EU renewable energy financing mechanism – first tender oversubscribed (energy.ec.europa.eu)
A sixth basic taste may join sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami on the tongue (dornsife.usc.edu)
Japanese scientist Kikunae Ikeda first proposed umami as a basic taste — in addition to sweet, sour, salty and bitter — in the early 1900s. About eight decades later, the scientific community officially agreed with him....
[Prime/Epic] Ghostwire: Tokyo (gaming.amazon.com)
Japanese-folklore-themed spooky adventure for Windows, free on Epic Games for Amazon Prime subscribers until 2nd November
(for programmers): we all have one or more of "those" projects (feddit.it)
Still maintaining one’s first app, etc.
Mozilla is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to work on their Mastodon server at mozilla.social (www.mozilla.org)
Apple is locking down the iPhone App Store to comply with a new law in China (www.theverge.com)
Google gives up on a fixed day for its monthly Pixel updates (www.androidpolice.com)
That was already the case this year but they never acknowledged it, now Google is putting the final nail in the coffin as it relates to the “first Monday of the month” updates:...
The Toilet Paper (archive.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/1746485...
bring back bean (sh.itjust.works)
Starfield's fiercest defender is one of Cyberpunk 2077's lead designers (metro.co.uk)
Hundreds of Free-Floating Planets Found in the Orion Nebula (www.universetoday.com)
[OC] Finally gotten around to documenting my code in org-mode (sh.itjust.works)
The projects:...
Box of giraffe poop seized at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The traveler told authorities she planned to make a necklace with the feces. (bringmethenews.com)
In a statement, LaFonda D. Sutton-Burke, director of field operations at the Chicago field office, said bringing fecal matter into the United States is a “real danger.”
Google PR account pushes back on claims they replace queries for ads. Claims they "look beyond the specific words in a query" and use ad keyword matching. (nitter.net)
ghostarchive...
CD Projekt appears to hint at more Cyberpunk content from Edgerunners studio Trigger (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Former Bungie HR Manager Is Suing for Wrongful Termination After She Reported Potential Racial Bias (www.ign.com)
75% Of Provinces Have Housing Ministers Invested In Real Estate (www.readthemaple.com)
Putin says hand grenade fragments found in bodies of victims in Wagner chief's plane crash (apnews.com)
The Good, the Bad and the Incredible – Two Weeks of Witchfire [dev blog] (www.theastronauts.com)
Meta and X questioned by lawmakers over lack of rules against AI-generated political deepfakes (apnews.com)
Deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence are having their moment this year, at least when it comes to making it look, or sound, like celebrities did something uncanny. Tom Hanks hawking a dental plan. Pope Francis wearing a stylish puffer jacket. U.S. Sen. Rand Paul sitting on the Capitol steps in a red bathrobe....
Where’s All the Antarctic Sea Ice? Annual Peak Is the Lowest Ever Recorded. (www.nytimes.com)
Earlier this year it was clear Antarctic sea ice levels were low. Now, as the continent enters spring, it’s obvious that “it’s a really exceptional year.”...
After legal battle, Ala. congressional map to include 2nd district for Black voters: Court (abcnews.go.com)
Alabama voters will vote in the 2024 elections using a map that includes a second district designed to empower the state's Black voters, a federal court ruled on Thursday
Biden Administration to Resume Border Wall Construction in Policy Reversal (www.wsj.com)
The Department of Homeland Security intends to build up to 20 new miles of Trump administration-era border barriers in one of the busiest crossing spots for migrants attempting to enter the U.S.
Video game makers aren’t catering for gamers with disabilities, study finds (www.independent.co.uk)
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