Nearly 470 sections of guardrailing were stolen in the last fiscal year in L.A. and Ventura counties.

Embedding sizes and architectures have changed remarkably over the past 5 years

Part 1 of 6 in the series “LLMs Need Knowledge Graphs. Use RDF or End Up Rebuilding It.”

I just received an email from Google stating that they are no longer it's going to support the Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats. While they will continue to operate locally, it appears that they will no longer work with the Nest app or Home app controls.…

“It’s always DNS” is a famous meme among network people. Name resolution is technically quite simple. It’s “just” translating a hostname like jan.wildeboer.net to an IP address. What could possibly go wrong? I am a radical optimist and detail-obsessed knowledge…

Connecting and sharing the appearances that tell the stories of encounters between notable people and historical figures.

Tesla has changed the meaning of “Full Self-Driving”, also known as “FSD”, to give up on its original promise of...

Discover why Extreme Programming (XP) is essential in the AI era. Learn how human-centred practices and smart constraints drive successful software delivery.

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It has shaken consumer trust and raised questions about global sunscreen regulation.

The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week sent a letter to Google's CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republican senders while allegedly failing to block similar missives supporting Democrats. The letter followed…

How to build realtime blurs on the GPU and how the best blur algorithm works - "Dual Kawase"

If there is one thing the Unreal Engine doesn’t suffer from, it is it’s lack of features. Over the past years it has been transformed from “just” a game engine into an &#821…

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A concise text on quantum mechanics, intended for a general mathematical audience including CS, engineering, math, and physics undergrads, as well as anyone interested in a brief intro/overview of ...

Ohio Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno is introducing legislation to penalize U.S. companies that hire overseas while at the same time developing work programs stateside.

Despite the modern world relying heavily on digital optical communication, there has not been a significant improvement in the minimum attenuation—a measure of the loss of optical power per kilometer ...