“I think the days of waiting for recycling to work are over,” notes one environmentalist.

accept that fact if you can—1820: Irish English and associated with the obsolete figurative sense ‘to consider’ of the verb ‘smoke’

Friday: The mundane crime of shoplifting has spun out of control in San Francisco, forcing some chain stores to close.

As other firms become more political, some Silicon Valley companies are heading in the opposite direction | United States

When I was a young child, one of my best friends was a turtle. Not a real turtle, although that would have been fun, but a virtual one. My turtle lived inside of an Apple II, an early 8-bit computer, at my elementary school. When I first met her, my turtle…

In dense tropical forests in Sierra Leone, scientists have rediscovered a coffee species not seen in the wild in decades — a plant they say may help secure the future of this valuable commodity that has been imperiled by climate change.

Fifty years of research on children's toy preferences shows that kids generally prefer toys oriented toward their own gender.

To enable speech recognition technology for many more languages spoken around the globe, Facebook AI is releasing wav2vec Unsupervised, a new method to train models with no supervision whatsoever. Wav2vec Unsupervised rivals the performance of the best supervised…

Papers in leading psychology, economic and science journals that fail to replicate and therefore are less likely to be true are often the most cited papers in academic research, according to a new study by the University of California San Diego’s Rady School…

The designer and artist Tamiko Thiel gets her due in a new show at MoMA.

The underrepresentation of women in academic science is typically attributed, both in scientific literature and in the media, to sexist hiring. Here we report five hiring experiments in which faculty evaluated hypothetical female and male applicants, using…

Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines, culminating in a 2m37s build on a 160-core ARM machine.
I don’t have a giant ARM behemoth, but I have been working on a tool I call Llama, which lets you offload computational…

Any cicada that tries to break the pattern is simply taking her offspring’s life into her own hands…

TLDR: My Macbook Pro 16" is hot and noisy when connected to a 2560x1440p60 monitor, even when idle and the lid is closed. This article…

Get any text on your screen into your clipboard. Contribute to schappim/macOCR development by creating an account on GitHub.

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