Rural hospital maternity wards closing as people seek to give birth closer to home (abcnews.go.com)
A growing number of rural hospitals have been shuttering their labor and delivery units, forcing pregnant women to travel longer distances for care or face giving birth in an emergency room. Fewer than half of rural hospitals now have maternity units, prompting government officials and families to scramble for answers. One...
‘Harry Potter’ Franchise Director David Yates On Max TV Series; Has Upcoming Projects That Are “A Million Miles Away From Wizards” – TIFF Studio (deadline.com)
Israel launches its biggest raid on the West Bank in over 20 years (www.economist.com)
As the sun dipped on July 3rd, the fighting in a refugee camp in Jenin, a city in the West Bank, entered its second night. Ambulances ferried the injured through makeshift roadblocks, flaming tyres pumped a toxic black smoke into the air, and drones hummed faintly overhead. Israel’s army has carried out its largest raid on a...
[POLL] Which file archiver/compression utility do you use? (poll.chat.vote)
Why Japan is building its own version of ChatGPT (www.nature.com)
cross-posted from !aistuff
What a record-breaking hurricane looks like (www.bbc.com)
The hurricane, which reached 160mph (258km/h) winds on Friday (8 September), was a category one storm on Thursday but intensified to a category five, increasing by 85mph (137km/h) in just 24 hours. The increase made the hurricane, which meteorologists dubbed “rare”, the third-fastest rapid intensification in the Atlantic....
Building a NAS (apebox.org)
Ford, Honda, and BMW create a new vehicle-to-grid company to help EV owners save money (www.theverge.com)
The new company, ChargeScape, will create a platform that can be used by both utilities and EV owners to benefit from the expected surge in mobile batteries plugged into the grid.
A New Map of the Universe, Painted With Cosmic Neutrinos (www.wired.com)
All Picross e games to be re-released on Switch (www.eurogamer.net)
Google turns 25: From garage startup to global giant (www.zdnet.com)
Monkey Island-like Foolish Mortals moved to 2024, improvements inbound (www.eurogamer.net)
Starfield player claims you can farm 100 levels in just 5 hours using this method (www.gamescensor.com)
New phone sparks worry China has found a way around U.S. tech limits (www.washingtonpost.com)
archive.is/…/huawei-raimondo-phone-chip-sanctions…...
Ming-Chi Kuo: Qualcomm is the main loser from Huawei’s adoption of the Kirin 9000S and new Kirin chips (medium.com)
Scientists have created a new type of oxygen with puzzling properties (www.aymany.com)
Sweden’s Plan to Expand Nuclear Power in Focus During First Visit by Director General Grossi (www.iaea.org)
…the government that took office after last year’s general election has made clear its aim to reverse this declining trend and expand the role of nuclear power in the coming two decades, implementing legal changes aimed at paving the way for such an energy transformation....
Sony's ILX-LR1 Is a Super-Compact 61-Megapixel Box Camera for Drones (petapixel.com)
cross-posted from !sony
Vote for streetcomplete ios app (github.com)
Making memes from every episode of DS9 [s01e02] (files.catbox.moe)
I’ve decided that I will post a meme for every episode of DS9. I am watching them for the first time, so hold on to your hats, people. I made one yesterday , so this makes day 2....
More than 750 new Texas laws go into effect Friday. Here’s a quick breakdown of the highlights (www.kut.org)
Every odd-numbered year, state lawmakers convene in Austin and debate hundreds of proposed bills with potential to affect tens of millions of Texans who call the Lone Star State home. More than 750 new laws take effect Friday. That’s on top of 321 passed this year that took effect immediately after being signed by Gov. Greg...
Build a Linux Virtual Machine for Windows Apps (www.binwang.me)
Myanmar’s Battle-Scarred Junta Replaces Five Security Ministers (www.irrawaddy.com)
Jet ski tourists shot dead off coast of Algeria (www.bbc.com)
„The Algerian coastguard has shot dead two tourists holidaying in Morocco who reportedly strayed into Algerian waters on their jet skis.“