Plastic pollution is one of the defining legacies of our modern way of life, but it is now so widespread it is even finding its way into fruit and vegetables as they grow.

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One of the defining characteristics of the modern world is the ubiquity of steel. Nearly every product of industrial civilization relies on steel, either as a component or as part of the equipment used to produce it. Without it, Vaclav Smil notes in “Still…

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ChatBot and LLMs are great. Understanding user intent is fantastic. Automatic summarization is powerful. But search is here to stay.

Brock Peters, 18, lands plane on California road carrying cousins and weeping grandmother four months after getting pilot license

A new lawsuit filed by Seattle Public Schools against TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snap, Instagram, and their parent companies alleges that the social media giants have “successfully exploited the vulnerable brains… Read More

Minds and Machines - This article contributes to the debate around the abilities of large language models such as GPT-3, dealing with: firstly, evaluating how well GPT does in the Turing Test,...

Small Visual Basic (sVB) is an educational programming language, created by Eng. Mohammad Hamdy as an evolved version of Microsoft Small Basic (SB). It is meant to be easier and more powerful at th...

A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features. :warning: i3-gaps has been merged into i3. - GitHub - Airblader/i3: A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other feat...

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In the beginning, there was the egg. Then fictional people started eating that from different ends, and the terms of "little endians" an...

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"If Hamline won't listen to free speech advocates or faculty across the country, they'll have to listen to their accreditor," said FIRE attorney Alex Morey, who filed the complaint.

Investors and managers are playing a dangerous game of “volatility laundering,” Cliff Asness writes.

I ran command line macOS tools, such as Bash and Geekbench, on a jailbroken iPhone by replacing iOS’s dyld shared cache (all of iOS’s code) with macOS’s. However, graphical apps will never work: macOS’s WindowServer won’t start, since iOS’s drivers are too…

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Every time I hear about software maintenance as a distinct activity, I cringe. That’s because it is based on the outdated notion that first software is developed, then it is maintained. But t…