Researchers have developed a new way to produce and shape large, high-quality mirrors that are much thinner than the primary mirrors previously used for telescopes deployed in space. The resulting mirrors are flexible enough to be rolled up and stored compactly…

A new study reveals that OpenAI's GPT-4 outperforms elite human annotators in labeling tasks, saving a team of researchers over $500,000 and 20,000 hours of labor while raising questions about the future of crowdworking.

The robbery was quick, quiet, and clean, and netted more than 2.2 trillion ISK—that's $22,300 in real money.

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Resources and community around CRDT technology — papers, blog posts, code and more.

Rumors of thinking robots are greatly exaggerated. Still, we cannot leave decisions about even lesser AI in the hands of those who stand to profit from its use.

WordPerfect for UNIX Character Terminals. Contribute to taviso/wpunix development by creating an account on GitHub.

Melvin Quinney was convicted of indecency with a child and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Now, the courts recognize no abuse took place.

A recent issue in scalar multiplication makes for a good case study of how unsafe interfaces, undocumented assumptions, and time lead to vulnerabilities.

Andy Hunter’s ecommerce platform was a pandemic hit. Now he’s on a mission to prove that small businesses can scale up without selling out.

We’re sharing how Meta delivers high-quality audio at scale with the xHE-AAC audio codec. xHE-AAC has already been deployed on Facebook and Instagram to provide enhanced audio for features like Ree…

Today I wanted to understand the performance difference between two Python implementations of a mechanism to detect changes to a SQLite database schema. I rendered the difference between the two …

After years of dreaming about building rockets, Peter Beck realized that the only path to his dream job was starting his own company. Here's what happened next.

JEP 444, Virtual Threads, was promoted from Candidate to Proposed to Target status for JDK 21. This feature offers a lightweight threading model to simplify the creation, management, and monitoring of high-throughput concurrent Java applications, allowing…

Set up your Mac app for updating using the Sparkle framework

A full-body keyboard using gestures to type through computer vision - everythingishacked/Semaphore

Makenzie Lystrup first woman in Nasa’s history to become director of Goddard Space Flight Centre

Scientists have published a new study where they suggest that low carbohydrate consumption is significantly associated with increased insulin resistance in healthy, lean people [1]. Benefits and risks Diet is a powerful mediator of health […]