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This website offers a simple concept of allowing two strangers to view each other’s faces, without any additional features. It solely focuses on displaying the faces of the users, with no text chat or audio options available. Interestingly, the video feed pauses as soon as one of the participants blinks. The technology behind this site […]
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The Apostrophe Protection Society, founded in 2001, aims to preserve the correct use of the apostrophe, a punctuation mark often misused. Although it temporarily closed at the end of 2019, it has now been reinstated by its new chairman, Bob McCalden, who is determined to champion the use of the apostrophe. The society offers guidance […]
The author, who was raised with a Polish identity, reminisces about how they corrected their schoolmates on the true identity of the mathematician who proved the Earth revolves around the Sun. While Copernicus did build a groundbreaking model with the Sun at the center, it did not eliminate the need for epicycles and was not […]
Xash3D FWGS is a game engine that aims to extend and provide compatibility with the Half-Life Engine. It is a heavily modified fork of the original Xash3D Engine. The engine supports multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, BSD, and Android. It also offers better multiplayer support, multiple renderers support, and an advanced virtual filesystem. Xash3D FWGS […]
The Disruptor is a concurrency framework developed by LMAX to achieve low-latency and high-throughput in their Java platform. The framework was created to address the issue of cache misses and costly locks in the system. It is a general-purpose solution for concurrent programming and works differently from traditional approaches. LMAX provides a User Guide, blogs, […]
According to Goldman Sachs Research, prices for battery metals used in electric vehicles (EVs) are cooling, which could make EVs more competitive with traditional cars. They estimate that battery prices will fall to $99 per kilowatt hour of storage capacity by 2025, a 40% decrease from the previous forecast. This decline is expected to come […]
In this web content, the author expresses gratitude for the positive response to their previous post and proceeds to provide more details about their project of hacking the Magic Mouse to create the world’s first ergonomic Magic Mouse with the ability to charge it via USB-C while working. They explain that their idea was inspired […]
Congress has proposed bills to regulate the internet in the name of protecting children, but simply relying on parental controls is not a viable solution. The current parental controls offered by various platforms are incomplete, buggy, complicated, and invade privacy. This article highlights the shortcomings of Windows 11 Microsoft’s Family Safety tool, MacOS/iOS parental controls, […]
OpenAI, Inc. has announced that Sam Altman will be stepping down as CEO and leaving the board of directors, with Mira Murati, the company’s CTO, taking over as interim CEO. Murati, who has been a part of OpenAI for five years, is well-versed in the company’s values, operations, and business, and already leads its research, […]
Google News, known for its web links, also hosts magazines. However, Google has announced that it will be shutting down its magazine content, which was previously available for purchase. In 2012, Google started selling magazines through “Google Play Magazines,” offering individual issues and yearly subscriptions. Over the years, the service evolved, merging with Google Currents […]