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Author: The Smart Reader Staff
Briefs and quick reads selected and edited by The Smart Reader's editorial team.
The night British-held New York burned
Less than a week after British troops marched into New York in September 1776, a quarter of the city they had just captured went up…
The papers you would grab in ten minutes
If you had to leave home in a hurry, could you put your hands on the documents that prove who you are, what you own,…
The famous last words no one wrote down
American patriot Nathan Hale, facing a British noose, declared that he regretted having but one life to lose for his country. Thing is, no one…
The science prizes for making you laugh, then think
Every September, a few weeks before the Nobel Prizes are announced, a rowdier ceremony hands out awards for research that, in its own words, first…
The reason the company put rules on AI
If your employer recently limited how much artificial intelligence you can use, the reason probably was not you. It was the slide decks. Leaked audio…
This drone hunts mosquitoes
The world’s newest mosquito assassin just scored its first air-to-air kill. The victim, unfortunately, was an innocent moth. French startup Tornyol released the bug into…
Preparedness includes your wallet
Emergency planning usually brings to mind flashlights and bottled water, but disasters are also financial events — and a few quiet steps now can speed…
Bumblebees solve a puzzle no one taught them
A challenge long thought to separate humans and a few clever vertebrates from the rest of the animal kingdom has a new and unlikely contender:…
Why your chatbot costs so little
The price of AI has nothing to do with how hard the question is. A chatbot charges the same for a birthday poem as for…