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Maglev titanium heart now whirs inside the chest of a live patient:
For the first time, the fully mechanical heart made by BiVACOR, which uses the same technology as high-speed rail lines, has been implanted inside a human being.
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26 July 2024.
Gallery: Breathtaking images from the 2024 Urban Photo Awards:
This year marks the 15th year of the Urban Photo Awards, a worldwide competition that celebrates the world around us and encourages us to look at the built environment and its inhabitants in a new way.
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27 July 2024.
1st Circuit: No Immunity For School Officials Who Abused Wiretap Law To Hassle Someone For Recording Them:
I don’t know what the legislative intent of Massachusetts wiretapping law was, but I can’t possibly imagine it was erected solely to allow public employees to get people arrested for filming them performing their public duties in public places.
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27 July 2024.
LimeWire AI Studio Review 2023: Details, Pricing & Features:
In the rapidly advancing landscape of AI technology and innovation, LimeWire emerges as a unique platform in the realm of generative AI tools.
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12 December 2023.
Rev: Ithaca Startup Works puts new entrepreneurs through their paces:
Over 10 weeks, 22 teams of would-be entrepreneurs developed products ranging from multilingual children's toys to innovative greenhouse hoops for small-scale farmers.
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25 July 2024.
Elon Musk’s X under pressure from regulators over data harvesting for Grok AI:
Social media platform uses pre-ticked boxes of consent, a practice that violates UK and EU GDPR rulesElon Musk’s X platform is under pressure from data regulators after it emerged that users are consenting to their posts being used to build artificial intelligence systems via a default setting on the app.
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27 July 2024.
Type of mouth bacteria ‘melts’ some cancers, study finds:
People with head and neck cancers are said to have better outcomes if fusobacterium is found with their cancerScientists have discovered that a common type of mouth bacteria can make certain cancers “melt”.
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27 July 2024.
5 Linux commands for better group management (and how to use them):
Linux groups allow better control access to files and folders.
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27 July 2024.
Scottish bog gets world heritage status:
After an almost 40-year campaign, a little-known UK landscape has been awarded world heritage status.
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26 July 2024.
The Crowdstrike outage showed the vulnerability of the cloud:
Experts say the services companies like Crowdstrike supply are in the hands of too few providers that are themselves too interconnected.
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27 July 2024.
Fossil algae show a lake once existed on Lesotho's Mafadi summit, but it vanished about 150 years ago:
Lesotho is a small, land-locked, mountainous country located in the middle of South Africa.
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27 July 2024.
How US Chips Continue to End Up in Russian Missiles:
Defying sanctions, Russia has obtained nearly $4 billion in restricted chips since the war began in Ukraine.
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27 July 2024.
A profile of CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz, who co-founded CrowdStrike in 2011 after departing as McAfee's CTO following Intel's acquisition of McAfee for $7.68B:
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27 July 2024.
NASA Moves Toward Boeing Starliner Return to Restore Space Station Traffic:
With the Falcon 9 rocket set to fly again, and testing of the Starliner capsule progressing, the agency is seeking to turn the page on a brief, troubled chapter in orbit.
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27 July 2024.
What chimpanzee gestures reveal about human communication:
Chimpanzees are humans' closest living relatives.
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26 July 2024.
A profile of CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz, who co-founded CrowdStrike in 2011 after departing as McAfee's CTO following Intel's acquisition of McAfee for $7.68B:
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27 July 2024.
Boeing Starliner Astronauts Have Been In Space Six Weeks Longer Than Originally Planned:
Longtime Slashdot reader Randseed writes: Boeing Starliner is apparently still stuck at the ISS, six weeks longer than planned due to engine troubles.
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27 July 2024.
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.
What's the most dangerous sport in the world?:
It's hard to compare sports head-to-head, but some stand out in terms of their risk of causing injury or death.
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27 July 2024.
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
