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Plop it like it’s hot Daumen-Tetris Mission Impossible How to tune your bottles:Die NEUE GlasBlasSing-Stimmschablone Got a bit carried away there, sorry. I just love stuff like this.

FSogol: Legs are crossed. This far apart and exactly parallel? He must be the Nureyev of ball makers.

QAA Podcast: It Unfortunately Happens On X (E298) Today’s show is a piñata, and each time a blindfolded Travis takes a swing at it, a new and weirder piece of candy falls to the ground for Jake and Liv to nibble on. First, we’ll be talking about how even conspiracy theorists had to push back against a terribly lazy hoax about VP candidate Tim...

It’s the first time in years i’ve watched Star Wars, but I really don’t remember this Darth Vader -vs- Gandalf fight scene…

Depends a lot on the country, but (AFAIK) dental expenses are not fully covered by national health services. In Sweden, they are free until the year of your 24th birthday, then they are privately paid. There’s a quota, though, that’s contributed by healthcare, to ease the higher cost treatments: Note that reimbursement is calculated on standardized “reference prices” which can differ substantially from the...

theregister.com Branson to take balloon ride to edge of space No Zero-G shenanigans, but a fully stocked bar and spectacular views Space Perspective Travel to Space Space Perspective is taking space travel to a new level. Discover a new way to travel to space. IT’S NOT A BALLOON, IT’S AN AIRSHI… no, wait. It’s a balloon. Never mind. Sorry! Carry on…

theregister.com Europa Clipper sets sail for Jupiter to explore its icy moon But first stop is Mars for a speed boost, then back to Earth for the final push

Tech giants set to pay through the nose for nuclear power that’s still years away theregister.com Tech companies face paying over the odds for nuclear power Google, Amazon, Microsoft dive into costly deals that aren't generating anything yet Investment banksters are sceptical…

Elon Musk’s disaster relief promises: Should we believe the hype? theregister.com Elon Musk's disaster relief promises: More hype than help? When you look behind the headlines, you'll find unfulfilled commitments No, of course not. (Duh.) I must confess, what with so much going on, I had already forgotten some of it.

Fergle: a generic, barely improved version of a design that looks like a high-schooler’s project outcome Training an AI on stockart is going to produce a lowest common denominator, especially for commercial events like Halloween already plagued with genericisms. The reformatting looks slightly better than the liquid layouts available with InDesign. The purpose seems to be to cut out the designer. Not sure who...

EGGS to allow third parties to train their AI models with social media users’ data theregister.com X to allow third parties to train AIs with user data Another raft of reasons to ponder your social media presence

Viable fusion power in a decade? Tokamak Energy dares to dream theregister.com Tokamak Energy talks early progress on fusion pilot project Brit biz updates world on why tech might not be forever 30 years away

US Supreme Court to hear nuclear waste storage dispute https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-hear-nuclear-waste-storage-dispute-2024-10-04/ The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license nuclear waste storage facilities following a judicial ruling that upended decades of practice by declaring it does not. […]

October 18, 2024 (Friday) The events of January 6, 2021, overshadowed those of January 5, 2021, but that day was crucially important in a different way: Georgia voters elected two Democrats, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, to the U.S. Senate. Warnock and Ossoff brought the total of Democrats in the Senate to 48, and since two Independents—Angus King of Maine and Bernie Sanders of...

I must be visiting a hospital back in time, they aren’t allowed to have their forearms covered (for hygiene, or at least hygiene-confidence), but they have white short-sleeved jacket/coats and carry stethoscopes.

Why were people applauding that? The software takes a mediocre design and produces a generic, barely improved version of a design that looks like a high-schooler’s project outcome. As a retired lecturer in graphic design I don’t think I’ve ever been more depressed.

ficuswhisperer: It’s a great game and has some pretty wild moments including one in particular I don’t want to spoil by talking about but I’m sure you’ll know the moment I’m referring to when you come across it. I envy people who will get to experience that for the first time. It blew me away. @OhHai Don’t look anything up online. It should come...

From what I understand so far, Kairos Power wants to combine two existing technologies; a small pebble-bed reactor (which are typically gas-cooled high-temerature reactors) and using low-pressure fluoride salt as the coolant. Which sort of results in a new reactor design that hasn’t been used before in this configuration for commercial power generation. So, probably still something of a learning curve ahead. Their timeline...