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Alan Turing's theories about computation seem to have a startling consequence, placing hard limits on how fast or slow any ...

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Sugar rationing during and after the second world war seems to have improved the health of people conceived in the UK at the ...

In support of their AI ambitions, tech companies are rapidly expanding US data centres, and this growth is on track to ...

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