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The Quest for the Ultimate GUI Framework (scorpiosoftware.net)

2 years ago | mellosouls | scorpiosoftware.net | newest

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A song that uses AI to clone the voices of Drake and The Weeknd has gone viral (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | best

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Twitter: BBC objects to 'government funded media' label (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Suicide rate increases during the week of a full moon (earth.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | earth.com | newest

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255 Random Unreal games tested with Praydog VR mod: 90% work well out-the-box (twitter.com/flat2vr)

2 years ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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Ryuichi Sakamoto has died (clashmusic.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | clashmusic.com | best

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How Gen Z is embracing The Smiths on TikTok (thisisdig.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | thisisdig.com | newest

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MI5 spy reveals secret 'unauthorised' IRA talks (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Miniot Wheel 2 review: a unique vertical turntable worth waiting for (theverge.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | theverge.com | newest

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ChatGPT May Have Exposed Email Addresses of Other Users (pcmag.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | pcmag.com | newest

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NHS hospitals told to share patient data with US ‘spy-tech’ firm (opendemocracy.net)

2 years ago | mellosouls | opendemocracy.net | frontpage

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Artificial Intelligence Made Me Write This (whatsimportant.substack.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | substack.com | newest

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World's first octopus farm proposals alarm scientists (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Rare, pristine first edition of Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus up for sale (arstechnica.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Cyclist Overlays Bad Driving Videos with Car Interior to Probe Motorist Empathy (forbes.com/sites/carltonreid)

2 years ago | mellosouls | forbes.com | newest

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Imagine seeing your job role on LinkedIn – for up to $90K more than you make (marketwatch.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | marketwatch.com | frontpage

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Gary Lineker: Why his comments present a problem for the BBC (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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JFK (kvetch.substack.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | substack.com | newest

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How did Stripe come up with its name? (2015) (quora.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | quora.com | newest

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I tried the Replika AI companion and can see why users are falling hard (theconversation.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | theconversation.com | newest

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Nicola Sturgeon to resign as Scotland's first minister (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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‘Data is’ or ‘data are’? The FT has a comment (fundraising.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | fundraising.co.uk | newest

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Understanding Large Language Models – A Transformative Reading List (sebastianraschka.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | sebastianraschka.com | newest

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The press versus the president, part one (cjr.org)

2 years ago | mellosouls | cjr.org | newest

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Disney removes Simpsons 'forced labour' episode in Hong Kong (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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The Number Ones: Rihanna’s “SOS” (stereogum.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | stereogum.com | newest

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Connect ordinary chess board to Lichess (lichess.org)

2 years ago | mellosouls | lichess.org | newest

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British Gas admits agents break into struggling customers' homes (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | best

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The Internet, but for Hot People (theatlantic.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | theatlantic.com | newest

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An Update on the Future of Echo VR (medium.com/echogames)

2 years ago | mellosouls | medium.com | frontpage

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BBC Arabic radio goes off air after 85 years of broadcasting (middleeasteye.net)

2 years ago | mellosouls | middleeasteye.net | frontpage

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Heat pumps: The 'geeks' obsessing over their new heating systems (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Antidepressants can cause ‘emotional blunting’, study shows (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | newest

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Microsoft kills AltspaceVR and with it a piece of VR history (mixed-news.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | mixed-news.com | newest

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Tunnel Ultra: The mind-bending 200-mile ultra-marathon in the dark (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Why the Media Is Honest and Good (richardhanania.substack.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | substack.com | frontpage

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Rules for Working from a Coffee Shop (2019) (eater.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | eater.com | newest

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The Door Opens (twitter.com/hanifkureishi)

2 years ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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Why is games development so expensive? (gamedeveloper.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | gamedeveloper.com | newest

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Will the metaverse be your new workplace? (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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2022 Global Google Search Trends (trends.google.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | google.com | newest

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John Bird Obituary (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | newest

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All around the world, women are better empathizers than men, study finds (cnn.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | cnn.com | newest

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Iranian women compete at chess tournament without hijab: media reports (newarab.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | newarab.com | frontpage

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Perseverance: Mars rock sample deposited for Earth return (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Man ‘facing £7k energy bill’ after switching to £25,000 ‘green’ heat pump (independent.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | independent.co.uk | newest

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Rust Magazine (rustmagazine.github.io)

2 years ago | mellosouls | github.io | newest

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Elon Musk asks Twitter poll if he should stay as boss (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Musk: OpenAI access to Twitter on hold; no longer open source and non-profit (twitter.com/elonmusk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | frontpage

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The secret lives of MI6’s top female spies (ft.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | ft.com | frontpage

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How I Learned to Explore the Universe (cosmicbackground.io)

2 years ago | mellosouls | cosmicbackground.io | newest

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We flooded our dating app with bots to scam scammers (medium.com/beweinreich)

2 years ago | mellosouls | medium.com | newest

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Talking to reporters: on the record vs. off the record vs. on background (lulu.substack.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | substack.com | newest

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World Cup 1982: Brazil vs. Italy and 'the day football died' (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Fred Dibnah (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | mellosouls | wikipedia.org | newest

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GUI interface using Visual Basic to track the killers IP address (Video, 2009) (youtube.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | youtube.com | newest

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The Young Ones changed comedy (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | best

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Records of gay military sackings deleted by Ministry of Defence (bbc.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.com | newest

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‘Our worst nightmare’: Sydney zoo locked down after five lions escape enclosure (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | frontpage

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We made VR Pac-Man you can play with your friends (in a 28M X 15M virtual arena) (reddit.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | reddit.com | frontpage

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Quest Pro – Impressive Hardware with a Value Proposition That’s Kind of a Mess (roadtovr.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | roadtovr.com | frontpage

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Magnus Carlsen's Endgame vs. Hikaru Nakamura's Speed [video, 2014] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | youtube.com | newest

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Pass-by-value, reference, and assignment in Python (mathspp.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | mathspp.com | newest

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New Zealand ends funding for school Shakespeare festival: ‘canon of imperialism’ (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | newest

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Map Uses GPS Locations to Show How Territorial Wolf Packs Are (2019) (twistedsifter.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | twistedsifter.com | newest

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Refereeing and abuse: 'Why I love being a referee and won't quit' (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Bank of England warns of material risk to financial stability (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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World Mental Health Day 2022 (who.int)

2 years ago | mellosouls | who.int | newest

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Risk your neck, save your soul (thecritic.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | thecritic.co.uk | newest

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Blacklisted by Ducati: MotoGP factory team's PR crew closes door to our reporter (motorsportmagazine.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | motorsportmagazine.com | newest

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Nobel prizes most often go to researchers who defy specialization (theconversation.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | theconversation.com | newest

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Nobel Prize goes to Neanderthal DNA research (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Greenhouse and Icehouse Earth (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | mellosouls | wikipedia.org | newest

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OpenAI Whisper Transcription Testing (lopp.net)

2 years ago | mellosouls | lopp.net | newest

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A computational perspective on the Nobel Prize (nature.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | nature.com | frontpage

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PayPal “Return Shipping on Us” program to end November 27, 2022 (boingboing.net)

2 years ago | mellosouls | boingboing.net | newest

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Visualized: The World’s Population at 8 Billion (visualcapitalist.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | visualcapitalist.com | newest

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Rust is eating into our systems, and it's a good thing (theregister.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | theregister.com | frontpage

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How New are Yann LeCun’s “New” Ideas? spoiler: not very (garymarcus.substack.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | substack.com | newest

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What Is “Nothing”?

2 years ago | mellosouls | blogspot.com | newest

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Truly remarkable' drug helps motor neurone disease

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Shockingly, Brad Pitt turns out to be a fine sculptor

2 years ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | newest

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Brelyon is turning heads with immersive virtual monitors

2 years ago | mellosouls | techcrunch.com | newest

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Magnus Carlsen resigns against Hans Niemann in the second move

2 years ago | mellosouls | chessdom.com | best

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Queen Elizabeth's Funeral: Order of Service at Westminster Abbey

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Nobel and Novice: Author Prominence Affects Peer Review [pdf]

2 years ago | mellosouls | ssrn.com | newest

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The Multiverse: Science, Religion, or Pseudoscience?

2 years ago | mellosouls | blogspot.com | newest

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Scientists Finally Know Why We Get Distracted – and How We Can Stay on Track

2 years ago | mellosouls | inverse.com | newest

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The Death of a Monarch [pdf]

2 years ago | mellosouls | parliament.uk | newest

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New Law of Physics Could Predict Genetic Mutations

2 years ago | mellosouls | scitechdaily.com | newest

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Russian-Soviet Chess Sets (Video, 2012)

2 years ago | mellosouls | youtube.com | newest

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Braking news: Cops slammed for spamming Waze to slow drivers down

2 years ago | mellosouls | theregister.com | newest

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Advanced cyber-attack: NHS doctors' paperwork piles up

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Scientists Break Direction of Time Down to Cellular Level in Mind-Bending Study

2 years ago | mellosouls | vice.com | newest

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Zuckerberg avoids Cambridge Analytica deposition as Facebook agrees to settle

2 years ago | mellosouls | arstechnica.com | newest

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“Omar Became a Superhero Costume”

2 years ago | mellosouls | vulture.com | newest

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What are Magnus Carlsen's chances of reaching 2900?

2 years ago | mellosouls | chess24.com | best

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Why Google Employees Don’t Work

2 years ago | mellosouls | gitconnected.com | frontpage

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'Life hates surprises': can an ambitious theory unify biology and psychology?

2 years ago | mellosouls | theconversation.com | newest

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The Particle Accelerator Experiment That Could Rewrite Printing Press History

2 years ago | mellosouls | cnet.com | newest