A fourth COVID-19 booster mRNA vaccine has proven ineffective against Omicron infection, according to …

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Summary: academia has a lot of problems and it could work much better. However, these problems…

TL;DR — 🚀 The story starts with notes about why this is an extraordinary condition. Two dockerfiles are provided, skip to the last one…

Sees an Internet without borders

British comedy writer John Finnemore has solved Cain’s Jawbone, a murder mystery that has 32m possible combinations

A neural network written in pure Lisp without built-in numbers using only atoms and lists in SectorLISP, a 512-byte Lisp interpreter written by the authors of the SectorLISP project.

Simple, hackable offline speech to text - using the VOSK-API. - ideasman42/nerd-dictation

Although there has been growing interest in exploring native foodways in the past twenty or so years, it seems there’s been little research into the history of Native American restaurants, that is,…

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Sunday it had cleared an estimated 45% of the U.S. commercial airplane fleet to perform low-visibility landings at many airports where 5G C-band will be deployed starting Wednesday.

Activision Blizzard Inc said on Monday it has fired or pushed out more than three dozen employees and disciplined another 40 since July to address allegations of sexual harassment and other misconduct at the videogame company.

Their desire for avoidance is a predisposition so common that it’s become hard-baked into Finnish culture.

The official website of Kakoune, a selection-first modal code editor

In today’s technological, resource-filled world, there is no excuse for New Zealand homes to be damp, cold or drafty. Even in the hottest, coldest and most

The videogame giant’s actions have come in the wake of pressure from investors, business partners and employees to address complaints over its handling of misconduct issues.

NFTs are easy to understand if you examine their core utility.  Unfortunately, there are thousands of NFT promoters spending millions of dollars to make sure you never look at that.This episode is a departure from our standard format, but it's an important…

Runaway success and underfunding have led to growing pains for the preprint server

A guest post from Tony Bowden about his efforts to build an open source dataset
of world leaders inside of Wikidata, the structured-data version of Wikipedia.