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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects about 9 in 10 adults, causes mono, and is tied to several cancers and multiple sclerosis. How it hides and what research shows.

When you shoot someone in an online game and they die half a second later, that's not a bug — it's the result of intricate engineering to make a fundamentally broken medium feel responsive. Netcode is the invisible science that makes multiplayer gaming possible.

High-frequency trading firms compete on delays measured in millionths of a second. Neural networks are the newest tool in that race, and the evidence on what they add is more modest than the legend.