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Compute desk
AI writing tools comparison: what each one actually does
Copilot in Word, Gemini in Docs, Grammarly and Apple's Writing Tools all generate and rewrite text. Here is what each vendor's own page says it does, and who can use it.
Civilizations desk
Sacsayhuamán: who built the walls above Cusco, and how?
The fitted megaliths above Cusco are credited to the Inca, dated in part to an earlier people, and read by some as relics of a far older age. Here is each case and its evidence.
Civilizations desk
Karahan Tepe: the Neolithic site beside Göbekli Tepe
A rock-cut room with a carved head, a pillar with a face, and rival readings of what it all meant: the excavators' rites of passage, a sky calendar, a serpent cult, a lost civilization.
Compute desk
Free AI coding assistants: what the free plans include
What the free tiers of GitHub Copilot and Amazon Q Developer document, what happened to Gemini Code Assist's consumer version, and how the limits are counted.
Civilizations desk
Nan Madol: the stone city built on a Pacific lagoon
Twin sorcerers, a flying dragon, a lost Pacific motherland, and a coral-dated tomb: the competing answers to who raised Nan Madol's basalt walls, and how.
Civilizations desk
Göbekli Tepe site: who built it, and what the carvings record
Who raised the carved pillars of Göbekli Tepe, and why? A comet record, survivors of a lost civilization, or hunter-gatherers who lived there: the cases, side by side.