AI system translates protein sequences into text, helping reveal functions of unknown proteins

In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Technion and Tel Aviv University ...

A Twist in This Year’s Strangest Literary AI Scandal

In May, the largely unknown 62-year-old Trinidadian writer was named a regional winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Prize ...
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Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies

Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more ...

Typographers Have Spent a Thousand Years Trying—and Failing—to Render Arabic Properly

How do you justify Arabic text? It’s a simple question, but—as cataloged in a lengthy interactive post on the blog La Vita ...