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Tuesday July 29, 2025. 08:05 PM
Startup FluidCloud, described as a portable cloud infrastructure provider, has launched the FluidCloud Platform, a “cloud cloning” platform that lets users clone, migrate, restore, and optimize infrastructure across clouds in minutes, according to FluidCloud. FluidCloud...
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Patch early, patch often, they say — almost 13 years early in the case of Debian’s patch for a potentially crippling issue with the way Unix-like systems represent time. Debian 13 “Trixie,” scheduled for August 9, marks the Linux distribution’s mitigation of the...
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When you see someone who looks sick, your brain doesn't wait for them to get close before sounding the alarm. In fact, just seeing signs of illness from a distance triggers your immune system to gear up for battle, according to a new study from Swiss researchers. — Read the...
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Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell wants new conditions met before she'll testify to Congress about Jeffrey Epstein, according to documents obtained by Politico. Maxwell's attorneys are negotiating with the House Oversight Committee after it subpoenaed her to appear...
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China's Danxia Mountain attracts visitors with its distinctive red sandstone cliffs, stunning views, and challenging hiking trails that test even experienced trekkers. This UNESCO Global Geopark in Guangdong Province is cherished for its dramatic landscape of crimson-hued...
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I recently watched this disturbing half-hour video, Inside 'Return to the Land': The group making a whites-only community in Arkansas, which provides a glimpse into a 'whites only' online-movement-turned-real-life-community called 'Return to the Land' (RTTL), which is...
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Photoshop’s latest updates bring a fresh set of tools to the desktop, web, and mobile. From blending elements into scenes to cleaning up cluttered images and scaling up resolution, it probably won't come as any surprise to learn these tools use AI to handle a lot of the...
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Scientific research in the United States is under attack. In some ways, science is an easy mark in a country that is increasingly anti-science and anti-intellectual. Marine conservation biologist Dr. David Shiffman, author of Why Sharks Matter, has penned an important piece...
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Early cinema turned magnifying glasses into windows to the weird, wonderful, and sometimes unsavory. In 1900s films, magnifying glasses emerged as a favorite storytelling device in early 'trick films.' They served both scientific and novel purposes, revealing a hidden world...
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South Florida has an invasive Burmese python problem, which sounds terrifying on top of the giant snakes being really bad for the environment. Luckily, though, scientists have found a new way to combat the problem: robo-bunnies, which are remote-controlled electronic rabbits ...
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A hike in a forest can feel great: it's beautiful, fragrant, invigorating, even spiritual. But it may be even more than that. It may chemically boost your immune system, helping to protect you from diseases, including cancer. Trees produce and release into the air chemicals...
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Unitree's humanoid robots can do kung fu, play soccer, and sometimes go berserk and attack people. Now, for the low price of $ 5,900, plus shipping, the Unitree R1 can perform cartwheels and handstands, kickbox, and run downhill. — Read the rest The post Cartwheeling robot...
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Turkish sand coffee is a visually striking and traditional method of brewing Turkish coffee using hot sand as the heat source. This centuries-old technique originates from the Middle East, particularly Turkey, and has become popular at cultural festivals and specialty cafés ...
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Snowflake is preparing to run Apache Spark analytics workloads directly on its infrastructure, saving enterprises the trouble of hosting an Apache Spark instance elsewhere, and eliminating data transfer delays between it and the Snowflake Data Cloud. The new offering will...
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I'm fascinated by owl pellets, which contain various parts of an owl's prey that they cannot digest, including fur, feathers, teeth, bones, and more. Since owls don't have teeth and can't chew their food, they swallow their prey whole. And unlike other raptors that have an...
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The HeliumOS project has announced the release of HeliumOS 10. It is relatively new image-based ('atomic') desktop distribution based on packages from CentOS Stream and AlmaLinux, with a goal of providing 10 years of support. HeliumOS 10 uses the KDE Plasma Desktop, Zsh as...
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16colo.rs is a retro computer graphics gallery full of ANSI/ASCII art for your pleasure and delight, a revival of an earlier site and herald of the artform's 'modest' revival of late. It offers a number of technical features of interest, such as aspect ratio and letter...
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India is taking off in America, biting big chunks out of a smartphone market once served by Chinese manufacturing. This trend isn’t particularly surprising to any Apple watcher, but what might be of interest is the absolute speed with which the market is changing. The...
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TL;DR: Skip the subscriptions and get lifetime access to GPT-4, Claude 3, Gemini, Midjourney, and more with 1min.AI — now just $79.97 (reg. $540). AI is a circus, but you don't have to be its monkey. Between monthly fees, login juggling, and paying extra to access the...
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Priority inversion comes about when a low-priority task holds a resource that is also needed by a high-priority task, preventing the latter from running. This problem is made much worse if the low-priority task is unable to gain access to the CPU and, as a result, cannot...
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