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Google Doodle celebrates pioneering physicist Hedwig Kohn – CNET

The courageous physicist, who fled Germany during World War II, helped develop techniques to identify and…

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Cannabis banking reform is smart, necessary and politically viable

Pressure is steadily mounting on U.S. lawmakers to implement comprehensive cannabis banking reform at the federal…

BMW’s V12 engines will soldier on for a few more years, report says – Roadshow

In a world where elephantine V12s are going extinct on the regular, BMW can't make enough…

Turing-winning AI researcher warns against secretive research and fake ‘self-regulation’

Yoshua Bengio, who last month won the prestigious Turing award, alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun,…