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Each week on The Book Show, host Joe Donahue interviews authors about their books, their lives and their craft. It is a celebration of both reading and writers. Joe holds interesting conversations ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a worm that thinks for itself. Using free off-the-shelf AI models it ...