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Students invent quieter leaf blower
Patent-pending design by Hopkins undergrads could be available in stores within two years
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VCs aren’t your friends
As founder-friendly as VCs claim to be, they remain investment professionals. Many first-time founders are oblivious to this nuance, and are in for a rude awakening when they start their raise.
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Making a Postgres query 1k times faster
Learn how we discovered what was slowing down large database queries, and what we did to make Postgres queries 1000x faster.
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Project Gameface launches on Android
We've open sourced the code for Project Gameface so developers and enterprises can leverage it to build new experiences with increased accessibility.
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PaliGemma: Open-Source Multimodal Model by Google
Learn how to use PaliGemma, a vision language model developed and released by Google that has multimodal capabilities.
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Make a game with Hoot for the Lisp Game Jam
Twice per year I co-host the Lisp Game Jam: a 10-day game jam where participants create small games in their favorite Lisp dialect. Unlike classic game jams like Ludum Dare, which have an intensive 2-3 day long duration, the Lisp Game Jam is much more casual and spans two whole weekends to give busy people (most of…
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Merging Remix and React Router
We've been building a bridge from React Router to Remix, and we made it so good that we're going to merge the two projects.
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Android's theft protection features
Android rolls out theft protection features to safeguard your data before, during and after a theft incident.
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Jepsen: Datomic Pro 1.0.7075
Datomic is a general-purpose database intended for systems of record. In many ways, Datomic is unusual. At any instant in time, the state of the database is represented by a set of [entity, attribute, value] ( EAV ) triples, known as datoms . Each datom declares that some entity (like a person) has a particular…
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Three of the oldest stars in the universe found circling the Milky Way
MIT astronomers discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe, and they live in our own galactic neighborhood. The stars are in the Milky Way’s “halo” — the cloud of stars that envelopes the entire main galactic disk — and they appear to have formed between 12 and 13 billion years ago, when the very first…
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Viking 7B: open LLM for the Nordic languages trained on AMD GPUs
Silo AI is announcing the release of the first open LLM for the Nordic languages
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Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)
When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.
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Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking
Apple today announced new accessibility features coming later this year, including Eye Tracking, Music Haptics, and Vocal Shortcuts.
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Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last 50k years
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Today’s rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase is 10 times faster than at any other point in the past 50,000 years, researchers have found through a detailed chemical analysis of ancient Antarctic ice. The findings, just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide…
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Translation of Rust's core and alloc crates to Coq for formal verification
We continue our work on formal verification of Rust programs with our tool coq-of-rust, to translate Rust code to the formal proof system Coq. One of the limitation we had was the handling of primitive constructs from the standard library of Rust, like Option::unwrapordefault or all other primitive functions. For each…
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Parking reform legalized most of the new homes in Buffalo and Seattle (2023)
Studies from two very different cities showed the same result.
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Firefox search update
Innovation and privacy go hand in hand here at Mozilla. To continue developing features and products that resonate with our users, we’re adopting a new a
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Optimizing ClickHouse: Tactics that worked for us
At LaunchDarkly, we ingest nearly 100 terabytes of observability data from our customers every month.
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New work extends the thermodynamic theory of computation
In a paper published in Physical Review X on May 13, a quartet of physicists and computer scientists expand the modern theory of the thermodynamics of computation. By combining approaches from statistical physics and computer science, the researchers introduce mathematical equations that reveal the minimum and maximum…
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Bossware is a big legal risk
Monitoring employees in the name of productivity or security can cause a lot more problems than it solves.
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New gel breaks down alcohol in the body
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a protein-based gel that breaks down alcohol in the gastrointestinal tract without harming the body. In the future, people who take the gel could reduce the harmful and intoxicating effects of alcohol.
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HBase Deprecation at Pinterest
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Claude is now available in Europe
Claude, Anthropic's trusted AI assistant, is now available for people and businesses across Europe.
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Upstreaming Linux kernel support for the Snapdragon X Elite
Discover the power of Snapdragon X Elite with upstreamed Linux kernel support. Explore areas of focus and unlock new potential with Snapdragon Linux today.
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Intel announces the Aurora supercomputer has broken the exascale barrier
At ISC 2024, Intel announces Aurora is the fastest AI supercomputer, has broken the exascale barrier, and details the importance of an open ecosystem in HPC and AI.
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Release of Fugaku-LLM – a large language model trained on supercomputer Fugaku
Release of “Fugaku-LLM” – a large language model trained on the supercomputer “Fugaku”
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New mRNA cancer vaccine triggers immune response to malignant brain tumor
In a first-ever human clinical trial of four adult patients, an mRNA cancer vaccine developed at the University of Florida quickly reprogrammed the immune…
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Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes
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Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
Apple and Google have teamed up to deliver support for unwanted Bluetooth tracking alerts in iOS and Android.