Scientists have figured out how microbes can suck energy from rocks. Such lifeforms might be more widespread than anyone anticipated.

It's that time of year, Silicon Valley's investor technocrati and advice-giving Twitter celebrities descended upon Pier 48 in San Francisco to judge the

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How to make an elevation map of our moon.

The "Extendable Read-Only File System" (or "EROFS") was first posted
by Gao Xiang in May 2018; it was merged into the staging tree for
the 4.19 release. There has been a steady stream of work on EROFS since
then, and its author now thinks that it is ready…

Cross-platform, customizable ML solutions for live and streaming media. - google-ai-edge/mediapipe

The "homemade electric motorcycle" was approved and registered by the DVLA, police say.

The Julia developers are pleased to announce the release of Julia v1.2.0, the second minor release in the 1.x series. Binaries are available for Linux, Windows, macOS, and FreeBSD at https://julialang.org/downloads. As a minor release, v1.2.0 contains no…

Open Location Code is a library to generate short codes, called "plus codes", that can be used as digital addresses where street addresses don't exist. - google/open-location-code

Google recently announced the availability of a new datacenter in Salt Lake City, Utah. This is the latest in datacenter investments by Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo and others, distributed along a line corresponding to the 41st parallel in the United…

The Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment lets NASA precisely measure the distance between Earth and the moon

When Ellie Pell took first overall, the surprised race organisers realised they had no trophy for the first place male.

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