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Yeah, no shit. As a non-tech person who has tried to use it for non-tech stuff: Having the compulsively-lying, halluciating POS algorithm that everyone thinks is the second coming …

Science fiction beat the author of this article to the punch re: novel cooling solutions in space. The author proposes squirting oil from one arm, through open vacuum, to another a…

My take is also a missile, but as an interceptor, not offensive purposes. North Korea has shown that they can deliver a payload to Japan if they want. If the NKs do decide to launc…

Long-time ebay seller here. I'm seeing comments floating towards the top that are essentially positing that the physical GameStop locations can be used as hubs where people can buy…

This is an unconfirmed rumor. This should not be posted here.

His comics were often funny, and bleakly real. His politics and opinions were unfortunate. Bye Scott.

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> They paid a total of 2 people $50,000 (edit: in 2016 dollars). That doesn't seem like enough to entirely shape worldwide discourse around nutrition and sugar. You would be astoni…

You are absolutely bonkers. This post and the rationale behind it are beyond insane. We do not understand these ecosystems beyond their extreme fragility and low entropy conditions…

Keytruda, pembrolizumab, (what he probably received) can only do so much. If it was in his GI tract it was also elsewhere in multiple places. The PD-L1 drugs at this point have mor…

Sorry, as someone in this field, this is bullshit. It is in mice. Several things trigger my bullshit meter. Quote: "This dramatically surpasses the therapeutic efficacy of current …

I feel like many of the comments are focused on the trees and not on the forest. The new head of Facebook AI is 28 years old? That's not OK, that's too young. Too inexperienced and…

The only benefit as I perceive it re: orbital data center hardware is regulatory avoidance. Think...DDOS machines that can't be shut off; or financial hosting services for unsavory…

Good to know they have multiple backup clocks across the continental US.

https://www.tsunami.gov/?p=PHEB/2025/12/08/25342050/2/WEPA40 Shouldn't be too bad; USGS forecasts up to 1 meter tsunami.

So, I'm going to chip in with a different perspective from that of some other commentators on here. The overwhelming majority of computers in the entire world, used by our entire s…

It's probably my ignorance about this sector, but I do find it impressive that they are getting that much storage capacity in a small area: > "This latest project will use locally …

There have been several proposals. This paper proposes a feasable mechanism[1]: -"a SBH could be artificially created by firing a huge number of gamma rays from a spherically conve…

I disagree. It has everything to do with ideologies. He seig heiled on TV twice; that's not something they will ignore.

Europeans have still not forgotten the impact of WW2. Musk sieg heiling on live TV (twice!!!) is not something they take lightly. Tesla sales of cratered over there, rightfully so,…

There's plenty of resources to be extracted from space. Metals, for one. Also, zero-G drug development and manufacturing is promising too.

My response to the money aspect of this it's just like any other business: money needs to be invested, and then a return will be realized. Resource extraction (i.e, asteroid mining…

It wasn't intended for a communications relay, but it was intended to have 2-way communication. I went down a rabbit hole reading ArXiv papers about it. Despite their tiny size, th…

Notably though, Deepmind is based in London, UK - not the EU.