Technology
What if the dinosaurs hadn’t gone extinct? Why our world might look very different
Giant dinosaurs and mammals through time. Credit: Nick Longrich Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid hit the Earth with the force of 10 billion atomic bombs and changed the course of evolution. The skies darkened and plants stopped photosynthesising. The plants died, then the animals that fed on them. The food chain collapsed. Over 90% …
Protests Erupt in Shanghai and Other Chinese Cities Over Covid Controls
Protests spread to cities and campuses in China on Saturday night amid rising public anger at the country’s strict but faltering controls against the spread of Covid, with a crowd in Shanghai going so far as to call for the removal of the national leader, Xi Jinping. The demonstration occurred after an outpouring of anger …
It’s Public Land. But the Public Can’t Reach It.
“Hunting has become big business,” Mr. Herring said. “And people who have leased land for hunting don’t want people who aren’t paying to be on it. As a result, the issue of trespassing has gotten hotter every year.” Resentment of landowners and commercial hunting has heated up as well. “If you go back a few …
It took 2 months to get in touch with major brands through strategic partnerships
I am trying to establish relationships and enter into a strategic partnership of our company with all the services that are suitable for integration with our service.With large and established brands, this process is longer and more complicated, especially when few people know about your company. For example, we have developed an integration with OneSignal …
Synthetic neuromorphic computing in living cells
Neuromorphic computing systems that implement artificial neural networks (ANNs) operate differently than conventional computing44. ANNs use analog information processing units that collectively interact through interconnected non-linear functions (Supplementary Fig. 1). The fundamental building block of an ANN is a perceptron51, which consists of a linear combination of weighted analog input signals (Supplementary Fig. 2). The analog computation …
A 48,500-year-old virus has been revived from Siberian permafrost
Seven viruses from the Siberian permafrost have been revived and replicated themselves in the lab – including the oldest revived so far Health 23 November 2022 By Michael Le Page As permafrost thaws, it will release carbon and potentially also long-dormant ancient viruses NASA/JPL-Caltech/Charles Miller Seven types of viruses that have lain frozen in the …
YouTube SEO Software – Get More Views with YouTube SEO
THE PROBLEM Marketers Need to Guess Which Video Will Work, Wasting Time & Money Most video content produced is simply based either on expert opinion or gut feeling. It is near impossible to accurately tell which video will be a success. That leads to wasted production and media budgets because of little reach, as well as …
The Race To Save Sam Bankman-Fried’s Other Crypto Exchange
Decentralized exchanges differ from their centralized counterparts (like FTX, Binance, Coinbase, and others) in a few important ways. Most notably, instead of relying on an intermediary to match buyers with sellers, DEXs let users transact on a peer-to-peer basis—and keep custody of their own funds. This arrangement is one example of what’s known as decentralized …
Fermat’s Library | The Economic Organization of a P.O.W. Camp annotated/explained version.
196 ECONOMICA [NOVEMBER More interesting than changes in the general price level were changes in the price structure. Changes in the supply of a commodity, in the German ration scale or in the make-up of Red Cross parcels, would raise the price of one commodity relative to others. Tins of oatmeal, once a rare and …
The Tech-cession – by Joseph Politano
Thanks for reading! If you haven’t subscribed, please click the button below: By subscribing you’ll join over 19,000 people who read Apricitas weekly! Otherwise, liking or sharing is the best way to support my work. Thank you! This year has been especially unkind to the tech industry—the banner years of the techno-hype-driven early pandemic have …
