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Retooling to help democracy revive - MIT Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT
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Deindustrialization didn’t only hurt some workers, Daron Acemoglu says in a new book; it shrank the coalition supporting democracy, which needs expanding.
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AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, following an assessment; the service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to humans (Annie Palmer/CNBC) - Techmeme Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:35:01 GMT
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AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, following an assessment; the service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to humans — Amazon is soon pulling the plug on its 21-year-old crowdsourced work platform, called Mechanical Turk, the company said Tuesday.
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Nvidia releases DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, available now in 30 games - TechSpot Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:44:00 GMT
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Nvidia has released DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, bringing its 2nd-gen Transformer model to all RTX GPUs. The upgrade promises improved lighting, temporal stability, and detail in motion, while reducing artifacts such as ghosting. An early access update to the Nvidia App lets users enable this in 30 supported games, including Cyberpunk 2077, Alan Wake 2, and Resident Evil Requiem, with a wider release coming in September.
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The secret love life of the longfin squid - MIT Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:35:00 GMT
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MIT Sea Grant resident artist and acclaimed underwater photographer Keith Ellenbogen captures an intimate look at courtship and communication in a hidden spawning spectacle off Cape Cod.
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Meta’s Big Reckoning Is Here - Wired Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMT
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Meta is in court again over child safety, and this time it’s a landmark case that could force significant changes to core features of Facebook and Instagram.
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The game’s the thing - MIT Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:35:00 GMT
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MIT senior Kayode Dada has a passion for designing games, and a penchant for building community.
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Creating innovations that scale across borders - MIT Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:15:00 GMT
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A new book coauthored by Professor Amos Winter asserts that, to solve major challenges and deliver products of value to consumers in both developed and emerging markets, innovators must think and act globally.
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Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens - MIT Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:50:00 GMT
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In his latest book, Professor Eugene Fitzgerald examines the forces that turn breakthroughs into value — and why innovation resists simple formulas.
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