As the year comes to a close, “one constant, reliable source of awe and beauty is the sky over our head…” writes astronomer Phil Plait in Scientific America
“And every year we see new things, or old things in new ways, and I’ve been set the wonderf……
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It was a half a century ago that America passed legislation to protect vanishing species and their habitats — and since then, more than five dozen species have recovered. Just one example: In 1963 only 417 nesting pairs of bald eagles were found ……
If you have multiple microphones in known locations, and can determine the time a sound arrives at each one, you can actually determine the location that sound is coming from. …read more
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If you have multiple microphones in known locations, and can determine the time a sound arrives at each one, you can actually determine the location that sound is coming from. …read more
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“Electric cars are already upending America,” argues a new article in the Atlantic, citing booming sales and new models that are “finally starting to push us into the post-gas age.”
Americans are on track to buy a record 1.44 million of them in 2023, ……
“Since the 1960s engineers around the world have been fiddling with a novel type of jet called a rotating detonation engine (RDE), but it has never got beyond the experimental stage,” reports the Economist.
“That could be about to change.”
GE Aerosp……
[Thomas Roth], aka [Ghidraninja], and author of the [Stacksmashing] YouTube channel, investigated Apple’s Lightning port and created a cool debugging tool that allowed one to get JTAG on the device. …read more
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TechCrunch argues that in 2023, “established technologies relied on by millions hit a chaos curve, making people realize how beholden they are to a proprietary platform they have little control over.”
The OpenAI fiasco in November, where the ChatGPT h……
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Apple’s warnings in late October that Indian journalists and opposition figures may have been targeted by state-sponsored attacks prompted a forceful counterattack from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Officials publicly ……
