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Parasitic plant with shrunken genome convinces hosts to grow into its own flesh
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phys.org
Parasitic plant convinces hosts to grow into its own flesh—it's also an extreme example of genome shrinkage
If you happen to come across plants of the Balanophoraceae family in a corner of a forest, you might easily mistake them for fungi growing around tree roots. Their mushroom-like structures are actually ...
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Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco
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Optical Circuit Switching for ML Systems
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ACM Conferences
Lightwave Fabrics: At-Scale Optical Circuit Switching for Datacenter and Machine Learning Systems | Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM…
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DKIM: Rotate and Publish Your Keys
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Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's weird neighbor
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The Register
Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from web pioneer to Google's weird neighbor
Can the sleeping fox ever wake up?
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In Digital Ocean, S3-like space keys can access all your buckets
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Digitalocean
Access key per space | Storage | DigitalOcean
Please prioritise having individual keys for individual spaces. It's pretty useless with multiple products or clients.
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Does anybody remember Google People
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qntm.org
cripes does anybody remember Google People
A note from the author
This is an older version of this story, from 2019. Here's the latest version, from 2022.
Hmm
Embedded Tweets do not appear to work anymore. If you know how to fix this, leave a comment below.
cripes does anybody…
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Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.”
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A Smart Bear
Never say "no," but rarely say "yes."
"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes" exactly when it matters most.
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The story behind the Heliotrope Font (2021)
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This is Financial Advice [video by Folding Ideas]
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YouTube
This is Financial Advice
Clickbait Title: if the price is zero then you can buy all the shares
I tell you what, when you try and tell this story you either sum it up in ten minutes with the broadest strokes or you settle in for a rabbit hole made entirely out of onions and ogres.…
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DALL-E 3 is now publicly available inside Bing
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Bing
Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you.
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Watch a frog-like robot use tiny explosions to hop around
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New Scientist
Watch a frog-like robot use tiny explosions to hop around
Insect-sized robots that can crawl, hop and turn by harnessing the power of explosions can be cheaply produced for a range of applications
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MyPowerbank hacks Santander bikes so London's homeless can charge their phones
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Dezeen
MyPowerbank hacks London's Santander bikes so homeless people can charge their phones
Central Saint Martins graduate Luke Talbot has created a portable charger that can be hooked up to rental bikes to allow people experiencing homelessness to charge their phones for free.
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Pulsars, not dark matter, explain the Milky Way’s antimatter
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Big Think
Pulsars, not dark matter, explain the Milky Way's antimatter
An enormous amount of antimatter is coming from our galactic center. But the culprit probably isn't dark matter, but merely neutron stars.
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Influxdb made the switch from Go to Rust
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Reddit
From the rust community on Reddit: influxdb officially made the switch from Go => Rust
Explore this post and more from the rust community
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FlashAttention: Fast Transformer training with long sequences
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www.adept.ai
FlashAttention: Fast Transformer training with long sequences
Transformers have grown deeper and wider, but training them on long sequences remains difficult. The attention layer at their heart is the compute and memory bottleneck: doubling the sequence length would quadruple the runtime and memory requirements.
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Meta case brought to the European level
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Datatilsynet
Meta case brought to the European level
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has requested a binding decision from the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) in the Meta case. In the request, we ask that the Norwegian temporary ban on behavioural advertising on Facebook …
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Where's My Bike Dave?
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road.cc
Man convicted after mother of bike theft victim holds three-day protest outside his house
Fiona Bateman became frustrated that "not much was happening" with the police investigation, despite CCTV and repeat identifications online
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Plimpton 322 is Babylonian exact sexagesimal trigonometry
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Twitter / X is losing daily active users. CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed it
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Mashable
Twitter / X is losing daily active users. CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed it.
Since Musk's takeover, X has lost millions of daily active users.
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Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics
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The Drive
Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics, Study Finds
Recent studies have shown tire emissions to be a larger threat to global health than anyone realized—and EVs could make the problem worse.
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