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SpaceX Starship Flight 6: No catch but there was a banana:
The sixth flight of SpaceX's Starship went off today without a second capture landing of the Super Heavy first stage, but it did have a dramatic daylight powered soft landing of the Starship second stage in the Indian Ocean.
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20 November 2024.
Structural-strength-boosting robot makes its mark in wet concrete:
When most of us think of freshly poured concrete, we picture a material that should be left to dry as smooth as possible.
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19 November 2024.
Federal Court Says Qualified Immunity Can’t Shield Cop Who Tased Suicidal Man Soaked In Gasoline:
If this sounds familiar, sadly, it is.
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20 November 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.
New statistical method powers research on health, climate, financial data:
Dan Kowal, associate professor of statistics and data science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has developed a new Bayesian regression analysis method that’s more flexible, accurate and easy to use.
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12 November 2024.
Meta pushes AI bid for UK public sector forward with technology aimed at NHS:
Tech giant awards funding to project to shorten waits in A&E, after ‘hackathon’ on using Llama system in BritainMeta’s push to deploy its artificial intelligence system inside Britain’s public sector has taken a step forward after the tech giant awarded development funding to technology aimed at shortening NHS A&E waiting times.
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20 November 2024.
Fat ‘remembering’ past obesity drives yo-yo diet effect, say experts:
Research shows fat cells are affected by obesity in a way that alters how they respond to food, potentially for yearsLosing weight can be a frustrating game: after months of successful slimming, the kilos may soon pile on again, leaving people back where they started.
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20 November 2024.
The best cheap phones in 2024: Expert tested and reviewed:
We've tested the best cheap phones on the market, including models from Samsung, Google, Motorola, and more, and these are most worthy of your money.
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20 November 2024.
Living in Delhi smog is like watching a dystopian film again and again:
Toxic, deadly, poisonous - these words are back in the headlines as Delhi’s pollution spikes again.
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20 November 2024.
Traffic on Bluesky, an X competitor, is up 500% since the election. How will they handle the surge?:
Unlike other social media sites, Bluesky allows users to create their own algorithm.
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19 November 2024.
Astronauts found to process some tasks slower in space, but no signs of permanent cognitive decline:
A stay in space exerts extreme pressures on the human body.
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20 November 2024.
Trump Picks Brendan Carr to Lead F.C.C.:
Mr. Carr, who currently sits on the commission and is a vocal critic of Big Tech, has said the agency should regulate the tech industry.
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20 November 2024.
The SEC's Gary Gensler must refrain from doing more harm to crypto on his way out the door:
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) campaign against the crypto industry has cost American companies more than $400 million in legal defense costs alone.
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20 November 2024.
The best cheap phones in 2024: Expert tested and reviewed:
We've tested the best cheap phones on the market, including models from Samsung, Google, Motorola, and more, and these are most worthy of your money.
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20 November 2024.
SpaceX Starship Launch Ends With a Dramatic Water Landing:
President-elect Donald J.
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20 November 2024.
Opinion: Uranus was having a bad hair day. Hey, it was the '80s!:
Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus.
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16 November 2024.
The head of the axed £800M UK supercomputer project warns that the UK, which no longer has a machine ranked in the global top 50, risks falling behind rivals:
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20 November 2024.
Thomas E. Kurtz, Co-Inventor of BASIC, Dies At 96:
Slashdot readers damn_registrars and GFS666 share the news of the passing of Thomas E.
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20 November 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.
Scientists analyze largest map of the universe ever created — and it proves Einstein right yet again:
The largest survey of our universe ever conducted suggests that it closely matches the model most favored by cosmologists.
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20 November 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.
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