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Tuesday January 14, 2025. 11:01 PM
This lovely creature is Bathynomus vaderi, an isopod newly named after Darth Vader for obvious reasons. A crustacean in the order Isopoda, which also includes wood lice, Bathynomus vaderi can reach almost a foot in length and weigh more than two pounds. — Read the rest The p...
Rescue workers in Peru are desperately searching for what may be as many as seventeen miners trapped in a collapse caused by an assault led by rival miners. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! In what sounds like claimjumping with intent to kill,...
A talented corgi named Dash used to spend his days hurling toys at his humans. Until he took up the piano and became a busker in New York City. Playing tunes on a pet-size piano, the pup now keeps busy drawing a large crowd at Central Park and other outdoor spaces as he...
The dissociative 'psychedelic' drug Ketamine has shown to be helpful at relieving depression in zebrafish. The new scientific study by Harvard researchers could increase our understanding of how ketamine works in the human brain to alleviate depression and eventually lead to ...
You'd think six years would be enough time to scrub down a meat factory infested with insects and mold, but when it comes to Boar's Head deli meats, the slime and stink keep on a comin'. The black mold, rancid smells, and other unsanitary conditions found at the Jarratt,...
Enterprise computers are often the ugly ducklings of the PC world, viewed as dull, slow and less feature-rich than their consumer counterparts. But vendors at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show launched a selection of business machines (alongside their consumer...
OpenAI is doubling down on its vision for AI in the U.S., unveiling its economic blueprint, “AI in America.” This document outlines strategies to spur AI development, regulate the technology, and maintain America’s edge over global competitors like China. The release...
As AI evolves at breakneck speed, its more complex models demand increasingly staggering amounts of computational power. Because the computational requirements of AI models grow exponentially as they scale, traditional processors struggle to keep up. They require excessive...
Famed automaker Mercedes-Benz is taking in-car navigation to a whole new level. The luxury car company announced on Monday the expansion of its strategic partnership with Google Cloud to bring conversational AI capabilities to its MBUX Virtual Assistant, powered by Google...
The Mastodon project has announced that founder Eugen Rochko will be transferring 'key Mastodon ecosystem and platform components (including name and copyrights, among other assets)' to a new non-profit organization: Practically Mastodon will remain headquartered in and...
In recent months, we’ve talked twice about FM Towns, Fujitsu’s PC platform aimed solely at the Japanese market. It was almost entirely only available in Japanese, so it’s difficult to explore for those of us who don’t speak Japanese. There’s an effort underway to recreate it...
Spokane, Washington police arrested Dan D. Phelps, 53, for allegedly trying to shoot his roommate Daniel Perkins. Phelps is legally blind and hit his friend, Joey Anselmo, instead. The bullet hit Anselmo in the knee, just above his prosthetic leg. LIKE BOING BOING BUT...
TuxFamily is a French free-software-hosting service that has been in operation since 1999. It is a non-profit that accepts 'any project released under a free license', whether that is a software license or a free-content license, such as CC-BY-SA. It is also, unfortunately,...
Given the power of the PDF engines in current desktop Web browsers, Thomas Rinsma created a version of Tetris that can be played within a PDF itself: PDFTRIS LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The idea came about when Rinsma 'realized...
In today's computers, when we switch a transistor from 0 to 1, we charge it up (requiring energy), and when we're done, we discharge it, losing all that energy as heat. It's like filling a bucket with water only to immediately dump it out. — Read the rest The post...
As Trump-pick for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth dodges questions on everything from drinking on the job and cheating on his wives to invading Greenland, one of his bumbling sidesteps really sticks out: he cannot answer whether or not he would shoot protestors if Donald...
Jon Stewart finds the GOP response to Los Angeles' devastating wildfires lacking basis or compassion. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Wildfires have regularly burned California for far longer than the name 'California' has been applied to...
Smart glasses attracted a lot of attention at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show, with a range of devices on display that combine lightweight frames with functionality such as heads-up displays and AI-powered assistants. These contrast with the mixed-reality...
The ptrace() system call allows a suitably privileged process to modify another in a large number of ways. Among other things, ptrace() can intercept system calls and make changes to them, but such operations can be fiddly and architecture-dependent. This patch series from...
Graduate student Pavlos Sakellaridis has developed and tested an LLM-powered agent capable of running Dungeons & Dragons sessions, training it on transcripts from the popular streaming show Critical Role. His research provides the first rigorous evaluation of AI's potential...
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