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California researchers planned a multimillion-dollar test of salt water-spraying equipment that could one day be used to dim the sun's rays — over a 3,900-square mile are off the west coasts of North America, Chile or south-central Africa. E&E News calls it part of a...
Shi Yongxin, the abbot of China's Shaolin Temple, is suspected of misappropriating the legendary institution's funds and assets. Moreover, he is accused of fathering at least one child and maintaining romantic relationships in violation of the Buddhist sect's expectation of...
TL;DR: When you use code LEARN, you can get a Babbel lifetime subscription for only $159 (reg. $299). Learning a new language always sounds like a great idea, until you're faced with a wall of grammar rules and endless vocabulary lists. — Read the rest The post Want to...
Proton VPN reported a 1,400 percent hourly increase in signups over its baseline Friday — the day the UK's age verification law went into effect. For UK users, 'apps with explicit content must now verify visitors' ages via methods such as facial recognition and banking info,'...
Britons sweltering through the nation's latest brutal heatwave have a new weapon in the quest to stay cool. No, not air conditioning. Why spaff it up the wall when you can slather yoghurt on your windows? Dr Ben Roberts, a senior lecturer in healthy buildings at...
'Search engines still require users to use critical thinking to interpret and contextualize the results,' argues Aaron French, an assistant professor of information systems. But with the rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, 'internet users aren't just outsourcing memory ...
From the Adafruit blog: Greg Technology (aka Greg Sadetsky) on YouTube demonstrates a version of Chocolate Doom where opponent characters can be cut, copied, and pasted at will to add a bit more fun to the game. Obviously this means you can paste in your attackers multiple...
With the closure of outlets in Whittier and Burbank, once-mighty retailer Sears is down to its last store in California. Anyone still shopping there will have to go to Concord's Sunvalley Shopping Center. SFGate's Kasia Pawlowska writes that the 139-year-old chain will have...
Marvel's Fantastic Four: First Steps 'raked in about $57 million at the domestic box office for its opening day, according to multiple outlets,' reports Forbes. That haul makes it 'the year's second-largest opening day so far and a win for Marvel and Disney about a year...
Tyler Boebert, the 20-year-old son of Colorado congresswoman Lauren Boebert, received a citation for 'criminal negligence' after an incident involving his own son. Already on probation for another crime, he now faces a misdemeanor charge of child abuse. Windsor Police...
Liquefied CO2 will be transported by ship to 'the world's first carbon shipping port,' reports the Washington Post — an island in the North Sea where it will be 'buried in a layer of spongy rock a mile and a half beneath the seabed.' Norway's government is covering 80% of the...
TL;DR: Get Windows 11 Pro on sale for $14.97 (reg. $199) while you still can. Love it or hate it, Windows 10's time has finally come. In a few short months, Microsoft will pull support for Windows 10, bringing on a whole mountain of issues for anyone who doesn't upgrade, but...
In 1995's online world, AOL existed mostly beside the internet as a 'walled, manicured garden,' remembers Fast Company. Then along came AOHell 'the first of what would become thousands of programs designed by young hackers to turn the system upside down' — built by a high...
Ryan Walters—the far-right Oklahoma school superintendent who tried to spend state money on Trump-branded bibles that would be required reading in class, wanted kids to be taught MAGA conspiracy theories and talked openly about politically-motivated firings—was caught...
It doesn’t matter what you’re watching or where, this new mini LED TCL pushes the boundaries of budget beauty.
NBC News reports: Customers watched in disbelief as Florida police arrested a Chuck E. Cheese employee — in costume portraying the pizza-hawking rodent — and accused him of using a stolen credit card, officials said Thursday.... 'I grabbed his right arm while giving the...
The case of the improbably well-endowed rat Biomedical visualization specialists haven't come to terms with how or whether to use generative AI tools when creating images for health and science applications. But there's an urgent need to develop guidelines and best practices ...
By extending the scope of a key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians have made great strides toward building a unifying theory of mathematics.
'A Chinese mega-constellation of communications satellites is facing serious delays,' reports the South China Morning Post, 'that could jeopardise its ambitions to compete with SpaceX's Starlink for valuable orbital resources.' Only 90 satellites have been launched into low...
The vulnerability-watching 'Zero Day Initiative' was started in 2005 as a division of 3Com, then acquired in 2015 by cybersecurity company Trend Micro, according to Wikipedia. But the Register reports today that the initiative's head of threat awareness is now concerned...
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