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#DroptheGenocide20 demands Biden admin aides who enabled the Gaza genocide not be given roles in liberal spaces – like the role it turns out JD Vance pursued in 2016, when he ‘hated’ Trump.

Ottawa will sell stakes in four major airports in a move to "unlock" billions of dollars for infrastructure spending, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Tuesday.

Assistive algorithms are widely used in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), but their effects on neural representations remain unclear. Here, the authors show that adaptive BCIs lead the brain to learn ...

‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act

Neural sequences, characterized by neurons or groups of neurons that fire one after the other, have been observed in multiple brain regions, across species, and are known to underlie a diversity of br...

Spain has called for a permanent EU climate emergency response system after a summer marred by extreme heat and wildfires.

There has been quite the uptick in “AI” labs’ claims of their LLMs “solving complex math problems”. I wondered why that is, especially given that LLMs are not exactly built for the kind of rigor that ...

The federal government is asking a Federal Court judge to toss out a lawsuit accusing Ottawa of having no intention of meeting its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions target.

Recent studies reveal striking representational alignment between artificial neural networks (ANNs) and biological brains, leading to proposals that all sufficiently capable systems converge on univer...

The record "is another clear signal of an ocean under growing stress", according to Dr Samantha Burgess from the European Copernicus climate change service.

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A new preprint identifies two distinct populations of CA3 neurons, challenging the view that the hippocampal region is a single network.

Theta sweeps have been mired in controversy for decades, but the emerging consensus view suggests that they function in attention and goal direction.

Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and compu...

Hate capitalism and want to change the world? You’ll be in the right place at Marxism Festival this weekend.

The world is in the midst of a climate backlash. But DeSmog isn’t backing down. We are celebrating 20 years of high-impact journalism investigating the…

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