If we could remove the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit, there'd be a 50% reduction in the overall debris-generating potential, reports Ars Technica

When designing software systems, do the simplest thing that could possibly work

Heatwaves are making people age faster, study suggests

Exposure to high temperatures could result in long-lasting damage to health of billions of people, scientists warn

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"Berlin is not a pretty place. The winters are a total nightmare, no sunlight, no warm face. Its cuisine is all about fast food. Large parts of town smell like a public toilet; overdosed tourists randomly pass out on the street. It’s not a city where you would sit out on a cafe terrace to people-watch. But also it’s now nearly impossible to find an affordable flat you could call home"

So the AI boom of the last 12 years was made possible by three visionaries:
One was Geoffrey Hinton, a University of Toronto computer scientist who spent decades promoting neural networks despite near-universal skepticism.
The second was Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, who recognized early that GPUs could be useful for more than just graphics.
The third was Fei-Fei Li. She created an image dataset that seemed ludicrously large to most of her colleagues. But it turned out to be essential for demonstrating the potential of neural networks trained on GPUs

Hätten sich die Medien weltweit vor Frankreich mal mit diesem Drecksack und seiner App hier richtig beschäftigt, stünde hier in der Headline statt "internet prophet" "Christoph Metzelder". Arbeitet gefälligst und bringt diesen Scum hier down!

Prozac in waterways is changing how fish behave, research finds

Australian study of guppies shows that pharmaceutical pollution could threaten species’ long-term survival

Marathon Petroleum, explained in a company periodical nearly 50 years ago that global temperature rise potentially linked to “industrial expansion” could one day cause “widespread starvation and other social and economic calamities”

Melodies in chart-topping music have become less complex, study finds

Scientists say changes since 1950 could partly be due to new genres such as stadium rock, disco and hip-hop

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Motor emissions could have fallen 30% more without SUV trend, report says

Ukraine war has stoked global food crisis that could last years, says UN

Energy drinks could cause public health problems, says WHO study

Elon Musk Says Robots Could Be More Dangerous Than Nukes

What Wi-Fi Would Look Like If We Could See It