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Software designed by a Carnegie Mellon professor and Facebook researcher beat five human pros in no-limit Texas Hold’em.
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Molon Labe designed a middle seat for airplanes that is set lower and three inches back from the seats on either side.
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New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called “octonions.”
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