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a collection or system of rules of conduct
Hammurabi was an ancient king of Babylon with a famous code of laws the tax code
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John Kell, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2025
That has alarming implications for human occupations as diverse as coding and customer service, trading and sales.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Hardware needs shrink dramatically By virtually eliminating one of the two main error types, Alice & Bob’s cat qubits allow for more efficient error-correcting codes that require far fewer physical qubits.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
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Noun
What that means for his work as CIO is finding ways to improve worker productivity, including giving developers more access to AI coding tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and GitHub Copilot.
—John Kell, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2025
That has alarming implications for human occupations as diverse as coding and customer service, trading and sales.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
Desert Diamond Arena code of conduct Guests will respect and appreciate one another.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Hardware needs shrink dramatically By virtually eliminating one of the two main error types, Alice & Bob’s cat qubits allow for more efficient error-correcting codes that require far fewer physical qubits.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
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Within days, regulators determined the hospital had violated federal law.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
22 Sep. 2025
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Trump is set to sign an executive order later this week stating that the deal constitutes a qualified divestiture as required by the ban-or-sale law that passed last year, the official said.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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The real challenge from AI will likely emerge in the weeks and months ahead as firms cipher through Judge Mehta’s enforcement of behavioral requirements.—
Tor Constantino,
Forbes.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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These remnants, signals from an earlier phase of our human condition, have been endlessly ciphered by generations of archaeologists in the Bears Ears region (which is named for twin buttes near its center).—
STEPHEN NASH,
New York Times,
25 July 2017
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Several issues remain to be resolved – most notably, Azerbaijan is demanding that Armenia changes its constitution – a move that would likely be rejected by Armenian voters in a referendum.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
24 Sep. 2025
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The supreme task before Prachanda was to give the new republic an inclusive constitution.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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These tiny changes in distance encode a tremendous amount of information about their source.—
Chad Hanna,
The Conversation,
10 Sep. 2025
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Spotify’s lossless audio feature will allow users to stream tracks encoded in up to 24-bit depth at a sample rate of 44.1 kHz via FLAC (free lossless audio codec), an open-source compression algorithm that provides playback without losing any data from the original recording.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2025
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Discord does not encrypt its private channels, meaning that the company has technical access to users’ conversations and can turn them over to law enforcement if presented with a court order or warrant.—
Kevin Collier,
NBC news,
24 Sep. 2025
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Besides there being less interference than at radio waves, optical and infrared lasers also support quantum encryption — what's known as QKD, or quantum key distribution, in which the key to encrypting the data is encoded into the quantum superposition of the photons.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Code.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/code. Accessed 26 Sep. 2025.
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