🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
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Termites, specifically Odontotermes obesus, display sophisticated weed control in their fungal gardens. Utilizing advanced senses to detect and manage weeds, they apply soil laced with fungistatic microbes from their gut to inhibit but not kill the weeds, ensuring balanced symbiotic agriculture.
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Researchers have developed a method called enteral ventilation via anus (EVA) that could treat respiratory failure. Inspired by loaches, they tested the technique in mice, pigs, and human volunteers, with promising results for delivering oxygen and alleviating lung strain.
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OpenAI has launched "ChatGPT Atlas," an AI-powered web browser centered around its chatbot. Available on macOS and soon on other platforms, Atlas offers personalized browsing, task automation, and text editing features. Privacy settings are user-controlled, and browsing data is not used for training.
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SpaceX surpassed launching 10,000 Starlink satellites after two Falcon 9 launches on Sunday. With 8,680 functional satellites currently in orbit, the Starlink network now has over 7 million subscribers. SpaceX aims to launch larger V3 satellites on Starship rockets in the future.
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Researchers have developed a new method to recycle rare earth elements (REEs) from waste magnets. This process uses flash joule heating and chlorine gas, drastically reducing energy, pollution, and costs compared to traditional methods. They achieve over 90% purity and recovery efficiency.
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🌱 Good First GitHub Issue
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Language:
Repository: OpenFoodFacts
(Collaborative, free and open database of food products from around the world. Scan barcode to get info or add a product)
Why: Simple UI/UX improvement without complex logic, perfect for newcomers.
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⭐ 2620, 🖖 231
DORA (Dataflow-Oriented Robotic Architecture) is middleware designed to streamline and simplify the creation of AI-based robotic applications. It offers low latency, composable, and distributed dataflow capabilities. Applications are modeled as directed graphs, also referred to as pipelines.
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⭐ 2396, 🖖 113
A source generator to add a user-defined set of Win32 P/Invoke methods and supporting types to a C# project.
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⭐ 2, 🖖 0
GoSMig – minimal, type-safe SQL migrations written in Go
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⭐ 1446, 🖖 49
Eget: Easy pre-built binary installation from GitHub
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⭐ 2425, 🖖 77
🐉 Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU shaders 🚧
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