Fueled by private equity and a subscription-based business model, the auto wash industry is flooding the US with new outlets. Some towns and cities have had enough.

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Visual Git GUI for VS Code — git graph, drag-and-drop rebase, branch management, and PR integration

An introduction to learned image compression using neural networks.

Luxurious vicuña garments have their origin in the Andes. The Indigenous people who collect the wool have almost nothing to show for it.

A high-performance observability data pipeline. Contribute to vectordotdev/vector development by creating an account on GitHub.

Long awaited community update is here! Introducing PineVox and bone conduction headset (help us find a name!), IronOS progress, PineNote insights, and PineTime news! We also cover cluster failure, state of services, and the future of the community updates.…

Which systems/organisms are conscious? New tests for consciousness (‘C-tests’) are
urgently needed. There is persisting uncertainty about when consciousness arises in
human development, when it is lost due to neurological disorders and brain injury,
and how…

The unidentified drones were such an issue that assets were called in from around the government, including a NASA WB-57 high-altitude jet.

Please note NO generative AI was used in this video, or any of my others. I spend months making them using Blender. It’s wonderful, free, open-source 3D VFX software (I highly recommend it!). I use motion capture to record my own movements and the face inside…

For decades, U.S. inventors sent in models with their patent applications—gizmos that reveal a secret history of unmet needs and relentless innovation.

How to approach risky and expensive system improvements.

Why cash is a cutting-edge technology for maintaining a balance of monetary power

How a group of Texas college students created an accidental time capsule.

Speaker: Lloyd Tabb (Google)
Slides: https://blobs.duckdb.org/events/duckcon3/lloyd-tabb-malloy-data-is-rectangular-and-other-common-misconceptions.pdf

Microsoft is making the most powerful large language model from