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Consistently ranked as one of the leading causes of death around the world, malaria doesn’t have an effective vaccine yet. But researchers have invented a promising new blueprint for one — with properties akin to the novel RNA-based vaccine for COVID-19. First vaccine to fully immunize against malaria builds on pandemic-driven R

Algoritmes beïnvloeden steeds meer ons leven en onze relatie met de overheid. Als burger is het belangijk de controle te houden en de algoritmes die je gebruikt aan te passen aan de eigen situatie. Als de broncode beschikbaar is, kan dat. Broncode

How do urban planners and building developers cope as more and more people move to cities? There are a few things they might do. To begin with, they could physically make the city larger, widening its borders to cover surrounding land so as to accommodate more houses. Moore's Law Is Reaching Its Limits. Could Graphene Help? | Digital Trends

We’re used to medical chatbots giving dangerous advice, but one based on OpenAI’s GPT-3 took it much further. If you’ve been living under a rock, GPT-3 is essentially a very clever text generator that’s been making various headlines in recent months. Medical chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves

It’s hard to feel connected to someone who’s gone through a static photo. ‘Deep Nostalgia’ Can Turn Old Photos of Your Relatives Into Moving Videos

I was so impressed with the interactive Iceberger tool that Josh Tauberer (@JoshData) made that I had to modify it and add some additional features. Click here to see the original. My additions allow you to conjure up pre-made “icebergs” to see how they float and also allow some interaction. Iceberger Remixed - Iceberg Simulator - Engaging Data

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Rust is becoming a first class language in a variety of domains. At Discord, we’ve seen success with Rust on the client side and server side. For example, we use it on the client side for our video encoding pipeline for Go Live and on the server side for Elixir NIFs. Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust | by Jesse Howarth | Discord Blog

I’m always trying to come up with personal projects; they’re basically a great way to get some distraction and to study something different from what we normally do on a day-to-day basis. Reverse engineering a GameBoy Advance game — Complete Guide | by Bruno Maca

For more than a century, Popular Mechanics has provided life-saving advice for outlasting storms, surviving outdoors, and preparing for disaster. Find out how to survive anything right here. You have a late night and an early flight. Not long after takeoff, you drift to sleep. How To Fall 35,000 Feet and Survive | Survival Tips

Bivouacked in the middle of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf—a five-hour flight from the nearest Antarctic station—nothing comes easy. Scientists Accidentally Discover Strange Creatures Under a Half Mile of Ice

Tyranny is a human trait that we sometimes project onto Nature. This projection is a form of rationalization, perhaps a means to cope with matters that we cannot control. Such is the case when we invent machines to free us from the bounds of Earth, affecting our escape into space. NASA - The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation

Op de snelweg A2 tussen Utrecht en Amsterdam is zondagmiddag geen veiliger plek denkbaar dan achter de colonne sneeuwschuivers die over de weg rijdt. Als het misgaat, is het de schuld van de overheid - NRC

Thanks to an effort by elders and children enrolled in an immersion program, this small town has one of the highest percentages of French speakers in the nation. “I love you grand comme ça,” my grandfather would say to me, his arms outstretched as far as he could reach. Residents of Pierre Part keep French alive

For the most part they go unseen but computer chips are at the heart of all the digital products that surround us - and when supplies run short, it can halt manufacturing. How will 'chipageddon' affect you? - BBC News

Baruch “Boris” Goldstein, the co-founder and executive chairman of a company called Brain Scientific, Inc., is an aspiring tattooist. But don’t expect him to ink you a gnarly dragon or a tribal sleeve. A Graphene Tattoo to Continuously Monitor Your Brainwaves | Digital Trends

An extra finger can be incredibly handy. Two people born with six fingers per hand can tie their shoes, deftly manage phones and play a complicated video game — all with a single hand. A sixth finger can prove extra handy | Science News for Students

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Photographer and scientist Nathan Myhrvold has developed a camera that captures snowflakes at a microscopic level never seen before The first chill of a winter storm is enough to send most people indoors, but not Nathan Myhrvold. These Are the Highest Resolution Photos Ever Taken of Snowflakes | Innovati

Maternal behavior is necessary for optimal development and growth of offspring. The intestinal microbiota has emerged as a critical regulator of growth and development in the early postnatal period life. Microbiota control of maternal behavior regulates early postnatal growth of

Reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Language • Difficulty Language The game is created by Thomas Park and released under the MIT License • Credits Ambient noises to boost your productivity More Sounds Coding kitty

One paradoxical quality of willpower turns on the way it is unevenly distributed in our lives. For example, I’ve earned a few school degrees, which means that I am able to “knuckle down” and study uninterrupted for long hours. The Stoic and Aztec Way To Build Willpower | ILLUMINATION-Curated

The world’s best solar power schemes now offer the “cheapest…electricity in history” with the technology cheaper than coal and gas in most major countries. That is according to the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook 2020. Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA | World Econom

Your language isn't broken, it's doing floating point math. Computers can only natively store integers, so they need some way of representing decimal numbers. This representation comes with some degree of inaccuracy. That's why, more often than not, .1 + .2 != .3. It's actually rather interesting. Floating Point Math

Your language isn't broken, it's doing floating point math. Computers can only natively store integers, so they need some way of representing decimal numbers. This representation comes with some degree of inaccuracy. That's why, more often than not, .1 + .2 != .3. It's actually rather interesting. Floating Point Math

I had to email the Boy Scouts to find out if the President had invented a nonexistent phone call from the head of the organization. (He had. Dale: Reflections on four weird years fact checking every word from Donald

We conducted postmortem high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (magnetic resonance microscopy) of the brains of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) (median age, 50 years) and histopathological examination that focused on microvascular changes in the olfactory bulb and brain stem. Microvascular Injury in the Brains of Patients with Covid-19 | NEJM

Using the kind of blunt language that so often infuriated the former president, Dr. Anthony Fauci said the health threat from the virus was still “very serious.” WASHINGTON — Most of the times Dr. Anthony S. Banished by Trump but Brought Back by Biden, Fauci Aims to ‘Let the Science

Successful precision cancer diagnosis through an AI analysis of multiple factors of prostate cancer. Potential application of the precise diagnoses of other cancers by utilizing a urine test Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers among men. Cancer can be precisely diagnosed using a urine test with artificial intell

Watch Time Watching videos on Facebook takes up hours of time, how much time have you given to Facebook recently? Go to graph Tracking your location Facebook has logged every IP address you've ever logged in from, and can geolocate them to figure out every city and country you've ever been to. Ethi • Introduction

Methodology: this uses Billboard's Hot Rap Songs Chart. Billboard began publishing this list as a weekly sales-based chart, then known as Hot Rap Singles, in 1989. In 2002, the chart was replaced with a list titled Hot Rap Tracks, based on radio audience impressions monitored by Nielsen Music. How Music Evolved: Billboard's Hot 100, 1958 - 2016

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Voor veel mensen zullen de eerste weken van 2021 voelen als een dèjá vu. Ditmaal is het een nieuwe Britse Covid-variant die als een donkere wolk boven Nederland hangt. De mutant is inmiddels al op meerdere plekken gesignaleerd. Corona wordt deze winter nog besmettelijker. ‘Er is geen excuus voor laat i

Vaonis, a French startup that raised eyebrows in 2018 when it debuted the pricey, sci-fi robot-looking Stellina smart telescope, has revealed its latest newbie-friendly astrophotography invention: Vespera, a smaller, lighter and more affordable version of Stellina. Vespera, a smart telescope to make astrophotography easier, nabs CES 2021 I

In 2016, we introduced AlphaGo, the first artificial intelligence (AI) program to defeat humans at the ancient game of Go. Two years later, its successor - AlphaZero - learned from scratch to master Go, chess and shogi. MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules | DeepMind

Op zijn ‘Maatschappij kritisch platform’ Black Box News presenteert Flavio Pasquino een interview met prof. dr. Theo Schetters, waarin deze nogal opmerkelijke uitspraken doet over het coronabeleid en in het bijzonder de mRNA -vaccins die nu uitgerold worden. Professor Schetters zaait ongefundeerde twijfel over coronavaccins - Kloptd

DALL·E[1] is a 12-billion parameter version of GPT-3 trained to generate images from text descriptions, using a dataset of text–image pairs. DALL·E: Creating Images from Text

Create presenter-led video courses that engage and inspire your workforce and that can easily be updated, translated and personalized. Explain, pitch and sell it with video. Create narrated video presentations, in 40+ languages, at the convenience of typing in text. Synthesia - AI video generation platform

Young children who have experienced compassionate love and empathy from their mothers may be more willing to turn thoughts into action by being generous to others, a University of California, Davis, study suggests. Is It Better to Give Than Receive? | UC Davis

Dollar Street is a Gapminder project - free for anyone to use. Today we feature 415 families in 65 countries. In total we have 1688 photos and counting! Want to add a home? There are still lots of places in the world not represented on Dollar Street. Dollar Street - photos as data to kill country stereotypes

There was once a time, in the early 1990s to be precise, when the biggest impediment to achieving high-end virtual reality was the fact that the images were too fuzzy and slow-moving. Today, we’ve moved way beyond these early teething challenges. Holotron: A Robotic Exosuit for Virtual Reality | Digital Trends

Although the agricultural sector is globally a main emitter of greenhouse gases, thorough economic analysis of environmental and social externalities has not yet been conducted. Calculation of external climate costs for food highlights inadequate pricin

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Samenzweringstheorieën: ik werd er in mijn jeugd bijna iedere zomer mee doodgegooid. Tijdens vakanties met mijn ouders in de Turkse badplaats Çesme vertelden seculiere jongetjes en meisjes me dat Reagan de Turkse binnenlandse politiek volledig orkestreerde. Overheid die feiten kleurt, oogst complottheorieën - NRC

A name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion. The word foo is the canonical example. metasyntactic variable

O jongens, wat een rampjaar was 2020 – ik denk dat we die conclusie gewoon moeten trekken. Duizenden sterfgevallen. Mensen die hun levenswerk in rook zagen opgaan. Thuiswerkers die vereenzaamden of juist gek werden van hun huisgenoten. ‘Je staat nog op mute’ – dat is het ergste jargon van 2020 - NRC

In March of 1970, Martin Gardner opened a letter jammed with ideas for his Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. Sent by John Horton Conway, then a mathematician at the University of Cambridge, the letter ran 12 pages, typed hunt-and-peck style. The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life - The New York Times

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