Darwin Online has virtually reassembled the naturalist’s personal library
Enlarge / Oil painting by Victor Eustaphieff of Charles Darwin in his study at Down House. One of the many bookcases that made up his extensive personal library is reflected in the mirror. State Darwin Museum, Moscow Famed naturalist Charles Darwin amassed an impressive personal library over the course of his life, much of which […]
YouTube rolls out new channel pages for creators on its TV app
YouTube is changing the design for creators’ channels on the big screen, the comapny announced today. The changes include more accessible action buttons, like “Subscribe,” a more modern design, and other tweaks that were first introduced for artists’ pages last fall. At the time, YouTube said that artist pages were part of a larger YouTube […]
The universe’s brightest object is a quasar fueled by huge black hole, study says
Astronomers have identified what could be the brightest, most luminous object in the universe — a quasar that emits light 500 trillion times more intense than that of our sun. Quasars are dazzling whirlpools of fast-moving, ultra-hot gas produced by giant black holes — and this particular quasar is driven by the fastest-growing black hole […]
Pay Just $199 for Bose’s Amazing QuietComfort 45 ANC Headphones
Bose has long been one of the biggest players in the world of noise-canceling headphone, and its QuietComfort 45 headphones are generally accepted to be among the best you’re likely to find. Buying top-quality hardware normally means spending a lot of money, but you can pick up a pair of Bose QuietComfort 45 headphones for just […]
Inside the Funding Frenzy at Anthropic, One of A.I.’s Hottest Start-Ups
Last May, Anthropic, one of the world’s hottest artificial intelligence start-ups, raised $450 million from investors including Google and Salesforce. It was the beginning of an astonishing funding spree. By August, Anthropic had landed $100 million from two Asian telecoms. Then Amazon committed $4 billion to it, followed by $2 billion more from Google. This […]
Open-Source Security Chip Released – IEEE Spectrum
The first commercial silicon chip that includes open-source, built-in hardware security was announced today by the OpenTitan coalition. This milestone represents another step in the growth of the open hardware movement. Open hardware has been gaining steam since the development of the popular open-source processor architecture RISC-V. RISC-V gives an openly available prescription for how a […]
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Metal Prices Are Soaring. So Is Metal Theft
Some people will go to extraordinary lengths to harvest metal. For his 2017 book on the subject, Metal Scrappers and Thieves: Scavenging for Survival and Profit, Stickle interviewed one man who used to hunt down abandoned buildings on Google, then find pictures or videos from urban explorers who had visited these locations for kicks, just […]