Researchers across MIT are working on ways to boost food production and help crops survive drought. | Continue reading
A major player in aerospace innovation has bitten the dust. Reaction Engines, a developer of hypersonic engine technology since 1989, has gone into administration and its closure is having a major impact on the hypersonic weapons program of Britain and others. Continue Reading Ca … | Continue reading
Tucker Carlson explains that he was sleeping in his bed with 4 dogs, woke up with scratches, and immediately knew he had been attacked by a demon.“I knew it was spiritual, immediately.” That’s where we are in 2024. Looks like it only gets weirder from here. | Continue reading
See the original post at https://www.luisquintanilla.me/posts/digitize-analog-bookmarks-with-ai-dotnetIntroduction This past year I've made more of an effort to read. I track books in my /library page. Although I have a Nova Air 2 E-Note device, given the choice, I prefer physica … | Continue reading
Posted on behalf of Loren Rieseburg and Shawn Narum, workshop organizers. We are pleased to announce the inaugural workshop for Molecular Ecology at the Plant & Animal Genomics (PAG) conference. The field of Molecular Ecology has been revolutionized by advances … Continue reading … | Continue reading
Listening to the Universe A radio telescope of the astronomy lab at Lord’s Bridge near Cambridge. Quote of the Day ”A writer who adopts political, social, or literary positions must act only with the means that are his own — … Continue reading → | Continue reading
It leapfrogged Google at launch. Now ChatGPT is reaching to the past to build its future | Continue reading
There’s a lot of big news in next generation Covid vaccine development this month, including clinical trial results for 2 vaccines. The… The post Strong Longterm Results – and a NextGen Anti-Vax Campaign (Covid Vax Update 22) appeared first on Absolutely Maybe. | Continue reading
October has been a momentous month in our lives. 50 years ago, the Grateful Dead played their last show before taking a year-long hiatus. 50 years ago, a few days after that show, ... Read more | Continue reading
Emanuel Maiberg, 404 Media: For the past two years an algorithmic artist who goes by Ada Ada Ada has been testing the boundaries of human and automated moderation systems on various social media platforms by documenting her own transition. Every week she uploads a shirtless self … | Continue reading
And, no, it’s not Jim Gaffigan. Rainn Wilson, (Dwight on The Office) has been using food to make climate points for ordinary folks. Forbes: Actor Rainn Wilson (The Office) made headlines last year when he changed his Twitter name to “Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson” to … | Continue reading
Portuguese woodworking specialist Madeiguincho recently completed a new model that once again showcases the firm's expertise with all things wood. Named the Morena, it features an eye-catching timber exterior made using a traditional Japanese charring technique plus a spacious an … | Continue reading
Jeff Johnson: First, StopTheMadness Pro 11.0 adds the ability to copy a text fragment link from selected text in Safari, using a contextual menu item on macOS or Show Menu on Tap on iOS. The previous two links are themselves examples of text fragments; the first link, when clicke … | Continue reading
As more bacteria that cause diseases become increasingly resistant to antibiotics, we need more ways to fight off infections. That's where this new patch comes in. With just a gentle electric zap, this bioelectronic wearable could prevent bacteria from doing a number on us throug … | Continue reading
Cerebras Coder Val Town founder Steve Krouse has been building demos on top of the Cerebras API that runs Llama3.1-70b at 2,000 tokens/second. Having a capable LLM with that kind of performance turns out to be really interesting. Cerebras Coder is a demo that implements Claude Ar … | Continue reading
Weather forecast for Election Day includes rain across battleground states. | Continue reading
While I am extremely pleased and grateful that 26 years of writing on Linux Journal survive online without being 404’d, I also realize that this condition probably won’t last forever. Also, some pieces are now missing their images and other graces. This is one of them. It is also … | Continue reading
Reviewing inflatable Halloween decorations in Brownstone Brooklyn, seen and photographed in October 2024. | Continue reading
Following a festive Friendsgiving, we're keeping the Food52 Cookbook Club gatherings going with a holiday-themed sweets swap! This time, we’ll be baking and sharing treats from Dolci! by Renato Poliafito. If you were a fan of his former Brooklyn bakeshop, Baked, or a stan for Cia … | Continue reading
Inflatable tents are easy to set up, and inflatable camp mattresses are nice n' comfy, so why not combine the two? That's just what Canada's Rise Outdoor has done with its AirNEST system, which consists of a tent and a wall-to-wall mattress along with an electric pump. Continue R … | Continue reading
Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone Lord Howe Island - part of Australia, population 382 - is unique in that the island's standard time zone is UTC+10:30 but is UTC+11 when daylight saving time applies. It's the only time zone where DST represents a 30 minute offset. Via … | Continue reading
New features in Svelte 5 and a ton of new community libraries | Continue reading
MANY HAVE TRIED to pin Trump to Heritage’s “Project 2025.” The Trump campaign has not only refused to endorse Project 2025—they have refused to endorse any detailed policy plan whatsoever. Trump prefers to keep his options open. One unanticipated benefit of this approach is that … | Continue reading
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Innovazione e Sfide del Settore. Una breve sintesi di un programma ricchissimo di ospiti: scopri tutti i panel Hospitality in questo articolo. Vi aspettiamo a Firenze il 27 e 28 novembre 2024. The post Il programma di BTO 2024: Topic Hospitality appeared first on Be Travel Onlife … | Continue reading
Every quarter after releasing financial results, Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri hop on a conference call with analysts to detail the quarter gone by, give a peek at what’s to come, and dodge—er, I mean answer—questions from analysts.… | Continue reading
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“Since we’ve been analyzing baby names and reporting on them for two decades now, we’ve seen a ton of trends come and go,” said Rebekah Wahlberg, a baby name trends specialist at BabyCenter. “The 2025 trend forecast tells us a couple things about the future of baby naming: One, p … | Continue reading
In support of their AI ambitions, tech companies are rapidly expanding US data centres, and this growth is on track to significantly increase US gas demand by 2030 | Continue reading
Apple reported its financial results on Thursday for its fourth fiscal quarter, which ended on September 28. Revenue was $94.9 billion, up six percent versus the year-ago quarter and an all-time fourth quarter record.… | Continue reading
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Contest hosted by the Department of Mathematics attracts 274 participants and celebrates 16th anniversary. | Continue reading
NEOM, the striplike desert city in northwest Saudi Arabia, is just one part of the kingdom's massive plan to build out a more tourist- and business-friendly region near the borders with Egypt and Israel. Locals have been violently evicted from traditional lands, and workers are f … | Continue reading
You’ve been warned. Yale Climate Connections: In many parts of Latin America, when the dark of night descends, the vampire bat emerges. Vampire bats are famous for feasting on the blood of live animals. As the climate warms, they’re spreading farther north. And according to Luis … | Continue reading
Researchers assert that the Triassic-Jurassic extinction was a sudden event. Around 201.6 million years ago, Earth experienced one of its five major mass extinctions, leading to the abrupt disappearance of about 75% of all species. This event aligned with colossal volcanic erupti … | Continue reading
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Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency JD Vance, well known for saying stupid things, verbally stepped off a few new cliffs. Holy smokes. Vance claims women celebrate abortions. Even JOE ROGAN tried to back him down. This is callous beyond callous. — Read the rest The post … | Continue reading
By Leo Babauta Sometimes we decide not to do something because it feels like there’s not enough time to do the task — it will take me 2 hours to work on that task, and I only have 20 minutes, so why bother starting? We do this kind of thing more than we realize — […] The post The … | Continue reading
I was a huge fan of Patrick Radden-Keefe's Northern Irish history slash true crime book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. It's one of those non-fiction books I recommend to everyone I meet who shows even a passing curiosity in the history of the … | Continue reading
It’s hallowe’en, and there’s a frightfully good treat waiting for fans of the free, open-source racing game SuperTuxKart – a new beta! The first beta of SuperTuxKart 1.5 offers an array of improvements, touching everything from the underlying game engine to the user-interface thr … | Continue reading
The "infinite monkey theorem" suggests that if you gave a monkey an infinite amount of time to randomly hit keys on a typewriter, it would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare—Hamlet included—purely by chance. Unfortunately, it won't happen before the end of the u … | Continue reading
Ada Ada Ada is documenting her transition on Instagram, uploading shirtless photos weekly to test their nudity guidelines # | Continue reading
Walking against a red light or at the middle of a block is not an advisable thing to do. But in 120 days, it will no longer be a crime to jaywalk in New York City. From The New York Times: "[A]fter decades of mostly turning the other way, city officials finally decriminalized jay … | Continue reading
Pork Pie is a dynamic four-piece contemporary Alternative Rock band from Ireland, fiercely blending elements of Garage, Indie Groove, and Psychedelia to create a powerful sound. | Continue reading
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