The "attention economy" corrupts science. What is valuable to one scientist or institution (like media attention) undermines public trust.

Ultima Online is celebrating its 25th anniversary! You know what that means, right? Story time!

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Maitland Jones Jr., a respected professor, defended his standards. But students started a petition, and the university dismissed him.

The new method converts methane gas into liquid methanol. A team of researchers has successfully converted methane into methanol using light and scattered transition metals such as copper in a process known as photo-oxidation. The reaction was the best achieved…

"What happens on FogCam stays on FogCam."

I got curious about an ExpressCard to NVMe M.2 NGFF adapter I saw on Reddit, so I got one to try out myself, ending up with a total of 4 SSD-s on my ThinkPad T430. Yes, four.

We’re open-sourcing AITemplate, a unified inference system for both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs. It delivers performance improvements up to 12X on NVIDIA GPUs and 4X on AMD GPUs compared to eager-mode within Pytorch.

Supported Platforms

Linux: compatible with 3.10 - 5.19 kernels
FreeBSD: compatible with releases starting from 12.2-RELEASE

Changes

Fix bad free in skein code #13954
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There may not be a way back out for Meta.

With the advent of streaming services, plenty of people are opting to forego the collection of physical media. In turn, there are now a lot of optical drives sitting unused in parts bins and old co…

On my recent review of the Blitzwolf BW-P12 10000mAh Power Bank, a reader commented asking whether that particular power bank could be used as a makeshift uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for USB…

VideoLAN’s URL from which users download the VLC Media Player appears to have been banned by the DoT in India since March 2021. This was done without any prior notice, or affording VideoLAN an opportunity of hearing, which is contrary to the Indian law.

[May 14, 1979]
In this short one-minute commercial, Xerox introduces its vision for the office of the future. Years ahead of its time, the 1972 Xerox Alto featured Ethernet networking, a full page display, a mouse, laser printing, e-mail, and a windows-based…