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The Alexa feature "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" you enabled no longer available

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I Turned Off Apple Intelligence – Sad Update

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For Better or for Worse, the Overload (2024)

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You know what’s stuck on my mind? Ever since writing my last post, it’s been the...
You know what’s stuck on my mind? Ever since writing my last post, it’s been the word “better.” It came up when we were talking about overload resolution and implicit conversion sequences. I explained a necessary special case of it—something about how adding const in a reference-binding is preferred against—and then...
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Arlington Cemetery strips content on black and female veterans from website

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Brandon DrenonBBC News, Washington DCGetty ImagesArlington National CemeteryArlington National Cemetery has scrubbed from its website information...
Brandon DrenonBBC News, Washington DCGetty ImagesArlington National CemeteryArlington National Cemetery has scrubbed from its website information and educational materials about the history of black and female service members. Some of the content unpublished from the site was on veterans who had received the nation'...
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Artificial photosynthesis directed toward organic synthesis

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Let's knock down social media's walled gardens – Tim Berners-Lee

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Conducting forensics of mobile devices to find signs of a potential compromise

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As AI nurses reshape hospital care, human nurses are pushing back

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The next time you’re due for a medical exam you may get a call from someone...
The next time you’re due for a medical exam you may get a call from someone like Ana: a friendly voice that can help you prepare for your appointment and answer any pressing questions you might have.With her calm, warm demeanor, Ana has been trained to put patients at ease — like many nurses across the U.S. But unli...

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My Journey Back to Math: A Short Review of MathAcademy

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9 February 2025 / 4 min read It was all random. Like a lot of the...
9 February 2025 / 4 min read It was all random. Like a lot of the things that happen in life. Similar thing has happened to me when I went to the university - the degree wasn’t for me in the end. Mid degree I found myself not enjoying it at all. Then I somehow I got into programming again. I realised that it...
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Brown University Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge's Order

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.The ...

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Scenes of joy as stranded US astronauts moved a step closer to returning home

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Gene Winfield, One of History's Greatest Hot-Rodders, Dies at 97

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Not many people get the chance to live 97 years, but Gene Winfield did. The creator...
Not many people get the chance to live 97 years, but Gene Winfield did. The creator of hot rod and Kustom icons born in 1927, passed away Tuesday after spending time in a professional care facility. He leaves behind cars and innovations, of course, though more valuable than that are the impressions he left on the ge...
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A 62M-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal

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For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North...
For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly gleaned from analyzing fossilized teeth and jawbone fragments. But a new study of the most complete skeleton of the speci...
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Sunsetting Whois

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A 6502 emulator written in busybox ash

treehouse.systems
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Study finds 46 percent of U.S. counties have pharmacy deserts

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At 95, He's the World's Oldest Speedskater. He's Gunning for 100.

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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.Iichi Marumo started competing in his late 80s, after a life spent farming, publishing poetry and volunteering to fly in a kamikaze mission during World War II.Iichi Marumo com...

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Elon Musk's antics are not the only problem for Tesla

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Trump's War on Colleges

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Watching nature scenes can reduce pain, new study shows

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A new neuroimaging study has revealed that viewing nature can help ease how people experience pain,...
A new neuroimaging study has revealed that viewing nature can help ease how people experience pain, by reducing the brain activity linked to pain perception. Published in the journal Nature Communications and led by a team from the University of Vienna and University of Exeter, the research offers a promising founda...
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Pentagon deploys Navy destroyer for unusual U.S. border mission

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Urbandead MMORPG (zombies and humans, made by 1 person) dead to moderarion laws

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Who Is Free Software For?

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For a while I have been arguing that maybe there are some issues with the whole...
For a while I have been arguing that maybe there are some issues with the whole “Open*” movements, their founding myths and ideologies (see for example my talk at Fluconf). This criticism comes from a place of love. All the writing on this blog is licensed CC-BY-SA to allow others to take the texts and do something ...
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From Languages to Language Sets

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