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In late 2020, Kimberly McCabe, an executive at a consulting firm in the Washington, D.C. area, upgraded from an iPhone 10 to an iPhone 12 Pro. Quarantine had prompted McCabe, a mother of two, to invest more effort into documenting family life. Have iPhone Cameras Become Too Smart? | The New Yorker

Traditional algorithms power complicated computational tools like machine learning. A new approach, called algorithms with predictions, uses the power of machine learning to improve algorithms. Machine Learning Reimagines the Building Blocks of Computing | Quanta Magaz

A new kind of milk will soon hit US shelves but it isn’t some plant-based product designed to resemble dairy milk. Instead it is made from whey proteins produced by microflora engineered to spit out exactly the same proteins found in milk from a cow. Animal-free dairy milk set to finally hit US retail shelves

Thanks to the invention he helped create in the 1970s, people can send email over an office network or visit a website through a coffee shop hot spot. David Boggs, Co-Inventor of Ethernet, Dies at 71 - The New York Times

In the mind’s eye of many people, Japan is a land of tranquil Zen gardens, serene temples, and exquisite tea ceremonies. Both traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture, books and magazines are the envy of designers worldwide. Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different – Cultural, Linguistic & Technical

Generative Pre-trained Transformer is a generation of models used to produce human-like text based on some initial text (part of dialogs or some task). One of the most "hyped" models is a GPT-3. When you see what GPT-3 generates you feel like "the future is here". GPT-J is self-hosted open-source analog of GPT-3: how to run in Docker

Although people take longer to make decisions from age 20 onwards, this may not be due to a decline in the speed of information processing, a large study has found Our ability to process information during decision-making doesn’t drop off until age 60, according to new findings that challenge the Ageing: Mental speed stays high until age 60 | New Scientist

Recently, two computer scientists had an idea: if computers use energy to perform calculations, could stored data be a form of stored energy? Why not use computing as a way to store energy?  What if information could be a battery, man? Time-shifted computing could slash data center energy costs by up to 30% |

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US-based scientists and students working on research and experiments with the Large Hadron Collider contribute to a blog that offered articles about particle physics and insight into the life as a physicist. Antimatter from bananas | symmetry magazine

In August, chipmaker Intel revealed new details about its plan to build a “mega-fab” on US soil, a $100 billion factory where 10,000 workers will make a new generation of powerful processors studded with billions of transistors. This 22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage | Ars Technica

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of "Ask a Spaceman" and "Space Radio," and author of "How to Die in Space." Sutter contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Do we live in a simulation? The problem with this mind-bending hypothesis.

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I've seen many PC makers try to squeeze a second display into a laptop over the years at CES. But Asus and Lenovo are the only companies that are still experimenting with the idea and, for the most part, succeeding. Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 3 found a weird new place to add a second screen,

The Jalopnik inbox has been lit up with a number of reports about clocks and calendars in Honda cars getting stuck at a certain time in the year 2002. The spread is impressive, impacting Honda and Acura models as old as 2004 and as new as 2012. Here’s what might be happening. Honda Clocks Are Stuck 20 Years In The Past; There Isn't A Fix

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The Jalopnik inbox has been lit up with a number of reports about clocks and calendars in Honda cars getting stuck at a certain time in the year 2002. The spread is impressive, impacting Honda and Acura models as old as 2004 and as new as 2012. Here’s what might be happening. Honda Clocks Are Stuck 20 Years In The Past; There Isn't A Fix

When Emile Leray’s Citroen 2CV broke down in the Sahara Desert in 1993, he tore the car apart and built a motorcycle from the parts to escape dying from the elements. It worked. That was 25 years ago. Emile Leray Survived The Desert By Building A Motorcycle From His Broken Ca

Imagine you wrote a program for a pleasingly parallel problem, where each thread does its own independent piece of work, and the threads don’t need to coordinate except joining the results at the end. Obviously you’d expect the more cores it runs on, the faster it is. How a Single Line of Code Made a 24-core Server Slower Than a Laptop | Piot

Het netwerkeffectWanneer we in Europa naar de landen om ons heen kijken, dan valt niet alleen op dat Nederland achteraan het rijtje staat wat betreft de algehele vaccinatiegraad, maar ook binnen de leeftijdsgroepen van 20 tot 40- jarigen. Juist die groep speelt een... Kennisbank - COVID wiki