In der EU wird seit letztem Mittwoch wieder über die sogenannte «Chatkontrolle» verhandelt. Worum geht es da? Und welche Auswirkungen hat das auf die Schweiz? Inhalte Der Schwesterartikel «Depeschen aus der Zukunft: Rückblick auf das erste Jahr Chatkontrolle» bietet mit seinem fiktiven Setting einen…

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🗓 posted Sep 12, 2024 by Josh Erb 🔢 2557 words 🏷 #development #web Travel posts on my blog now have maps at the top. With any big(ger) change to this website, I like to take a minute to walk through why I did it, and how it came together. I enjoy doing this a) because it's a nice memento of how I…

Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Facebook’s parent company Meta of having “substantially contributed” to human rights violations perpetrated against Myanmar’s Rohingya ethnic group. In a new report, Amnesty claims that Facebook’s algorithms “proactively amplified” anti-Rohingya content. It…

However distant our schooldays, the start of the academic year makes everyone want to turn over a new leaf, to work harder and smarter; to be better. None of us has the whole answer but everyone has a tiny thing that works for them, and this list is based on the hope that some of those tiny things…

Brandon Ballinger Sep 9, 2024 Last updated Nov 2025 Apple Watch can now detect possible sleep apnea. This feature, called breathing disturbances, was cleared by the FDA in September 2024 and is now widely available on the Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Ultra 2. In 2017, I helped run the first…

When University of Seville researcher Maria Ángeles Oviedo‑García began to look at the peer reviews some journals publish alongside their papers, she was surprised to see the same vague, generic phrases kept turning up. “In abstract, the author should add more scientific findings.” “Discuss the…

ten years ago, WIRED published a news story about how two little-known, slightly ramshackle encryption apps called RedPhone and TextSecure were merging to form something called Signal. Since that July in 2014, Signal has transformed from a cypherpunk curiosity—created by an anarchist coder, run by a…

From the very beginning—which I guess is also the middle and the end if you follow the bent logic involved and arrange events by some scheme other than strict chronological order—there was never any way of knowing which one of us, my wife or myself, was going to invent time travel. Neither one of us…

On the morning of June 14, 2021, Dr. Radhika Breaden hurried to a computer in her hushed sleep disorders clinic and tried not to panic. The 52-year-old physician treated patients with heart conditions, cancer and neurological diseases. She cared for veterans with compromised lungs and a woman with…

Thought lost for 39 years, Andy Warhol’s pioneering Amiga art resurfaced in July 2024. Andy Warhol’s birthday, August 6, is a great day to look back at his pioneering digital art and how it came to be lost and found again. Details of the reemergence help to shed light on an earlier discovery from…

PARIS — In the men’s 100-meter breaststroke final here at the 2024 Olympics on Sunday, eight world-class swimmers glided through a pool … and not a single one would have finished better than eighth at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago. In the “Race of the Century” one night earlier, the women’s 400…

Last year we rebuilt our well-loved Stamen basemaps from scratch, re-creating them on a totally new tech stack in partnership with Stadia Maps. This was a bittersweet and challenging process, trying to build new styles that matched the aesthetics of the old maps, while still giving us a fresh start…

We don’t talk a lot in public about the big vision for Tailscale, why we’re really here. Usually I prefer to focus on what exists right now, and what we’re going to do in the next few months. The future can be distracting. But increasingly, I’ve found companies are starting to buy Tailscale not just…

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*** http://www.patreon.com/scifri - Please Help Support Our Video Productions *** In the Leidenfrost Effect, a water droplet will float on a layer of its own vapor if heated to certain temperature. This common cooking phenomenon takes center stage in a series of playful experiments by physicists at…

“We were promised a cure for cancer and all we got are so-and-so improvements in five-year cancer survival rates” would be a fair thing to say about progress in biomedical sciences in the last few decades. And cancer is one of the disease areas where we have done pretty well, relatively speaking. If…

Editor's Note 1: I have no editor. Editor’s Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this one. Or as long as my previous one. My long break from posting here means that this piece is a collection of what would’ve normally been a series of…

Adventure is an AttitudeWords & Photography by Rosie Baker The light is blinding. It seems to get brighter still as I climb up towards the welcoming softness of the clouds. I have surely been climbing for hours. Though I am edging closer, I start to show signs of strain. My breath is rapid and…

Annals of Evolution August 8, 2011 Svante Pääbo’s genome-sequencing project hopes to point up the differences that enabled humans, unlike the Neanderthals, with whom they interbred, to build complex societies.Art by ATELIER DAYNÈS; PHOTOGRAPH: S. ENTRESSANGLE The Max Planck Institute for…

Andon (行灯) is a Japanese word that means paper lantern that the Japanese used for lighting since the Edo period. Toyota introduced the Andon Cord concept in its factories following the Toyota Production System. Today, many manufacturers use this invention in their assembly environments. The Andon…

Sometime after midnight on May 26, 2020, a sleek black-and-white speedboat darted through the sea’s waves off the coast of Sweden. The two men on board were barreling toward a set of coordinates in the darkness, armed with navigation equipment, night vision goggles, and fishing rods. The Donousa, a…

At the beginning of the 1980s, my parents had friends with children who lived a comparatively short distance away from us. There was a narrow, overgrown and tree-linked track next to their garden which lead to a more secluded house; in the depths of the undergrowth there was what I remember as a…

Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Thinkstock. Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society. This piece is excerpted from Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy by…

Annals of Medicine Its mysterious power may be a clue to a new theory about brains and bodies. June 23, 2008 Scientists once saw itching as a form of pain. They now believe it to be a different order of sensation.Photograph by Gerald Slota It was still shocking to M. how much a few wrong turns could…

Profiles Breaking the Waves February 2, 2014 For long-distance swimmers like Diana Nyad, the greatest barrier is mental endurance.Photograph by Catherine Opie / Regen Projects The first time Diana Nyad tried to swim around Manhattan, in the fall of 1975, she was pulled out of the East River in the…

ICQ, short for "I Seek You," laid the groundwork for standalone instant messaging clients when it debuted in November 1996. Think about how long ago that was... Microsoft's trailblazing Windows 95 was barely a year old, Nintendo had just introduced the N64, and those with a reason to have a cell…

It’s pricey, it’s portable, its users need it constantly, and retailers love to buy it at a discount. All of which makes it a perfect product to steal. It’s pricey, it’s portable, its users need it constantly, and retailers love to buy it at a discount. All of which makes it a perfect product to…

TM Audio subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for audio stories, bonus podcast episodes, and much more. Already a subscriber? . She never felt right about sending him to prison. Every year around Christmas, Estella Ybarra would find herself thinking back to December 1990 and that…

Insys Therapeutics paid millions of dollars to doctors. The company called it a “speaker program,” but prosecutors now call it something else: a kickback scheme. The Baby-Formula Crime Ring It’s pricey, it’s portable, its users need it constantly, and retailers love to buy it at a discount. All of…

It was 6.30am on a Saturday when I found out Fred had died. I was sitting by the window on the second floor of my friend’s home in Brooklyn. I had woken up early, buzzing from the adrenaline of a series of unaccustomed public appearances following the recent publication of my book. Mindlessly, I…

Untangling Threads Back in the fall, I wrote a series of posts on a particularly horrific episode in Meta’s past. I hadn’t planned to revisit the topic immediately, but here we are, with Threads federation with the ActivityPub-based fediverse ecosystem an increasingly vivid reality. My own emotional…