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Chewing gum can shed microplastics into saliva, pilot study finds

acs.org

“Our goal is not to alarm anybody,” says Sanjay Mohanty, the project’s principal investigator and an...
“Our goal is not to alarm anybody,” says Sanjay Mohanty, the project’s principal investigator and an engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). “Scientists don’t know if microplastics are unsafe to us or not. There are no human trials. But we know we are exposed to plastics in everyda...

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Sell Yourself Sell Your Work

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Simonw/Ollama-models-atom-feed

simonwillison.net
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What's Happening to Students?

honest-broker.com

A frustrated teacher recently took to social media with a desperate warning:You guys don’t know what’s...
A frustrated teacher recently took to social media with a desperate warning:You guys don’t know what’s going on in education right now. That’s fine—how could you know unless you were working in it? But I think that you need to know….First of all the kids have no ability to be bored whatsoever. They live on their pho...
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Optimizing ML Training with Metagradient Descent

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Toyota's 'Circular Factory' Idea Could Be a Great Alternative to Junk Yards

thedrive.com

With one junked car at a time, Toyota looks to reduce, reuse, and recycle its way...
With one junked car at a time, Toyota looks to reduce, reuse, and recycle its way into another profit stream while keeping trash out of well, actual streams. We’ve seen plenty of press releases describing sustainability and other green initiatives, but we have not seen many automakers talking about taking responsibi...
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Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

arstechnica.com

Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when aggressive AI crawler traffic...
Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when aggressive AI crawler traffic from Amazon overwhelmed their Git repository service, repeatedly causing instability and downtime. Despite configuring standard defensive measures—adjusting robots.txt, blocking known crawler user-agents, and fil...
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Ruby, Ractors, and Lock-Free Data Structures

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AMC Theatres will screen a Swedish movie 'visually dubbed' with the help of AI

engadget.com

On May 9, AMC Theatres will start showing a sci-fi movie that was shot in Swedish...
On May 9, AMC Theatres will start showing a sci-fi movie that was shot in Swedish but will look like it was made in English instead. Watch the Skies, which was released in its home country as UFO Sweden, had undergone "visual dubbing" with the help of artificial intelligence. An AI company called Flawless used its t...

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The Blood on the Keyboard

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A Ford truck is loaded with ivory tusks in Essex, Connecticut, 19th century. [Connecticut State Library]...
A Ford truck is loaded with ivory tusks in Essex, Connecticut, 19th century. [Connecticut State Library] In his 1947 book The World and Africa, W.E.B. Du Bois remarked that a society built on capitalistic exploitation doesn’t see the “blood on the piano keys.” Throughout his lifetime, piano keys with their ivory ven...
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We're Still Not Done with Jesus

newyorker.com

The Passion and the Resurrection are, of course, at the heart of the Jesus story. Matthew’s...
The Passion and the Resurrection are, of course, at the heart of the Jesus story. Matthew’s account of the empty tomb, followed by ever more elaborate resurrection narratives, serves, Pagels suggests, both to address the practical difficulties of reclaiming the bodies of the executed and to counter skeptical claims ...

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Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet?

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Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun?

nytimes.com

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we...
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.When Starbucks announced last month that it was laying off more than 1,000 corporate employees, it highlighted a disturbing trend for white-collar workers: Over the past few ye...

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Lost manuscript of Merlin and King Arthur hidden inside another book

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Cambridge University Library(Credit: Cambridge University Library)An intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen...
Cambridge University Library(Credit: Cambridge University Library)An intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan deeds register for nearly 400 years. Researchers have finally been able to reveal it with cutting-edge techniques.It is the only surviving fragment of a lo...
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How to delete your 23andMe data

theverge.com

23andMe has filed for bankruptcy, raising concerns about what will happen to the DNA-testing company and...
23andMe has filed for bankruptcy, raising concerns about what will happen to the DNA-testing company and all the data it’s collected from customers over the years. In the event that 23andMe is sold, its massive genetic database may end up in the hands of a different company entirely — one that users never consented ...
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Chicago-Sized Iceberg Hid Ancient Ecosystem, Scientists Reveal

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Scientists scrutinizing the seafloor beneath a calving iceberg found a remarkable array of living creatures, switching...
Scientists scrutinizing the seafloor beneath a calving iceberg found a remarkable array of living creatures, switching up notions of how the giant chunks of ice affect their immediate environs. The scientists investigated a region of seafloor recently exposed by the calving of a gigantic iceberg—A-84—which is as lar...
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In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants

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You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we...
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Eagle Pass, Texas, borders the Mexican city of Piedras Negras. Many people who live in Piedras Negras cross daily to work, shop or visit relatives.Credit...Fernando Padron was ...

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Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees

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Baffled by the plethora of Outlook options out there? You aren't alone. Microsoft veteran Scott Hanselman...
Baffled by the plethora of Outlook options out there? You aren't alone. Microsoft veteran Scott Hanselman posted a list of some more variants that could be used to do the same thing. It's a problem common to several Microsoft products. A file needs to be opened, but which app should be used? Should it be Outlook New...
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Airbus to test new engine design for successor to A320

ft.com
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AI bots are destroying Open Access

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There's a war going on on the Internet. AI companies with billions to burn are hard...
There's a war going on on the Internet. AI companies with billions to burn are hard at work destroying the websites of libraries, archives, non-profit organizations, and scholarly publishers, anyone who is working to make quality information universally available on the internet. And the technologists defending agai...
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Show HN: Generate docs from your public repos

docs.dev
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Scientists break down plastic using a simple, inexpensive catalyst and air

phys.org
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Show HN: Fingernotes – handwritten notes which become their own preview image

fingernotes.com
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Show HN: Feudle – a daily puzzle game built with AI

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