Published on: 2025-06-14 16:26:26
A Chinese paraglider survived being sucked in by a cloud and flung 28,208 feet (8,598 meters) into the sky—even though he was just testing his new equipment and wasn’t intending to take off. On May 24, Peng Yujian, a 55-year-old paraglider, was already roughly 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) above sea level, testing the fit of his new paragliding equipment. About 20 minutes in, a powerful updraft known as a “cloud suck” shot him about 18,000 feet (5,500 meters) higher. Peng caught the wild event on
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 04:08:55
In Brief Chinese startup DeepSeek has released an updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model on the developer platform Hugging Face after announcing it in a WeChat message Wednesday morning. The updated R1, which is under a permissive MIT license, meaning it can be used commercially, is a “minor” upgrade, according to DeepSeek’s WeChat announcement. The Hugging Face repository doesn’t contain a description of the model — only configuration files and weights, the internal components of a mode
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 00:01:55
Many Ruby applications allocate objects. What if we could make allocating objects six times faster? We can! Read on to learn more! Speeding up allocations in Ruby Object allocation in Ruby 3.5 will be much faster than previous versions of Ruby. I want to start this article with benchmarks and graphs, but if you stick around I’ll also be explaining how we achieved this speedup. For allocation benchmarks, we’ll compare types of parameters (positional and keyword) with and without YJIT enabled.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 08:44:13
Amazon will now deliver a bunch of new products via drone, as mentioned in a company blog post . This includes stuff like smartphones, video doorbells and food thermometers. This is thanks to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) giving approval to several new item categories. Newly-available items include Apple iPhones, AirTags and AirPods, in addition to Samsung Galaxy smartphones, Ring doorbells and Alpha Grillers Instant Read Food Thermometers. All told, customers can now choose from mo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 21:03:00
Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’ll take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder. This week's Tuesday Telescope photo is pretty meta as it features... a telescope. This particular telescope is under construction in the A
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 22:25:44
Google has released emergency security updates to patch a high-severity vulnerability in the Chrome web browser that could lead to full account takeover following successful exploitation. While it's unclear if this security flaw has been used in attacks, the company warned that it has a public exploit, which is how it usually hints at active exploitation. "Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2025-4664 exists in the wild," Google said in a Wednesday security advisory. The vulner
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 17:00:17
Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’ll take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder. This week's Tuesday Telescope photo is pretty meta as it features... a telescope. This particular telescope is under construction in the A
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 13:48:57
TL;DR: Effect systems are a hot area of current research. After a quick study of the current big ideas, I fail to see them yielding major practical benefits to the profession of software development. On the contrary, I have concerns. (Further discussion suggests good solutions are in development.) Algebraic Effects: Another mistake carried through to perfection? Effect systems are all the rage these days. Naturally, I had a look around to see what I could see about the topic. Honestly, I think
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-26 04:23:36
“I don’t remember ever being forced to accept compromises, but I have willingly accepted constraints.” — Charles Eames One of the most marvelous aspects of the human experience is creativity. Yet, for those in the business of creativity, the creative act can be both the most rewarding and the most frustrating experience in life. Sometimes the mind is drenched in free, flowing ideas. Other times, the mind feels just like a desert, producing nothing. The Eames Institute · Leica CL · 23mm · f/2 ·
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 08:23:00
WTF?! Most people probably use zippers every day, but the technology behind them has remained fundamentally the same for decades. The world's largest zipper manufacturer aims to change that with motorized zippers that fasten and unfasten themselves. If the idea gains traction, it will initially emerge in enterprise settings. Japanese manufacturer YKK recently announced successful testing results for a prototype automatic zipper. The company suggests that it could help people fasten objects in d
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-22 00:23:23
When writing functions in TypeScript (and, truthfully, any language that does not support named parameters), you either pass arguments individually ( n params) or group them into a single object. While both are valid, I am yet to find a case were object parameters aren't the better choice. Say you call a function which creates a user: const signup = () => { // ... createUser("John", "Doe", 28, true); // ... }; At a glance, can you tell what each value means? You’re left guessing: what’s 28 ?
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-28 08:35:17
For my game The Big Forest I want to have creatures that are both procedurally generated and animated, which, as expected, is quite a research challenge. As mentioned in my 2024 retrospective, I spent the last six months of 2024 working on this — three months on procedural model generation and three months on procedural animation. My work on the creatures actually started earlier though. According to my commit history, I started in 2021 after shipping Eye of the Temple for PCVR, though my work
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-10 08:01:30
Meta has released a new collection of AI models, Llama 4, in its Llama family — on a Saturday, no less. There are four new models in total: Llama 4 Scout, Llama 4 Maverick, and Llama 4 Behemoth. All were trained on “large amounts of unlabeled text, image, and video data” to give them “broad visual understanding,” Meta says. The success of open models from Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, which perform on par or better than Meta’s previous flagship Llama models, reportedly kicked Llama development into
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-18 03:44:36
Overview The Growth and AI Transition Endogenous (GATE) model is an integrated assessment model of the impact of AI development on the economy. To accompany our paper describing the GATE model in detail, we have developed a playground that allows interested readers to modify parameter settings and observe the model’s behavior in a wide range of scenarios. In this documentation, we describe the following: A concise summary of how the GATE model is structured, implemented, and solved. How to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-22 06:25:54
Azure Pipelines in action pt. III - reasonably secure deploys to IIS 04 Mar, 2025 Note: this approach might not be the easiest nor the most secure! The key point here is combining JEA with Azure Pipelines, but the whole process described here can be more complex than needed. Apparently it's much better to run the agent directly on the server Trying to implement a deployment flow from Azure Devops to an on-prem IIS server, where every account is not an administrator, is a surprisingly difficul
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-30 10:54:16
The Alibaba office building is seen in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, on Aug 28, 2024. Alibaba shares surged on Wednesday after the Chinese behemoth revealed a new reasoning model it claims can rival DeepSeek's global blockbuster R1. Hong Kong-listed shares of Alibaba ended the Thursday session up 8.39% — hitting a new 52-week high — with the company's New York-trading stock rising around 2.5% in premarket deals. Alibaba shares have gained nearly 71% in Hong Kong in the year to date. The C
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-07 17:52:44
In Brief Researchers have developed small robots that can work together as a collective that changes shape and even shifts between solid and “fluid-like” states — a concept that should be familiar to anyone still haunted by nightmares of the T-1000 robotic assassin from “Terminator 2.” A team led by Matthew Devlin of UC Santa Barbara described this work in a paper recently published in Science, writing that the vision of “cohesive collectives of robotic units that can arrange into virtually an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-15 14:55:28
The Lucy spacecraft just got its first good look at the main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson as the NASA mission prepares to explore the Trojan asteroids as far out as Jupiter. Donaldjohanson is not a Trojan asteroid, but is located in a convenient position for Lucy to swing by before continuing on to its main targets. Donaldjohanson—named for the anthropologist who discovered the fossilized hominid Lucy in 1974—is a small main belt asteroid at roughly 3 miles (4 kilometers) in diameter. Newly re
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-12 18:32:08
On May 16, 2024, a powerful derecho swept through Houston, killing seven people and causing significant damage to several of the city's towering skyscrapers. Those buildings were constructed to withstand much stronger hurricane-force winds up to 67 meters per second, as one would get with a Category 4 hurricane. The derecho's winds peaked at 40 meters per second, well below that threshold. And when Hurricane Beryl hit Houston that July with roughly comparable wind speeds of 36 meters per second,
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