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The data science interview has changed more in the past two years than in the previous five. If you prepped for interviews in 2023 or 2024 and you’re back on the market now, the format you practiced for might not match what you’ll actually face.

Meta might be building a 4.5ft-tall, 106lb humanoid robot that could look you in the eye, mimic human expression, and be a help around the home — a description that would fit almost any consumer-grade, humanoid robot from almost half a dozen companies. The report from The Information adds, though, that this bot will be…

Over the past few years, artificial intelligence seems to have entirely reshaped what it means to be a university student in peripheral — and, for some, presumably innocuous — ways, such as using ChatGPT to craft a study guide or Otter.AI to transcribe a lecture. Now, for the first time, UC Santa Barbara students will…

One of the coldest places in the universe isn’t on some distant planet or at an empty point between galaxies. It’s here on Earth, inside a lab. Deep space sits at about 2.7 Kelvin (454.8 degrees below zero in Fahrenheit), in the leftover glow of the Big Bang IBM’s latest modular cryogenic system is cooled…

Palmer Luckey’s Anduril will design protective body armor and other tools for them.

Moritz Hardt, author of a new book on benchmarks, believes these “standardized tests” for artificial intelligence are fundamentally broken — but not unfixable. Read Later

Science Corporation CEO Max Hodak announced that the company has implanted its vision-restoring chip, PRIMA, into its first patient with Stargardt disease, an inherited eye disease that gradually destroys central vision. Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, the brain implant company, explained on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt how the company’s work with PRIMA…

If confirmed, it would be the first white dwarf found to host a second-generation planet.

Back in 2024, scientists detected the farthest fast radio burst we’ve ever seen to date, thanks to observations by the MeerKAT ground telescope array. Fast radio bursts are ultra-fast radio waves from deep space, which last a fraction of a second but release as much as energy as what the sun emits in three days. They…

Your 3D prints probably don’t need to be rock solid, but what goes inside them still matters.