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Google Fiber Launches Construction in Las Vegas

2025-01-22
Google Fiber Launches Construction in Las Vegas

Google Fiber has officially begun network construction in Las Vegas, starting on the west side of the city with expansion to other parts of Clark County in the coming months. This follows agreements reached in 2024 with the City of Las Vegas and Clark County. Google Fiber is committed to minimizing disruption during construction and plans to offer service in parts of the metro area later this year. Nevada residents and businesses will have access to Google Fiber's plans, boasting speeds up to 8 gigabits and prices unchanged since 2012.

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(fiber.googleblog.com)
Tech Google Fiber Las Vegas Network Construction

Toyota's Woven City: Phase 1 Complete, First Residents Moving In

2025-02-26
Toyota's Woven City: Phase 1 Complete, First Residents Moving In

Toyota Motor Corporation has announced the completion of phase one of its futuristic city, Woven City, located southwest of Tokyo. Spanning over 700,000 square meters, this innovative urban development will integrate autonomous vehicles, robotics, and advanced digital technologies to offer residents a unique and technologically advanced living experience. The city features dedicated roads for autonomous vehicles, pedestrian zones, and underground passageways for deliveries and waste management. Approximately 360 Toyota employees and their families will begin moving in during the second half of this year, with a projected population of 2,000 residents eventually.

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Audacity Plugin Development with Nyquist: A Beginner's Guide

2025-09-12

Nyquist is a programming language for audio synthesis and analysis. Audacity leverages a subset of its functionality, enabling users to create plugins in plain text without compilation. Nyquist supports both Lisp and SAL syntaxes. This guide provides a concise introduction to Lisp syntax, covering S-expressions, function definition, list manipulation, and common functions with code examples, facilitating a quick start to Nyquist plugin development.

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(manual.audacityteam.org)
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Google Maps Labels US as 'Sensitive Country' Amidst Gulf of Mexico Name Change

2025-02-01
Google Maps Labels US as 'Sensitive Country' Amidst Gulf of Mexico Name Change

Google Maps has reclassified the United States as a 'sensitive country,' a designation shared with nations like China and Russia, following its confirmation of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. This move, prompted by Trump's executive order, has sparked debate, highlighting the impact of political shifts on tech companies' operations and perceptions of the US globally. The reclassification raises concerns about the changing global perception of the United States under Trump's presidency.

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(www.themarysue.com)
Tech Political Impact

The Vanishing of Color: A Modern Aesthetic Shift

2025-04-02
The Vanishing of Color: A Modern Aesthetic Shift

From cars and brands to film, grayscale and monochrome are dominating the world. This article explores the reasons behind this phenomenon, arguing it's not just about materials or fashion trends, but rooted in Western philosophy's long-standing devaluation of color. From Plato to Kant, reason was prioritized over senses, with color seen as sensory interference hindering the understanding of truth. Modernism further dismissed color as excessive ornamentation, pursuing pure form. However, the article argues this rejection of color ignores the harmonious unity of color and form, exemplified by the vibrant hues of Baroque art, where emotion and reason coexist. It's time to embrace color again, enriching our lives.

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(www.culture-critic.com)
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UK Council's Oracle Project Costs Balloon to £40M

2025-01-28
UK Council's Oracle Project Costs Balloon to £40M

West Sussex County Council in the UK is undertaking a £40 million ($50 million) Oracle-based transformation project, a massive escalation from the initial £2.6 million estimate. To fund this, the council is selling off assets like property, including a former fire station. The project, initially slated for 2021, has faced repeated delays, a system integrator change, and a new contract with Oracle extending it to 2030. This highlights the risks of runaway costs in large IT projects and the financial challenges faced by local governments.

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(www.theregister.com)
Tech IT project cost overruns

Wordsworth's Open Letter Supporting Copyright Reform

2025-09-04
Wordsworth's Open Letter Supporting Copyright Reform

In 1838, William Wordsworth penned a powerful letter to Serjeant Talfourd, MP, voicing his staunch support for a bill aimed at reforming copyright law. Faced with significant opposition from printers and publishers, Wordsworth declined to petition Parliament, instead choosing to publicly declare his belief in authors' inherent right to perpetual ownership of their works—a right far exceeding the bill's proposed term. He argued this right stemmed from common law and criticized opponents for hiding behind existing statutes, avoiding a defense of this fundamental right. The letter also touches upon his concerns for literary giants like Coleridge, Scott, and Southey, expressing his deep respect and gratitude for Talfourd's efforts.

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(gutenberg.org)
Misc Literary History

Mermaid Chart Visual Editor Update: Effortless Class Diagram Editing

2025-01-17
Mermaid Chart Visual Editor Update: Effortless Class Diagram Editing

Mermaid Chart recently updated its visual editor to make creating and editing class diagrams significantly easier. New features include changing rendering direction, adding classes and relationships, adding titles and notes, updating diagram configuration, and changing themes and layouts. Users can now easily create and update class diagrams via drag-and-drop, eliminating the need for manual Mermaid syntax. The visual editor also provides a powerful dialog interface for modifying class properties, such as adding attributes and methods, setting visibility modifiers and data types. These improvements make creating and maintaining complex class diagrams more efficient and accessible, especially for team members less familiar with Mermaid's syntax.

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(docs.mermaidchart.com)
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Beej's Guide to Git: A Comprehensive Tutorial

2025-02-05

Beej's Guide to Git offers a comprehensive tutorial available in various PDF and HTML formats. The author humbly acknowledges potential errors and welcomes corrections. Multiple paper sizes and printing options (one-sided, two-sided, color, black and white) are provided for convenient printing. Translators and contributors are invited to clone the GitHub repository for collaboration.

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(beej.us)
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Building a Simple SQL Query Evaluator

2025-02-19
Building a Simple SQL Query Evaluator

This post details building a simple SQL query evaluator capable of handling basic SELECT statements. The author starts by creating a simple test database, then improves upon previous work on SQLite file format parsing and SQL parsing to handle more complex queries. The core is the implementation of `Operator` and `Planner`; `Operator` executes database operations, and `Planner` translates parsed SQL into `Operator`. Currently, it lacks support for filtering, sorting, grouping, and joins, but lays the foundation for adding these features. Improvements to the `Pager` for concurrent access are also described.

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(blog.sylver.dev)
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DIY Pipe Organ: A University Student's Musical Odyssey

2025-01-30

In 1992, a university student with no musical background embarked on a DIY pipe organ journey to fulfill a course requirement. Initially using a vacuum cleaner motor to power crude wooden pipes, the result was deafening. Through experimentation and refinement, he designed an ingenious valve system and pipe structure, culminating in a unique instrument. This humble organ, built with ingenuity and passion, became a testament to the joy of creation and a source of inspiration for fellow music enthusiasts.

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(www.sentex.ca)
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Amazon Deal: Uncertainties Remain

2025-02-20
Amazon Deal: Uncertainties Remain

Amazon issued a statement highlighting uncertainties surrounding an ongoing transaction. Potential risks mentioned include failure to meet transaction conditions, regulatory approvals not being obtained, delays or failure to close the deal, and an inability to achieve anticipated benefits. Amazon emphasized that actual results may differ materially from expectations and disclaimed any obligation to update the information unless legally required. Investors are cautioned against undue reliance on forward-looking statements.

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(www.aboutamazon.com)
Startup transaction risk

teemoji: The CLI That Adds Emojis to Your Terminal Output

2025-01-30
teemoji: The CLI That Adds Emojis to Your Terminal Output

teemoji is a command-line tool inspired by the classic tee utility. It uses a Core ML model to predict and prepend an appropriate emoji to each line of text, adding a fun, contextual element to your command-line workflows. Features include emoji prediction, standard I/O support, file handling options (append or overwrite), and easy integration into existing shell pipelines. Installation is straightforward via Homebrew, and usage mirrors the standard tee command, with added emoji functionality and helpful options.

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(github.com)
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Distr: Simplifying Enterprise Software Distribution

2025-01-30
Distr: Simplifying Enterprise Software Distribution

Distr simplifies distributing enterprise software to customer-controlled or shared-responsibility environments. It features an intuitive web UI for viewing deployments and agents, a white-label customer portal for customer control, an API accessible via a rich SDK, and is fully open-source and self-hostable. The Distr Hub is distributed as a Docker image with a Docker Compose example deployment. Comprehensive documentation covers self-hosting and building from source, and a JavaScript SDK is available for application integration.

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(github.com)
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Lossless Compression of Vector IDs Boosts Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search

2025-01-23
Lossless Compression of Vector IDs Boosts Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search

Researchers introduce a lossless compression scheme for vector IDs to address the high storage cost of indexes in approximate nearest neighbor search. Leveraging the fact that the order of IDs is irrelevant in many index structures, and utilizing asymmetric numeral systems or wavelet trees, the method achieves up to 7x compression of vector IDs without impacting accuracy or search runtime. This translates to a 30% reduction in index size for billion-scale datasets. Furthermore, the approach can also losslessly compress quantized vector codes by exploiting sub-optimalities in the original quantization algorithm.

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(arxiv.org)
AI Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Vector Compression Lossless Compression

2025: Another Brutal Year for Startups? Data Suggests So

2025-01-27
2025: Another Brutal Year for Startups? Data Suggests So

Data suggests 2025 could be another tough year for startups. 2024 saw a significant increase in startup closures compared to 2023, with Carta reporting a 25.6% rise to 966 closures (US-based Carta customers). AngelList saw a 56.2% increase to 364 closures. This surge is attributed to the overfunded and overvalued companies from the 2020-2021 boom. Many struggled to secure further funding after inflated valuations. Experts point to a combination of factors: running out of cash, lack of product-market fit, and inability to raise more capital due to previous overvaluation. The trend is expected to continue in the first half of 2025, gradually declining thereafter.

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(techcrunch.com)
Startup startup failures funding crunch overvaluation

Bayesian-Powered AI Agent Achieves Breakthrough in Atari 10k Challenge

2025-01-26
Bayesian-Powered AI Agent Achieves Breakthrough in Atari 10k Challenge

VERSES' Genius AI engine achieved a significant breakthrough in the Atari 10k challenge. Outperforming leading AI models based on deep reinforcement learning, Genius matched or exceeded human-level performance on several Atari games using only 10% of the data and drastically less compute. This hyper-efficiency stems from its unique Bayesian inference and active inference framework, showcasing superior sample efficiency and continuous learning capabilities. This marks a significant step towards highly efficient, reliable, and explainable AI.

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(www.verses.ai)
AI Bayesian Inference Atari Games

Whonix: The Ultimate Privacy OS

2025-01-12
Whonix: The Ultimate Privacy OS

Whonix is a Linux-based virtual machine operating system designed for maximum internet privacy and anonymity. It achieves this by routing all internet traffic through the Tor network and implementing multi-layered security measures, including browser fingerprinting protection, keystroke cloaking, and strict access controls, to protect users from tracking and malware. Whonix's design philosophy is 'all Tor,' and it offers features like anonymous web server hosting and Live Mode to ensure user security and anonymity online.

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(www.whonix.org)
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Lessons Learned From Archiving 8,000 Family Slides

2025-01-27
Lessons Learned From Archiving 8,000 Family Slides

The author recounts the year-long project of digitizing and archiving over 8,000 family slides, inherited after her parents' passing. This unexpectedly emotional journey offered insights into her parents' lives and provided valuable lessons in family photography. Key takeaways include focusing on capturing interactions and daily life rather than just tourist snapshots, adding descriptive labels and location data, and improving photo quality through basic photography knowledge. The project highlights the importance of family photos not only as a legacy but also as a powerful tool for preserving cherished memories.

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(estherschindler.medium.com)
Misc family photos photography tips memory preservation

Converge Careers: Redefining Career Development

2025-01-24

Converge Careers isn't your average job board. It's a personalized career development platform leveraging AI to help users understand their skills, identify career paths, and access relevant learning resources and opportunities. Think of it less as a job search engine and more as a career navigation system guiding users through the ever-evolving professional landscape.

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(jobs.gem.com)
Startup talent matching

PlayAI's Dialog: A New Text-to-Speech Model Outperforming ElevenLabs

2025-02-07
PlayAI's Dialog: A New Text-to-Speech Model Outperforming ElevenLabs

PlayAI has released its Dialog text-to-speech model, boasting multilingual capabilities and exceptional performance. In third-party benchmark tests, Dialog significantly outperformed ElevenLabs v2.5 Turbo and ElevenLabs Multilingual v2.0 in terms of emotional expressiveness and naturalness. Dialog's low latency makes it ideal for applications such as voice agents, contact centers, and gaming. Beyond English, Dialog supports numerous languages including Chinese, French, and German. Its superior voice quality and low latency represent a breakthrough in voice AI.

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(play.ht)
AI voice AI

The Unix Trinity: dmr, kt, and bwk

2025-02-12

In Unix history, the initials dmr, kt, and bwk represent legendary figures: Dennis M. Ritchie (dmr), co-creator of Unix and the C programming language; Ken Thompson (kt), co-creator of Unix alongside Ritchie; and Brian W. Kernighan (bwk), co-author of influential Unix programs and books like "The C Programming Language" and "The UNIX Programming Environment". These three giants shaped the foundations of Unix and profoundly impacted modern computer science.

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(drio.github.io)
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Asteroid Impact Risk in 2025: Hype or Hazard?

2025-01-28
Asteroid Impact Risk in 2025: Hype or Hazard?

Recent headlines warn of asteroids on a collision course with Earth, with 2024 YR4 posing a 1/88 chance of impact in 2032. This article details near-Earth asteroid flybys in 2025, assessing their potential risks. While no immediate threat exists, the article examines notable asteroids like Apophis and explores humanity's planetary defense strategies: DART, gravity tractors, and nuclear options. While small asteroid impacts are frequent, the probability of a catastrophic event is low. The article concludes that while no immediate panic is warranted, continued monitoring and preparedness are crucial.

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(starwalk.space)
Tech asteroids earth impact space safety

Tattoos and Cancer Risk: A Twin Study Reveals Increased Hazard

2025-03-04
Tattoos and Cancer Risk: A Twin Study Reveals Increased Hazard

A study using the Danish Twin Tattoo Cohort reveals a heightened risk of lymphoma and skin cancer among tattooed individuals compared to their non-tattooed counterparts. Employing both twin cohort and case-cotwin study designs, the research indicates a stronger association with larger tattoos. The researchers hypothesize that ink deposits may interact with surrounding tissue, triggering an immune response and increased cell proliferation, thus raising cancer risk. However, limitations include a lack of sun exposure data and detailed tattoo type classification. Further research is urged to clarify the etiological pathway of tattoo ink-induced carcinogenesis and inform public health policy.

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(bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com)
Tech tattoos cancer risk twin study

PowerToys Command Palette: Your Ultimate Launcher and Command Center

2025-04-02
PowerToys Command Palette: Your Ultimate Launcher and Command Center

The PowerToys Command Palette, successor to PowerToys Run, is a fast, customizable, and extensible utility providing single-access to frequently used commands, apps, and development tools. Simply press Win+Alt+Space (customizable shortcut) to search for applications, folders, files, run commands (e.g., >cmd launches Command Prompt), switch windows, perform simple calculations, add website bookmarks, execute system commands, and even open web pages or searches. It also boasts rich extensions for easy addition of further functionality.

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(learn.microsoft.com)
Development Command Palette

Two Bites of Data Science in K: Shorthand & Cricket Stats

2025-01-26

This post presents two data analysis examples using the K programming language. The first involves developing a shorthand writing system, analyzing the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary to determine the most common consonant clusters following 'r' and 'l' in English to optimize shorthand symbol design. The second analyzes cricket test match data to identify bowlers with the best bowling averages, and further, which bowlers possess the best average amongst those with equal or greater numbers of wickets taken. Both demonstrate K's power in data manipulation and analysis, showcasing its real-world applicability.

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(blog.zdsmith.com)
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Federal Data Vanishing: Civil Society Steps Up to Save the Day

2025-02-13
Federal Data Vanishing: Civil Society Steps Up to Save the Day

Hundreds of federal datasets and government websites have mysteriously disappeared or been drastically altered since the start of the Trump administration. Responding to this crisis, civil society organizations are taking action. Harvard's Library Innovation Lab recently released 16 terabytes of archived data.gov, a complete copy of the platform's former holdings. On February 13th at 3 PM Eastern, MuckRock will host an event featuring the Internet Archive and the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab, discussing at-risk data, how to access rescued data, and how to contribute to preservation efforts.

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(www.muckrock.com)
Tech government data

Vestigial Ear Muscles Activate During Effortful Listening

2025-01-31
Vestigial Ear Muscles Activate During Effortful Listening

A new study reveals that human auricular muscles, once used to move our ears, reactivate during challenging listening tasks. Scientists used electromyography to measure muscle activity while participants listened to audiobooks with competing sounds. The results showed increased activity in the superior auricular muscles when hearing was difficult, suggesting these vestigial muscles may play a role in attentional mechanisms. While the muscle movements are minuscule and likely don't improve hearing, their activation could serve as an objective measure of listening effort.

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(www.frontiersin.org)
Tech hearing auricular muscles

Maestro: A Simple and Effective UI Testing Framework for Mobile and Web

2025-03-01
Maestro: A Simple and Effective UI Testing Framework for Mobile and Web

Maestro is a simple and effective UI testing framework for mobile and web applications. Built upon the lessons learned from Appium, Espresso, UIAutomator, and XCTest, Maestro boasts built-in tolerance for flakiness (handling unstable UI elements and taps) and delays (automatically waiting for content to load without `sleep()` calls). Its interpreted nature allows for blazing fast iteration, while its declarative YAML syntax simplifies test definition. A single binary makes setup a breeze. Check out docs.maestro.dev to get started.

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(github.com)
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