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Hi everyone, We’re rolling out a new feature over the next few weeks: visual search powered by Google Lens! Why are we doing this? For several years you’ve been able to effectively search the internet with a number of search providers in Firefox. As those…

The eye expert Dr Bryce Appelbaum on the simple exercises and lifestyle changes that can help

Esolangs, or esoteric programming languages, highlight the hidden metaphors and conventions that structure mainstream programming.

It's not about the cost savings, either. Many government organizations are replacing Microsoft software for a more important reason.

In Taiwan they call @ "little mouse". It's "strudel" in Hebrew, "dog" in Russian and "monkey's tail" in Dutch. The @ sign is a mirror, and its story goes back thousands of years.

Paddy fields are thriving in a quiet part of east England and might help feed us in the future.

Download RidePods - Race with Head by Ali Tanis on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like RidePods - Race with Head…

Britain’s largest automotive employer plans to restart engine manufacturing in early October, report says

It turns out we've all been using MCP wrong. Most agents today use MCP by exposing the "tools" directly to the LLM. We tried something different: Convert the MCP tools into a TypeScript API, and then ask an LLM to write code that calls that API. The results…

My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

How a British-born hobbyist blogger became one of Big Tech’s punchiest critics

TL;DR: Most C++ and Rust thread-pool libraries leave significant performance on the table - often running 10× slower than OpenMP on classic fork-join workloads and micro-benchmarks.
So I’ve drafted a minimal ~300-line library called Fork Union that lands…

When a pursuit becomes a drag, here's some questions to help you figure out why, and what to do about it.

Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

"If that bloody rope breaks, you're dead."

Legendary steeplejack Fred Dibnah demonstrates the art of installing a chimney scaffold at 200ft while trying to avoid "half a day out with the undertaker".

"When I've done it, when I've got all the gear up, to…

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