Synth Playground

Learn about synthesizers via Ableton’s interactive website. Play with a synth in your browser and learn to use the various parts of a synth to make your own sounds. | Continue reading


@learningsynths.ableton.com | 3 years ago

What is a hash function and the different types?

Hash functions are a fundamental part of modern programming. They map a variable-sized input to a fixed-size output. We can use them to: Verify the integrity of files and make sure they have not been modified.Save a password in a database without the risk that if somebody steals … | Continue reading


@exampl.io | 3 years ago

Birds learn to avoid flashy, hard-to-catch butterflies and their lookalikes

The showy colors of some butterflies could advertise their speed and nimbleness, much like a coat of bright yellow paint on a sports car. A new study shows birds can learn to recognize these visual cues, avoiding not only butterflies they've failed to nab in the past but similar- … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

AP-NORC poll: 1 in 5 in US lost someone close in pandemic

WASHINGTON (AP) — About 1 in 5 Americans say they lost a relative or close friend to the coronavirus, highlighting the division between heartache and hope as the country itches to get back to... | Continue reading


@apnews.com | 3 years ago

Researchers design a new highly-selective tool to study 'undruggable' proteins through the sugars they depend on

Sugar has been called "evil," "toxic," and "poison." But the body needs sugars, too. Sugar molecules help cells recognize and fight viruses and bacteria, shuttle proteins from cell to cell, and make sure those proteins function. Too much or too little can contribute to a range of … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

The Infinite Dial 2021 [pdf]

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@edisonresearch.com | 3 years ago

I made an advanced bookmarking / curation tool for Twitter

Save and organize tweets that matter to you. | Continue reading


@tw-rl.com | 3 years ago

How does a crustacean become a crab?

Crabs are living the meme life on social media lately. The memes joke that everything will eventually look like a crab. But it's actually based in some truth. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Apple sues former employee Simon Lancaster over device leaks to media

The former materials lead at Apple has been sued by the company, with the complaint addressing alleged misappropriation of trade secrets that were then sold to an unnamed publication in exchange for favorable coverage of a startup. | Continue reading


@appleinsider.com | 3 years ago

OVH fire still has websites offline

Europe’s largest cloud services firm OVHcloud suffered from a massive fire at one of their data centers early Wednesday morning (just before 1 a.m. local time). The Strasbourg data center (SBG2) was destroyed along with part of a second facility (SBG1). | Continue reading


@constellix.com | 3 years ago

Whooping cranes steer clear of wind turbines when selecting stopover sites

As gatherings to observe whooping cranes join the ranks of online-only events this year, a new study offers insight into how the endangered bird is faring on a landscape increasingly dotted with wind turbines. The paper, published this week in Ecological Applications, reports tha … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the genomic history of mammoths

Siberian mammoth genomes from the Early and Middle Pleistocene subepochs reveal adaptive changes and a key hybridization event, highlighting the value of deep-time palaeogenomics for studies of speciation and long-term evolutionary trends. | Continue reading


@nature.com | 3 years ago

Laser-driven experiments provide insights into the formation of the universe

The universe is filled with magnetic fields. Understanding how magnetic fields are generated and amplified in plasmas is essential to studying how large structures in the universe were formed and how energy is divided throughout the cosmos. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy innovation enables simultaneous multicontrast imaging

Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM), a new hybrid imaging technique, allows us to listen to the sound of light and see the color of biological tissue itself. It can be used for live, multicontrast functional imaging, but the limited wavelength choice of most comm … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

SLAs for manual reviews on mobile app stores

One of the saddest things to happen to building software products is... | Continue reading


@vishnu.tech | 3 years ago

Modern Trailers for Classic Films

In order to promote the classic films available on the streaming service, HBO Max has created a selection of modern-style movi | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 3 years ago

Former Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller told VICE on Showtime he believes Trump’s speech caused the violent mob to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

There’s a Good Chance Your Mountain Bike Is Too Big For You

Do you know your R | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 3 years ago

Get to know the first new AWS Heroes of 2021!

The global AWS Heroes program recognizes individuals who are prominent leaders in local tech communities. Heroes help others learn about AWS by sharing knowledge via blog posts, presentations, social media, and open source projects; or by organizing events, Meetups, and workshops … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 3 years ago

Your Afternoon Man: Michael B Jordan is Handsome on the Cover of Men’s Health

This is not a surprise! | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 3 years ago

American Society of Cinematographers and American Cinema Editors Awards Nominees Announced for 2021

Nomations for the American Cinema Editors Awards and the American Cinema Editors Awards have been announced. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 3 years ago

Table of Contents with IntersectionObserver

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@benfrain.com | 3 years ago

The Product-Led Growth Flywheel: Everything You Need to Know

Creating a product led growth fly wheel can help to grow your business every time someone uses it. Here is how | Continue reading


@readwrite.com | 3 years ago

We Must Extend Postpartum Medicaid Coverage

And that must go hand in hand with better access to quality care, redress of systemic barriers to vital health, and social services and supports | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 3 years ago

Episode 5: Bruce Tate and Turtles All the Way Down

For this week's episode, we talk to Bruce Tate, member of the Elixir community since the language turned 1.0. As one of the main people behind Elixir's publishing scene, Bruce was the editor of the ElixirSource line of books for the Pragmatic Bookshelf through most of its history … | Continue reading


@beamrad.io | 3 years ago

3 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Professional Industries

It’s no wonder the career path of an entrepreneur draws so many people to try and make it their lives work. To have the ability to be your own boss, make your own team, and decide exactly how you’re going to change the world is liberating. What some young entrepreneurs lose track … | Continue reading


@readwrite.com | 3 years ago

The Hate Crime (Scotland) Bill is due to pass tonight

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@samizdata.net | 3 years ago

With 'big one' coming, quake alert system launches in Oregon

People in Oregon will be better prepared for earthquakes—particularly important in the Pacific Northwest because experts say "the big one" is coming—as an early warning system launched Thursday, the 10th anniversary of a devastating quake and tsunami in Japan. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Why is the “un-carrier” falling into the hellhole of tracking-based advertising?

For a few years now, T-Mobile has been branding itself the “un-carrier,” saying it’s “synonymous with 100% customer commitment.” Credit where due: we switched from AT&… | Continue reading


@blogs.harvard.edu | 3 years ago

Neural networks for geophysicists and application to seismic data interpretation

Neural-networks have seen a surge of interest for the interpretation ofseismic images during the last few years. Network-based learning methods canprovide fast and accurate automatic... | Continue reading


@arxiv.org | 3 years ago

Tracking cosmic ghosts

The idea was so far-fetched it seemed like science fiction: create an observatory out of a one cubic kilometer block of ice in Antarctica to track ghostly particles called neutrinos that pass through the Earth. But speaking to Benedickt Riedel, global computing manager at the Ice … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Replacing PulseAudio with PipeWire

PipeWire is a multimedia server, best known for it’s video support in Wayland. It also provides an audio server which can replace PulseAudio. The appeal, for me at least, to switch over from … | Continue reading


@guyrutenberg.com | 3 years ago

Polarization: From better sunglasses to a better way of looking at asteroid surfaces

Using the same principles that make polarized sunglasses possible, a team of researchers at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico have developed a technique that will help better defend against asteroids on a collision course with Earth. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Climate change influences river flow

Climate change is affecting the water balance of our planet: depending on the region and the time of year, this can influence the amount of water in rivers potentially resulting in more flooding or drought. River flow is an important indicator of water resources available to huma … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Superconducting coils for contactless power transmission in the kilowatt range

A team led by Christoph Utschick and Prof. Rudolf Gross, physicists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has developed a coil with superconducting wires capable of transmitting power in the range of more than five kilowatts contactless and with only small losses. The wide … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Researchers reveal 3D structure responsible for gene expression

For the first time ever, a Northwestern University-led research team has peered inside a human cell to view a multi-subunit machine responsible for regulating gene expression. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Hyperpolarized proton MRI used to observe metabolic processes in real time

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is already widely used in medicine for diagnostic purposes. Hyperpolarized MRI is a more recent development and its research and application potential has yet to be fully explored. Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the H … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Cheaper carbon capture is on the way

As part of a marathon research effort to lower the cost of carbon capture, chemists have now demonstrated a method to seize carbon dioxide (CO2) that reduces costs by 19 percent compared to current commercial technology. The new technology requires 17 percent less energy to accom … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

‘This is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist’ Trailer: Netflix Docuseries Examines the Greatest Art Mystery

Netflix has released the This is a Robbery The World's Biggest Art Heist trailer for its docuseries about the greatest cold case in the art community. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 3 years ago

Team creates new ultralightweight, crush-resistant tensegrity metamaterials

Catastrophic collapse of materials and structures is the inevitable consequence of a chain reaction of locally confined damage—from solid ceramics that snap after the development of a small crack to metal space trusses that give way after the warping of a single strut. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Show HN: The HK19 manual – A crowdsourced protest guide

The HK19 Manual (၂၀၁၉ ဟောင်ကောင်လှုပ်ရှားမှု လက်စွဲ) ဗမာ HK Links & resources ချစ်ခင်ရတဲ့ မြန်မာပြည်က ညီအစ်ကို မောင်နှမတို့ရေ… ငါတို့က ဟောင်ကောင်တော်လှန်ရေးမှာ တစ်ထောင့်တစ်နေရာက ပါဝင်ဆင်နွှဲခဲ့ကြသူတွေ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ အခု မင်းတို့နိုင်ငံမှာ ဖြစ်ပေါ်နေတဲ့ အခြေအနေ အရပ်ရပ်နဲ့ ပတ်သက်ပြီ … | Continue reading


@docs.google.com | 3 years ago

Personal charitable donation budgets flexible in aftermath of deadly storms

Charitable donations account for about 2% of gross domestic product in the U.S., but it's not well-understood whether an event such as a deadly storm inspires increases in charitable giving or simply reallocates a fixed supply of donation dollars that would have otherwise gone to … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Weakened protections led to more disappearances of endangered Mexican wolves

Mexican wolves in the American Southwest disappeared more quickly during periods of relaxed legal protections, almost certainly succumbing to poaching, according to new research published Wednesday. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Microscope helps with dinosaur puzzle

Fossil sites sometimes resemble a living room table on which half a dozen different jigsaw puzzles have been dumped: It is often difficult to say which bone belongs to which animal. Together with colleagues from Switzerland, researchers from the University of Bonn have now presen … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Air pollution: The silent killer called PM2.5

Millions of people die prematurely every year from diseases and cancer caused by air pollution. The first line of defense against this carnage is ambient air quality standards. Yet, according to researchers from McGill University, over half of the world's population lives without … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Scientists discover cellular stress enzyme that might play key role in neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS

An enzyme called MARK2 has been identified as a key stress-response switch in cells in a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Overactivation of this type of stress response is a possible cause of injury to brain cells in neurodegenerative disea … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Climate change may not expand drylands

Does a warmer climate mean more dry land? For years, researchers projected that drylands—including deserts, savannas and shrublands—will expand as the planet warms, but new research from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) challenges thos … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

After cracking the 'sum of cubes' puzzle for 42, researchers discover a new solution for 3

What do you do after solving the answer to life, the universe, and everything? If you're mathematicians Drew Sutherland and Andy Booker, you go for the harder problem. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago