MIT engineers built a solar-powered desalination system that produces large quantities of clean water despite variations in sunlight throughout the day. Because it requires no extra batteries, it offers a much more affordable way to produce drinking water…

What happens when a gladiator takes on the “Warren Buffett of Japan”?

Also known as: why you shouldn't trust a company who makes their product intensionally inaccessible with allowing you an accessibility workaround Update: I've been informed that hCaptcha now has a text captcha option. The bulk of this blog post still stands.…

With an economy hit hard by COVID, many Bhutanese have left for jobs abroad. Bhutan's government, which for years has prioritized Gross National Happiness, is now working to lure people back.

“That market sucks,” Lucid Chief Executive Peter Rawlinson says, as Elon Musk pivots Tesla to driverless cars.

Large language models have demonstrated substantial advancements in reasoning capabilities. However, current Vision-Language Models (VLMs) often struggle to perform systematic and structured...

Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extr…

My take on the 'file over app' philosophy and why it’s essential for keeping my data resilient and built to last.

Sweden said the new advice follows a worsening security situation, by which it means the war in Ukraine.

Recently, I’ve spent quite a lot of time working on Storyteller. It’s an open source, self-hostable platform for automatically syncing audiobooks and ebooks. You give Storyteller the ebook and audiobook files for the same book, and it spits out a new ebook…

U.S. consumers risk using flooring products made of wood illegally logged from Cambodia’s rainforests, a recent Mongabay investigation suggests. The investigation focused on companies in Cambodia’s Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SEZ) that manufacture…

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