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Self-Checkout Is a Failed Experiment (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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Tornadoes in the UK are surprisingly common (theconversation.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theconversation.com | frontpage

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UK's nuclear fusion site ends experiments after 40 years (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | samizdis | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Video Friday: Strandbeest (ieee.org)

a year ago | samizdis | ieee.org | frontpage

1

Genomics Has a Spreadsheet Problem (retractionwatch.com)

a year ago | samizdis | retractionwatch.com | newest

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The Tragedy of Google Search (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | best

3

Which languages take the longest to learn? (economist.com)

a year ago | samizdis | economist.com | newest

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Britain’s Latest Risk Register (economist.com)

a year ago | samizdis | economist.com | newest

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Be more scared of humans than of AI (thebulletin.org)

a year ago | samizdis | thebulletin.org | frontpage

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Retraction Watch Database becomes open (retractionwatch.com)

a year ago | samizdis | retractionwatch.com | newest

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In U.S.-China AI contest, the race is on to deploy killer robots (reuters.com)

a year ago | samizdis | reuters.com | newest

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Plausible sentence generators are changing the bullshit wars (pluralistic.net)

a year ago | samizdis | pluralistic.net | newest

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The Fight for Your Kids’ Brains (nytimes.com)

a year ago | samizdis | nytimes.com | newest

9

The Dendera Dating Controversy (historytoday.com)

a year ago | samizdis | historytoday.com | frontpage

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Connected cars are a “privacy nightmare,” Mozilla Foundation says (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Ancient culture torched its own homes every 60 years (jstor.org)

a year ago | samizdis | jstor.org | best

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New dictionary captures nuances and uses of Shakespeare's words (phys.org)

a year ago | samizdis | phys.org | newest

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A retiring consultant’s advice on consultants (economist.com)

a year ago | samizdis | economist.com | best

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World chess places restrictions on trans players (npr.org)

a year ago | samizdis | npr.org | newest

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Who is Dragan Rodriguez? 15 studies have the same fake author (retractionwatch.com)

a year ago | samizdis | retractionwatch.com | frontpage

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Genetics makes some people more likely to participate in genetic studies (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Black Holes Are an Eternal Mystery (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | newest

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Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components (pluralistic.net)

a year ago | samizdis | pluralistic.net | best

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Pogo stick reengineered for extreme athletes gets tamer version (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | newest

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Hydrogen-powered planes almost ready for takeoff (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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Optimising Deft for Emacs (xot.nl)

a year ago | samizdis | xot.nl | newest

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Climate change might trigger more earthquakes and volcanic eruptions (phys.org)

a year ago | samizdis | phys.org | newest

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Elon Musk’s plans could hinder Twitternomics (economist.com)

a year ago | samizdis | economist.com | newest

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Serbian coal miners uncover Roman ship (reuters.com)

a year ago | samizdis | reuters.com | newest

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Forcing your computer to rat you out (pluralistic.net)

a year ago | samizdis | pluralistic.net | newest

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Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Twitter's new logo has a meaning in mathematics (theregister.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theregister.com | newest

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Red Hat's open source rot took root when IBM walked in (theregister.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theregister.com | best

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Elon Musk Broke Twitter This Time (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | newest

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Roll Your Own All-Sky, Raspberry Pi Camera (ieee.org)

a year ago | samizdis | ieee.org | newest

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Metaverses are flopping – hard – says Gartner (theregister.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theregister.com | newest

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Researchers investigate the veracity of 'six degrees of separation' (phys.org)

a year ago | samizdis | phys.org | frontpage

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Discontinued Xbox Kinect Lives on by 3D Scanning Car Parts (thedrive.com)

a year ago | samizdis | thedrive.com | frontpage

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Lawyers have real bad day in court after citing fake cases made up by ChatGPT (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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Iron Fuel Shows Its Mettle (ieee.org)

a year ago | samizdis | ieee.org | newest

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The Mellotron, an electronic keyboard of recorded samples, changed pop music (jstor.org)

a year ago | samizdis | jstor.org | best

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Inclusive Naming Initiative limps toward release of dangerous digital dictionary (theregister.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theregister.com | newest

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The art of refurbing old computers (theregister.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theregister.com | best

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Predatory bacteria provide hope for chlorine-free drinking water (phys.org)

a year ago | samizdis | phys.org | newest

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Parker Solar Probe images the launch of the solar wind (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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Whose line is it anyway, GitHub? Innovation, not litigation, should answer (theregister.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theregister.com | newest

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The Google Employee Who Helped Edward Snowden in Hong Kong (theguardian.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Daniel Ellsberg’s message to us, and to future generations (thebulletin.org)

a year ago | samizdis | thebulletin.org | newest

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The Destructive Myth of the Universal Genius (jstor.org)

a year ago | samizdis | jstor.org | newest

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A simulator for dynamic electricity contracts (xot.nl)

a year ago | samizdis | xot.nl | newest

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The idea of “holobionts” represents a paradigm shift in biology (economist.com)

a year ago | samizdis | economist.com | newest

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Megaupload coders get light sentences, will testify against Kim Dotcom (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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Paul McCartney: AI has enabled a “final” Beatles song (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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For a billion years of Earth's history our days were only 19 hours long (phys.org)

a year ago | samizdis | phys.org | frontpage

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AI-powered church service in Germany draws a large crowd (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | best

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Air pollution in US from wildfire smoke is worst in recent recorded history (theguardian.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theguardian.com | newest

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To save the news, repeal the app tax (pluralistic.net)

a year ago | samizdis | pluralistic.net | newest

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The Next Crisis Will Start with Empty Office Buildings (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | newest

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Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | best

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Ramesses the Great was a superb self-promoter (economist.com)

a year ago | samizdis | economist.com | newest

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The money behind the coming wave of climate litigation (ft.com)

a year ago | samizdis | ft.com | frontpage

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With 7k satellites and growing, is space sustainable? (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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Hacktivists claim DDoS attacks on Outlook.com (bleepingcomputer.com)

a year ago | samizdis | bleepingcomputer.com | frontpage

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Uninsurable America: Climate change hits the insurance industry (axios.com)

a year ago | samizdis | axios.com | newest

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Windows XP's adventures in the afterlife shows copyright's copywrongs (theregister.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theregister.com | newest

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AI Doomerism Is a Decoy (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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Irish town unites in smartphone ban for young children (theguardian.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Google’s Android and Chrome extensions are a sad place (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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The Online-Ad Industry Is Entering a Chaotic New Era (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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“Clickless” iOS exploits infect Kaspersky iPhones with never-before-seen malware (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | best

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Trailhead as art: Student researchers create signs with impact (phys.org)

a year ago | samizdis | phys.org | newest

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Möbius Strip (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | samizdis | wikipedia.org | newest

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Drug-resistant ringworm reported in US for first time (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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One of Evolution’s Biggest Moments Was Re-Created in a Year (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | newest

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Autonomy founder Mike Lynch extradited to US after losing appeal (theguardian.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theguardian.com | newest

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Open source AI makes modern PCs relevant, and subscriptions seem shabby (theregister.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theregister.com | frontpage

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As Platforms Decay, Let’s Put Users First (eff.org)

a year ago | samizdis | eff.org | frontpage

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Kurt Vonnegut’s Advice to College Graduates Is Still Relevant (smithsonianmag.com)

a year ago | samizdis | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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Wikipedia will not perform Online Safety Bill age checks (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | samizdis | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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NASA's Voyager will do more science with new power strategy (phys.org)

a year ago | samizdis | phys.org | newest

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Torturing data to predict Bitcoin prices: A book excerpt (retractionwatch.com)

a year ago | samizdis | retractionwatch.com | newest

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UK university launches postgraduate course in clinical use of psychedelics (theguardian.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theguardian.com | newest

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DoD Working to Better Understand, Resolve Anomalous Phenomena (defense.gov)

a year ago | samizdis | defense.gov | newest

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Moon to Mars Architecture (nasa.gov)

a year ago | samizdis | nasa.gov | newest

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GPT-4 will hunt for trends in medical records thanks to Microsoft and Epic (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | best

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Musk reportedly purchases thousands of GPUs for generative AI project at Twitter (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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Python Software Foundation concern at looming Euro cybersecurity rules (theregister.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theregister.com | frontpage

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The dream of wiping out polio might need a rethink (npr.org)

a year ago | samizdis | npr.org | newest

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Was your degree worth it? (economist.com)

a year ago | samizdis | economist.com | newest

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Hiccups Have a Curious Connection to Cancer (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theatlantic.com | newest

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Mathematicians invent new ‘Einstein’ shape (theguardian.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theguardian.com | newest

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A passenger aircraft that flies at Mach 9? Sure, why not (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead (pluralistic.net)

a year ago | samizdis | pluralistic.net | newest

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Multidisciplinary unmanned lab is taking shape 2.5km under the sea (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | samizdis | arstechnica.com | newest

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MIT Turbocharges Python’s Notoriously Slow Compiler (ieee.org)

a year ago | samizdis | ieee.org | newest

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AI's Great “Pause” Debate (axios.com)

a year ago | samizdis | axios.com | newest

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Buoyant Bitcoin's losing its liquidity (reuters.com)

a year ago | samizdis | reuters.com | newest

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BASIC is anything but dead (theregister.com)

a year ago | samizdis | theregister.com | best

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Britain is still marked by the mistakes of the Beeching Report (economist.com)

a year ago | samizdis | economist.com | newest

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Generative AI set to affect 300M jobs in the US and Europe (ft.com)

a year ago | samizdis | ft.com | newest