New Republic

Vance Desperately Tries to Calm Uproar Over $300 Billion Gift to Iran

JD Vance is trying to quell outrage over the $300 billion Iran is receiving as part of Donald Trump’s deal. Vice President JD Vance is attempting to temper backlash one day after he confirmed a key ...
Yahoo

JD Vance Is Already Backtracking Claim About Jaw-Dropping Sum for Iran

The Trump administration's plan to approve $300 billion in aid for reconstructing Iran has only become more confusing. Vice President JD Vance all but confirmed to CBS's Ed O'Keefe Monday morning that ...
DualShockers

10 Metroidvanias Where Backtracking Feels Genuinely Rewarding Instead of Annoying

Joshua Speer is a Staff Writer at DualShockers who has been covering games professionally since 2013, with a focus on indie games, retro games, platformers, deckbuilders, roguelikes, and Nintendo ...
Wired

Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, ...
Wired

The Bloomberg Terminal Is Getting an AI Makeover, Like It or Not

WIRED spoke with Bloomberg’s chief technology officer about the big, chatbot-style changes coming to the iconic platform for traders. But as a greater mass of data is fed into the Terminal—not only ...
pv magazine International

Scientists identify new loss factor in tracker-based PV plants on slightly undulating terrain

Researchers in Spain have identified a new source of underperformance in utility-scale PV plants caused by “suboptimal backtracking” on slightly uneven terrain. The study shows that real tracker ...
EurekAlert!

The high cost of cold feet: why backtracking on green energy hurts economies more than progress helps

It is well known that pollution damages ecosystems, but putting a precise price tag on that damage, and figuring out how government budgets can effectively lower it, is a complex puzzle. Rather than ...
TechCrunch

Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows

Microsoft announced on Friday a series of changes focused on improving the quality of its Windows 11 operating system, which notably includes dialing back the number of entry points to its AI ...
Android Police

Instagram to discontinue end-to-end encryption for DMs [Update: Meta's statement]

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...
FiercePharma

FDA approves leucovorin for ultrarare cerebral folate deficiency subset without clinical trial

About five months after U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. touted leucovorin as “an exciting therapy that may benefit large numbers of children who suffer ...
IEEE

Efficient Pruning in Subset Sum Backtracking Using Residual Sum Checks

Abstract: The Subset Sum problem is a classical NP-complete problem with applications in resource allocation, cryptography, and combinatorial optimization. Conventional backtracking methods search the ...