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PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python.

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South Florida researchers warn the Everglades face an Asian swamp eel invasion, depleting small fish and starving wading birds, threatening the wetland food web.

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As language models (LMs) improve at tasks like image generation, trivia questions, and simple math, you might think that ...

saw the release of one soon-to-be classic movie after another, ranging from summer blockbusters to high art director-driven ...

More than six centuries ago, roughly 80 years ahead of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, Chinese admiral Zheng He reached ...

The new chief of MI6, Blaise Metreweli, will warn of "the acute threat posed by Russia" when she makes her first public ...