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The business of wallets

bitsaboutmoney.com

One of the best series of credit card commercials was the now-classic Capital One “What’s in...
One of the best series of credit card commercials was the now-classic Capital One “What’s in your wallet?”, which reimagined the user as either an observer of or participant in family-friendly Viking raids. That always felt a bit on the nose for me given Capital One’s traditional market focus, but be that as it may,...
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How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest?

themarkup.org

Gentle January Unlock Your Phone Without Using Your Face or Fingerprint Authenticating with a passcode or...
Gentle January Unlock Your Phone Without Using Your Face or Fingerprint Authenticating with a passcode or pattern protects your data legally as well as physicallyJanuary 26, 2024 08:00 ET
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Ask HN: How do you develop and maintain a good note-taking habit?

ycombinator.com
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New mRNA cancer vaccine triggers fierce immune response to fight brain tumor

medicalxpress.com

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Curse of Dimensionality

wikipedia.org

Difficulties arising when analyzing data with many aspects ("dimensions") The curse of dimensionality refers to various...
Difficulties arising when analyzing data with many aspects ("dimensions") The curse of dimensionality refers to various phenomena that arise when analyzing and organizing data in high-dimensional spaces that do not occur in low-dimensional settings such as the three-dimensional physical space of everyday experience....
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Multi-million dollar Cheyenne supercomputer auction ends with $480,085 bid

tomshardware.com
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Explosively pumped flux compression generator

wikipedia.org

Non-nuclear device that creates an electromagnetic pulse A cutaway view of a flux compression generator. The...
Non-nuclear device that creates an electromagnetic pulse A cutaway view of a flux compression generator. The aluminum tube is detonated at the end extending out and beyond the copper-wire helix. On the other end a transformer enables the generator to work more efficiently into the electrical load. An explosively pum...
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Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs

gpudeploy.com
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Americans are still worried about inflation

reason.com

Inflation And for good reason: Even at 3.5 percent, inflation is running higher than it did...
Inflation And for good reason: Even at 3.5 percent, inflation is running higher than it did in almost every year for three decades before 2021. From President Joe Biden's point of view, Americans ought to be thrilled with the recent trends in inflation. "Wages keep going up and inflation keeps coming down," the pres...

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U.S. vs. Google: As landmark monopoly trial closes, here's what to look for

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Climate scientists say South Asia's heat wave (120F) is a sign of what's to come

npr.org

By Lauren Frayer Tuesday, May 3, 2022 • 8:34 AM EDT MUMBAI, India — Summer has...
By Lauren Frayer Tuesday, May 3, 2022 • 8:34 AM EDT MUMBAI, India — Summer has arrived in South Asia WAY too early. A punishing heat wave has pushed temperatures past 120F (50C) in some areas. Some schools have closed early for the summer. Dozens of people have died of heatstroke. The region is already hard-hit by c...
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Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus Infection in a Dairy Farm Worker

nejm.org
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Near-collapse of the geomagnetic field may have contributed to life on Earth

nature.com
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Personalized mRNA vaccine boosts melanoma immunotherapy

nature.com

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Ryzen 9 7950X3D surfaces with 192MB L3 cache

tomshardware.com
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Rebel 'Star Wars' Fans Saved the Original Movies

nytimes.com

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In Praise of Idleness (1932)

harpers.org
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Humans now share the web equally with bots

independent.co.uk

Humans now share the web equally with bots, according to a major new report – as...
Humans now share the web equally with bots, according to a major new report – as some fear that the internet is dying.In recent months, the so-called “dead internet theory” has gained new popularity. It suggests that much of the content online is in fact automatically generated, and that the number of humans on the ...
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The Hidden-Pregnancy Experiment: Could I Hide My Pregnancy from My Phone?

newyorker.com

Shortly after I became pregnant with my second child, in the fall of 2022, I decided...
Shortly after I became pregnant with my second child, in the fall of 2022, I decided to try a modest experiment. I wanted to see whether I could hide my pregnancy from my phone. After spending my twenties eagerly surveilling and sharing the details of my life online, I had already begun trying to erect some walls of...

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Atari's Mike Jang

arcadeblogger.com

Some sad news to report on the blog this week. I got word that long-time Industrial...
Some sad news to report on the blog this week. I got word that long-time Industrial Designer at Atari coin-operated division, Mike Jang, has passed away. I’ve known Mike since 2016, and whilst we never met, he was always on the other end of an email answering my questions and providing really valuable input into my ...
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The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding

theguardian.com

Browsing through a history of online public messaging last week, I came across a magical photograph...
Browsing through a history of online public messaging last week, I came across a magical photograph from 1989 or 1990. It shows the world’s first web server. It was Tim Berners-Lee’s NeXT workstation in Cern, the international physics research lab, where he worked at the time. On the case is a tattered sticky label,...
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ChatGPT search engine rumored to be coming next week

mashable.com

Eagle-eyed AI watchers suspect that a ChatGPT search engine product — in other words a direct...
Eagle-eyed AI watchers suspect that a ChatGPT search engine product — in other words a direct competitor to Google Search — will be here in a matter of days.Yesterday, a post in Y Combinator's Hacker News community noted that a domain name and a security certificate for "search.chatgpt.com" had been created, althoug...
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Huy Fong Foods halts production. Is another sriracha shortage coming?

usatoday.com

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Armies need their own drone Air Force flown by specialist soldiers

businessinsider.com

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