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Troubled electric truck maker Nikola files for bankruptcy

techcrunch.com

Hydrogen electric trucking startup Nikola Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday after it failed...
Hydrogen electric trucking startup Nikola Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday after it failed to find a buyer or secure additional funds to maintain operations. Nikola was once a Silicon Valley darling, valued at $30 billion in June 2020 after it went public through a special purpose acquisiti...
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1977 Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune by David Matthews

openculture.com

Even if you’ve never read Frank Herbert’s Dune, you may well have encountered its adaptations to...
Even if you’ve never read Frank Herbert’s Dune, you may well have encountered its adaptations to a variety of other media: comic books, video games, board games, television series, and of course films, David Lynch’s 1984 version and Denis Villeneuve’s two-parter earlier this decade. But before any of ...
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What 5 Megabytes of Data Looked Like in 1966 (62,500 punched cards)

vintag.es

In 1966, computing was in its infancy, and the concept of data storage and processing looked...
In 1966, computing was in its infancy, and the concept of data storage and processing looked drastically different from today’s instant access to vast amounts of information. At that time, five megabytes of data—a relatively small amount by today's standards—required an astounding 62,500 punched cards. Each card was...
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Penguins Help to Map Antarctica's Growing Mercury Threat

scientificamerican.com

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir:...
When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin feathers. And now, after a decade-long analysis, Sontag and his colleagues have figured out how to use such feathers to create a living map of the mercury contamination that increasingly threate...
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Jim Keller says a 'great Intel' is worth $1T

tomshardware.com

(Image credit: Tenstorrent) Ex-Intel lead silicon engineer Jim Killer says Intel may not make as much...
(Image credit: Tenstorrent) Ex-Intel lead silicon engineer Jim Killer says Intel may not make as much money as it used to earn historically, but selling the company or some of its businesses is not a way to unlock shareholder value, but rather a fire sale of a company that has high chances to prosper. Jim Keller, a ...
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BleachBit is a free and open-source disk space cleaner

bleachbit.org
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Seeing Through the Spartan Mirage

substack.com

Thanks for reading! To support my work, please click the button below:If you want to help...
Thanks for reading! To support my work, please click the button below:If you want to help keep this project going, please consider purchasing a paid subscription. Paid subscribers — it’s only about 75 cents a week! — get access to the archives, the satisfaction of supporting work they enjoy, and my undying gratitude...
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Gravitational Effects of Small Primordial Black Hole Passing Through Human Body

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Broken Legs and Ankles Heal Better If You Walk on Them Within Weeks

scientificamerican.com

Twenty years ago my husband, Mark, broke his left ankle and was in a cast and...
Twenty years ago my husband, Mark, broke his left ankle and was in a cast and on crutches for nearly two months. Last year he broke the other ankle. But this time, after surgery, his doctor surprised us by instructing Mark to walk on it two weeks later.It turns out the standard advice to stay off a broken leg bone f...
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Designer Diary: Panda Royale

boardgamegeek.com

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Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters

skillsets.tech

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Experiment: Can 3D improve AI video consistency?

backdroptech.github.io
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NASA says 'City killer' asteroid now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth

france24.com

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An early social un-network

paperstack.com
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Debugging Hetzner: Uncovering failures with powerstat, sensors, and dmidecode

ubicloud.com

February 17, 2025 · 5 min readBurak YucesoyPrincipal Software EngineerAt Ubicloud, we build software that turns...
February 17, 2025 · 5 min readBurak YucesoyPrincipal Software EngineerAt Ubicloud, we build software that turns bare metal providers into cloud platforms. One of the providers we like is Hetzner because of their affordable and reliable servers.About a year ago, Hetzner launched the AX162 server line. It offers bette...
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Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies

whitehouse.gov

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the...
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy and Purpose. The Constitution vests all executive power in the President and charges him with faithfully executing the laws. Since it would be impossible for the Presid...
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The reality of long-term software maintenance from the maintainer's perspective

construct.net
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Meta Project Aria - Smart Glasses Research Kit

projectaria.com

HomeGlassesResearchResourcesPartnersNewsCollaboratively supporting the acceleration of AI and ML technologyFor approved research partners, Meta offers a kit...
HomeGlassesResearchResourcesPartnersNewsCollaboratively supporting the acceleration of AI and ML technologyFor approved research partners, Meta offers a kit that includes Project Aria glasses and SDK, so that researchers can conduct independent studies and help shape the future of AR.A powerful suite of tools, servi...
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The 88x31 GIF Collection

dabamos.de
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Are SSDs more reliable than hard drives?

backblaze.com
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Engineering of human cells reveals genome's resilience to structural changes

phys.org

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Hands-On with Vescin: MINI's New Vegan Friendly Interior That Replaces Leather

motoringfile.com

We love the smell and touch of high quality leather. But there’s a big environmental impact...
We love the smell and touch of high quality leather. But there’s a big environmental impact due to the production of leather in the quantities that companies like MINI need. So much so that MINI has made the bold decision to eliminate leather from its coming starting with the all new J01 MINI Cooper electric. But ca...
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How X-Plane Works

x-plane.com
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A New Oral Culture

oblomovka.com

I work in an entirely (mostly) remote organization. Inside that organization, I interact with an extremely...
I work in an entirely (mostly) remote organization. Inside that organization, I interact with an extremely decentralized ecosystem. Some of the people I co-operate with the most are in other orgs, some are individual contractors volunteers, others are conglomerations of mononymed Internet-monickered mystery-types. A...
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