Superconductors basically means you can run your PC’s processor at 1% of its current energy draw. So now take a mobile phone processor, recreate it with superconductors, and you suddenly have a device that can do a massive amount of computations for years on a single AA battery
Indictment is the first to emerge from special counsel Jack Smith’s probe of the underpinnings of the Jan. 6 riot and the campaign to reverse Joe Biden’s victory....
A nonprofit organization that researches links between social media, hate and extremism has been threatened with a lawsuit by X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Musk put a giant X sign on top of the building and it is incredibly brightly flashing, even nights. Hope it gets down, this is stupid. Imagine someone gets a seizure of it or crashes car because it blinded the person.
“The movants’ asserted ‘injuries’ that would open the doors of the courthouse to their claims are either insufficient or else speculative and unrealized,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in the nine-page ruling.
The tick-borne disease has not caused any deaths, health officials say, but people with alpha-gal syndrome have described it as bewildering and terrifying.
About 42,000 U.S. children ages 6 to 17 were diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2021, nearly triple the number in 2017, a unique data analysis for Reuters found.
I'm not. I was a moderator on one of the subs that got hassled by admin shenanigans and so I deleted my entire post history and closed my account and don't go there anymore.
My hours of random browsing while having morning coffee or standing in a queue at a retail store have been fully replaced by Kbin. I check Reddit about once a week for r/nursing and r/Boston only because there's no way to really replace those highly developed, high volume communities yet
Actively, no, but I haven't dropped it 100%. I occasionally visit when I find links via Google, and check some discussions about a few current TV shows that are basically dead on Lemmy/kbin.
Just under an hour a week in total (according to ActivityWatch), down from hours per day.
Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing (www.tomshardware.com)
A tentative but less nebulous step toward superconductor-fueled electronics.
Trump’s Plan to Save Himself: Scapegoat His Coup Lawyers - Analysis (www.rollingstone.com)
“John [Eastman] and Rudy [Giuliani] gave a lot of counsel,” one Trump advisor says ominously. “Other people can decide how sound it was”
Elon Musk Will Train His AI Project Using Your Tweets (www.pcmag.com)
Musk sheds more light on his plans for xAI, a new startup to counter OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard. 'We are definitely the competition,' he says.
News: Trump charged in probe of Jan. 6, efforts to overturn 2020 election (www.washingtonpost.com)
Indictment is the first to emerge from special counsel Jack Smith’s probe of the underpinnings of the Jan. 6 riot and the campaign to reverse Joe Biden’s victory....
‘This belongs in the Smithsonian’: Inside the meme video operation that swallowed Ron DeSantis’ campaign | Semafor - Analysis (www.semafor.com)
A Signal chat offers a rare glimpse inside the DeSantis campaign.
Musk threatens to sue researchers who documented the rise in hateful tweets (apnews.com)
A nonprofit organization that researches links between social media, hate and extremism has been threatened with a lawsuit by X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
[Elon Musk] Flashing X sign - yet another example of a billionaire flouting the rules and doing whatever he wants (imgur.com)
Musk put a giant X sign on top of the building and it is incredibly brightly flashing, even nights. Hope it gets down, this is stupid. Imagine someone gets a seizure of it or crashes car because it blinded the person.
Paul Reubens, actor best known for playing Pee-wee Herman, dies aged 70 (www.theguardian.com)
The actor died Sunday night, years after he had been diagnosed with cancer, according to his team
[News] A Georgia judge has rejected former President Trump’s efforts to quash an investigation into his efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. (thehill.com)
“The movants’ asserted ‘injuries’ that would open the doors of the courthouse to their claims are either insufficient or else speculative and unrealized,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in the nine-page ruling.
Alpha-gal syndrome: Tick-borne disease that triggers meat allergies is on the rise, CDC says (www.livenowfox.com)
The tick-borne disease has not caused any deaths, health officials say, but people with alpha-gal syndrome have described it as bewildering and terrifying.
Number of transgender children seeking treatment surges in U.S. (www.reuters.com)
About 42,000 U.S. children ages 6 to 17 were diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2021, nearly triple the number in 2017, a unique data analysis for Reuters found.
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Austrian 16th century half-suit of plate armor with decorative motif (media.kbin.social)
Etruscan carving of a scorpion (media.kbin.social)
‘I’m not wanted’: Florida universities hit by brain drain as academics flee (www.theguardian.com)
Ron DeSantis’s slew of laws attacking teaching of race and gender issues sees state’s colleges struggle to fill faculty posts
The war is coming to Russia, Zelenskiy warns after latest drone attack (www.theguardian.com)
Ukrainian president makes veiled reference to this week’s attacks in nightly video address