Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced a $2.4-billion investment in artificial intelligence. Part of the funding will create an AI Safety Institute. But what is AI safety? Many countries, including Canada, the United States and those in the European Union, have … | Continue reading
Well, this is something: According to Statcounter, in April 2024, Windows 11 lost 0.97 points, going down from 26.68% to 25.65%. All those users seemingly went for Windows 10 since the OS, which will soon turn nine, crossed the 70% mark for the first time since September 2023, ga … | Continue reading
Only two Canadian provinces have published policy proposals for dealing with future pandemics. (Shutterstock) The World Health Organization declared an end to the COVID-19 public health emergency on May 5, 2023. In the year since, only two provinces — Alberta and Ontario — have p … | Continue reading
Mark and Anna Photography/Shutterstock As home ownership moves further out of reach for many Australians, “rentvesting” is being touted as a lifesaver. Rentvesting is the practice of renting one property to live in yourself, while simultaneously purchasing an investment property … | Continue reading
Ken stocker/Shutterstock In the wake of numerous killings of women allegedly by men’s violence in 2024, thousands of Australians have joined rallies across the country to demand action and better responses to all forms of domestic, family and sexual violence. Some have called for … | Continue reading
There is widespread agreement Australia needs to do better when it comes to gender-based violence. Anger and frustration at the numbers of women being killed saw national rallies over the weekend and a special National Cabinet meeting on Wednesday. This is a complex issue that st … | Continue reading
One of the major things I use mind maps for is developing longer-form writing. I do best spitting out all of my ideas for topics and chapters into a mind map, then editing the nodes into chapters and paragraphs. I’ve always done this with iThoughts, which has great keyboard short … | Continue reading
LanaElcova/Shutterstock Electric vehicles are often seen as the panacea to cutting emissions – and air pollution – from transport. Is this view correct? Yes – but only once uptake accelerates. Despite the recent boom in EV purchases, they’re still a tiny minority of the cars on t … | Continue reading
Oleg Ivanov IL/Shutterstock Waiting times for public hospital elective surgery have been in the news ahead of this year’s federal budget. That’s the type of non-emergency surgery that covers everything from removing cysts to hip replacements. The Australian Medical Association (A … | Continue reading
Amna Artist/Shutterstock One of the earliest descriptions of someone with cancer comes from the fourth century BC. Satyrus, tyrant of the city of Heracleia on the Black Sea, developed a cancer between his groin and scrotum. As the cancer spread, Satyrus had ever greater pains. He … | Continue reading
PeamDesign / Shutterstock In March, we saw the launch of a “ChatGPT for music” called Suno, which uses generative AI to produce realistic songs on demand from short text prompts. A few weeks later, a similar competitor – Udio – arrived on the scene. I’ve been working with various … | Continue reading
I still think of Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics as the book that changed my life. Its insistence on the importance of patriarchal structures and sexual hierarchies in literature and history, as well as in contemporary society, was eye-opening. The 1970s saw the publication of sev … | Continue reading
Netflix The new season of Heartbreak High is garnering mixed reviews. Critics are writing about the racy story lines, comparing it to other coming-of-age series about teenage relationships and sex such as Riverdale and Sex Education. Both seasons have been praised for their repre … | Continue reading
Every day is a good day to reflect on our shared responsibility to improve our relationship with the environment, and to consider how some communities are disproportionately more affected by environmental destruction than others. While such reflection is always important, it is e … | Continue reading
The video above shows some early footage of Akira, per-colorisation: One of the most notable tools used in the production of the film was the use of the Quick Action Recorder. The quick action recorder allowed the animators to take pictures of individual frames (like a down-shoot … | Continue reading
Queensland/Waanyi author Alexis Wright, has been named winner of the 2024 Stella Prize for Australian literature, for works by women and non-binary writers, with Praiseworthy, a novel set in the north of Australia. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an … | Continue reading
On a positive note, Colnago's sales have tripled The post Peloton cut staff – ENVE Sold – Rapha Retrenches appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike run. | Continue reading
"The university has recognized the urgency of the climate emergency." Cambridge University announces moratorium on certain donations following student campaign: 'Taken action to demonstrate leadership' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The MovR3 electric cargo bike from Germany’s RYTLE incorporates a feature that enables the driver to quickly swap out an empty cargo box for a full one, similar to how a semi can drop an empty trailer and hook up a full one, which lends itself well to a delivery ... [continued] T … | Continue reading
Prime Video’s Outer Range—one of the weirdest sci-fi series in recent memory, and among the weirdest sci-fi neo-Western series ever—is returning for a second season, which feels like a streaming miracle. You can likely thank the star power of Josh Brolin, who anchors the show’s o … | Continue reading
“Delete, delete, delete,” Elon Musk reportedly told his biographer, Walter Isaacson, describing his approach to management. “Delete any part or process you can. You may have to add them back later. In fact, if you do not end up adding back at least 10% of them, then you didn't de … | Continue reading
AI is the most anthropomorphized technology in history, starting with the name—intelligence—and plenty of other words thrown around the field: learning, neural, vision, attention, bias, hallucination. These references only make sense to us because they are hallmarks of being huma … | Continue reading
Kestra is an Open Source project that can be found here: https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra, for an introduction to its functionalities, you can read this article on the subject. The post Writting a Data Orchestrator in Java appeared first on foojay. | Continue reading
Minority-Serving Institutions’ Faculty Play a Pivotal Role in Advancing STEM Education WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the selection of the first faculty cohort for the groundbreaking Faculty-Applied Clean Energy Sciences (FACES) Program. This … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2024 Please remove their protective gear! Watching cable news was especially painful this morning. On Morning Joe, the message was gloomy. The messages went like this: The barricade brigade at UCLA aren't helping anyone in Gaza. In fact, they have the whole Amer … | Continue reading
Follow-up to a previous case study on how I automated my static website publishing workflow. This time, a lean Shortcut script is allowing me to write webmentions in seconds. For a while now I’ve been using notes to send Indieweb webmentions in the form of replies and likes. As t … | Continue reading
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Evil is GREAT. At least, this incarnation of Evil is. The post Season 3 of Evil Is Now Free to Watch! appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
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John Voorhees: One of the most controversial aspects of Apple’s response to the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) was the introduction of a Core Technology Fee (CTF), which must be paid by developers who opt into Apple’s alternative business terms. Today, in a post on its developer … | Continue reading
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Scientists built a "smart filter" that can work with a cheap smartphone camera to transform low-resolution photos into supersharp images without glare and other issues. | Continue reading
This savory applesauce is full of apple flavor and celebrates my love of sweet, sour, and spicy—all in one bite. Pair it with roast pork, chicken, good cheese, or even pancakes. | Continue reading
There was an Octopus powerup between 9am and noon. The idea behind powerups is that excess green energy should be absorbed instead of the local operator having solar/wind farms take capacity offline. So, when there's a powerup, we try and really take advantage of the free electri … | Continue reading
Adds a burst of lemony flavor to desserts, beverages, marinades and dressings, and more 🍋 | Continue reading
The threat is potentially grave because it could be used in supply chain attacks. | Continue reading
Just a few weeks after Discovery showed how much confidence it had in taking a Star Trek trope it knew it was good at and damn near perfecting it, this week we get the series diving into another—and not really finding much interest in why it even took it on in the first place. Re … | Continue reading
"This is a really good idea!" Homeowner shares creative use for extra duster bags: 'I hate to throw these things out' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
With her long, brown hair and determined gaze, the new facial reconstruction lets us peek into the world of an archaic human who lived tens of thousands of years ago. | Continue reading
At the end of the Cold War, many thinkers optimistically predicted that globalization would cause global societies’ social values to converge around liberal notions of personal rights and freedoms. Since then, technology has made the Earth “smaller” than ever. Global trade delive … | Continue reading
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Humans aren’t the only primates with a medicine cabinet, it seems. In a new paper published today, scientists document a male orangutan named Rakus using a plant with known medicinal properties to help heal his facial wound. While there have been other recent accounts of animals … | Continue reading
I feel in need of a break, but not much like that is forthcoming. We looked at going away for a bit, but anything pleasant is unavailable as we’re not the only ones looking for a place to enjoy spring. Yet, I feel stuck and in a funk still. This week I Met payroll Had […] | Continue reading
Apple continues to revise its approach to complying with Europe’s Digital Markets Act, today announcing a pair of exceptions to its Core Technology Fee. The first pertains to apps that are totally free: First, no CTF is required if a developer has no revenue whatsoever. … | Continue reading
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