AI is having its Nobel moment. Do scientists need the tech industry to sustain it?
Hinton is only the second person to win both a Nobel and Turing. The first, Turing-winning political scientist Herbert Simon, ...
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Han Kang’s Experimental Touch
From the daily newsletter: the first South Korean to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. Plus: the Saudi Princesses held captive ...
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Japanese group gets Nobel Peace Prize for work vs nukes
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings ...
South Koreans are joyful after Han Kang wins Nobel Prize for literature
SEOUL, South Korea — South Koreans reacted with joy and astonishment on Thursday after learning that homegrown writer Han ...
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If the Nobel Prizes were designed today, what would change?
The awards’ strict constraints often prompt frustration — if these prestigious prizes were created for the twenty-first ...
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Local anti-nuclear activists cheer Nihon Hidankyo's Nobel Peace Prize
Local advocates of nuclear disarmament are cheering the awarding of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo, a group of ...
From Bell Labs To Google: Corporate Accolades And Responsibilities
Google has the resources and ability to help build online spaces that promote democracy and strengthen society, aligning with ...
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Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors Who Fight for Nuclear Disarmament
The grassroots organization, Nihon Hidankyo, was lauded for "demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons ...
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Nobel Increases Pressure on States to Join Nuclear Weapons Ban
The awarding of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo acknowledges the central role of ...
What is innovation? Lessons from AI’s Nobel controversy
The myth of the lone genius dominates public narratives, leading us to believe that major breakthroughs occur in isolation ...
AMD doubles down on AI, Google faces possible breakup and ‘causal AI’ is coming
Advanced Micro Devices is making an even bigger push to capture AI workloads with several new processors, data processing units and network interface cards unveiled this week, along with a concerted ...
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Malala Yousafzai credits this Taylor Swift era for giving her strength under Taliban rule
In a lot of ways, Malala Yousafzai is not like any other girl in the world. She has survived a gunshot to the head for ...