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How a key ingredient in Coca-Cola, M&M's is smuggled from war-torn Sudan

middleeastmonitor.com
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Apple unveils new Mac Studio, the most powerful Mac ever, featuring M4 Max

apple.com

March 5, 2025 PRESS RELEASE Apple unveils new Mac Studio, the most powerful Mac ever, featuring...
March 5, 2025 PRESS RELEASE Apple unveils new Mac Studio, the most powerful Mac ever, featuring M4 Max and new M3 Ultra With Thunderbolt 5, up to 512GB of unified memory, and an up to 16TB SSD, all in a compact design, the ultimate pro desktop delivers even more performance CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announce...
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The Differences Between Deep Research, Deep Research, and Deep Research

leehanchung.github.io

A wave of “Deep Research” releases has swept through frontier AI labs recently. Google unveiled its...
A wave of “Deep Research” releases has swept through frontier AI labs recently. Google unveiled its Gemini 1.5 Deep Research in December 2024, OpenAI followed with its Deep Research in February 2025, and Perplexity introduced its own Deep Research shortly after. Meanwhile, DeepSeek, Alibaba’s Qwen, and Elon Musk’s x...
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Why Vermont farmers are using urine on their crops

bbc.com

Rich Earth InstituteIn Vermont, pasteurised urine is sprayed on local farmland to fertilise crops (Credit: Rich...
Rich Earth InstituteIn Vermont, pasteurised urine is sprayed on local farmland to fertilise crops (Credit: Rich Earth Institute)Urine was used as fertiliser in ancient Rome and China. Now farmers in Vermont are bringing this practice back to boost harvests and grow crops in a more sustainable way.When Betsy Williams...
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MacBook Air M4

apple.com
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Design and Explore Noise Handshake Patterns (2018)

noiseexplorer.com

Noise Explorer is an online engine for reasoning about Noise Protocol Framework (revision 34) Handshake Patterns....
Noise Explorer is an online engine for reasoning about Noise Protocol Framework (revision 34) Handshake Patterns. Noise Explorer allows you to: Design Noise Handshake Patterns. Obtain validity checks that verify if your design conforms to the specification. Generate Formal Verification Models. Instantly generate ful...

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Apple M3 Ultra

apple.com

March 5, 2025 PRESS RELEASE Apple reveals M3 Ultra, :br(xl)::br(l):taking Apple silicon to a new extreme...
March 5, 2025 PRESS RELEASE Apple reveals M3 Ultra, :br(xl)::br(l):taking Apple silicon to a new extreme The new chip delivers up to 2.6x the performance of M1 Ultra, along with Thunderbolt 5 connectivity and support for more than half a terabyte of unified memory — the most ever in a personal computer CUPERTINO, CA...
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Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto Win 2024 Turing Award

acm.org

ACM has named Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton as the recipients of the 2024...
ACM has named Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. In a series of papers beginning in the 1980s, Barto and Sutton introduced the main ideas, constructed the mathematical foundatio...

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The INTERNET is killing old PC hardware [video]

youtube.com

entertainment
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There's little proof flossing protects your teeth or gums (2016)

today.com

It's one of the most universal recommendations in all of public health: Floss daily to prevent...
It's one of the most universal recommendations in all of public health: Floss daily to prevent gum disease and cavities.Except there's little proof that flossing works.Still, the federal government, dental organizations and manufacturers of floss have pushed the practice for decades. Dentists provide samples to thei...
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GSA prepares to sell over 400 federal properties

politico.com
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Multiply Went from Datomic to XTDB to Rama

redplanetlabs.com

“With databases, the conversation always started with ‘what are we able to do?’. I rarely find...
“With databases, the conversation always started with ‘what are we able to do?’. I rarely find myself asking what Rama is able to support, and rather ‘how?’. The requirements of the application dictate how we utilise the platform, not the other way around. Rama as a tool allows us to think product first, while still...
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Mice exhibit paramedic-like behaviors toward unresponsive peers, study finds

medicalxpress.com

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Delta Chat – Email Based PGP Encrypted Chat

delta.chat
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TurboWarp – Run Scratch projects faster

turbowarp.org
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Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026

microsoft.com

At Microsoft, we are dedicated to providing our customers with the tools they need to achieve...
At Microsoft, we are dedicated to providing our customers with the tools they need to achieve what matters, in their work and life. In order to focus on new benefits, we occasionally remove features and products. In October 2026, Microsoft Publisher will reach its end of life. After that time, it will no longer be i...
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The Ancient Art of Color

substack.com

Pliny the Elder wasn’t all that impressed. He acknowledged the significance and symbolism of the stuff:It...
Pliny the Elder wasn’t all that impressed. He acknowledged the significance and symbolism of the stuff:It is for this colour that the fasces and axes of Rome make way in the crowd; it is this that asserts the majesty of childhood; it is this that distinguishes the senator from the man of equestrian rank; by persons ...
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Study of cockatoo Snowball suggests humans aren't the only ones who can dance

harvard.edu

New research starring YouTube sensation Snowball the dancing cockatoo spotlights the surprising variety and creativity of...
New research starring YouTube sensation Snowball the dancing cockatoo spotlights the surprising variety and creativity of his moves and suggests that he, and some other vocal-learning animals, may be capable of some of the kind of sophisticated brain function thought to be exclusively human. The white bird with the ...
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BMW Group Product Catalog–Historic Models

bmwgroup-classic.com
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The Nightmare Bicycle

geoffreylitt.com
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Writing an LLM from scratch, part 8 – trainable self-attention

gilesthomas.com

Posted on 4 March 2025 in AI, Python, LLM from scratch, TIL deep dives This is...
Posted on 4 March 2025 in AI, Python, LLM from scratch, TIL deep dives This is the eighth post in my trek through Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)". I'm blogging about bits that grab my interest, and things I had to rack my brains over, as a way to get things straight in my own h...

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The Dead Planet Theory

substack.com

Everyone loves to talk about the Dead Internet Theory, but less often discussed is how few...
Everyone loves to talk about the Dead Internet Theory, but less often discussed is how few people “do things” in any venue or on any platform. This phenomenon is known by several names, including the Power Law, the Pareto Principle, and the 80-20 Rule. One example of this phenomenon is that 10% of Twitter users acco...
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MFA Fatigue: A Growing Headache for Schools

healthtechmagazine.net

Why Healthcare Workers Are Prime Targets for Cyberattacks Healthcare workers are, unfortunately, a favorite target for...
Why Healthcare Workers Are Prime Targets for Cyberattacks Healthcare workers are, unfortunately, a favorite target for malicious actors for a few reasons. First, healthcare data is incredibly valuable; it contains personal health information and financial details that can be sold on the black market. Second, the fas...

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We're Charging Our Cars Wrong

ieee.org

If there’s one thing we could do now to hasten the transition to electric vehicles, it’s...
If there’s one thing we could do now to hasten the transition to electric vehicles, it’s this: Build a robust public EV-charging infrastructure. While the media has focused on vehicle performance and range, consumers have always been clear that they want electric cars to do essentially everything their old vehicles ...

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