RELX, Elsevier’s parent company, held its H1 earnings call on July 23, 2026.  Below are some observations from a librarian’s perspective.   The numbers (growth %’s are underlying): - REXL revenue: £4...

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Gardasil 20-year anniversary story.

Accounting for heterogeneous truck usage patterns, battery electric trucks outperform diesel trucks in total cost of ownership for most heavy-duty road freight activity in key European markets by 2030...

Few people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing.

The tech industry is pulling from tried-and-tested playbooks to bypass and securitize public opposition, write Dean Jackson and Sam Totoni.

AIXI Labs is a small, London-based non-profit doing AI safety research grounded in algorithmic information theory. Most AI research today is either mathematically clean but narrow, or practical but to...

We are very happy to announce our open call for Socials at the upcoming NeurIPS 2026.

Deal with a mansplaining reply guy on Twitter or other platformsYou may have heard someone referring to having a "reply guy" on Twitter or other social media platforms and wondered what they were talk...

Reflections on 250 years.

Please join us for a special event with Gaël Varoquaux (Probabl, scikit-learn), co-sponsored by BIDS, CDSS, and the Department of Statistics! Varo...

Australia Institute data finds state and federal subsidies for coal, gas and oil products increased 10% in past year, growing at a faster pace than funding to NDIS

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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View Joseph Y. Halpern's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak

A simulation shows that social media bots powered by today’s AI can infiltrate human networks on social media and influence what people believe.

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