The Humboldt archipelago off the northern Pacific coast of Chile is a "natural treasure" and refuge for unique species of fauna, including a particular type of penguin and an otter on the brink of extinction. | Continue reading
Smokestacks belch noxious fumes into the air from a massive coal-fired power plant on the Indonesian coast, a stark illustration of Asia's addiction to the fossil fuel which is threatening climate targets. | Continue reading
Contribute to deepmind/xmanager development by creating an account on GitHub. | Continue reading
Friends, do you ever wonder how restaurants transform seemingly simple salads and bowls into beautiful and complex dishes? Delicious dressings are one | Continue reading
Pilosa is an open source, distributed bitmap index that dramatically accelerates continuous analysis across multiple, massive data sets. | Continue reading
Generate beautiful PDF reports using a simple JSON API. | Continue reading
In the middle of the last decade, Facebook decided it needed to build AI to fight hate speech.While the technology did work in some cases, we’ve also seen glaring failures. After the Christchurch shooting, for example, Facebook wasn’t | Continue reading
Golf Brno Kaskáda is a golf paradise located only 25 minutes from Brno. The venue offer everything attendees need to relax. | Continue reading
A new study led by a team of bioscientists from Durham University, UK, in collaboration with University of Liverpool, Northumbria University and New England Biolabs, hopes to exploit newly characterized defense systems in bacteria to compare changes to the human genome. | Continue reading
The genus Allium contains about 1,100 species worldwide, including many staple foods like onion, garlic, scallion, shallot and chives. Even though this group of vegetables has been making appearances at family dinners for centuries, it turns out that it is a long way from running … | Continue reading
Two friends growing coral and the country of Costa Rica are among five winners receiving £1m each. | Continue reading
The now-former James Bond actor made a surprise appearance on 'SNL' as *a* prince, not *the* Prince. | Continue reading
An Egyptian company that launched North Korea's first 3G cellular network and built it up to 3 million subscribers says it's effectively lost control of the operator despite owning a majority stake. | Continue reading
Trio step out from behind pseudonym marketed as ‘Spain’s Elena Ferrante’ to accept €1m prize | Continue reading
Meeting booking platforms purport to streamline the RFP and venue sourcing processes, saving hours in the search for venues and back-and-forth with sales staff. | Continue reading
Pitfalls with partial unit test assertions | Continue reading
These good-looking sandals are affordable and durable, and they complement almost any warm-weather outfit. | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg is a leading voice on the metaverse - a virtual reality version of the internet. | Continue reading
Our coffee takes its inspiration from the Valinch, a pipette used for drawing whisky out a cask for sampling, and known colloquially in distilleries as the ‘whisky thief’. Over a month of resting in whisky barrels, the green unroasted coffee slowly absorbs left over heady aromas … | Continue reading
TOKYO: Japan's new prime minister on Sunday (Oct 17) said the planned mass disposal of wastewater stored at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant cannot be delayed, despite concerns from local residents.Speaking at his first visit to the facility since taking office, Fumio … | Continue reading
Die b&b eventtechnik hat nachhaltiges Wirtschaften unter Beweis gestellt, und wurde nun im September 2021 für die nächsten zwei Jahre durch den fwd: Bundesvereinigung Veranstaltungswirtschaft e. V. (ehemals FAMAB), als „Sustainable Company“ ... | Continue reading
Scott Stuber laughs nervously when I ask if he is now the most important man in Hollywood. The head of film at the streaming giant Netflix, which has 209 milli | Continue reading
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) protocol has become integral partof the modern internet technology. It is currently the primary protocol forcommercialized web applications. It can provide a fast, secure connection witha certain level of privacy and integrity, and it ha … | Continue reading
This is a writeup of COVID test accuracies that I put together for my owninterest, and shared with friends and housemates to help us reason about COVIDrisk. Some of these friends suggested that I post this to LessWrong. I am not astatistician or an expert in medical research.BACK … | Continue reading
Players are making thousands of dollars a month battling Pokémon clones. Is this how crypto goes mainstream? | Continue reading
At least eight types of bird flu, all of which can kill humans, are circulating around the world’s factory farms – and they could be worse than Covid-19 | Continue reading
Among the other new proposals for C23 that WG14 received are two brilliant gems by Alex Gilding The constexpr specifierThe void-which-binds: typesafe parametric polymorphism The first is probably w… | Continue reading
Qubit the dog, who likes to hang out at Google's Quantum AI campus, waxes philosophical about all things quantum computing. (And treats.) | Continue reading
Another goal is getting Apple to make its chips in Intel's factories. | Continue reading
Terraformer is an open-source CLI tool developed by the team and community at Google Cloud (although, not an offical product). It is has… | Continue reading
You're busy with too much to do and not enough time. You can keep running faster on that damn treadmill — or you can get smart with these mental models and frameworks to boost your productivity and get your time back.ModelThinkers already has a range of models … | Continue reading
Irgendwann habe ich angefangen, meine Schuhe in Kategorien einzuteilen. Die Kriterien orientierten sich dabei nicht am Aussehen, sondern vielmehr an der Zeitspanne, die ich sie tragen kann. Da wären etwa meine verlässlichen „20.000 Schritte sind kein Problem“-Exemplare, zu denen … | Continue reading
North Vancouver announced Thursday it would become the world's first city to be heated almost entirely by bitcoin mining, an innovative way to tackle climate change by creating valuable cryptocurrency coins and usable thermal energy at the same time. | Continue reading
Company faces penalty for telling customers it would show cheapest room rates when it actually provided ‘almost the opposite’ | Continue reading
by Jochen Szangolies Turn your head to the left, and make a conscious inventory of what you’re seeing. In my case, I see a radiator upon which a tin can painted with an image of Santa Claus is perched; above that, a window, whose white frame delimits a slate gray sky and the very … | Continue reading
Use ZooKeeper to lock resources with a Python script. | Continue reading
Offensive work and addiction Why offense is hard to contain ISACA Nordic Conference 2014 Keynote thomas.dullien@googlemail.com | Continue reading
Coming uo with solutions to WordPress needs often means finding a different tree to bark at. I’m never surprised to discover along the way some dusty niche in the code. For example, in the ta… | Continue reading