German police have been searching for years for Jan Marsalek, who is suspected of having embezzled billions of euros through Wirecard and thought to be working as an agent for the Russian intelligence agency FSB. DER SPIEGEL tracked him down in Moscow.
The Lego Ideas team, including its senior model designer, tells Fast Company how they turned 'Gremlins' icon Gizmo into a 1,125-piece set.
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it’s clear what laid at the heart of Apple’s engineering success: design re-use. Practically every part of the system was already de-risked.
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It's been an extremely busy day for team Qwen. Within the last 24 hours (all links to Twitter, which seems to be their preferred platform for these announcements): Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-FP8 and …
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In the 1970s, the radical leftwing German terrorist organisation may have spread fear through public acts of violence – but its inner workings were characterised by vanity and incompetence
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AI agents are putting headless browsing back in the spotlight. That raises questions for publishers: How much traffic is real vs. automated?
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America's largest non-profit had a broken distribution system. University of Chicago economists fixed it.
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Nvidia announced the Rubin CPX, a solution that is specifically designed to be optimized for the prefill phase, with the single-die Rubin CPX heavily emphasizing compute FLOPS over memory bandwidth…
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Decades ago, singles were printed on cereal boxes as cutout prizes. Now, a dedicated few are working to save these cardboard treasures from extinction.
The brand conceives of itself as a distribution system for utopian values as much as an apparel company. Can it become the world’s biggest clothing manufacturer? Lauren Collins reports.
Most people have felt déjà vu at least once. Jamais vu is the flip side. It’s rarer, harder to describe, and somehow more off-putting.
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NVIDIA has surprisingly unveiled a rather 'new class' of AI GPUs, featuring the Rubin CPX AI chip that offers immense inferencing power.