Collaborate Disseminate
While college applicants are often required to write a personal essay for their applications, political scientist/author/academic Yascha Mounk argues that’s “a deeply unfair way to select students for top colleges, one that is much more biased against … Continue reading Should College Application Essays Be Banned?
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China played host to what, presumably, was the world’s first robot and human half-marathon. You can check out the action and the Tiangong Ultra robot that won in the video …read more Continue reading China Hosts Robot Marathon
Slashdot reader yeokm1 is the Singapore-based embedded security researcher whose side projects include installing Linux on a 1993 PC and building a ChatGPT client for MS-DOS.
He’s now sharing his latest project — installing Llama 2 on DOS:
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal:
Five years ago, Airbus made a bold bet: The plane maker would launch a zero-emissions, hydrogen-powered aircraft within 15 years that, if successful, would mark the biggest revolutio… Continue reading Airbus Promised a ‘Green’ Hydrogen Aircraft. That Bet Is Now Unraveling
We appear to be edging ever closer to a solid statement of “We are not alone” in the universe with this week’s announcement of the detection of biosignatures in the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: April 20, 2025
For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole,” reports Science News — “one with no star orbiting it.”
It’s “the only one so far,” says Kailash Sahu, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in… Continue reading Astronomers Confirm First ‘Lone’ Black Hole Discovery – and It’s in the Milky Way
There was excitement when biotech company Collosal announced genetically modified grey wolves (first hailed as a “de-extinction” of the Dire wolf species after several millennia). “But bioethicists and conservationists are expressing unease with the ki… Continue reading Conservationists Say ‘De-Extinction’ Not the Answer to Saving Extinct Species
There was excitement when biotech company Collosal announced genetically modified grey wolves (first hailed as a “de-extinction” of the Dire wolf species after several millennia). “But bioethicists and conservationists are expressing unease with the ki… Continue reading Conservations Say ‘De-Extinction’ Not the Answer to Saving Extinct Species
Uncover new Windows 11 features: Windows Sandbox 2.0., real-time language translation, Snipping Tool OCR, Snap Assist, and more.
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