๐ฅ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: I have a very consistent routine. I get up early. I exercise. I shower. I make coffee. I turn my computer on, then I place my hands on my keyboard and begin working.Learning to typeI love to type. I enjoy it so much, and and in recent years Iโve grown to appreciate my ability to type more and more.I have a clear memory of my early years in elementary school being the time in which I first learned to use a keyboard. I was very…
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**What Youโll Learn**: Frequently asked questionsWe have tested and recommended all of the heart rate monitors below, which do a flawless job. But what do all these terms mean?Heart rate zones: If someone told you they were doing 80/20 training, they were doing heart rate zone based exercises. Heart rate zones are an easy way to break down your range of effort during exercise. Zones range from 1 to 5, and 5 indicates working at 90 to 100…
๐ฅ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: News flash: C++26 is done! ๐ On Saturday, the ISO C++ committee completed technical work on C++26 in (partly) sunny London Croydon, UK. We resolved the remaining international comments on the C++26 draft, and are now producing the final document to be sent out for its international approval ballot (Draft International Standard, or DIS) and final editorial work, to be published in the near future by ISO. This meeting was hosted by Phil Nash of Shaved Yaks, and the Standard C++ Foundation. Our hosts arranged…
๐ Discover this trending post from WIRED ๐ ๐ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Direction of Travel ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Cars did not always have driving wheels. The first automobileโthe 1885 Benz Patent-Motorwagen, invented by Karl Benzโused a tiller system: a horizontal bar with a handle mounted on a vertical bar. The lever-like handle was similar in many respects to a boat rudder. Amazingly, it was another nine years before French engineer Alfred Vacheron saw the logic and fitted the first known steering wheel for his 4-horsepower Panhard car for the Paris-Rouen race. Only four years later, in…
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**What Youโll Learn**: The morning of April 12, 1981, 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, the Space Shuttle thundered into the Florida sky. Commander Young and Pilot Crippen were at the controls as the Shuttle ascended on its first flight. But the launch, like much of the flight, was really under the control of four computers in the avionics bays one deck below the crew. A fifth computer stood ready to take over in case of a catastrophic computer malfunction.…
๐ฅ Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐ ๐ **Category**: AI,Media & Entertainment,Equity podcast,OpenAI ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: OpenAI announced this week that it will shut down Sora and related video models just six months after launching the app. In the latest episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosik, Sean O'Kane, and I discuss what the decision means for OpenAI and the industry more broadly. To some extent, this move seems consistent with what we've heard about OpenAI as it focuses on enterprise and productivity tools ahead of a potential IPO. In fact, Kirsten suggested that OpenAI's decision to shut…
โจ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Right now, more than 15 billion miles from Earth, a 48-year-old spacecraft is hurtling through interstellar space at 38,000 miles per hour.It is the farthest human-made object in the universe.It is sending back scientific data that no other instrument in existence can collect.And it is doing all of this on 69 kilobytes of memory and an 8-track tape recorder.The phone in your pocket has roughly one million times more memory than the computer running Voyager 1.A single low-resolution photograph taken on that same phone contains…
๐ Check out this trending post from TechCrunch ๐ ๐ **Category**: Transportation,Tesla,Uber,Lyft,zipline,Waymo,robotaxis,techcrunch mobility ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility โ your central hub for news and insights about the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free โ just click TechCrunch Mobility! Waymo She shared that she now provides 500,000 paid taxi rides every week. This number is small compared to its human-driven counterparts, e.g Lyft and Uber. But that's not what I found most interesting. The pace of growth in new flights and markets and its comparison to the size…
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**What Youโll Learn**: A Tennessee grandmother spent more than five months in jail after police used an AI facial recognition tool to link her to crimes committed in North Dakota โ a state she says sheโd never been to before. Police in Fargo, North Dakota, have acknowledged โa few errorsโ in the case and pledged changes in their operations but stopped short of issuing a direct apology. Angela Lipps, 50, was first arrested in Tennessee on July 14, according to a statement from the Fargo Police Department and…
๐ฅ Read this insightful post from WIRED ๐ ๐ **Category**: Gear,Gear / How To and Advice,Dirty Pictures ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Take a photo On any digital camera or smartphone, not only pixels are saved. The photo also gets a bunch of metadata attached to it, also known as EXIF โโ(Exchangeable Image File Format) data, including details of when it was taken, the device that was used to take it, and the camera settings that were used.If your phone or camera has a GPS chip and is tracking your location, it will be invisibly stamped on the photo as well.…
