Of all the visual shorthand for a particular type of outmoded futurism, one of the most immediately recognizable must be the light grid. | Continue reading
New York City is one of the most populated cities in America with over 8.5 million residents. You would think that as skyscrapers are built up and rent prices s | Continue reading
Glad to announce the release of KStars v3.5.0 for Windows, MacOS, and Linux . This release marks a significant milestone for KStars with the... | Continue reading
“We are going backwards in time,” Prof. Shai Efrati said. | Continue reading
Pioneering guidelines aren’t enough to prevent overseas militaries such as China’s from co-opting the country’s science, say some experts. | Continue reading
At the HotChips conference 2020, Alibaba announced the Xuantie-910 RISC-V core which is an ultra high-performance processor with an AI acceleration engine based on RISC-V RV64GCV. | Continue reading
David Graeber Bullshit Jobs A Theory May 15, 2018, originally published. ISBN 978-1-5011-4331-1, ISBN 978-1-5011-4334-2 (ebook); Most names and many... | Continue reading
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This publication is the final report of the bipartisan Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship. It includes 31 recommendations to strengthen America’s institutions and civic culture to help a nation in crisis emerge with a more resilient democracy. | Continue reading
Major U.S. companies, reportedly including Apple, are lobbying against a new piece of legislation that seeks to prevent forced labor in China. | Continue reading
The Pandemic Impact Fund focuses on early-stage, tech companies that can significantly help with everything pandemic and deliver venture returns. | Continue reading
In the four decades before the Civil War, thousands of fugitive slaves escaped from the U.S. to Mexico. Runaways found both unfamiliar risks and high rewards south of the border. | Continue reading
New research shows that broad, national dissemination of frequent, rapid COVID-19 tests could turn the tide on the pandemic within weeks, without shutting down schools and businesses. For curbing infection, test turnaround time is more important than test sensitivity. | Continue reading
A study of low-numbered Delaware license plates finds that their mere scarcity has turned them into a valuable form of status signalling. | Continue reading
Education scholars say that math homework as it's currently assigned reinforces class divides in society and needs to change for good. | Continue reading
They were found in the Yanghai Tombs in modern-day Northern China. | Continue reading
The Kar-go, developed by the Academy of Robotics, has started its first trials on public roads. | Continue reading
Pennsylvania officials can certify election results that currently show Democrat Joe Biden winning the state by more than 80,000 votes,... | Continue reading
NASA Announces Moon Supply Unloading System Design Winners | Continue reading
TT2020 is “an advanced, open source, hyperrealistic, multilingual typewriter font for a new decade!” As there already are so many, why another? Creator Fredrick Brennan (previously) poi… | Continue reading
Terry Pratchett is my favourite author. It’s not even close. His wit and wisdom shaped about as much of my worldview as my own parents. He died in 2015, and it was awful. In the global trash fire of 2020, I’ve been re-reading a lot of his books for comfort, and it reminded me of … | Continue reading
Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #53! It has one again been a very busy two weeks on my news feeds, so let’s dive straight in. For productized AI, Runway ML launched the first (well, maybe) web-based automated video background removal tool; and Apple open-sourced a fork … | Continue reading
Restore pictures with AI. Remove scratches, sharpen colors, and enhance faces in seconds. The service also works on modern images with faded colors or damaged parts. | Continue reading
If you are have developed Android apps chances are you are familiar with ViewModel and unidirectional data flow. But how does this paradigm fits into this new Jetpack Compose world? | Continue reading
Use HyperV to boot native Linux OS on a different disk to run as a VM | Continue reading
U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) is the U.S. armed forces command charged with offensive and defensive cyber operations. Since 2010, it has coexisted with NSA as two organizations under one director. It is simultaneously embedded within U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), a functiona … | Continue reading
They're the bedrock of e-commerce and sharing economies, but do they really work and have they crossed a line? | Continue reading
Official government statistics don't fully capture just how much millions of Americans are hurting, one expert says. | Continue reading
ROME (AP) — Skeletal remains of what are believed to have been a rich man and his male slave attempting to escape death from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago have been... | Continue reading