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A $1.3 billion Powerball win sounds life-changing. Here’s the catch. Judge reverses Trump administration's cuts of billions of dollars to Harvard University Intelligence meeting canceled after attacks ...

Want to draw George Washington or Jackie Kennedy? A professor’s egg-shaped drawing method makes sketching presidents surprisingly simple. Here's how.

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Going against your family's wishes is never easy. But for Fijian-Tongan-Australian Lydia Kavoa, building her own life meant challenging her father's wishes and breaking traditional norms. In the end, ...

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Meta plans to launch a super PAC to support California candidates favoring a light-touch approach to AI regulation, Politico reports. The news comes as other Silicon Valley behemoths, like Andreessen ...

A research team has created a quantum logic gate that uses fewer qubits by encoding them with the powerful GKP error-correction code. By entangling quantum vibrations inside a single atom, they ...

The Powerball lottery jackpot keeps climbing — now at an estimated $750 million — after there was no winner over the weekend. The next drawing is Monday evening. The three-quarters of a billion ...