Created for US insurance firms during a period of devastating fires across the 19th and 20th centuries, the Sanborn maps blaze with detail — shops, homes, churches, brothels, and opium dens were equally noted by the company’s cartographers. Tobiah Black explores…

You can just draw more samples

Oh, no — you swallowed your gum! Will it really stay in your stomach now for the next seven years?! A dietitian debunks this old wives’ tale and explains what really happens when a piece of gum makes its way into your insides.

Three out of Vietnam's five active international undersea internet cables are down, state media said over the weekend, the second major round of outages in the country in just over a year.

In the wake of the devastating attacks, Tsutomu Yamaguchi had no debilitating injuries.

The company combined its two AI labs to develop commercial services, a move that could undermine its long-running strength in foundational research.

We lost the female counterpart to Pac-Man in 2020, but Namco had been plotting her demise years beforehand.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath, so a very old saying goes.

NOTE: This is based on, but completely rewritten, from a Twitter post: https://x.com/TheGingerBill/status/1802645945642799423
TL;DR It makes Go feel too “functional” rather than being an unabashed imperative language.
I recently saw a post on Twitter showing…

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Cadence shows off optical solution for next-generation PCIe 7.0 that is not yet finalized.

Democratic governor Wes Moore says "most-sweeping pardon" in US history addresses decades of injustice.

Overestimation and miscalibration increase with a decrease in performance. This finding has been attributed to a common factor: participants' knowledge and s...

Apple has announced that it is no longer offering Apple Pay Later, the “buy now, pay later” service that launched...

Previously Intel’s Skymont slides were published in low resolution, and I wrote a short article on them.

The fact that we can’t remove essential complexity with a software redesign doesn’t mean that there’s nothing we can do about it. What if the problem definition wasn’t outside of our purview? What if we could get the world to conform to the software, and…

Enterprises are increasingly adopting AI to enhance business workflows. AI models, equipped with external tools, have the potential to streamline business operations.

At Cohere, we’re excited to share that our latest generative models — Command R and R+…

A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.

Intel CPU undervolting and throttling configuration tool - kitsunyan/intel-undervolt

The better things get, the more desperately activists struggle to stay in business.