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In the Texas border city of Edinburg, scientists are getting ready to release millions of invasive, flesh-eating flies into the wild. While the thought of the U.S. government releasing parasitic flies into the wild resembles a horror movie plot, they’re doing it to help protect people.  The U.S. Department ofContinue Reading

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News of the impending withdrawal of federal agents comes weeks after ICE shot and killed Minneapolis residents Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti. (AP Video: Mark Vancleave). Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com​ This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/homeContinue Reading

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Ex-Minnesota governors have subsequently appeared on a primary or general election gubernatorial ballot 10 times since statehood Last week former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura floated the idea of running for the state’s open gubernatorial seat this cycle – more than two decades after leaving office. A successful Ventura campaign wouldn’tContinue Reading

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Taipei agrees to buy some $85bn of US energy, aircraft and equipment in exchange for 15 percent tariff rate., Taipei agrees to buy some $85bn of US energy, aircraft and equipment in exchange for 15 percent tariff rate. The United States and Taiwan have finalised a trade deal to reduceContinue Reading

Research reveals mental health strain within swimming coaching

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Sport and exercise psychologists at Nottingham Trent University wanted to better understand mental health and well-being in swimming coaches and to identify the challenges driving any stress-related health problems. The researchers argue that, unlike some team sports, individual sports such as swimming often place distinctive demands on coaches…Read MoreContinue Reading

Nvidia’s new technique cuts LLM reasoning costs by 8x without losing accuracy

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Researchers at Nvidia have developed a technique that can reduce the memory costs of large language model reasoning by up to eight times. Their technique, called dynamic memory sparsification (DMS), compresses the key value (KV) cache, the temporary memory LLMs generate and store as they process prompts and reason through problems and documents.While researchers haveContinue Reading