NASA's InSight lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022. The lander is covered with far more dust than it was in its first selfie, taken in December 2018, or in its second selfie, taken in March and April of 2019.

Lizard is an efficient compressor with very fast decompression. It achieves compression ratio that is comparable to zip/zlib and zstd/brotli (at low and medium compression levels) at fast decompres...

Some strippers on Twitter said they think a recession and market crash is guaranteed - because the strip clubs are suddenly empty.A woman who goes by @botticellibimbo on the platform said the following about the clubs: "The strip club is sadly a leading indicator…

At the Northfield Mountain pumped storage hydroelectric station, generators are powered by a mountaintop reservoir.

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Implementation of Imagen, Google's Text-to-Image Neural Network, in Pytorch - lucidrains/imagen-pytorch

I can't remember specifically when I first said "I just want to be a kid," but I can still see the late 70s smog, and smell the exhaust all around us as I begged her for what feels like years to stop making me do this, while we sat in traffic on the freeway…

Can you navigate your company through the Startup Trail?

While I was leading PKC’s security practice, we did probably 20-30 code security audits, almost of all of them for startups that were just around their Series A or B (that was usually when they had cash and realized that it’d be good to take a deeper look…

Nature Communications - Extracting atmospheric water is a sustainable strategy to enable decentralized access to safely managed water but remains impractical due to its limited daily water output...

Basic fact all graphics coders should know: To uniformly sample points in a disk, you'd think you could just pick a random radius r ∈ [0,1] and a random angle θ ∈ [0,2π] to generate points r (cos θ, sin θ). This doesn't work! …But take the square root of…

Bernstein v. the U.S. Department of State, landmark legal decision (1996) that set two important precedents in the field of digital technology. First, it ruled that U.S. government regulations that barred the export of encryption software were unconstitutionally…

I’m pleased to announce that @lbguilherme and I have authored a new Crystal book, and it comes out this Friday, May 27, 2022! Electronic and physical versions will be available. Checkout the following links for more information: https://www.packtpub.co…

What are the benefits of using push notifications and what can you use them for? In this article, Lee Munroe explains how to implement them and which practices are best to follow.

Hypnosis is emerging as a powerful medical treatment for pain, anxiety, PTSD and a range of other conditions. Can it shake off its reputation as a stage magician's trick?

Vertigo.ai Focus is a new from-the-ground-up patent pending AI & GPU video CODEC that enables hi-def face to face interactions over low-bandwidth links. It is production-ready, extremely …