AI is undergoing a paradigm shift with the rise of models (e.g., BERT,DALL-E, GPT-3) that are trained on broad data at scale and are adaptable to awide range of downstream tasks. We call these models foundation models tounderscore their critically central yet incomplete character … | Continue reading
Neil Blomkamp shared District 10 details about his planned District 9 sequel, which he promises will be as "stripped down" as the original. | Continue reading
Even though Michael Keaton had no problem suiting up as Batman again, he had to read The Flash script three times to fully understand his return. | Continue reading
Measurements of total and basal energy in a large cohort of subjects at ages spanning from before birth to old age document distinct changes that occur during a human lifetime. Pontzer et al. report that energy expenditure (adjusted for weight) in neonates was like that of adults … | Continue reading
How PlanetScale uses database branching and non-blocking schema changes to build PlanetScale. | Continue reading
The Texas school district said that Gov. Abbott doesn't have authority to take over the Board of Trustees' power. | Continue reading
Parked along the main drag at EAA AirVenture (“Oshkosh”) was a homebuilt airplane with Native American portraits airbrushed on the vertical stabilizer: As we walked by on Day 1 of the e… | Continue reading
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Another big tech company has been hacked. Again. This time it was T-Mobile, with personal information on 100 million customers stolen. | Continue reading
electricityMap is a live visualization of where your electricity comes from and how much CO2 was emitted to produce it. | Continue reading
A look at Japan's Keirin track racing | Continue reading
After years of looking the other way, regulators might finally be getting around to caring about Tesla's deceptive self-driving claims. | Continue reading
Biases built into radio technology have shaped how we hear women speak. | Continue reading
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Northern California wildfires that incinerated two mountain communities continued marching through the Sierra Nevada on Wednesday while a utility purposely blacked out as many as 51,000 customers to prevent new blazes. | Continue reading
When NASA's James Webb Space Telescope begins science operations in 2022, one of its first tasks will be an ambitious program to map the earliest structures in the universe. Called COSMOS-Webb, this wide and deep survey of half a million galaxies is the largest project Webb will … | Continue reading
Recent polls show moviegoing comfort levels have taken a turn for the worst, leading studios to reconsider movie release changes. | Continue reading
I gave it my best shot, but I gotta get out. | Continue reading
Researchers attribute up to 900,000 premature deaths every year to a dangerous component of air particle pollution found in paints, pesticides, and cleaning supplies. | Continue reading
Learn about FTC, GLBA, FCRA and SEC compliance and how ImmuniWeb can help you comply with them. | Continue reading
Knowing how AI art is made is the key to making even better AI art. | Continue reading
Apple now spends its summer and fall seasons doing some course correcting. And that's good for the user in the long run. | Continue reading
DoorDash delivers millions of orders every day with our last-mile logistics platform. Look under the hood and learn how the platform works | Continue reading
We have an exclusive first look at Madres, one of the latest entries in Amazon's Welcome to the Blumhouse series of horror movies. | Continue reading
Our Reminiscence review looks at the new Lisa Joy movie starring Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson. | Continue reading
The 2021 Climate Change Startup Landscape focused on PropTech, AgTech, Material Science and Climate Tech | Continue reading
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have explored high-pressure behavior of shock-compressed tantalum at the Omega Laser Facility at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE). The work showed tantalum did not follow the predicted ph … | Continue reading
Teresa Carr in Undark: In explaining the rationale for approving female-libido drugs, the FDA often cites the “unmet medical need.” Yet researchers are fiercely divided over the question of just how many women lack libido and how best to help them. If you believe advertising for … | Continue reading
With mobile news consumption on the rise, two MoJo experts from Bangladesh share tips on changing the way you think about creating content | Continue reading
Ed Yong in The Atlantic: This new surge brings a jarring sense of déjà vu. America has fallen prey to many of the same self-destructive but alluring instincts that I identified last year. It went all in on one countermeasure—vaccines—and traded it off against masks and other prot … | Continue reading
Where were the Eternals during Endgame? Apparently, the new Marvel movie will explain why these immortal heroes didn't give Cap a hand. | Continue reading
Jeffrey D. Sachs at Project Syndicate: The magnitude of the United States’ failure in Afghanistan is breathtaking. It is not a failure of Democrats or Republicans, but an abiding failure of American political culture, reflected in US policymakers’ lack of interest in understandin … | Continue reading
New research shows changes in tides and hurricane activity played a part in upending the Maya civilization centuries ago. | Continue reading
A vaccine failed once—can this new preventative treatment succeed? | Continue reading
Just a super quick post to note that I’ve published a full unboxing of the COROS VERTIX 2, but more notably a complete user interface tour. In the video I walk through all the pieces of the watch from a | Continue reading
This super simple homemade ranch seasoning makes great ranch dressing and can also be used to season, meat, vegetables, pasta, and more. | Continue reading
Neutrinos are tricky beasts. Alone among known fundamental particles, they suffer from an identity crisis—if it were possible to put them on a weighing scale, you would unpredictably measure one of three possible masses. As a result, the three neutrino "flavors" merge into each o … | Continue reading
Marjan Minnesma cheered along with her fellow climate activists in May when a judge ordered Royal Dutch Shell Plc to drastically slash its carbon dioxide emissions. It was the first time a company had been held legally accountable for its planet-warming pollution. | Continue reading
Conventional experiments in chemistry and biology study the behavior of the two, but it has been an abiding scientific challenge for scientists to observe, manipulate and measure the chemical reactions of individual molecules. | Continue reading