Contact details
In the news
Biologic therapy shown to reduce steroid use in 92% of severe asthmatics:
A new study has found that using biologic therapy to reduce lung inflammation enabled 92% of people with severe asthma to reduce their dose of daily inhaled steroid without exacerbating their symptoms.
Posted on
11 December 2023.
Roadrunner-M drone can take out aerial threats or live to fly another day:
In the spirit of waste not, want not, Anduril Industries has rolled out its Roadrunner-Munition (Roadrunner-M) jet-propelled VTOL autonomous interceptor drone that can destroy aerial threats or return to base intact to fight another day.
Posted on
11 December 2023.
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt:
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad, expanding on the fact that Iowa’s book ban demonstrates hatred of LGBTQ people: Or women.
Posted on
10 December 2023.
Elon Musk Wants Bob Iger ‘Immediately’ Fired From Disney:
The tech billionaire has targeted Iger since Disney temporarily suspended advertising on X over an antisemitic post made by Musk.
Posted on
08 December 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.
Posted on
25 January 2023.
Space, The Boring Frontier:
Suppose you randomly go 1 million miles somewhere away from our Sun.
Posted on
28 December 2021.
Elon Musk says X will reinstate Alex Jones’s account after poll of users:
Rightwing conspiracy theorist was banned from platform in 2018, but could be back after 2m votes castThe social media platform X will reinstate the account of the US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones after a poll of the site’s users backed his return, its owner, Elon Musk, has said.
Posted on
11 December 2023.
Revealed: the oldest black hole ever observed, dating to dawn of universe:
Exclusive: astronomers surprised at size of 13bn-year-old object, which raises new questions about where black holes came fromAstronomers have detected the oldest black hole ever observed, dating back more than 13bn years to the dawn of the universe.
Posted on
11 December 2023.
Finally, a tiny car charger that can power your laptop, tablet, and phone:
Looking for a car charger that can output a massive 160W of power, enough to charge all your devices? Baseus has one that passed my tests.
Posted on
11 December 2023.
Mosquito-borne disease risk looms for UK - study:
Diseases like dengue fever could be common if little is done to tackle climate change, report warns.
Posted on
11 December 2023.
Biophysicists Uncover Powerful Symmetries in Living Tissue:
After identifying interlocking symmetries in mammalian cells, scientists describe some tissues as liquid crystals.
Posted on
10 December 2023.
We made ChatGPT write a song for us:
We kept hearing that Artificial Intelligence is a threat to the creative arts.
Posted on
10 December 2023.
Sour grapes: Japan battles to protect premium fruits:
The variety of juicy grape that Yuki Nakamura is harvesting as the sun rises over his farm took scientists 33 years to develop and can sell for $100 a bunch in Tokyo department stores.
Posted on
10 December 2023.
This A.I. Subculture’s Motto: Go, Go, Go:
The eccentric pro-tech movement known as “Effective Accelerationism” wants to unshackle powerful A.
Posted on
11 December 2023.
Air Raid Alerts Announced in Kyiv: Military Officials Report Explosions in Ukrainian Capital:
.
Posted on
11 December 2023.
What Can You Do With an Einstein?:
Earlier this year, mathematicians discovered a unique shape.
Posted on
11 December 2023.
FDA approves first gene-editing treatment for human illness:
The Food and Drug Administration approved two genetic treatments for sickle cell disease, including one that uses gene-editing.
Posted on
08 December 2023.
Why this fishing hotspot is flying high:
1. How relevant is this ad to you? Ad froze or did not finish loading Video content did not start after ad Audio on ad was too loud Ad was repetitive to ads I've seen previously.
Posted on
11 December 2023.
Hidden Impacts of Ferocious Volcanic Eruption Finally Revealed:
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared an interesting article from ScienceAlert:
Undersea volcanic eruptions account for more than three-quarters of all volcanism on Earth, but rarely do we see the impacts.
Posted on
11 December 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.
Posted on
07 March 2023.
Signs of life shooting from Saturn's moon could be collected with spacecraft, scientists say:
Possible amino acids spewing from Enceladus' subsurface ocean can survive impact with a spacecraft, lab experiments show.
Posted on
10 December 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.
Posted on
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
