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Study finds unprecedented urbanization and urban expansion in East-Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2010

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The study reveals that between 2000 and 2010, the population of East-Southeast Asia grew by 231 million people; if this were the population of a single country, it would be the fifth most populous country in the world. —Professor Annemarie Schneider from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lead author.

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Announcing a Benchmark to Improve AI Safety

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The latest smartphones are more powerful than the fastest supercomputers from the year 2000. And it worked: Computing power, and more impressively computing power per watt or per dollar, has grown exponentially in the past five decades. Measurement of performance, though, is not limited to chips. Protik Mukhopadhyay, Protecto.ai