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And births rise in South Korea
Plus: high speed rail in Vietnam, India's first vertical lift sea bridge, and a £100 million bat tunnel.
And how China will lose 51 million people in 10 years
While popular with enthusiasts, pour-over coffee frustrated shops because it takes so long to make, but that's changing.
Plus: animals as chemical factories, how progress lost its glamour, and how Madrid built 120 miles of metro in twelve years.
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On January 20th a Chinese tech company released the free version of their chatbot called DeepSeek. The AI chatbot, by all accounts, is about on par with existing widely available chatbots, like ChatGPT. It does not represent any new abilities or breakthrough in quality. And yet the release shocked the industry causing the tech-heavy stock […] The post The Skinny on DeepSeek first appeared on NeuroLogica Blog.
And births rise in South Korea
We’re gonna need a whiteboard for this one
Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out the subtle signals that could reveal if the universe had a shape. The post Cosmologists Try a New Way to Measure the Shape of the Universe first appeared on Quanta Magazine
