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prhrb
15 hours ago
Our right to challenge junk patents is under threat
The U.S. Patent Office has proposed new rules about who can challenge wrongly granted patents. If the rules become official, they will offer new protections to patent trolls. Challenging pat...
6 HOURS AGO
FORTRAN77
A confession exposes India’s hacking industry
6 HOURS AGO
FZLIU
Vector Database in a Jupyter Notebook
13 HOURS AGO
DRDEE
What is so beautiful about this door? On al-Jazari as an engineer (2019)
16 HOURS AGO
YLA92
GPT Best Practices
14 HOURS AGO
0XEDB
Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro
15 HOURS AGO
TODSACERDOTI
Building a programming language in twenty-four hours
11 HOURS AGO
ZDW
AI does not help programmers
A DAY AGO
SRGPQT
Sandstorm: Open-source platform for self-hosting web apps
20 HOURS AGO
ALRAJ
Implementing Cosine in C from Scratch (2020)
5 HOURS AGO
XQCGREK2
A 27-inch display in a briefcase
2 HOURS AGO
WOLVERINE876
AI chatbots lose money every time you use them. That’s a problem.
5 HOURS AGO
XQCGREK2
A 27-inch display in a briefcase
samwillis
12 hours ago
Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
Apple today unveiled Apple Vision Pro, a revolutionary spatial computer that seamlessly blends digital content with the physical world.
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keiferski
18 hours ago
How Wittgenstein Watched Movies
After lectures, the philosopher would ask a friend, “Could you go to a flick?”...
thatsso1999
4 hours ago
First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good
After a roughly 30 minute demo that ran through the major features that are yet ready to test I came away convinced that Apple has delivered nothing less than a genuine leapfrog in capabilit...
foxtacles
13 hours ago
Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly (2014)
It wasn't just people, animals and trees that were affected by radiation exposure at Chernobyl, but also the decomposers: insects, microbes, and fungi ...
lxm
5 hours ago
Grail wrongly told hundreds of people they might have cancer
Grail, a biotech firm that makes a blood test for detecting cancer, blamed the snafu on a technology glitch....
thunderbong
2 hours ago
Why SQLite is so great for the edge
Everyone already knows that SQLite is great. This article makes the praise much more specific though — it explains why we, the developers…...
soheilpro
an hour ago
visionOS
All-new platform. Familiar frameworks and tools. Get ready to build and design an entirely new universe of apps for Apple Vision Pro....
kencausey
7 hours ago
Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami
There’s no way for me to know where your awareness starts with all this, so let’s just start at the beginning. Computer Shopper was a hell of a magazine. I wrote a whole essay about it,…...
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thunderbong
13 hours ago
How Photoshop solved working with files larger than can fit into memory
Build the next generation of web experiences....
RafelMri
5 hours ago
What Hallucinogens Will Make You See
8 ways psychedelics distort our vision....
luu
8 hours ago
Health industry responds to data privacy crackdown
Biden administration enforcement actions have chilled advertising spending and cut into bottom lines....
benbreen
5 hours ago
Entertainments from a Medieval Minstrel’s Repertoire Book
Abstract. National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ MS 19.3.1 (the Heege Manuscript) is a large, late-fifteenth-century English miscellany manuscript from the bo...
0xedb
14 hours ago
Apple Introduces M2 Ultra
Apple today announced M2 Ultra, a new system on a chip (SoC) that delivers huge performance increases to the Mac and completes the M2 family....
jeremylevy
14 hours ago
On 'function coloring' (2018)
How much of a problem is it to sharply distinguish between different kinds of functions?...
rntn
an hour ago
Evacuations under way near Kherson after destruction of dam prompts flooding
Around 16,000 people could be affected and water will reach ‘critical level’ in coming hours, says Kherson governor...
Tomte
20 hours ago
Why Lisp Syntax Works
On uniform vs. specific syntax....