Published on: 2025-07-04 22:17:57
Gentle readers, I have just wrapped up a fun side project that will be of great interest to a very small number of you. The result of one of the most technically demanding efforts of my career, I am very pleased to share it with you. Click to have a look at a detailed version. Contact me if you’re interested in a physical copy. Most of you will wonder what this place is, but I hope that, for a few of you, the names clicked into place in your memory. This is the planet Chiron, the setting (and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 17:24:33
I don’t have many pet peeves. That said, no matter how hard I try, I just can’t get over the sheer madness of the scientific “unit” we call the decibel (dB). What’s a decibel? Well, the most common answer is “uhh". The second most common answer is that it’s “a way to measure loudness”. But it isn’t! A decibel is not a unit in any conventional sense: it’s more akin to a prefix such as mega- in megabyte. It describes a change in magnitude. On the face of it, the idea makes sense. We sometimes wa
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If you’re looking for an affordable (and secure) way to back up your files, the Seagate Portable 2TB external hard drive (HDD) currently on sale at Amazon is a great pick. Seagate is a global leader in the storage industry and for this Memorial Day sale, you can grab the 2TB HDD model for just $69 which is a 13% discount from its usual $79 price tag. Compared to the ongoing expense of cloud storage, this is a one-time investment that saves you money in the long run. For example, a 2TB cloud pla
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 00:40:23
If you’ve ever tried to multitask on a laptop, you’ve also been probably frustrated of working within limited screen space. Whether your laptop is 13, 15, or even 17 inches, there always seems to be not quite enough space to comfortably juggle emails, documents and web pages at the same time. And so having a second monitor feels like a luxury. The real task is finding one that’s light, truly portable, and easy to install: Amazon Memorial Day Sales now offer a very popular 15.6-inch portable mon
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 00:56:50
If you’ve ever found yourself picking up your phone to check your calendar and somehow ended up scrolling through social media twenty minutes later, you’re not alone. It’s so easy to forget what you’re doing when you’ve always got something to do. And distraction really is a thing. Sometimes, all you really want is a simple way to keep track of your day without getting pulled in ten different directions. That’s where TRMNL steps in. See at TRMNL For just $129, this compact e-ink dashboard help
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Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. If you've ever lived or worked on a farm, today's Wordle puzzle might be a very familiar word to you. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wordle hints Before w
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What is the best internet provider in Ann Arbor, Michigan? Looking for the fastest, most reliable internet in Ann Arbor? AT&T Fiber is CNET's pick for the best internet service provider in Ann Arbor. Being the area's only fiber provider, it delivers equal upload and download speeds -- essential for remote work and online gaming. But that's not all. AT&T Fiber also has the lead when it comes to customer satisfaction. The provider has the highest customer satisfaction scores of any ISP in the cou
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Although the state of New Jersey has reported only three recent cases of measles, two major events may have sharply increased the odds of an outbreak in the state. On May 15, the state warned residents and travelers about an exposure event at the troubled Newark Airport, on May 12 from 12:30 to 4 p.m. ET. On May 20, the New Jersey Department of Health announced that a person infected with measles attended the sold-out Shakira concert at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 23:00:05
Netflix has a stacked content library that features every type of show and movie you can imagine. And when it comes to epic sci-fi TV shows, this is where it's at. Considering the fact that you landed on this article, you probably already know this. More importantly, you're here because you're on the hunt for the best sci-fi programming to watch on Netflix. Well, you've come to the right place. The Netflix conversation usually includes top-tier titles like Stranger Things and Black Mirror; they
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 23:00:07
Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference is set for June 9, and the tech giant wrote in a statement that the event will feature "groundbreaking updates coming to Apple platforms." One thing we expect Apple to announce at the event is the next version of its iPhone operating system, iOS 19. That means WWDC should be our first glimpse of new features that will likely land on your iPhone later this year. While iOS 18 brought some useful new features to all iPhones, like RCS messaging, and Apple In
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Like razors and hamburgers, the key to better OLED seems to be more stacks. Layers of OLED stacked on other layers of OLED can result in brighter and brighter displays. OLED screens on TVs, monitors, laptops and phones already deliver the best image quality of any display tech, and with two new technologies, they're poised to get even better. LG's latest high-end OLED TV, the G5, features a four-stack design that results in the brightest OLED picture CNET has tested to date -- more than 30% bri
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What is the best internet provider in Alexandria? CNET ranks Verizon Fios as Alexandria's top internet service provider, and for good reason. It's got fast fiber coverage, blistering-fast speeds and reasonable prices. This includes unlimited data, free equipment rental and lengthy price guarantees. It's one of CNET's top-rated internet service providers country-wide, so it makes sense it would be good in Alexandria, too. It's got less availability and fewer plans, but Ting Fiber's flat rate an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 23:46:04
Even from the sidewalk, Fred Fitness has you wanting to know more. Looking in, you'll see members with Therabody JetBoots wrapped around their legs, providing compression, vibration and red light therapy as they recover after a workout. But despite this peek at its tech, you wouldn't think Fred Fitness runs on AI with its open, welcoming space that includes warm wood beams, plant life, plush seating and a community table. However, as you venture further into the gym, you'll see it's filled with
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 00:00:05
It's no secret that many people rely on daily horoscopes to dictate some of the most important aspects of their lives. Romance, careers, friendship, and financial matters are only a handful of areas where zodiac signs can offer insight into our inherent behaviors and personality traits (or at least be something to blame when the stars literally don't align and things go awry). Whether or not you believe in astrology, it can be a fun tool to help make decisions about anything that hordes too muc
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For a couple of years now, I've been trying to find an excuse to buy a decent 3D printer. Friends and fellow Ars staffers who had them would gush about them at every opportunity, talking about how useful they can be and how much can be printed once you get used to the idea of being able to create real, tangible objects with a little time and a few bucks' worth of plastic filament. But I could never quite imagine myself using one consistently enough to buy one. Then, this past Christmas, my wif
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Over the past year, veteran software engineer Jay Prakash Thakur has spent his nights and weekends prototyping AI agents that could, in the near future, order meals and engineer mobile apps almost entirely on their own. His agents, while surprisingly capable, have also exposed new legal questions that await companies trying to capitalize on Silicon Valley’s hottest new technology. Agents are AI programs that can act mostly independently, allowing companies to automate tasks such as answering cu
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Other Good Toiletry Bags There were multiple great bags we tried whose features or designs just didn't add up to a place in the top spots above. However, everyone has something different they're looking for in a toiletry bag, so while not perfect for us, some of these options may still be perfect for you. Photograph: Calpak Travel Calpak Clear Cosmetics Case for $85: Constructed largely of water-resistant, wipe-clean PVC, this clear cosmetic case (I tested the medium size) zips all the way ar
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 22:22:27
The mysterious device that OpenAI is cooking up with former Apple designer Jony Ive will be pocket-size, contextually aware, screen-free, and isn’t eyewear. Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed details about the project in an internal staff call reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, after announcing the $6.5 billion acquisition of Ive’s AI hardware startup, io. Altman suggested that the acquisition could increase OpenAI’s value by $1 trillion, and envisioned a “family of devices” being born fr
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After directing dozens of documentaries over his 60-year career, legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese will now have his own life chronicled for Apple TV Plus. In its announcement, Apple says the five-part Mr. Scorsese documentary series will explore how themes like “the place of good and evil in the fundamental nature of humankind” have shaped Scorsese’s filmography as far back as his student work at New York University. Apple hasn’t mentioned a release date for the docuseries, which is being di
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M&S website back online, allowing users to browse 1 hour ago Share Save Hafsa Khalil & Annabelle Liang BBC News Share Save In Pictures via Getty Images The Marks & Spencer website is back online after leaving users unable to browse for several hours. Customers have been unable to make online orders for weeks as the retailer deals with the aftermath of a cyber-attack, but on Wednesday evening the website went down completely. A message read: "Sorry you can't browse the site currently. We're ma
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Bitcoin continued its rally on Thursday, hitting a brand new record high above $111,000. Bitcoin hit $111,886.41 in early trading hours in London, according to Coin Metrics, before paring some of those gains to trade at around $111,012.00 at 07:03 a.m. London. Bitcoin's move has been "driven by a mix of positive momentum, growing optimism around U.S. crypto regulation, and continued interest from institutional buyers," James Butterfill, head of research for crypto-focused asset manager CoinSha
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Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google has officially switched the Find My Device app to Find Hub. The service has been renamed across the Play Store, your phones, and the web. The new Find Hub app also includes a few changes that help separate device-finding and location settings. Google has officially begun rolling out the Find My Device rebranding update announced last week during The Android Show. The app is now called Find Hub, and users will notice the new name on their home s
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TL;DR Google will allow app developers to easily halt the release of their apps on the Play Store. Developers currently have no easy way to stop the release of their apps in the event of a major bug or other significant problem. This would also make life easier for users, as they wouldn’t have to unwittingly download a problematic app update. The Google Play Store allows users to seamlessly update their apps, but developers sometimes issue updates with significant bugs. Unfortunately, there’s
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Dijkstra was one of the reviewers of the fours language proposals which eventually lead to the language Ada: red, green, blue, and yellow (the winning proposal was green). Here are some quotes from each of the reviews: red “the proposal is both advanced and backward in such an incongruous manner that I am baffled” green “technical incompetence, probably enhanced by dishonesty” “I tried to reconstruct from the documentation a coherent design philosophy, an effort in which I failed: the mixtu
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Arduino Team — Interactions in mixed reality are a challenge. Nobody wants to hold bulky controllers and type by clicking on big virtual keys one at a time. But people also don’t want to carry around dedicated physical keyboard devices just to type every now and then. That’s why a team of computer scientists from China’s Tsinghua University developed interaction technology called Palmpad that enables typing with just a single RGB camera and an Arduino. This isn’t a new idea, but the execution
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after the first animals emerged from the ocean around 400 million years ago, they evolved the ability to live exclusively on land much faster than previously assumed. “We had thought the transition from fin to limb took much longer,” said California State University paleontologist Stuart Sumida, who was not inv
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The trigger for this discovery was the public Preview of Aurora DSQL at re:Invent 2024. Before the public release, access to DSQL had been restricted, requiring developers to be on the corporate VPN. Developers started to interact with DSQL off-VPN, and realized it was slower - way slower - than before. What could possibly explain this? Clearly, it’s “the network” since that’s the only difference. That doesn’t mean the office WiFi is slow - otherwise connections would always be slow, instead of
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When I wrote Why is Debian the way it is?, a year and a half ago, I was asked to also cover why Debian changes the software it packages. Here’s a brief list of examples of why that happens: Software in Debian needs to follow certain policies as set by Debian over the years, and documented in the Debian Policy Manual. These are mostly mundane things like system wide configuration being in /etc , documentation in /usr/share/doc , and so on. Some of this is more intricate, like when names of execu
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Please visit my the landing page to find video tutorials on computer graphics and other resources; this page containsthe written tutorials. I write them in my spare time, but I hope you enjoy them despite the errors or imprecisions they might contain. If you do and feel like it, you can support this work through Patreon or PayPal . Lastly, all code snippets you'll find are under the MIT license so you can easily reuse them.
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I don’t have many pet peeves. That said, no matter how hard I try, I just can’t get over the sheer madness of the scientific “unit” we call the decibel (dB). What’s a decibel? Well, the most common answer is “uhh". The second most common answer is that it’s “a way to measure loudness”. But it isn’t! A decibel is not a unit in any conventional sense: it’s more akin to a prefix such as mega- in megabyte. It describes a change in magnitude. On the face of it, the idea makes sense. We sometimes wa
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