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SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude — no PhD in computing required

Drug discovery is one of the most expensive pursuits in modern industry. Finding a single viable molecule can take a decade and cost billions, and most candidates still don’t make it. A generation of AI startups has promised to fix that – most have made the problem less painful for researchers, who are already technically sophisticated enough to use the tools. But SandboxAQ thinks the…
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As wildlife safaris crack down on smartphones, why shouldn’t “proper” cameras be banned too?

There have been headlines recently about a ruling by the Indian Supreme Court banning camera phones in core tourism zones of the country’s tiger reserves. According to The Times Of India, the ruling was passed late last year and deemed the devices – and the behavior they elicit from users – too dangerous for tourists and wildlife. Among the main concerns of the Indian authorities and safari…
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E-quipment highlight: Milwaukee brings big electric power to any job site

Every job site needs to power to do work. Cordless hand tool brand Milwaukee knows that better than most, which is why the Big Red Truck is about to roll out with not one but two new products ready to bring big electric power to any job site. It’s a common enough scenario to’ve become a trope over on my other podcast: just because you work for the power company, that don’t mean you have…
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Ukraine declares its first homegrown guided aerial bomb combat-ready

KYIV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian company has produced the country’s first guided aerial bombs capable of striking targets “dozens of kilometers” behind enemy lines with 250-kilogram warheads, giving Kyiv a homegrown equivalent to Russia’s cheap, devastating glide bombs, the Ministry of Defense announced Monday. The aerial bomb is a winged but engineless weapon that drops from an aircraft at…
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