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TSC: A Decade of Sustained Investment in STEM Education
40+ min ago (362+ words) The Tolaram Science Challenge (TSC) is celebrating its 10th edition this year. What does this milestone represent for Lagos Free Zone and Tolaram? Why have you chosen to invest in science education? We chose to focus on STEM because it is…...
DuckDB Internals: Why is DuckDB Fast? (Part 2 Vectors)
5+ hour, 55+ min ago (1763+ words) DuckDB has become one of those rare pieces of software whose greatness is difficult to capture in words. Part of that is its versatility. It is approachable enough for anyone to install, point at a Parquet file, and begin exploring…...
Open Source Alternatives to Smallwood (2026)
1+ hour, 55+ min ago (52+ words) StartupHub.ai 60 open source Creative Operations options similar to Smallwood, ranked by named competitors first, sector overlap, and our 0-100 AI-readiness score. Each profile notes license and self-hosting where we have it. View all alternatives to Smallwood → Open source · Self-hostable...
Elite Robots Collaborates with Generalist AI on Next-Gen Embodied AI
4+ hour, 46+ min ago (127+ words) Key Highlights from the Collaboration: Real-Time Adaptability: Features a 360° motion range and sensitive force feedback, enabling GEN-1 to instantly correct unexpected execution errors. Global Technical Support: Backed by Elite Robots 24/7 technical network and local US team to support ongoing research…...
Chinese AI Model Uses Less Muscle for Coding Tasks - AOL
11+ hour, 47+ min ago (887+ words) Right now, the cheaper model, for him, tends to be GLM 5.2. Released on 16 June by the Beijing-based lab Z.ai, GLM 5.2 is an open-weights model, meaning any organization with sufficient hardware can download and host the model for free. Those that…...
Poolside Releases Laguna S 2.1, an Open-Weight Agentic Coding Model Punching Above Its Weight Class on SWE-Bench Multilingual
51+ min ago (455+ words) Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118B-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding. It is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 8B activated parameters per token. It supports a context window of up to 1M tokens in both thinking and no-thinking modes. The…...
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana's STEM-A-Thon gives Club Kids a place to learn and socialize
3+ hour, 44+ min ago (314+ words) On Monday, July 20, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana hosted its annual STEM-A-Thon at downtown Valparaiso’s Urschel Pavilion, bringing together Club members from across Northwest Indiana for a day of hands-on learning, discovery, and connection. Designed to spark curiosity…...
Your AI isn't failing -- your metrics are
1+ hour, 49+ min ago (719+ words) If AI is as powerful as everyone insists, why are so many organizations struggling to show a return on it? Here is the uncomfortable answer: because AI optimizes exactly what leaders tell it to optimize. AI has one defining behavior:…...
Most people think a goldfish forgets everything within seconds, which helps make the little bowl seem humane — but that is a myth: goldfish can remember for months, push levers and tell colours apart
1+ hour, 52+ min ago (663+ words) The three-second memory myth lets us ignore what goldfish actually experience: boredom, frustration, and the slow wear of confinement. By Mal James · Editorial process Published July 21, 2026 Nothing to remember, nothing to miss, no boredom piling up. One possible reason the…...
Eval-Gated AI Releases: Treating Retrieval Quality Like Unit Tests
1+ hour, 50+ min ago (345+ words) No backend team would merge a PR that fails the test suite. Yet many AI teams ship prompt and model changes with no automated quality check at all — they eyeball a few responses and hope. The failure mode is silent:…...