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Watery material makes windows selectively block light and/or heat:
Windows are pretty basic necessities for letting in light and heat, but you don’t always want both at once.
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25 September 2023.
Asus aims for backyard movie nights with the ZenBeam L2 portable projector:
Taiwan multinational Asus has added another model to its ZenBeam range of portable projectors.
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25 September 2023.
Court Shoots Down Cop’s Attempt To Instruct Jury That He’s Innocent Just Because He Wasn’t The FIRST Violator Of Rights:
Are you familiar with “felony murder?” Let’s talk about it.
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26 September 2023.
Obituary That Called Late NBA Player 'Useless' Sparks Firestorm:
Social media users speculated that the obituary on Brandon Hunter was the product of AI, plagiarism or a translation program.
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15 September 2023.
Top 10 AI Tools in 2023 That Will Make Your Life Easier:
In this article, we explore the top 10 AI tools that are
driving innovation and efficiency in various industries.
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25 January 2023.
Space, The Boring Frontier:
Suppose you randomly go 1 million miles somewhere away from our Sun.
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28 December 2021.
No 10 worried AI could be used to create advanced weapons that escape human control:
At global summit in UK, Rishi Sunak will highlight risk of criminals and terrorists using technology to make bioweaponsConcerns that criminals or terrorists could use artificial intelligence to cause mass destruction will dominate discussion at a summit of world leaders, as concern grows in Downing Street about the power of the next generation of technological advances.
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26 September 2023.
‘Supercontinent’ could make Earth uninhabitable in 250m years, study predicts:
Extreme temperatures, radiation and collapse of food supply created by merging of continents would cause mass extinctionThe formation of a supercontinent on Earth could wipe out humans and any other mammals that are still around in 250m years, according to a study.
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26 September 2023.
Getty Images launches its own 'commercially safe' AI image generator:
Using Getty Images' expansive image library, customers will soon be able to create their own images.
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26 September 2023.
Osiris-Rex: Nasa confirms return of asteroid Bennu samples:
A capsule carrying debris from asteroid Bennu lands safely in the Utah desert.
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25 September 2023.
Getty Images Plunges Into the Generative AI Pool:
Stock-photo giant Getty Images has partnered with Nvidia to build an image generator.
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25 September 2023.
Horseless carriages were once a lot like driverless cars. What can history teach us?:
Historians say that a little more than a century ago, when cars first hit the roads, they caused nervous laughter and raised real concerns, much like driverless vehicles today.
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25 September 2023.
Researchers challenge long-standing theory guiding nanoparticle treatment of tumors:
Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a new theory to explain how nanoparticles enter and exit the tumors they are meant to treat, potentially rewriting an understanding of cancer nanomedicine that has guided research for nearly four decades.
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25 September 2023.
ChatGPT Can Now Respond With Spoken Words:
A new version of OpenAI’s popular chatbot behaves a lot like Siri and Alexa.
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25 September 2023.
I walked more than 100 miles in Kyoto. Here are 5 new places worth visiting:
And by using bustling Shijo Street — also known as Shijo-dori — as a main street for navigation, it was a breeze to weave through the city during my three-month trip in May.
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26 September 2023.
Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Gets a Bigger Burst of Laser Energy:
Researchers at the National Ignition Facility during a July firing of 192 lasers improved on a December result, but also ended up with duds in other experiments.
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26 September 2023.
Risk factor for Parkinson's discovered in genes from people of African descent:
An effort to diversify genetic studies has led to a discovery about Parkinson's disease in people of African descent.
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24 September 2023.
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26 September 2023.
Nvidia Hints At Replacing Rasterization and Ray Tracing With Full Neural Rendering:
Mark Tyson writes via Tom's Hardware: A future version of [Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology] is likely to include full neural rendering, hinted Bryan Catanzaro, a Nvidia VP of Applied Deep Learning Research.
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26 September 2023.
Georgia leads toward a nuclear future with its first operating reactor:
Georgia Power Co. announced one of its two new reactors reached self-sustaining nuclear fission on Monday.
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07 March 2023.
Scientists created AI that could detect alien life — and they're not entirely sure how it works:
The new machine-learning algorithm can distinguish between biological and nonbiological samples with 90% accuracy.
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25 September 2023.
Meet the scientist at the center of the covid lab leak controversy:
On a foggy morning in early February last year, dozens of journalists from around the world gathered outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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09 February 2022.
Some of the tech in my workday
Best programming language?
The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.
The TIOBE Programming Community index measures popularity based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses, third party vendors and search engine activity.
w3techs analyses page content to determine the technology used, and also uses publicly available information from sources such as Alexa, Google, Microsoft and ipinfo.io.
While Java and Python top the popularity charts, more than 80% of all websites run on PHP.
Longer term weather forecast
