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Companies are finally seeing AI ROI — and now they know how much more value it can deliver (venturebeat.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: sap, enterprise ai, ai roi

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How silicon-chip technology is being re-engineered for quantum computing (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-29 | by Ares | tags: silicon-chip, quantum computing, quantum processors

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Weight-four parity checks in a spin-shuttling architecture (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-29 | by Undseth | tags: si ge, quantum well, oxford instruments

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First volunteer gets Ebola vaccine — three months after the outbreak began (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-28 | by Shenai | tags: ebola vaccine, chadox1, oxford vaccine group

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Inside the high-stakes race to develop an Ebola vaccine for an escalating outbreak (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-28 | by Shenai | tags: ebola vaccine, chadox1, oxford vaccine group

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These Are the Best and Worst Letters to Guess in Wordle (cnet.com)

2026-07-20 | by Gael Cooper | tags: wordle, oxford english dictionary, letter frequency

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University of Oxford Is Older Than the Aztec Empire and Other Facts of History (2013) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-05 | by Colin Schultz Meilan Solly | tags: aztec, born, history

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Astronomers Find Biggest Super-Puff Planets Yet That Are Lighter Than Cotton Candy (slashdot.org)

2026-06-27 | get Super-Puff Planet Model Kit → | tags: james webb space telescope, nasa tess satellite, exoplanets

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How to earn a billion dollars (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-14 | tags: y combinator, startup founders, billionaires

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How to Earn a Billion Dollars (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-14 | tags: ycombinator, startup founders, billionaires

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Oxford University discloses data breach after careers platform hack (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-06-08 | get Cybersecurity Awareness Kit → | tags: breach, careerconnect, oxford

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At Least 80% Responsibility For Ill Health In Old Age Down to Individual, Study Says (slashdot.org)

2026-05-22 | get Health and Wellness Tracker → | tags: oxford longevity project, oxford healthspan, landmark twins study

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Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-14 | get Alice in Wonderland Math Puzzle Book → | tags: alice in wonderland, charles lutwidge dodgson, mathematics

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Man Behind Simulation Hypothesis Warns That Extinction of Humanity Is a Risk We Have to Take (futurism.com)

2026-05-12 | by Jon Christian | get Simulation Theory Book → | tags: simulation hypothesis, nick bostrom, oxford

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Cognitive scientists found using AI for just 10 minutes impairs brain performance (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-11 | get Brain-Boosting Puzzle Game → | tags: cognitive science, cmu, gpt

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Versions of You in Other Universes May Be Subtly Affecting Your Destiny, Oxford Physicist Says (futurism.com)

2026-05-10 | by Joe Wilkins | get Quantum Multiverse Puzzle Game → | tags: oxford physicist, parallel universes, observer effect

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Nick Bostrom Has a Plan for Humanity’s ‘Big Retirement’ (wired.com)

2026-05-08 | by Steven Levy | get The Future of Humanity Book → | tags: superintelligence, oxford, future of humanity

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The Thinking Plant's Man (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-04 | by Ben Seal | tags: jagadish chandra bose, oxford, plant electrophysiology

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Study: AI models that consider users' feelings are more likely to make errors (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-01 | get Emotion AI Development Kit → | tags: llama-3.1-8b-instruct, mistral-small-instruct, qwen-2.5-32b-instruct

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Study: AI models that consider user's feeling are more likely to make errors (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-01 | get Emotion-Aware AI Development Kit → | tags: llama, mistral, qwen

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Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-29 | by Ian Sample | get AI Chatbot Safety Guide → | tags: openai, anthropic, oxford university

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Oxford All Souls College General Examination [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-25 | get All Souls College Guidebook → | tags: oxford, all souls college, general examination

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Redesigning the Recurse Center application to inspire curious programmers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-24 | by Rachel Petacat | get Programming Notebook for Creativity → | tags: recurse center, application redesign, oxford all souls

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Punctuated decline of human cooperation (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-22 | by Sabin | get Cooperative Board Game → | tags: microfinance, oxford, group lending

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Biohacker claims to have sequenced their own genome at the kitchen table with M3 Ultra Mac Studio, Claude, and a $3,200 sequencer — DIY project requires 100GB of data storage per run, oodles of RAM (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-21 | by Mark Tyson | get Portable DNA Sequencer Kit → | tags: genome sequencing, oxford nanopore, mac studio

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The quest to measure our relationship with nature (technologyreview.com)

2026-04-16 | by Emma Marris | get Nature Connection Journal → | tags: environmental metrics, human-nonhuman relationships, satellite imagery

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How DNA forensics is transforming studies of ancient manuscripts (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-07 | by Broadfoot | get DNA Extraction Kit → | tags: dna forensics, john rylands research institute, oxford bodleian libraries

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A new way to measure poverty shows the US falling behind Europe (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-01 | by Servet Yanatma | get Poverty Measurement Toolkit → | tags: oxford university, gross domestic product, purchasing power parity

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The Oxford Comma – Why and Why Not (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-26 | get Oxford Comma Style Guide → | tags: oxford comma, fawlty towers, john cleese

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How I turned online misogyny about my PhD into momentum for my career (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-17 | by Turner | get Anti-Misogyny Online Campaign Kit → | tags: misogyny, social media, oxford university