunately, the Congressional Budget Office projects that the trust fund will go insolvent in 2028. When this happens, all federal highway spending will face a 46 percent cut. One way to prevent the Federal Highway Trust Fund from going bankrupt is to raise the federal gas tax. Economist Jason Sorens advocated for this in a recent piece for Reason […]

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Cozy up next to the fireplace and we’ll catch you up on the latest digital rights news with EFF’s EFFector newsletter. In our latest issue, we’re exposing surveillance logs that reveal racist policing; explaining the harms of Google’s plan for Android app gatekeeping; and continuing our new series, Gate Crashing, exploring how the internet empowers people to take nontraditional paths into the traditional worlds of journalism, creativity, and criticism. Prefer to listen in? Check out our audio companion, where EFF Staff […]

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Colleen Hroncich When millions of children struggle to sit still, focus, and conform to rigid classroom expectations, it’s become an epidemic of ADHD and other disorders. The New York Times is beginning to consider what should have been obvious all along: Maybe the problem isn’t the children. Others, including my colleague Kerry McDonald, have been raising these concerns for years. As Kerry notes, Boston College psychology Professor Peter Gray has described ADHD as a “failure to adapt to […]

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