China to limit teenagers’ smartphone use to two hours a day (www.telegraph.co.uk)
also bar users under the age of 18 from accessing the internet from 10pm to 6am....
Superconductor Breakthrough Findings Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing - Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com)
The fact that this has been replicated is amazing!
Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For (www.techdirt.com)
Putin Outlaws Anonymity: Identity Verification For Online Services, VPN Bypass Advice a Crime (torrentfreak.com)
UNESCO calls for a global smartphone ban in schools (www.euronews.com)
Human Powered Air Compressor and Energy Storage System | Low Tech Magazine (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
Meta releases AudioCraft AI tool to create music from text (www.reuters.com)
Research Firm Claims Most cars still cost more to charge than to fill up with gas (www.businessinsider.com)
Targeted chemotherapy appears to annihilate all solid tumors (www.cityofhope.org)
Ongoing clinical trial testing therapeutic in humans.
xManager - A free and open source app (xmanagerapk.com)
Spotify is one of the most popular music streaming services in the world, with over 365 million monthly active users and 165 million premium subscribers as of June 2021. Spotify offers a vast catalog of over 70 million songs, podcasts, audiobooks, and other audio content that you can listen to on various devices, such as your...
Estate of Henrietta Lacks reaches settlement with biotech company for nonconsensual use of her cells in medical research (www.cnn.com)
Estate of Henrietta Lacks reaches settlement with biotech company for nonconsensual use of her cells in medical research::The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells have been used for scientific research for decades, reached a settlement Tuesday with the biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific, the family’s...
China considers limiting kids' smartphone time to two hours per day | Younger children would face even stricter terms. (www.engadget.com)
China considers limiting kids’ smartphone time to two hours per day | Younger children would face even stricter terms.::China is mulling a two-hour daily limit on phone screen time for anyone under 18…
Retractable Sail Could Give Bikes A Boost Of Wind Power (newatlas.com)
The first digital nomad (tim.kicker.dev)
OpenAI files a trademark for GPT-5 (uspto.report)
We knew this was coming, but now it’s official.
Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks (www.theverge.com)
Meta is so unwilling to pay for news under a new Canadian law that it's starting to block it on Facebook and Instagram in that country (fortune.com)
Meta is so unwilling to pay for news under a new Canadian law that it’s starting to block it on Facebook and Instagram in that country::The rollout of the news ban on Facebook and Instagram for users in Canada will take place over the next few weeks.
A room temperature superconductor? New developments. Science.org/HN (news.ycombinator.com)
Cory Doctorow: Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it (pluralistic.net)
From the author: My next book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation: it’s a Big Tech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the audiobook comes from me – because Amazon refuses to sell my audio.
All news in Canada will be removed from Facebook, Instagram within weeks: Meta (www.barrietoday.com)
All news in Canada will be removed from Facebook, Instagram within weeks: Meta::The company says it is removing news for all Canadian users over the course of the next few weeks
Alleged video of LK-99 fully afloat (nitter.net)
Tech experts are starting to doubt that ChatGPT and A.I. ‘hallucinations’ will ever go away: ‘This isn’t fixable’ (fortune.com)
Tech experts are starting to doubt that ChatGPT and A.I. ‘hallucinations’ will ever go away: ‘This isn’t fixable’::Experts are starting to doubt it, and even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a bit stumped.
Nvidia released a paper about a 100KB text-to-image model that only trained for 4 minutes but claims to be better than bigger models (research.nvidia.com)
They also claim that it only takes about 8 seconds to generate various good images.
Hacking group plans system to encrypt social media and other apps (www.washingtonpost.com)
Uber CEO balks after a reporter tells him the cost of his 2.9-mile Uber ride: 'Oh my God. Wow.' (www.yahoo.com)
Uber CEO balks after a reporter tells him the cost of his 2.9-mile Uber ride: ‘Oh my God. Wow.’::undefined
