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Rats use ultrasound to boost their sense of smell, suggests new study:
You might not hear it, but rodents are known to speak to each other in voices so high-pitched that human ears can’t pick them up.
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14 October 2024.
Apple's Depth Pro model 3D maps 2D images in a fraction of a second:
Apple's Machine Learning Research wing has developed a foundational AI model "for zero-shot metric monocular depth estimation.
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14 October 2024.
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt:
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is DisgruntledAnonymous with a comment on our post about Elon Musk seizing people’s Twitter accounts to promote Donald Trump: This just solidified my decision to delete and deactivate my accounts (primary and burner) on that site.
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13 October 2024.
LimeWire AI Studio Review 2023: Details, Pricing & Features:
In the rapidly advancing landscape of AI technology and innovation, LimeWire emerges as a unique platform in the realm of generative AI tools.
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12 December 2023.
NYC entrepreneurship conference features CEOs, NBA leader:
The 2024 Eclectic Convergence conference in New York City, organized by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, is set for Nov.
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11 October 2024.
AI gives voice to dead animals in Cambridge exhibition:
Creatures can converse and share their stories by voice or text through visitors’ mobile phones at Museum of ZoologyIf the pickled bodies, partial skeletons and stuffed carcasses that fill museums seem a little, well, quiet, fear not.
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15 October 2024.
Human sense of smell is faster than previously thought, study suggests:
Some participants were able to discriminate order of smells at intervals 10 times shorter than previously thoughtThe human sense of smell is nothing to turn one’s nose up at, research suggests, with scientists revealing we are far more sensitive to the order of odours captured by a sniff than previously thought.
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15 October 2024.
I replaced my Bose with the Nothing Ear Open - and that was a sound decision:
With their lightweight fit and great sound, the $149 Nothing Ear Open earbuds have quickly become my favorite for exercise.
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15 October 2024.
Spacecraft blasts off to hunt alien life on a distant moon:
Nasa's spacecraft could change what we know about life in our solar system.
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14 October 2024.
TikTok has known about how the app can harm teens and preteens, new documents show:
New internal documents reveal that TikTok has known about the app's potential dangers to teenagers and pre-teens.
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13 October 2024.
Traces of ancient immigration patterns to Japan found in 2,000-year-old genome:
A joint research group led by Jonghyun Kim and Jun Ohashi of the University of Tokyo has demonstrated that the majority of immigration to the Japanese Archipelago in the Yayoi and Kofun periods (between 3000 BCE and 538 CE) came from the Korean Peninsula.
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15 October 2024.
The Downfall of FTX’s Ryan Salame and Crypto Advocate Michelle Bond:
Ryan Salame, an FTX executive, and Michelle Bond, a crypto policy advocate, were once a Washington power couple.
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15 October 2024.
Trump's DJT stock is surging as election approaches. Here's what to know about Truth Social:
Trump's DJT stock is surging as election approaches.
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15 October 2024.
I replaced my Bose with the Nothing Ear Open - and that was a sound decision:
With their lightweight fit and great sound, the $149 Nothing Ear Open earbuds have quickly become my favorite for exercise.
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15 October 2024.
NASA and SpaceX Launch Europa Clipper to a Jupiter Moon:
The spacecraft lifted off Monday on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, embarking on a nearly six-year journey to Jupiter.
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15 October 2024.
Ants developed agriculture after the demise of the dinos, according to new analysis:
Ants have farmed fungi for 66 million years, according to new work in the journal Science.
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08 October 2024.
Sources: Microsoft lost billions of dollars on HoloLens before discontinuing it and is pulling back work on IVAS, the combat goggles for the US Army:
Microsoft is discontinuing HoloLens after losing billions of dollars on the project.
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15 October 2024.
New Passkey Specifications Will Let Users Import and Export Them:
9to5Mac's Filipe Esposito reports: Passkeys were introduced two years ago, and they replace traditional passwords with more secure authentication using a security key or biometrics.
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15 October 2024.
Georgia leads toward a nuclear future with its first operating reactor:
Georgia Power Co. announced one of its two new reactors reached self-sustaining nuclear fission on Monday.
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07 March 2023.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is being squeezed, Hubble Telescope finds — and nobody knows why:
The Hubble Space Telescope has seen Jupiter's Great Red Spot oscillating in width as it drifts around the planet.
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14 October 2024.
Some of the tech in my workday
Best programming language?
The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.
The TIOBE Programming Community index measures popularity based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses, third party vendors and search engine activity.
w3techs analyses page content to determine the technology used, and also uses publicly available information from sources such as Alexa, Google, Microsoft and ipinfo.io.
While Java and Python top the popularity charts, more than 80% of all websites run on PHP.
Longer term weather forecast
