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March 25: “Hurrah, and vote for suffrage! Don’t keep them in doubt.” —Febb Burn, a 47-year-old widow, in a letter to her son, Harry T. Burn, 24, a freshman legislator in Tennessee who held the pivotal ...

An IT security researcher reveals how a wheelchair's QR code becomes a master key to all comfort functions.

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Aider is a “pair-programming” tool that can use various providers as the AI back end, including a locally running instance of ...

Overview: Data science certifications help build practical skills needed across industries in 2026.Courses now focus more on real projects and workplace-ready l ...

But I’ve noticed that when I open everything all at once, I slip into a reactive mode before I’ve even decided what I actually need to work on. That was the problem I wanted to solve, so I wrote a ...

A simple Python tool I built to help read PDF and DOCX files directly in Cursor IDE. I was tired of not being able to process documents in my AI workflows, so I created this tool to extract text ...

Abstract: Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) are the de-facto foundation models for various downstream tasks. However, scene text recognition methods still prefer backbones pre-trained on a ...