To prevent future pandemics, it is important that we understand whether SARS-CoV-2 spilled over directly from animals to people, or indirectly in a laboratory accident. The genome of SARS-COV-2 contains a peculiar pattern of unique restriction endonuclease…

Vitalik recently mentioned zkapps at ETHMexico. But what are these zkapps? By the end of this post you will know what they are, and how they are going to change the technology landscape as we know it.
Zkapps, or zero-knowledge applications, are the modern…

Use generative AI to collect public feedback on urban planning ideas.

Sweeping new surveillance proposal.

Privacy empowers. Surveillance weakens.

🌱💧 An open source DIY soil moisture sensor. Contribute to rbaron/b-parasite development by creating an account on GitHub.

Homelessness, crime, and housing costs are some of the biggest concerns for SF residents.

I recently saw the below image circulating around twitter/Facebook/reddit. It is noscriptd "Andromeda's actual size if it was brighter":

One of the comments provides a link to another compa...

Apple keeps adding AV1 codec support! iPad Pro joins iPhone 15 Pro and Macbooks with dedicated AV1 hardware decoders! Learn everything you need to know about AV1 playback support.

The release of Stable Diffusion unleashed a tremendous amount of innovation in an incredibly short period of time. But there is a reason we've taken a step back at Stability AI and chose not to release version 1.5 as quickly as we released earlier checkpoints.…

Researchers at Cardiff University have identified a peculiar twisting motion in the orbits of two colliding black holes, an exotic phenomenon predicted by Einstein's theory of gravity.

As packages frequently depend on other packages, could some of these big (more than 180M downloads) packages depend on small (less than 180M downloads) packages?

The standard (" transverse") flute has pretty terrible ergonomics: your arms are way out to the side. Most woodwinds use a much more natural playing position where the arms are comfortably in front of you, including some (" end-blown") flutes. In the case…

Or maybe we've just lost our appetite. Either way, lead times are very slowly on the mend