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  1. Game Changer Fans Want More ‘Rulette,’ but Dropout CEO Sam Reich Isn't Convinced Polygon talks with Dropout CEO and Game Changer host Sam Reich about Rueltte and how he decides what games to turn into spinoff series.
  2. Bangkok roads submerged as flood disaster declared An emergency has been declared across the capital of Thailand as days of heavy rain leave the city inundated.
  3. Can an ‘eSUV’ e-bike really go from trail to town? Have you ever wanted an electric bike that easily transitions from the drudgery of urban asphalt to adventures in gravel and dirt?
  4. Fishlock breaks Rapinoe's Reign scoring record Jess Fishlock claimed the Seattle Reign's all-time scoring record from Megan Rapinoe by netting a brace against the Boston Legacy on Friday.
  5. A doomsday scenario for American AI That is the title of my latest Free Press column, here is the closing bit: Sick and elderly Americans will go to Chinese companies for their AI-invented and AI-tested medical devices and drugs.
  6. My Routine for Always Staying Ahead of My Travel Photos Steal my can't-fail way to organize literally thousands of photos before you get home.
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MSU Students Rally Against Gun Violence at State Capitol

Spartan Newsroom

Michigan State University students rallied against gun violence on the lawn of the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing on February 20, 2023, one week after a mass shooting in Berkey Hall and the MSU Union killed three students and injured five others. The shooting killed Arielle Anderson, 19, of Harper Woods, who aspired to become a doctor, Brian Fraser, 20, of Grosse Pointe, a business student and Phi Delta Theta president, and Alexandria Verner, 20, of Clawson, a biology student and athlete.

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MSU Students Rally Against Gun Violence at State Capitol
NATIONS

The Unsolved Mystery of Pablo Neruda's Alleged Poisoning

Science

Chilean poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda died in Santiago on September 23, 1973, twelve days after the military coup that toppled President Salvador Allende. His official cause of death was listed as prostate cancer, but suspicions of foul play have persisted for decades, fueled by accounts from his personal driver that Neruda said a doctor had injected him with an unknown substance. An investigation was opened in 2011 and his remains were exhumed in 2013 for forensic examination.

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STEM

How Large Language Models Develop Unexpected Skills

Topics in Cognitive Science

Large language models (LLMs) have been observed to develop unexpected and emergent capabilities that were not explicitly programmed and did not appear in smaller versions of the same architectures. These emergent abilities — including in-context learning, multi-step arithmetic reasoning, instruction following, and rudimentary theory of mind — tend to appear suddenly at certain scales of model size, a phenomenon researchers have described as a phase transition rather than a gradual improvement.

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