It is surprisingly difficult to build a carbon neutral sailing ship. This is even more the case today, because our standards for safety, health, hygiene, comfort, and convenience have changed profoundly since the Age of Sail. On board the ship `Garthsnaid'…

The European Commission takes legal action against 11 countries for failing to transpose the #CopyrightDirective. The case will be heard at the Court of Justice of the EU.

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Apple still charges a $99 yearly developer fee, even if you don't want to publish your app on the Appstore. The provisioning certificate that Xcode provides only lasts one week.

Last week, Microsoft announced the new AI-powered Bing: a search interface that incorporates a language model powered chatbot that can run searches for you and summarize the results, plus do …

Platformer has interviewed Twitter employees to figure out why people's For You feeds turned into The Elon Musk show, and they said the company's engineers truly did build a system that benefited their CEO alone..

After making an error, the Bing chatbot allegedly demanded an apology from one user and told them to start a new conversation "with a better attitude."

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) shined a spotlight on the teacher shortage at the “Respecting Our Teachers: A Town Hall on the Teacher Pay Crisis in America,” held on Capitol Hill Feb. 13. With speakers including AFT President Randi Weingarten, National Education…

But what makes music move us and stir up our deepest emotions? Which elements of music play a role in our human interaction. Exploring emotion in music.

allocscope - a memory tracking tool. Contribute to matt-kimball/allocscope development by creating an account on GitHub.

Nature - A treasure trove of fossils uncovered in China challenges the idea that marine animals took millions of years to recover from the world’s worst die-off.

After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm

More on Bing, particularly the Sydney personality undergirding it: interacting with Sydney has made me completely rethink what conversational AI is important for.

Contribute to axboe/liburing development by creating an account on GitHub.

Searches in offices in Delhi and Mumbai come weeks after the release of BBC documentary critical of prime minister Narendra Modi

Today we're making the the Rerun open source project public. Rerun is now installable as `pip install rerun-sdk` for Python users and `cargo add rerun` for Rust users.

My home fediverse instance, gamemaking.social, (as well as many or all instances on masto.host) was down for a couple hours last night. Which isn't that big ...

A Commodore 64 Game

In his epic the Shahnamah (Book of Kings), the poet Firdawsi (940–1019 or 1025) vividly describes how Alexander (Iskandar/Sikandar) came upon the Persian emperor Darius (Dara) as he fled north after the battle of Gaugamela in 331 BC. Cradling the mortally…

The move would qualify Elon Musk’s EV company for a share of billions in public dollars to build a national network of highway chargers.

‘Under no circumstances will we pay that absurd amount,’ delivery firm says, telling hackers it is not the booming company they think