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Experts testify at UFO hearing in Congress

npr.org

Is intelligent alien life darting around in space — and even in the skies above us...
Is intelligent alien life darting around in space — and even in the skies above us here on Earth? Has the U.S. government been covering up unexplained phenomena, and using secret extraterrestrial discoveries to boost its own technology?Those are among the questions members of Congress discussed Wednesday in a joint ...
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The number given as % CPU in Activity Monitor

eclecticlight.co

One of the most frequently quoted measurements in Activity Monitor is % CPU. When the fans...
One of the most frequently quoted measurements in Activity Monitor is % CPU. When the fans blow, or a Mac becomes sluggish, it’s often the first figure to look at and wonder why that process is pulling over 100%. That’s the first thing you learn: here, per cent doesn’t mean out of 100, but the sum of the real percen...
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How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe

shopify.engineering
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Cornish monument is 4k years older than was thought and 'without parallel'

theguardian.com

An enigmatic stone and turf structure on Bodmin Moor that was previously thought to be a...
An enigmatic stone and turf structure on Bodmin Moor that was previously thought to be a medieval animal pen has been found to be 4,000 years older – and unique in Europe.The rectangular monument was built not in the early medieval period to corral livestock, as recorded by Historic England, but rather in the middle...
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A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT

openai.com
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Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016)

computerhistory.org

Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store onto users’...
Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store onto users’ iPhones or iPads. Thousands of software developers have written these apps for Apple’s “iOS” mobile platform. However, the technology and tools powering the mobile “app revolution” are not themselves new, but rather have ...
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Backdoor attempt on Exolabs GitHub repo through an innocent looking PR

twitter.com
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MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical

mit.edu

As the world struggles to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, researchers are seeking practical, economical ways to...
As the world struggles to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, researchers are seeking practical, economical ways to capture carbon dioxide and convert it into useful products, such as transportation fuels, chemical feedstocks, or even building materials. But so far, such attempts have struggled to reach economic viabil...

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Patterns (YC S21) Is Hiring to Transform Business Finance and Credit

notion.site
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Drone Relative Positioning

matthew-bird.com

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The Broadband Phone (2021)

quentinsf.com

I started the Broadband Phone project in early 1999, with Andy Fisher. That was great fun!...
I started the Broadband Phone project in early 1999, with Andy Fisher. That was great fun! It was fast-moving, became high-profile within AT&T, and got lots of attention. People like gadgets. The Broadband Phone was a VOIP phone combined with a thin client - actually a VNC viewer with a touch screen built around a c...
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The Beginner's Guide to Visual Prompt Injections

lakera.ai

In-context learningAs users increasingly rely on Large Language Models (LLMs) to accomplish their daily tasks, their...
In-context learningAs users increasingly rely on Large Language Models (LLMs) to accomplish their daily tasks, their concerns about the potential leakage of private data by these models have surged.[Provide the input text here][Provide the input text here]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Susp...
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Ticker Tape Synesthesia

thesynesthesiatree.com

"Ticker taping" consists of automatically visualising written words in the form of subtitles when hearing other...
"Ticker taping" consists of automatically visualising written words in the form of subtitles when hearing other people speak. It can also occur with one’s own speech and/or with internal dialogue, i.e. verbal thinking. It is considered a type of synesthesia, although it does not actually meet all the requirements fo...
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New elliptic curve breaks 18-year-old record

quantamagazine.org
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Netflix's Distributed Counter Abstraction

netflixtechblog.com

By: Rajiv Shringi, Oleksii Tkachuk, Kartik SathyanarayananIntroductionIn our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction,...
By: Rajiv Shringi, Oleksii Tkachuk, Kartik SathyanarayananIntroductionIn our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction, a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Count...
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Show HN: Konga Beat – A custom track editor for Donkey Konga 2 and 3

kongabeat.com
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Graph-based AI model maps the future of innovation

mit.edu

Imagine using artificial intelligence to compare two seemingly unrelated creations — biological tissue and Beethoven’s “Symphony...
Imagine using artificial intelligence to compare two seemingly unrelated creations — biological tissue and Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9.” At first glance, a living system and a musical masterpiece might appear to have no connection. However, a novel AI method developed by Markus J. Buehler, the McAfee Professor of En...

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Wonder Announces Acquisition of Grubhub

grubhub.com

NEW YORK and CHICAGO, Nov. 13, 2024 — Wonder, a new kind of food hall that...
NEW YORK and CHICAGO, Nov. 13, 2024 — Wonder, a new kind of food hall that is revolutionizing the food industry by creating the super app for mealtime, announced that it is acquiring Grubhub, a leading food ordering and delivery platform with more than 375,000 merchants and 200,000 delivery partners across the Unite...
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Watermark Anything

github.com
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Porygon Was Innocent: An epileptic perspective on the infamous Pokémon episode

animefeminist.com

On December 16th 1997 Pokémon made international headlines when their latest episode, “Dennō Senshi Porygon”—now commonly...
On December 16th 1997 Pokémon made international headlines when their latest episode, “Dennō Senshi Porygon”—now commonly translated as “Electric Soldier Porygon”— caused 685 children to be taken into hospital by ambulance due to seizures, blindness, and convulsions. The event was dubbed by the Japanese Press as “Po...
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The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

pikuma.com

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An unearthly spectacle – The untold story of the biggest nuclear bomb (2021)

thebulletin.org
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Fault Injection – Down the Rabbit Hole

humanativaspa.it
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Show HN: A simple image puzzle generator

puzzlip.com
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