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iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]

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science & technology
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The Presidential Nuclear "Football" from Eisenhower to George W. Bush

gwu.edu

Washington, D.C., July 18, 2023 – A set of highly secret emergency action plans kept inside...
Washington, D.C., July 18, 2023 – A set of highly secret emergency action plans kept inside the closely guarded “Football” that traveled with the President at all times and that would give the federal government sweeping emergency powers were of “doubtful legality,” “badly out of date,” and “even illegal,” according...
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Laws of Software Evolution

two-wrongs.com

The software I encounter most is software that interacts with a changing world. It’s software that...
The software I encounter most is software that interacts with a changing world. It’s software that needs to adapt to other software, but critically, it needs to adapt to its users – to people! People change their attitudes and processes in response to the environment, and the software needs to adapt around that.1 Th...
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Getting worried about bird flu

coredump3.blogspot.com

I'm getting worried about bird flu (aka H5N1 avian influenza). Calling it bird flu is a...
I'm getting worried about bird flu (aka H5N1 avian influenza). Calling it bird flu is a bit of a misnomer now, as recent news makes it clear that it is spreading widely in mammals, now including cows. This has been happening for a while now, but it's getting widespread enough that the mainstream media is picking up ...
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Show HN: Free AI-Powered Resume and Cover Letter Maker

bange.io

ai cover letter creator ai resume builder cover letters employment job application
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FDA says 1 in 5 samples of pasteurized milk had bird flu virus fragments

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The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that traces of the bird flu virus have been...
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that traces of the bird flu virus have been found in 1 in 5 samples of pasteurized milk, providing a more detailed picture of how much of the milk supply has been affected.The tested milk came from a nationally representative sample, with more of the positive results co...
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Apple cuts 2024 and 2025 Vision Pro shipment forecasts

medium.com

·FollowMy latest survey is as follows:Apple has cut its 2024 Vision Pro shipments to 400–450k units...
·FollowMy latest survey is as follows:Apple has cut its 2024 Vision Pro shipments to 400–450k units (vs. market consensus of 700–800k units or more).Apple cut orders before launching Vision Pro in non-US markets, which means that demand in the US market has fallen sharply beyond expectations, making Apple take a con...
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The Vision Pro is a flop

disconnect.blog

apple
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Apnic: Cgnat is harming internet innovation (2022)

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How to prevent Lyme disease this summer

harvard.edu

The odds of contracting Lyme disease from tick bites during warmer weather months continue to rise....
The odds of contracting Lyme disease from tick bites during warmer weather months continue to rise. That’s owing to a series of factors, including changes in climate conducive to maintenance of tick populations over a longer period of time and the expansion of range for the parasites south and west from historically...
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I Kinda Hate the Internet Now

trend-mill.com

Badly edited by author*warning: I went off on a rant.*I was reminiscing the other day with...
Badly edited by author*warning: I went off on a rant.*I was reminiscing the other day with a friend about a long-forgotten period of time — the days when the internet was fun. Tightknit forums with positive vibes, the early viral videos on YouTube (looking at you, Star Wars Kid), MSN Messenger, the band pages on MyS...
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Signs of spiders from Mars

esa.int

ice spiders inca city mars express
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Western Music Isn't What You Think

honest-broker.com

Around 1990, I started researching the social history of music. I knew this was a big...
Around 1990, I started researching the social history of music. I knew this was a big topic, but I had no idea how big.As it turned out, this project kept me busy for the next 25 years.I was crazy to do this. I was trying to understand the role of music in human life going back to prehistoric times, and hoped to fol...
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A hydrocarbon molecule as supplier and energy storage solution for solar energy

phys.org

materials physics physics news science science news
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Camaraderie Between Two Soldier Poets

lithub.com

Wilfred Owen first mentioned the presence of a new star on his horizon on August 15,...
Wilfred Owen first mentioned the presence of a new star on his horizon on August 15, 1917. He had been busy acting, editing the hospital magazine, arguing with his mother by letter about whether Christianity and the war were compatible (he thought not, and he had hard words to say about the Archbishop of Canterbury,...
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Show HN: React for Circuits

github.com
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Clang's -O0 output: branch displacement and size increase

maskray.me

clang llvm x86
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Fyrox Game Engine

fyrox.rs

2d 3d fyrox game engine production-ready
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Ask HN: Has anyone else stopped playing video games as an adult?

ycombinator.com
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German ministers quizzed over nuclear phase out 'deception'

dw.com

Two German ministers on Friday defended their handling of the extension of Germany's three remaining nuclear...
Two German ministers on Friday defended their handling of the extension of Germany's three remaining nuclear power stations during the 2022-23 energy crisis, after a media report alleged the process was bungled. Cicero magazine reported a day earlier that officials from the environmentally friendly Green Party had a...
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China's New non-Teleoperated Robot [video]

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science & technology
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Orca calf successfully returned to open water after bold rescue in Canada

theguardian.com

An orca calf, trapped for weeks in a remote lagoon in western Canada, has freed herself...
An orca calf, trapped for weeks in a remote lagoon in western Canada, has freed herself and is travelling towards open waters, hailed as “incredible news” by a growing body of human supporters.The move puts her one step closer to reuniting with her family one month after a tragic accident left her stranded.The two-y...
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The US has seen evidence of China attempting to influence upcoming elections

cnn.com

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US has seen evidence of Chinese attempts to...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US has seen evidence of Chinese attempts to “influence and arguably interfere” with the upcoming US elections, despite an earlier commitment from leader Xi Jinping not to do so. Blinken made the comments to CNN’s Kylie Atwood in an interview Friday at the close of a thre...
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We Dropped This Phone from 300 Feet. Here's Why It Survived

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