The world produces an average of 430 million metric tons of plastic each year. The United States alone produces tens of millions of tons of plastic waste annually. Yet on average, only about 5 to 6 percent of plastic in the U.S. is recycled. NPR correspondent…

In this post, we'll talk about how Modal handles real-time HTTP requests and WebSockets in serverless functions.

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(The Center Square) – The housing market is not immune from inflationary woes as buyer’s purchasing power has significantly diminished in four years. Home buyers in 2024 need 80% more income to purchase a home than they did in 2020, according to a new report…

Some of my thoughts on my mental health during my journey in Open Source

Different languages frame time differently. Read on.

Or: Losing Faith

Farmers in hot, arid regions are turning to low-cost solar pumps to irrigate their fields, eliminating the need for expensive fossil fuels and boosting crop production. But by allowing them to pump throughout the day, the new technology is drying up aquifers…

Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device. - 0x192/universal-android-debloater

The official homepage of the Renju International Federation.

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

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This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline

Federal prosecutors are looking into whether platforms including Facebook facilitate and profit from the illicit sale of drugs.

In the 1990s, computers were magic and we were wizards. Want proof? I offer below, Larry Wall’s foreword to Learning Perl from 1993. It greatly inspired a very young me […]

The $1.8 billion contract with the National Reconnaissance Office shows the extent of SpaceX's involvement in US intelligence and military projects and illustrates a deeper Pentagon investment into vast, low-Earth orbiting satellite systems aimed at supporting…

Last week, I went on an adventure through the electromagnetic spectrum!

In this work, we discuss building performant Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). In particular, we study the importance of various architecture components and data choices. Through careful...

A “poke” sent to the Voyager 1 probe received a response that could help NASA restore reliable communication with the aging spacecraft 15 billion miles away.