Today, it’s now 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang occurred. Our observable Universe extends for 46.1 billion light-years in all directions, and is made of: 68% dark energy, 27% dark matter, 4.9% normal (atom-based) matter, 0.09% neutrinos, and 0.01% radiation, with no hint of … | Continue reading
With the clean energy transition, economically disadvantaged communities are wary that — again — their neighborhoods will be the location for big infrastructure projects. The concern is warranted, according to a 2024 study by the Union of Concerned Scientists. That report conclud … | Continue reading
Scott Alexander has responded to my response to his critique of my position on medical effectiveness. On the US taxpayer experiment, where I pointed out a big selection bias re the age range, he’s ready to set it aside: | Continue reading
How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode Maciej Pocwierz accidentally created an S3 bucket with a name that was already used as a placeholder value in a widely used piece of software. They saw 100 million PUT requests to their new bucket in a single day, racking up a … | Continue reading
Starfield is about to get another big boost towards becoming the game so many wanted it to be when it… Continue reading Big Starfield update incoming amid news that its first expansion will arrive in the Fall The post Big Starfield update incoming amid news that its first expansi … | Continue reading
The end of March came around while we were on our big US trip. Then I was really sick and things were hectic coming back and blah blah blah somehow we're at the end of April. So this update is a month late. Notable We went to Disneyland!! Most of the month was spent preparing for … | Continue reading
The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations | Continue reading
If they weren’t already, life simulators are about to hit the big time. For so long the only real game… Continue reading Upcoming life-sim inZOI ready to take on The Sims at its own game The post Upcoming life-sim inZOI ready to take on The Sims at its own game appeared first on … | Continue reading
It’s hard enough to find street parking in a city — let alone a spot where an electric vehicle can also plug in and charge. But a potential solution rests in the streetlights and lampposts that blanket city sidewalks and are already wired up to the power grid. That grid hookup ma … | Continue reading
This story was originally published by Energy News Network . A Minnesota company is among a growing number of startups nationwide hoping to help customers replace diesel and natural gas with ammonia in industrial applications. “It’s not as big of a leap as you might think to reto … | Continue reading
After more than a decade of delays and development, Boeing's Starliner crewed spacecraft is scheduled to launch. Given the history of the craft and the company's recent scandals, it's a nail-biter – so let's recap CST-100 Starliner. Continue Reading Category: Space, Science Tags: … | Continue reading
Photo credits: dhvstockphoto / BigStock Horizon Europe’s Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) has just opened its big call for proposals for the year, with €213 million to be distributed to innovation, research and support projects across 18 topics. The calls, ope … | Continue reading
Photo credits: European Commission / European Union A new ranking compiled by Science|Business shows three big multinationals – Thales, Leonardo and Airbus – have been winning the lion’s share of research and technology development grants from the European Defence Fund. Since 202 … | Continue reading
After some big changes in Quarkus 3.9, we have the pleasure to announce Quarkus 3.10. Quarkus 3.10 is for developers who want the latest features, if you are looking for an extended support cycle, you are encouraged to stay on 3.8 LTS. Here are the main changes for 3.10: #39415 - … | Continue reading
#505 — April 30, 2024 Unsub | Web Version ✍️ It's been a quiet week for big Go related news, but we still have a bumper issue because we have so many things we didn't get around to including earlier ;-) Here we go..! __ Your editor, Peter Cooper Go Weekly Sonic: A Newly Open Sour … | Continue reading
My notes on gpt2-chatbot There's a new, unlabeled and undocumented model on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena today called gpt2-chatbot. It's been giving some impressive responses - you can prompt it directly in the Direct Chat tab by selecting it from the big model dropdown menu. It looks … | Continue reading
FCC finalizes $196M penalties for location-data sales revealed in 2018. | Continue reading
The creator of a model can not ensure that a model is never used to do something harmful – any more so that the developer of a web browser, calculator, or word processor could. Placing liability on the creators of general purpose tools like these mean that, in practice, such tool … | Continue reading
This is one of the biggest days at Bedlam Farm, when the donkeys and sheep can go out into our pastures and have some fresh green grass. Due to the warm weather and earlier rains, our grass is sweet and green. We limit the time they go out and eat; they can get sick from […] | Continue reading
We are definitely a big fan of custom keycaps here at Readwrite Gaming. In fact, we even ran an article… Continue reading Give your gaming keyboard a Glorious makeover with new monthly keycap drops The post Give your gaming keyboard a Glorious makeover with new monthly keycap dro … | Continue reading
Why are cars in the US so big? The policies that ruined American cars, explained. - Vox: The Chicken Tax—25% on light truck imports—stifles competition from abroad, preventing smaller trucks from entering the market On top of a 25% tariff on imports from China Business owners get … | Continue reading
Even as Marvel Studios finds success on the small screen right now with X-Men ‘97 lighting fans up every week on Disney+, it’s not undiplomatic to say at this point that its star has faded a touch when it comes to its big screen tentpole releases. Is it the output itself, lacking … | Continue reading
At first glance, Marc Andreessen would appear to have all sorts of contradictory beliefs. From a distance, the venture capitalist spouts your standard brand of right-wing libertarianism, but he’s also somehow a huge fan of the Pentagon. He’s a big fan of “America” but doesn’t see … | Continue reading
It’s that time again — time for a big roundup of cleantech news from the past week you shouldn’t miss. Check out all the top stories here! China just reached 43% of new car sales being plugin cars! Full electrics (BEVs) accounted for 28% market share. President Joe Biden just ... … | Continue reading
The "Study Pavilion" has now been built at the Technical University Braunschweig in Germany, and the holistic modular design and construction of the reconfigurable building offers a fascinating glimpse into a potential future for scalable, reconfigurable buildings not just in pla … | Continue reading
Late last year in Austin, Texas, big blue rigs rolled up to a sunbaked parking lot and started boring holes deep into the ground. Bedrock Energy , a geothermal startup, was deploying its novel drilling technology for the first time, near a block of low-slung commercial buildings … | Continue reading
Want your home to be sparkling clean? In popular imagination, Germany is often thought of as a country that’s big on cleanliness. Helpling looks at some German cleaning habits to... | Continue reading
Listen now (36 mins) | What happens when big advances in life science converge with A.I. | Continue reading
Tom Wheeler, former FCC chairman, writing for the Brookings Institution in October, following a vote to begin the process of reclassifying broadband as a “Title II” telecommunications service, regarding efforts to paint net neutrality regulations as no big deal: It is the conduct … | Continue reading
"This evolution of the apparel sector ... is not without environmental, social and economic consequences." Lawmakers unanimously approve bill to impose penalties against fast-growing sector in fashion industry: 'A big step has been taken' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A paper in Frontiers attempted modelling the optimization of world-class 400 m and 1,500 m running performances using high-resolution data. “In the present study, rather than using statistical analyses of 100-m split times or big data, we choose to analyze a select sample of Worl … | Continue reading
Fallout’s a pretty good show, and one of the big reasons why is the ever-reliable Walton Goggins. As the Ghoul—or Cooper Howard, once upon a time—he’s a menace to Lucy and everyone else throughout the season, while being enjoyable to watch both in the irradiated present and the p … | Continue reading
You’ve gotta hand it to Marvel Studios: it sure knew how to make its movies feel like big events back in the day. After the original Avengers dropped in 2012, nearly every entry aimed to be bigger in some way, like the entire enterprise was obsessed with topping itself. Sometimes … | Continue reading
Kingom of the Planet of the Apes is one of this summer’s big blockbusters, and with its release in a few weeks, that means its time to up its promo game. We’ve gotten plenty of trailers and posters, and there are standees in theaters, but that’s apparently not enough. 20th Centur … | Continue reading
You may think you’re getting ahead — but there’s just one thing you need to know. READ MORE... | Continue reading
Today I bring you a review of a film that will require 2 hours and 53 minutes of your life to watch. That’s a big ask, I know. As it is a true historical story, there are plot spoilers in the review. From Terence Malick, the director of such wonderful films as ‘The Thin Red … Con … | Continue reading
Welcome back to the week that was in io9's coverage of the latest, and greatest, in pop culture news. It’s been a busy week, as the highly anticipated new trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine brought with it oodles of insight and analysis on its comic book connections—but that’s not … | Continue reading
This week Apple got a dose of reality as people are caring less about its Vision Pro. A robot tank with green eyes and a robo dog with a flamethrower show that the future of warfare is here. And to round things out, Elon Musk’s AI bot isn’t that smart. Here’s all the big tech new … | Continue reading
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I am a pretty big fan of working from home. But I am accumulating that “I need to get out more” feeling. S and I have gotten into our routines. And going out is generally not in that routine. A lot available to us in Tokyo, but huge crowds are also included in that “a lot”. It’s … | Continue reading
About a week ago, Kia dropped something pretty special in my driveway: an EV9 GT-Line! I have to admit that I was a little skeptical at first, but I also remembered being pretty impressed with a Sorento Hybrid I reviewed in 2021. So, the big question was this: would Kia ... [cont … | Continue reading
When Lee Isaac Chung was announced as the director of the long-awaited sequel Twisters, many of us scratched our heads. Chung is, obviously, a talented filmmaker. His most recent film, Minari, had just come off multiple Oscar nominations including a win. But to go from that small … | Continue reading
Are GLP-1 drugs the first real threat to the hyper-processed food and alcohol industries? | Continue reading
The product’s failure should further dispel the myth of tech inevitability | Continue reading
AI-generated video has received a lot of hype lately as a tool that’s supposedly going to revolutionize Hollywood. But Craig Good, a former animator at Pixar who worked on classics like Toy Story and Finding Nemo, isn’t convinced. Good thinks there’s one big problem with AI video … | Continue reading
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is taking aim at one of Big Pharma’s newest cash cows: the latest generation of effective obesity medications. On Wednesday, Sanders’ office announced that the senator is launching an investigation into Novo Nordisk over the “astronomically high” lis … | Continue reading
This week on MacStories Unwind, why game emulators on iOS are a big deal, Girls5eva, and Franklin. This episode is sponsored by: Kolide – It ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo now. Links and Show Notes Unplu … | Continue reading
Every now and then, I fantasize about the end of the world. I imagine what it would be like if it were just me left (and a few loved ones, I suppose). I run through all the fun to be had — the fast cars I’d drive, the mansions I’d commandeer, and the luxury clothes I’d wear. Ther … | Continue reading