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Wookieepedia: Wiki encyclopedia on the Star Wars universe

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Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.A.I. Data RaceSummer Vacation PlanningMeta’s A.I. AssistantTrying on Smart GlassesA.I. Faces QuizApple plans to announce that it will bring generative A.I. to...

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200+ People With Diabetes Injured After Software Drained Insulin Pump Batteries

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More than 200 people with diabetes were injured when their insulin pumps shut down unexpectedly due...
More than 200 people with diabetes were injured when their insulin pumps shut down unexpectedly due to a problem with a connected mobile app, the US Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday. Version 2.7 of the t:connect Apple iOS app – used with the t:slim X2 insulin pump with Control-IQ – has been recalled due t...
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OpenAI demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates on 13 May

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An informal comparison of the three major implementations of std:string

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Raymond Chen We saw some time ago that the three major implementations of std::string are all...
Raymond Chen We saw some time ago that the three major implementations of std::string are all quite different. To summarize: // gcc struct string { char* ptr; size_t size; union { size_t capacity; char buf[16]; }; bool is_large() { return ptr != buf; } auto data() { return ptr; } auto size() { return size; } auto ca...
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ElevenLabs Music

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Taking Apple to Court: Their mistake wiped out our $33,680 MRR mobile business

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Serial to Parallel Port Converter

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Spider-Man (Neversoft) Decompilation Project Progress Checkpoint – May 2024

krystalgamer.github.io

In 2019, I started the decompilation the PC version of the Spider-Man game developed by Neversoft,...
In 2019, I started the decompilation the PC version of the Spider-Man game developed by Neversoft, which is most commonly called Spider-Man 2000. Work didn't last long, I made few commits the last being done on 10th of August 2020. Fast-forward to 2023 and my interest in going back to the decompilation had re-ignite...
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There's a Solar Storm Coming

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Time in a Box

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The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Maybe you participated in one...
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Maybe you participated in one at school, selecting some objects to be locked away, or maybe you saw one being opened. I’m writing, of course, about that strange cultural phenomenon, the time capsule. There was a flurry of time capsules being created or ...
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Richest Americans Now Pay Less Tax Than Working Class in Historical First

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America's richest are paying less tax than working-class people in a historical first.Data published by The...
America's richest are paying less tax than working-class people in a historical first.Data published by The New York Times shows that America's top billionaires are now paying less taxes than they have for decades.In the 1960s, the 400 richest Americans paid more than half of their income in taxes, according to the ...

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GhostStripe attack haunts self-driving cars by making them ignore road signs

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The surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia's water

grist.org

Every email you send has a home. Every uploaded file, web search, and social media post...
Every email you send has a home. Every uploaded file, web search, and social media post does, too. In massive buildings erected from miles of concrete, stacked servers hum with the electricity required to process and store every byte of information that modern lives rely on.In recent years, these data centers have b...
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Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-directed CMEs

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A Skeptic's Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space

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Cylindrical Slide Rules

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Elon Musk Changes Tune on Tesla Superchargers After Mass Firing

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The wasps that tamed viruses

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Carmakers bet on hybrids as shift to EVs slows

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The Beginning and End of the iPad

theverge.com

People seem to like Apple’s new iPad Pro, with its better screen and impressive design. People...
People seem to like Apple’s new iPad Pro, with its better screen and impressive design. People also seem to really hate Apple’s new ad in which the company crushes centuries of creative tools because, in the future, there is only iPad. And after all the iPad stuff this week, people are still asking the same question...
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A 'Zombie' Virus Is Raging Among Raccoons

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Gravitational Engine as Thermoacoustic Engine/Acoustic Refrigerator

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“Inside Bob Lazar’s Craft As a Physicist” Part 1: Gravity and Time showed that small time...
“Inside Bob Lazar’s Craft As a Physicist” Part 1: Gravity and Time showed that small time dilation gradient of 10⁻¹⁶ counters the Earth gravity, and 10⁻¹³ gradient explained UFO accelerations measured by Dr. Windt thousand times greater than the Earth gravity.In Part 2: The Fuel and the Reactor Core we looked inside...

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Experience with SQLite as a Store of Files and Images

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While SQLite is generally very good at storing binary data (BLOBs) in the DB, there might...
While SQLite is generally very good at storing binary data (BLOBs) in the DB, there might be some more things to consider: If you expose stored files via other access methods, e.g. HTTP, it might be beneficial if the files are on disk. Let me explain: Let's assume you have a web app to upload images. The same web ap...
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