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Minecraft fan may be most committed hobbyist out there

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Minecraft fan may be most committed hobbyist out there

Feedback comes across a YouTuber's efforts to build a large language model in Minecraft and is impressed at the scale of it – even if it doesn't quite live up to its promise to blow your mind "in spectacular fashion"

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Earth (focus on Europe) represented by little dots, binary code and lines - big data, global business, cryptocurrency 3D render

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Owning our own data is the only way to stop enshittifcation

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A new festival at Kew Gardens explores sustainable fashion through art, plants and design. Material World opens 20 September.

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91av recommends Material World at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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This paper should win a prize for its refusal to make any big claims

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This paper should win a prize for its refusal to make any big claims

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Grass Paperback by Sheri S. Tepper

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91av recommends Sheri S. Tepper's science fiction novel Grass

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Netflix handout film still -- Frankenstein. BTS - (L to R) Jacob Elordi as The Creature and Oscar Isaac as Dr. Victor Frankenstein on the set of Frankenstein. Cr. Ken Woroner/Netflix ?? 2025.

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Del Toro's Frankenstein is a sumptuous take on a classic parable

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MARSEILLE, FRANCE - 2021/07/10: Protesters set a sphere representing Earth on fire during the demonstration. Members of the Extinction Rebellion group, supported by a few Yellow Vests (Gilets Jaunes in french), gathered in the Vieux-Port of Marseille to raise awareness on the dangers threatening the planet Earth. (Photo by Gerard Bottino/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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We've hit a climate tipping point, but leaders seem unlikely to act

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Is it really likely that humans will go extinct in exactly 314 years?

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Is it really likely that humans will go extinct in exactly 314 years?

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We are horrified to discover that not every rose has a thorn

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We are horrified to discover that not every rose has a thorn

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Mature female patient lying on table entering MRI machine in hospital setting. Medical professional in white coat standing nearby. Professionalism, precision, and modern health technology.; Shutterstock ID 2540873879; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other:

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Commercial health tests promise peace of mind, but do they deliver?

Elective tests and whole-body health check-ups are increasingly popular among those who can afford them. But the practice isn't as risk-free as it might appear

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Our verdict on ‘The Dispossessed’: A tricky but rewarding novel

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What might the humble house mouse be trying to tell us?

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Why abandoning psychedelic research in the 1970s was a blow to science

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The best new science fiction books of October 2025

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