The real Scandi noir

The Black Swan follows a repentant master criminal as she sets up corrupt clients in front of hidden cameras. But is she really reformed – and is the director up to his own tricks?

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Why we need lazier robots

To waste less energy, robots need to do less of everything: move less, and think less, and sense less. They need to be “lazy” like humans.

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Hold your tongue

In India, the BJP wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. Ganesh Devy, on the other hand, wants to preserve as many languages as possible.

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The sports-betting pundits

The real churn of betting happens not in the backrooms of sportsbook businesses but deep within the servers of companies that bettors haven’t heard of at all.

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