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25-Jan-2024 – 9 ways to celebrate your streak all year long

Brief Summary: “It’s a huge accomplishment to maintain a streak on Duolingo—whether you have a streak of 7, 100, or “

25-Jan-2024 – US Postal Service Goes Electric, Still Not Quite Like Dylan

Brief Summary: “Photo: US Postal ServiceThe US Postal Service this week announced the arrival of its first electric “

25-Jan-2024 – X is flooded with AI-generated pornographic images of Taylor Swift; one post, live for 17 hours, had 45M+ views, hundreds of thousands of likes, and 24K reposts (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
X is flooded with AI-generated pornographic images of Taylor Swift; o”

25-Jan-2024 – Nintendo Will Broadcast A Free Orchestral ‘Zelda’ Concert Next Month

Brief Summary: “In a lovely move by Nintendo, we will be able to freely watch online a new orchestral concert for th”

25-Jan-2024 – Roblox now helping fund Blender development

Brief Summary: “Blender continues to be a true massive success story for open source, pulling in funding from all so”

23-Jan-2024 – Dear Duolingo: Do other languages have contractions?

Brief Summary: “Welcome to another week of Dear Duolingo, an advice column just for learners. Catch up on past insta”

23-Jan-2024 – Green Day are set for their fifth Number One album

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Green Day‘s latest album, ‘Saviors’, is dominating the UK albums chart, outselling the combined tot”

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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