An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal. - google-gemini/gemini-cli

Genetically modified E coli used to create painkillers from material produced from plastic bottles

[Recorded on December 12, 2022]

Bill Atkinson shows and explains his binder of Polaroid photos which he took during the development of the Lisa, documenting the evolution of its graphical user interface.

Catalog number: 102809056
Acquisition number: 2022.0174

An interactive map showing the history of street and landmark names in San Francisco. Use the controls to browse, search, and filter by theme.

After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released.

How aesthetically coherent is your city?

Mid-sized American cities outperform major metros at turning economic growth into patents — challenging where we think innovation happens.

The Translator interface of the Translator and Language Detector APIs contains all the associated translation functionality, including checking AI model availability, creating a new Translator instance, using it to create a translation, and more.

President Trump is claiming the strikes “obliterated” three underground nuclear sites in Iran protected by military grade concrete. The truth may be more complicated.

US academics say computer code systematically raised fares at expense of drivers and passengers

Sociologists have shown that “third places” such as neighborhood cafés help people maintain and use their network ties. Do they help local entrepreneurs, for whom networks are important? We examine whether the introduction of Starbucks cafés into U.S. neighborhoods…

I discovered a fun and strangely obvious trick for summarizing videos faster and reducing costs: just speed them up. Cheaper, faster OpenAI trannoscriptions with a little ffmpeg trick.

Asian crime syndicates’ online scams have reached industrial proportions, cheating victims around the world out of more than $44 billion a year. U.S. banks have been unable to stop them.

The current (and future) monetization strategies of "Shopify for SaaS"

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development is relocating its headquarters to a federal building in Virginia, months after the agency’s existing space downtown in Washington was put up for sale as part of a broader effort by President Donald Trump’s…

We have a lot of updates to share with you today: Framework Laptop 12 press reviews are live and shipments are starting, Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen 300 Series) is now in stock, and we have a number of events coming up!

We're almost ready to issue certificates for IP address SANs from Let's Encrypt's production environment. They'll only be available under the shortlived profile (which has a 6-day validity period), and that profile will remain allowlist-only for a while.…

A release announcement showcases how the user's experience is better today than it was yesterday. That sounds obvious, but most release announcements seem to forget that there's a user at all.