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49 votes
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Machines can't always take the heat: How heat waves threaten everything from cars to computers
15 votes -
The wallet event: Crypto startup company tells bankruptcy judge it has lost the password to a 38.9 million dollar physical crypto wallet
17 votes -
Ørsted shares fall 25% after it reveals troubles in US business – £7bn wiped off value of world's largest offshore wind company over possible £1.8bn write-down
8 votes -
Finnish citizens traveling with Finnair between Helsinki Airport and the UK will be able to trial Digital Travel Credentials, using them to leave and enter Finland
8 votes -
Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked.
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Europe is cracking down on Big Tech. This is what will change when you sign on.
81 votes -
Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot US fatality
35 votes -
‘Rebel canning’ is having a moment, whether or not it should
58 votes -
The indigenous groups fighting against the quest for 'white gold' in South America
11 votes -
A microcomputer-like prompt on any device
7 votes -
A cargo ship equipped with rigid sails, each the height of a ten-story building, has departed on its inaugural journey
62 votes -
My secret to dating in San Francisco is a spreadsheet
24 votes -
Apple formally endorses right to repair US legislation after spending millions fighting it
67 votes -
How a brain implant and AI gave a woman with paralysis her voice back
15 votes -
The world's largest floating wind farm is now officially open in Norway – and helping to power North Sea oil operations
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Tesla reportedly asked US highway safety officials to redact information about whether driver-assistance software was in use during crashes
35 votes -
Chip company Arm files for Nasdaq listing in IPO anticipated to be this year’s biggest
20 votes -
Permanent US injunction and $650,000 civil penalty imposed on Experian Consumer Services for allegedly sending commercial emails
15 votes -
Carbon removal should be a public good
30 votes -
Lunar Codex: Digitised works of 30,000 artists to be archived on moon
15 votes -
Cyberattack shutters major National Science Foundation-funded telescopes for more than two weeks
18 votes -
Much of the innovation in natural language processing comes from the US, resulting in an English language bias – Finland decided to change the game with a collective approach
12 votes -
This is how we finally kill TurboTax
51 votes -
Chromium is showing immense promise as a cheap, plentiful alternative to metals used in smartphone screens and solar cells
11 votes -
Using artificial intelligence to ban books only makes the problem worse
20 votes -
The superconductor sensation has fizzled - and that's fine
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How wave power could be the future of energy
7 votes -
Bank of England outage hits key payments systems processing billions
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Suggestions for a good math epub reader on Windows?
I have tried Calibre & SumatraPDF, I was so excited for Calibre until it never worked properly on the one textbook I needed. For example, whenever I went to the next page it would stall on loading...
I have tried Calibre & SumatraPDF, I was so excited for Calibre until it never worked properly on the one textbook I needed. For example, whenever I went to the next page it would stall on loading forever, and this is apparently a known issue that's [according to the posts I read from the owner] caused by a graphics driver that I'm not interested in delving into just to read an ebook.
The ebook itself is pretty large with a lot of mathematical equations and images, but nothing my computer should be stalling on. The issue with SumatraPDF is that it can't seem to render the mathematical equations properly, and I couldn't find any simple way to load them without having to do more work.
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A totaled Tesla was sold for parts in the US but came back online in Ukraine — here’s what happened
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Superconductor megathread
Hey everyone, As a few of you may know, there was a paper released a few days ago claiming that an Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor (RTAPS) was created. You can see the original...
Hey everyone,
As a few of you may know, there was a paper released a few days ago claiming that an Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor (RTAPS) was created. You can see the original paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008
To bring things into perspective if this holds true we would likely dispense with energy and transportation concerns. It would be akin to the discovery of fire, penicillin or the transistor. A groundbreaking change. See here for a more detailed, bullish list of things it can help with: https://nitter.net/Andercot/status/1685088625187495936
There are many communities that are discussing this. The best summary I was able to find is here: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/claims-of-room-temperature-and-ambient-pressure-superconductor.1106083/page-17
There is still a very much active debate there (and elsewhere online) of people on the viability of the original people. Many are pessimistic that the evidence is scant and that the original publication does not hold its water. An interesting summary of the sentiment of a part of the community can be found through the (faux) betting market of Manifold here: https://manifold.markets/QuantumObserver/will-the-lk99-room-temp-ambient-pre
On the link above they are also diligently tracking any replication attempts. Currently we are at the stage were theoretical simulations have validated the possibility of the purported materials to be superconductors (https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892).
Finally, a nice replication attempt that tried to make the creation process better and demonstrated some of the effects required to prove superconductivity (scroll up): https://twitter.com/iris_IGB/status/1685804254718459904
This is very exciting, because even if some properties are valid, it gives a mjor boost to the whole field.
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The writers’ strike over AI is bigger than Hollywood
65 votes -
Spotify is raising the price of its single-account premium plan for the first time since 2011 and hiking other services as well
65 votes -
Desperate Chinese parents are joining dating apps to marry off their adult children
49 votes -
Understanding Bill C-18: Canada’s Online News Act
25 votes -
Immediate effects of mobile phone app for depressed mood in young adults with subthreshold depression: A pilot randomized controlled trial
14 votes -
UK vendors started boycotting the Etsy platform over its payment reserves system
18 votes -
NASA’s trio of mini rovers will autonomously team up to explore the Moon
15 votes -
The secret to becoming the world’s biggest digital bank: A user-friendly app
9 votes -
"Body of Mine" puts users in a virtual body of a different gender
30 votes -
Superconductor breakthrough replicated, twice, in preliminary testing
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/superconductor-breakthrough-replicated-twice
48 votes -
AI has helped radiologists detect 20% more cases of breast cancer during screenings, new Swedish study finds
25 votes -
Artificial intelligence versus human-controlled doctor in virtual reality simulation for sepsis team training: Randomized controlled study
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Thermo Fisher Scientific settles with family of Henrietta Lacks, whose HeLa cells uphold medicine
26 votes -
Not all porn is created equal - is there such a thing as a healthy pornography?
83 votes -
Lights could be the future of the internet and data transmission
9 votes -
On successor states and websites
16 votes -
Autoenshittification: How the computer killed capitalism
83 votes -
How a World War II submarine works
6 votes