Users of several Google Pixel smartphones continue to experience issues when trying to call 911 emergency services. This problem persists despite a bug being identified and fixed in January 2022. The bug was originally attributed to Microsoft Teams, and both Google and Microsoft released patches early in 2022. However, it appears that some Pixel devices […]
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In the article “A Simple Proof of Sybil Proof,” the author discusses the concept of Sybil attacks and how they can harm permissionless networks. A Sybil is a node in the network that produces blocks with second-hop routing work, while a non-Sybil produces blocks faster with first-hop routing work. The probability of a Sybil collecting […]
The digital audio workstation (DAW) is facing a crucial juncture as emerging technologies, such as cloud computing and generative AI, disrupt the music-making software market. Legacy code, compatibility restrictions, and a user base that prefers familiarity have hindered innovation in DAWs. While plugins have filled the gap to some extent, few truly innovative ideas have […]
Flexbox Froggy is a fun and engaging online game created by Codepip. With various difficulty levels and language options, this game caters to beginners as well as intermediate users. It doesn’t provide any specific directions, allowing users to explore and learn flexbox through trial and error. Surprisingly, Flexbox Froggy also offers a colorblind mode for […]
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely discusses his personal experience with pain and hospitalization, highlighting how it influenced his research on human behavior. He describes his experiments on the manipulation of unpleasant experiences and how they can affect people’s perception of pain. Ariely also delves into his career as a behavioral economist, which he believes involves managing […]
The PruningRadixTrie is a revolutionary data structure that is derived from a radix trie, but is three orders of magnitude faster. It allows for pruning of the trie and early termination of the lookup, resulting in a significant reduction in lookup time for the top-k most relevant terms. This is particularly useful for auto-complete and […]
Summary: The author came across a discussion about a CSS update called “textarea { form-sizing: normal; }”. They found it to be a strange name choice but saw that it was already available in Chrome Canary with the “web experiments” flag enabled. Adam, the author, thinks it is useful and hopes it will be usable […]
Every year, Lubna Dada and her colleagues gather at CERN in Switzerland to conduct experiments on cloud formation. Clouds are a major source of uncertainty in climate predictions, impacting heat absorption and reflection. Dada’s team has discovered that trees release chemicals called sesquiterpenes, which are highly effective in seeding clouds. This finding suggests that trees […]
In the depths of the Mariana Trench, scientists have discovered a plastic bag, now deemed the deepest known piece of plastic trash. This finding comes from a recent study using the Deep-Sea Debris Database, which contains photos and videos taken over the past 30 years. Plastic was found to be the most prevalent type of […]
A new study conducted by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio has found a possible association between autism diagnosis in boys and the daily consumption of diet soda or aspartame by their mothers during pregnancy or breastfeeding. The study, published in Nutrients, revealed that boys with autism were more […]