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Muralist Wyland wanted 20% of California's profits from sales of license plates with his whale painting as the backdrop. The state held a contest to replace it.

The terms ‘verso’ and ‘recto’ refer to different sides of a picture or book. Generally, verso refers to the back, while recto refers to the front. For books, the right-hand page of an open book is ...

In his book The Singularity Is Near, scientific futurist and artificial intelligence (AI) prophet Ray Kurzweil predicts that machine learning will accelerate over time to a point at which machines ...

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