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Pull fresh Unsplash wallpapers and rotate them on GNOME automatically with a Python script plus a systemd service and timer.

You have documented how large language models (LLMs) risk hardwiring scientific inequalities into the texts that they help to produce (see, for example, Nature 645, 285; 2025). As the use of LLMs ...

Select the cell(s) where you want the text to appear vertically. Go to the Home tab in the top ribbon. In the Alignment group, click the Orientation drop-down arrow. Choose Vertical Text from the list ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 16 (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said on Sunday he believed the approaching vote on releasing Justice Department files related to Jeffrey Epstein ...

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