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Thursday February 20, 2025. 03:06 PM
The Hairy Ball theorem, proved by Henri Poincaré in 1885, demonstrates that it's impossible to create a perfectly smooth hair pattern on a spherical surface. The theorem states that any continuous pattern of hair (or more technically, vector fields) on a sphere must have at ...
Passengers on an Allegiant Air flight to Florida were reportedly trapped on the plane for six hours as it sat on the tarmac in Albany, New York. Footage, captured by one of the stranded passengers on Monday, shows the stuck travelers milling around the plane while people...
Google has unveiled an AI co-scientist built on its Gemini 2.0 platform, aiming to accelerate scientific research by generating novel hypotheses and refining experiments. While the system shows promise, questions remain about its performance and broader applicability. The...
Applications that support the specialized AI chips on Copilot+ PCs have been rare, but Microsoft is looking to change that. The company this week introduced an upgraded AI Hub that adds new programs to the Microsoft Store that will run on neural processing units (NPUs), the...
Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe was arrested yesterday after denouncing MAGA as a 'Nazi movement' during a Huntington Beach city council meeting, where he protested a MAGA-inspired library plaque. As reported by The Daily Beast, Kluwe addressed the council from the public...
You've seen fake QR codes slapped on parking meters, but have you seen them on gravestones? Police in Munich are investigating after 1,000 headstones and crosses were defaced with QR code stickers at the Waldfriedhof, Sendlinger Friedhof and Friedhof Solln cemetaries there....
Former Vice President Mike Pence lashed out at his former boss, tersely correcting Donald Trump's blatant lie that Ukraine started the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 'Mr. President, Ukraine did not 'start' this war,' Pence snapped in a social media post yesterday after Trump, ...
AI adoption is gaining momentum in the public sector as elsewhere, with benefits like predictive analytics and issue detection, but concerns still linger. Around four in 10 respondents to a new study by SolarWinds, focused on public sector staff, say they are extremely or...
After one intruder got too close, the U.S. Secret Service deployed a Belgian Malinois named Hurricane. The next one over the fence didn't get very far at all, and Hurricane was the hero of the hour. Hurricane, the recipient of many awards, treats., — Read the rest The post H...
The National Science Foundation fired 168 employees this week, a spokesperson disclosed, to comply with executive orders from the White House to reduce the federal workforce. It amounts to about 10% of the foundation's payroll. Prior to the firings, about 1,700 staff worked ...
Remember how you switched to those cute little wax melts because they seemed safer than candles? Surprise! Turns out you've been hotboxing your living room with the equivalent of car exhaust. As reported in New Atlas, scientists at Purdue University ruined everyone's 'Winter ...
'Subway Poker' lets players create poker hands using nothing but the random assortment of passengers sitting in their chosen row of seats. The rules: Two players each select a row of five seats to watch. Passengers become cards — children count as 10s, teenagers as Jacks,...
A prosecutor with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Dallas is an overt racist and white supremacist, reports The Texas Observer, which attributes to him various statements it found online. They run from talk about organizing mass deportations and boasts...
As federal workers continue to be handed pink slips, IT workers are being caught up in the effort to downsize government agencies — and they’re likely ill-prepared for the job market they’ll face in the private sector. The Trump Administration, with guidance from Elon...
Meta has made a surprise announcement about Facebook Live video. The company has updated its video storage policy, and this means that live streams will no longer be stored indefinitely. This is a significant change from the social media giant. Meta says that it is aligning...
President Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has acquired 'God mode' access to federal systems. According to reporting from The Atlantic, the quasi-governmental agency has 'total control over systems that Americans working in conflict zones rely on, the...
When Microsoft announces the deprecation of a feature or service, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it was because few people use it. This may be the case in some instances, but with the deprecation of WSUS driver synchronization, the company is making it seem otherwise. ...
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has launched an AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, escalating the fight for top talent and reshaping competition in the fast-evolving sector. About 30 researchers and engineers at Thinking Machines Lab previously worked at competitors including...
Hi. Welcome back to Spoken Word with Electronics. Heil, Caesar! Like most people here, the future for me is great under Trump America. I live in a perfectly white, ethnically cleansed neighborhood, with a three Cybertruck garage and all the cheap yard work federal layoffs...
There’s a race going on. Not the one to build artificial general intelligence, whatever that may be, but to deliver the first at-scale quantum computer that’s able to solve a class of massive problems that would take far too long using even the most powerful...
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