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Domestic cats are the subject of a new study which examines the communicatory significance of slow blinking between humans and the animals. The study showed that cats are more likely to slow blink at their owners when they also receive a slow blink, compared to no interaction or a neutral facial expression. The cats were […]
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United States v. Smith is a landmark decision in which a district court judge in New York ruled that a warrant is required for a cell phone search at the border, “absent exigent circumstances”. EFF, who have been advocating for a warrant for border searches of electronic devices for nearly a decade, are thrilled about […]
The author of this blog post is a big fan of F#. While the language is gaining a lot of traction and showing momentum, the author argues that it is not yet mainstream by his definition. He uses the marketing concept of crossing the chasm to illustrate that while F# has many early adopters and […]
NVIDIA has unveiled the NVIDIA DGX GH200, a supercomputer designed to tackle the most demanding artificial intelligence workloads. The DGX GH200 pairs the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip with the NVLink Switch System to provide 144 terabytes of memory accessible to the GPU shared memory programming model at high speed over NVLink. The DGX GH200 is […]
Plane is an open-source and self-hosted project management tool designed for software development. It helps users manage issues, sprints, and product roadmaps efficiently. Although Plane is still in its early stages and may have some hiccups, the platform encourages its users to report bugs and provide feedback to improve the upcoming releases. Plane offers various […]
JMAP is a new protocol designed to streamline network resources and simplify development for email users. The protocol is stateless, without a persistent connection, making it ideal for mobile connections with intermittent network access. The flexible set of commands enables single JMAP operations to be batched together, while backreferences make it easy to detect and […]
OpenAI researchers have discovered grokking, a phenomena where models trained on small algorithmic tasks like modular addition initially memorize the training data, but after a long time, suddenly learn to generalize to unseen data. In a study, researchers found that grokking has a deep relationship to phase changes, which are a general phenomenon that occurs […]
The MDN blog provides web development news, tutorials, and insights to help developers discover, learn, and create for the web. In recent posts, readers can learn how to use JavaScript to draw any regular shape to a HTML canvas with a single function, improve web accessibility with HTML landmark roles, and chain multiple selectors using […]
MindsDB is a fast-growing open-source infrastructure company that allows developers to easily integrate machine learning into their applications and connect any data source with any machine learning framework. The company was founded in 2017 by Adam Carrigan and Jorge Torres and has received over $24M in funding from Benchmark Capital, YCombinator, and other investors. MindsDB […]
According to this article, screen time doesn’t matter; rather, it’s whether your phone is a needy, attention-sucking vampire that determines if it’s time to limit its control on your life. The main metric tracked by screen time apps is deemed deceptive, as it doesn’t take into account the quality of the time spent staring at […]