19-Jan-2024 – legged robot scaling laws

Brief Summary: “Published on January 20, 2024 5:45 AM GMTFiction has lots of giant walking robots. Those designs are”

20-Jan-2024 – Why a Supreme Court decision on fishing boats could change everything

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A view of the US Supreme Court on Thursday, January 4th, 2024, in Washington, DC.  |”

20-Jan-2024 – Arduino Provides No Fuss SNES-To-USB Conversion

Brief Summary: “Even for those of us who are fans of retrocomputing, it’s fair to say that not everyone plays their “

20-Jan-2024 – David Mills Died Aged 85

Brief Summary: “David Mills, inventor of Network Time Protocol, died this week aged 85.

When I saw the news first a”

19-Jan-2024 – RIP, Internet’s Time Lord

Brief Summary: “I want to take a moment and say a silent prayer for David Mills, the creator of Network Time Protoco”

19-Jan-2024 – Zara Larsson has released a new single, ‘You Love Who You Love’

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Zara Larsson has released a new single, ‘You Love Who You Love’.

It’s a cut from her upcoming ne”

16-Jan-2024 – Google Lays Off Hundreds of Employees in Advertising Sales Team

Brief Summary: “Google is laying off hundreds of employees in its advertising sales team, the Alphabet-owned company”

16-Jan-2024 – ‘Quantum ping-pong’: Two atoms can be made to bounce a single photon back and forth with high precision

Brief Summary: “Atoms can absorb and reemit light—this is an everyday phenomenon. In most cases, however, an atom em”

16-Jan-2024 – Pluralistic: American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides (16 Jan 2024)

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American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides: A”

16-Jan-2024 – Free Speech Experts Realizing Just How Big A Free Speech Hypocrite Elon Is

Brief Summary: “On Monday, Elon Musk tweeted “To fear parody or criticism is a sign of weakness.”

If true, then t”

16-Jan-2024 – Chameleon AI program classifies objects in satellite images faster

Brief Summary: “A new AI program can train neural networks using just a handful of images to rapidly characterize in”

16-Jan-2024 – Supreme Court Declines to Hear Epic v. Apple Appeals, Forcing Apple to Open Up App Store (Updated)

Brief Summary: “The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear both appeals in Epic v. Apple, so Apple is now forced to open”

16-Jan-2024 – Bluesky Launches RSS Feeds

Brief Summary: “Bluesky, the Twitter alternative backed by Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, has released its “

14-Jan-2024 – Bug Thread

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12-Jan-2024 – All I Want for Mr. Christmas Is Some New Music

Brief Summary: “You, it’s true; you really can find anything (except maybe LEGO) in thrift stores. When [thecowgoesm”

12-Jan-2024 – Wisconsin bill to restrict pathogen studies worries scientists

Brief Summary: “U.S. House and three states have now passed or considered bans on “gain-of-function” research for vi”

12-Jan-2024 – Artifact, Personalized News App From Instagram Co-Founders, Is Shutting Down

Brief Summary: “Artifact, the personalized news reader built by Instagram’s co-founders, is shutting down roughly a “

12-Jan-2024 – Artifact Is Shutting Down

Brief Summary: “Kevin Systrom announced the decision to shut down Artifact on Medium:

While we’ve made this deci”

12-Jan-2024 – Amazon sells products with titles like “I’m sorry, I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy”, as sellers use ChatGPT to write listings (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)

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Amazon sells products with titles like “I’m sorry, I cannot fulfill”

12-Jan-2024 – How I Configure Brave

Brief Summary: “Brave is free and open source, it blocks ads and trackers automatically, and it’s safer, faster, and”

12-Jan-2024 – The George Carlin AI Standup Is Worse Than You Can Imagine

Brief Summary: “The cursed hour-long special is the work of Dudesy, a podcast hosted by Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen “

12-Jan-2024 – Pluralistic: The Cult of Mac (12 Jan 2024)

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The Cult of Mac: You cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason t”

12-Jan-2024 – Linux Mint 21.3 is Now Available

Brief Summary: “Linux Mint 21.3, the popular Linux distribution’s latest long-term support release, is now available”

12-Jan-2024 – Decoding a ROM From a Picture of the Chip

Brief Summary: “Before there were home computers, among the hottest pieces of consumer technology to own was a pocke”

12-Jan-2024 – E-Ink Photo Frame Is A Simple, Pleasing Design

Brief Summary: “Regular photo frames are good, but they tend to only display a single photo unless you pull them to “

07-Jan-2024 – Mouse filmed tidying up man’s shed every night – video

Brief Summary: “Rodney Holbrook, 75, a retired postman, captured footage of a mouse tidying up his workbench after d”

07-Jan-2024 – Cursed camera rigs – a new years special

Brief Summary: “To wrap up 2023, I decided to go with a different-than-usual post. A fun post, covering one of my fa”

07-Jan-2024 – 802.11ah Wi-Fi HaLOW: The 1 Kilometer WiFi Standard

Brief Summary: “You, too, can add long-distance WiFi to your laptop with this new not-quite dongle solution. (Credit”