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Monday March 17, 2025. 05:08 PM
First license plates, now a way to calculate pace in orbit. Speeding tickets next? Scientists at America's Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico say they have developed a Spacecraft Speedometer that satellites can use in orbit to ideally avoid orbital...
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Across high-income countries, humans' ability to reason and solve problems appears to have peaked in the early 2010s and declined since. Despite no changes in fundamental brain biology, test scores for both teenagers and adults show deteriorating performance in reading,...
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In 1994, a single Macintosh Performa model, the 550, came from the factory with a dedicated, hidden recovery partition that contained a System 7 system folder and a small application that would be set as bootable if the main operating system failed to boot. This application...
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After failing to present any resistance, congressional Democrats' approval ratings are more than twenty points lower than those of President Trump. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's three planned book tour events scheduled for this week have abruptly been postponed as ...
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Quite a few real companies are named Lumon (or Lumen), just like the sinister Lumon Industries in Severance. When the Apple TV+ series debuted in 2022, these companies didn't know what to make of the newfound attention they were getting from fans of the dark science fiction...
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TRIBIT has launched its latest Bluetooth speaker -- the StormBox Lava. Packed with 80W of room-filling sound, ultra-deep bass, and rugged durability, it is designed to keep the music going whether you’re at home, by the pool, or out on an adventure. This speaker isn’t...
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It’s rare in this day and age that proprietary operating system vendors like Microsoft and Apple release updates you’re more than happy to install, but considering even a broken clock is right twice a day, we’ve got one for you today. Microsoft released KB5053598 (OS Build...
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Abstract of a paper published on National Bureau of Economic Research: This paper investigates self-reported wedges between how much people work and how much they want to work, at their current wage. More than two-thirds of full-time workers in German survey data are...
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A French Member of the European Parliament demanded that the United States return the Statue of Liberty. The United States no longer represents the values under which the famed Statue of Liberty was gifted to it, and French MEP Raphael Glucksmann has demanded its return: ...
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One of the many important tasks that the kernel's memory-management subsystem must handle is keeping track of how pages of memory are mapped into the address spaces of the processes running on the system. As long as mappings to a given page exist, that page must be kept in...
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Attempting to return to his home in New Hampshire, green card holder Fabian Schmidt was detained at Logan Airport by ICE, tortured, hospitalized, and is still being detained. On what seems to be a minor charge, if still existent, Fabian Schmidt's horrific experience appears...
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Clockwork's PicoCalc is a handheld portable computer powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico H (you might well want to upgrade to wireless). It has a qwerty keyboard, 320×320 display, SD card slot, integrated speakers, a 3.5mm phone jack and an 18650 battery compartment. — Read the re...
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TL;DR: Create your own digital autobiography with this one-year subscription to Autobiographer, now just $69 (reg. $199), the best price on the web. Have you ever had one of those nights you never want to forget? Since memories don't always stick with us forever,...
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Prolonged exposure to extreme heat accelerates biological aging in older adults, increasing the risk of age-related illnesses, according to research published in Science Advances. In a nationally representative study of 3,686 U.S. adults over age 56, scientists found that...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (opensaml and php8.2), Fedora (chromium, ctk, dcmtk, expat, ffmpeg, firefox, fscrypt, gdcm, InsightToolkit, kitty, libssh2, libxml2, linux-firmware, man2html, nextcloud, OpenImageIO, php, podman-tui, python-django, python-django5,...
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My main interest in Japanese electronic pocket dictionaries is seeing them on Pinterest and becoming briefly excited by the idea it might be a cool new minimalist writing gagdget being crowdfunded online. Nope—electronic dictionary from Japan. The curiously persistent...
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Nearly 100 orgs plead for homegrown lifeline amid geopolitical tensions A group of technology companies and lobbyists want the European Commission (EC) to take action to reduce the region's reliance on foreign-owned digital services and infrastructure.…
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The engineers squeezed as much performance as they could from the 16-bit processors of yore and then turned the job of optimization over to coders. Such was the hunger for power they provided co-processors in the game cartridges themselves. It's astonishing, then, to find...
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The rapid growth of AI workloads is driving a major transformation in data center network infrastructure according to a new study from Ciena. The research, conducted by Censuswide, surveyed more than 1,300 data center decision makers across 13 countries. 53 percent of...
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HR software provider Rippling has sued competitor Deel for allegedly planting a spy in its Dublin office to steal trade secrets, court documents [PDF] showed on Monday. Rippling claims the employee, identified as D.S., systematically searched internal Slack channels for...
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