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Ancient Stars Made Extraordinarily Heavy Elements (2023)
How heavy can an element be? Ancient stars were capable of producing elements heavier than any element on the periodic table found naturally on Earth.
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Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled
Researchers at Ocean Conservancy and University of Toronto estimate that American adults could be consuming up to 3.8 million microplastics per year from protein alone
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Databases and why their complexity is now unnecessary
This post is not going to be about what’s wrong with individual databases. There are so many databases and so many individual API issues, operational problems, and arbitrary limitations that it wou…
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GE Vernova announces order of 674 wind turbines, providing 2.4 GW of power
GE Vernova announces 2.4 GW order for Pattern Energy’s SunZia wind project
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Solver Performance: 1989 vs. 2024
We estimate the magnitude of speed improvement for optimization solvers and computer hardware in the 35 years from 1989 to 2024.
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OpenAI and journalism
We support journalism, partner with news organizations, and believe The New York Times lawsuit is without merit.
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An overview of distributed Postgres architectures
Marco just joined Crunchy Data and he reflects on his career in distributed systems in this post. He provides an overview of several options for approaching distributed Postgres workloads and the pros and cons of each approach.
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Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2
Apple Vision Pro will be available beginning Friday, February 2, at all U.S. Apple Store locations and the U.S. Apple Store online.
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Big Tech has already made enough money in 2024 to pay all its 2023 fines
Big Tech (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft)'s annual revenue dwarfs total fines. The cost for privacy is insignificant to them.
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How meta built the infrastructure for Threads
On July 5, 2023, Meta launched Threads, the newest product in our family of apps, to an unprecedented success that saw it garner over 100 million sign ups in its first five days. A small, nimble te…
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MK1 Flywheel Unlocks the Full Potential of AMD Instinct for LLM Inference
AMD acquires MK1, welcoming their world-class team and marking another key milestone in our strategy to advance AI performance and efficiency.
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NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breach
NHS England has confirmed that it will investigate whether Palantir violated the terms of its contract to run the Federated Data Platform, after the tech giant covertly launched an influencer campaign which targeted Good Law Project.
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Dennis Ritchie on the priorities of && || vs. == etc. (1982)
Early C had no separate operators for & and && or | and || . (Got that?) Instead it used the notion (inherited from B and BCPL ) of "truth-value context": where a Boolean value was expected, after "if" and "while" and so forth, the & and | operators were interpreted as && and || are now; in ordinary expressions, the…
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Researchers Create First Functional Semiconductor Made from Graphene
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the world’s first functional semiconductor made from graphene, a single sheet of carbon atoms held together by the strongest bonds known. Semiconductors, which are materials that conduct electricity under specific conditions, are foundational components…
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June 30th, 2024, will bring the End of Life (EOL) of CentOS Linux (2023)
Upgrade CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to supported systems with Red Hat's in-place solutions
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WPA3 Enterprise 192-bit mode at home
For our 2023 holiday project, we're setting up an WPA3 Enterprise certificate-authenticated Wi-Fi network at home! And when your family from out of town asks to "jump on the Wi-Fi real quick," you'll learn why this type of network is such a hassle to manage.
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Databases in 2023: A Year in Review
Andy recounts the rise of vector databases to SQL:2023 to MariaDB troubles and the FAA outage in 2023.
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Making the web fun again (2013)
Ever since I visited my first web site (via a slow modem to a library BBS running a text-based web browser), I have been ceaselessly pondering the nature of ...
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InVision design collaboration services shutdown
Speed up product development from ideation to launch. Align teams, break tool silos, and ship what customers need in one AI-powered visual platform.
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Researchers discover physical cause of long Covid tiredness
Researchers from Amsterdam UMC and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) have discovered that the persistent fatigue in patients with long-COVID has a biological cause, namely mitochondria in muscle cells that produce less energy than in healthy patients. The results of the study were published today in Nature…
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AI and satellite imagery reveals expanding footprint of human activity at sea
Study reveals 75 percent of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are hidden from public view
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9 years of Apple text editor solo dev
Thoughts on building Paper as an indie maker.
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30cm worm fossil more than half a billion years old discovered in Greenland
Fossils of a new group of animal predators have been located in the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet fossil locality in North Greenland. These large worms may be some of the earliest carnivorous animals to have colonised the water column more than 518 million years ago, revealing a past dynasty of predators that…
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