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AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li has a vision for computer vision (ieee.org)

a week ago | samizdis | ieee.org | frontpage

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Covid caused cancer tumours to shrink in mice (theconversation.com)

a month ago | samizdis | theconversation.com | newest

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AI Alone Isn't Ready for Chip Design (ieee.org)

a month ago | samizdis | ieee.org | newest

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Windows 95 setup was three programs in a trench coat, Microsoft vet reveals (theregister.com)

a month ago | samizdis | theregister.com | newest

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Experts testify at UFO hearing in Congress (npr.org)

a month ago | samizdis | npr.org | frontpage

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Cicada cycles, math and the nature of reality (phys.org)

a month ago | samizdis | phys.org | newest

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Handcrafting Whisky Stills in Scotland (theguardian.com)

a month ago | samizdis | theguardian.com | newest

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Sticky paper on bumpers reveals scale of bee deaths due to car collisions (phys.org)

a month ago | samizdis | phys.org | newest

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NASA fuel cell pioneer's UK home gets blue plaque (theguardian.com)

a month ago | samizdis | theguardian.com | frontpage

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How the Occult Gave Birth to Science (nautil.us)

a month ago | samizdis | nautil.us | newest

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Warhammer 40k should be considered a great work of science fiction (theconversation.com)

a month ago | samizdis | theconversation.com | newest

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Pollutants from gas stoves kill 40k Europeans each year (theguardian.com)

a month ago | samizdis | theguardian.com | frontpage

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The Big Bang is a mirror, hiding another universe behind it (iai.tv)

2 months ago | samizdis | iai.tv | newest

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Why ghosts wear clothes or white sheets (theconversation.com)

a month ago | samizdis | theconversation.com | best

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Meta strikes multi-year AI deal with Reuters (axios.com)

2 months ago | samizdis | axios.com | newest

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Standing desks are bad for your health – study (theconversation.com)

2 months ago | samizdis | theconversation.com | frontpage

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Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh (theatlantic.com)

2 months ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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Spider in the Telescope: The Mechanization of Astronomy (jstor.org)

2 months ago | samizdis | jstor.org | newest

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A Calculator's Most Important Button Has Been Removed (theatlantic.com)

2 months ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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Be Using an RSS Reader (pluralistic.net)

2 months ago | samizdis | pluralistic.net | frontpage

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High-potency cannabis use leaves a distinct mark on DNA (theconversation.com)

2 months ago | samizdis | theconversation.com | newest

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Strolls with stops use more energy than continuous walking (theguardian.com)

2 months ago | samizdis | theguardian.com | newest

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Spotify criticized for letting fake albums appear on real artist pages (arstechnica.com)

2 months ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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LLMs can't perform "genuine logical reasoning," Apple researchers suggest (arstechnica.com)

2 months ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | best

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The Merchants of Venice – In Code (jstor.org)

2 months ago | samizdis | jstor.org | newest

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Unseen Thunderbirds film reels found in garden shed (bbc.co.uk)

2 months ago | samizdis | bbc.co.uk | best

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The First Transistor Radio (ieee.org)

2 months ago | samizdis | ieee.org | best

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Thread Form at the Crystal Palace (tandfonline.com)

2 months ago | samizdis | tandfonline.com | newest

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London's Crystal Palace was built so quickly (arstechnica.com)

2 months ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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Kuiper Belt appears to be substantially larger than we thought (arstechnica.com)

2 months ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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The darker side of human rights for great apes (theconversation.com)

2 months ago | samizdis | theconversation.com | newest

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France's 31-year treasure hunt for a buried owl statue ends (theguardian.com)

2 months ago | samizdis | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Systems used by courts and governments across US riddled with vulnerabilities (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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The First Transistor Radio (ieee.org)

3 months ago | samizdis | ieee.org | newest

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In the Stereoscope, Another World (jstor.org)

3 months ago | samizdis | jstor.org | newest

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U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction (torrentfreak.com)

3 months ago | samizdis | torrentfreak.com | best

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When Aldous Huxley Dropped Acid (jstor.org)

3 months ago | samizdis | jstor.org | newest

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Why are the violins the biggest section in the orchestra? (phys.org)

3 months ago | samizdis | phys.org | best

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Drivers Won't Yield to Pedestrian in Chicken Suit (loweringthebar.net)

3 months ago | samizdis | loweringthebar.net | newest

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What's your mathematical style? [Quiz] (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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Don't buy DRM-infected products, they aren't fit for purpose (pluralistic.net)

3 months ago | samizdis | pluralistic.net | frontpage

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Anti-cheat, gamers, and the CrowdStrike disaster (pluralistic.net)

3 months ago | samizdis | pluralistic.net | frontpage

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Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts (phys.org)

4 months ago | samizdis | phys.org | newest

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Researchers investigate 'wash trading' on crypto exchanges (phys.org)

4 months ago | samizdis | phys.org | newest

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Three fun paradoxes created by Ancient Greek philosophers (theconversation.com)

4 months ago | samizdis | theconversation.com | newest

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MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier (pluralistic.net)

4 months ago | samizdis | pluralistic.net | frontpage

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The structure of sound: Network insights into Bach's music (phys.org)

4 months ago | samizdis | phys.org | newest

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ROM hacking site shutting down after almost 20 years (arstechnica.com)

4 months ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | best

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One Satellite Crash Could Upend Modern Life (theatlantic.com)

6 months ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | newest

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Bicycles of World War II (theatlantic.com)

8 months ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | newest

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Brutal Welsh Architecture – Pictures (theguardian.com)

8 months ago | samizdis | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Artistic fantasy world apartment gets listed status (bbc.co.uk)

8 months ago | samizdis | bbc.co.uk | newest

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NASA to create lunar-centric time reference system (theguardian.com)

8 months ago | samizdis | theguardian.com | newest

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Google agrees to delete private browsing data to settle Incognito mode lawsuit (arstechnica.com)

8 months ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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New ideas might make active shielding viable (arstechnica.com)

9 months ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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Anthropic's Claude 3 Test Responses Prompt Metacognition (arstechnica.com)

9 months ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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Meta's AI Watermarking Plan Is Flimsy, at Best (ieee.org)

9 months ago | samizdis | ieee.org | newest

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How to study and improve a corrupted information environment (thebulletin.org)

9 months ago | samizdis | thebulletin.org | newest

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The Problem with Anonymity (pluralistic.net)

9 months ago | samizdis | pluralistic.net | newest

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Word game at the cutting edge of computer science (theguardian.com)

9 months ago | samizdis | theguardian.com | newest

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Amazon's financial shell game let it create an "impossible" monopoly (pluralistic.net)

9 months ago | samizdis | pluralistic.net | newest

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The Clock That Made Power Grids Possible (ieee.org)

10 months ago | samizdis | ieee.org | newest

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Roadkill to Become Fair Game in Virginia (loweringthebar.net)

10 months ago | samizdis | loweringthebar.net | frontpage

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The leap year is February 29, not December 32 due to a Roman calendar quirk (theconversation.com)

10 months ago | samizdis | theconversation.com | best

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Beware the Lides of March (historytoday.com)

10 months ago | samizdis | historytoday.com | newest

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What's fueling the commercial fusion hype? (thebulletin.org)

10 months ago | samizdis | thebulletin.org | newest

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KitchenAid Did It Right 87 Years Ago (theatlantic.com)

10 months ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | newest

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Agile process can spur micromanagement and poorly maintained code (devclass.com)

10 months ago | samizdis | devclass.com | newest

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Reddit's third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse (arstechnica.com)

10 months ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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Rhyming AI-powered clock sometimes lies about the time, makes up words (arstechnica.com)

11 months ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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Sinclair's QL computer outshined Apple's Macintosh against all odds (theregister.com)

11 months ago | samizdis | theregister.com | frontpage

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The Barcode Engineered Its Own Downfall (theatlantic.com)

11 months ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | newest

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X-Rays Reveal a New Phase of Matter (ieee.org)

11 months ago | samizdis | ieee.org | newest

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Bottled water has 'up to 100 times' more bits of plastic than previously feared (theregister.com)

11 months ago | samizdis | theregister.com | best

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If There Are No Stupid Questions, Then How Do You Explain Quora? (theatlantic.com)

11 months ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | best

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Fox Corp. launches blockchain platform to negotiate with AI firms (axios.com)

11 months ago | samizdis | axios.com | newest

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Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE (theguardian.com)

11 months ago | samizdis | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Half Past Dementia (jstor.org)

a year ago | samizdis | jstor.org | newest

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Restored 478-key, 31-tone Moog synthesizer from 1968 sounds beautifully bizarre (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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What kind of bubble is AI? (pluralistic.net)

a year ago | samizdis | pluralistic.net | newest

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Occam's razor an 'essential factor that distinguishes science from superstition' (phys.org)

a year ago | samizdis | phys.org | newest

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The road ahead reaches a turning point in 2024 – Bill Gates (gatesnotes.com)

a year ago | samizdis | gatesnotes.com | newest

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The Rise and Fall of the 'IBM Way' (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | best

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Decoding Google's confusing new location data settings (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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Privacy First (pluralistic.net)

a year ago | samizdis | pluralistic.net | newest

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Astronomers posit that we live in an area with below average density (phys.org)

a year ago | samizdis | phys.org | best

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Yorkshire's coin clippers and counterfeiters changed 18c Britain's economy (historytoday.com)

a year ago | samizdis | historytoday.com | newest

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AI's Spicy-Mayo Problem (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | newest

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Medicinal leeches poised for comeback in Scottish Highlands (theguardian.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theguardian.com | newest

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The Revival of Medley/Interlisp (theregister.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theregister.com | best

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Big Pharma gave $9M to dark money groups to fight drug pricing reform (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | best

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Infocom's code-porting tools for Zork and other games have been found (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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Earthtunes app lets you listen to Iceland's intensifying earthquake activity (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Google dragged to UK watchdog over Chrome's upcoming IP address cloaking (theregister.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theregister.com | frontpage

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What If Psychedelics' Hallucinations Are Just a Side Effect? (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | newest

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Leap seconds could become leap minutes, despite pushback from Russians, Vatican (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Clearghost: Using the laws of nature to limit digital surveillance (xot.nl)

a year ago | samizdis | xot.nl | newest

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Battery test race to work out what used EVs are worth (reuters.com)

a year ago | samizdis | reuters.com | newest

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Scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don't have free will (phys.org)

a year ago | samizdis | phys.org | newest

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Cops may expand use of dragnet warrants of Google search data (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest