🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
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New research indicates that anthocyanins, antioxidants found in nuts, fruits, and vegetables, may counteract the reproductive toxicity caused by microplastics. These compounds help improve sperm quality, restore testosterone production, and protect ovarian function, potentially mitigating fertility issues related to plastic exposure.
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The U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority has approved IBM's $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp, aimed at enhancing IBM's hybrid cloud services. IBM anticipated regulatory scrutiny, but such clearances support the UK's pro-tech, pro-growth stance. The U.S. FTC is still reviewing the deal.
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Researchers have found buried beaches on Mars, indicating the planet once had an ocean with tides and waves. Data from China's Zhurong rover shows sediment features akin to earthly shorelines. This discovery hints at Mars' past habitability.
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Google's Gemini Code Assist is now free for individual developers, offering 180,000 code completions per month. It integrates with popular IDEs, providing 90 times more completions than Microsoft's GitHub Copilot. While still in preview, it could shift developers from Microsoft's ecosystem.
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Google has launched a free consumer version of its AI code assistant, Gemini Code Assist, which supports natural language interaction for code editing, bug fixing, and explanations. It offers 180,000 code completions and 240 chat requests monthly, surpassing GitHub Copilot's free tier.
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Consumer demand is shifting towards alternative social networks, away from Big Tech apps like X and Instagram. Emerging apps like Pixelfed, Flashes, Pinksky, and Skygram, built on open protocols and emphasizing decentralization and user control, are gaining traction. These apps offer ad-free and chronological feeds, appealing to niche user bases and attracting investor attention.
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The article discusses the growing field of robotics, focusing on the required skills, industry trends, and day-to-day tasks of robotics developers. Sandor Felber, a humanoid robot expert from MIT, shares his journey, the technology involved, project planning, and the differences between industry and academic approaches.
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Quora’s Poe platform introduces Poe Apps, a feature allowing users to create AI-powered web apps using a variety of AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o or Google’s Veo 2. The App Creator tool, supported by Anthropic’s Claude 3.7, translates descriptions into functional apps, which users can share and potentially monetize.
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⭐ 2724, 🖖 547
Machine Learning Containers for NVIDIA Jetson and JetPack-L4T
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⭐ 19, 🖖 0
LifeboatLinux, recover your damaged system from a 35Mb EFI Linux distro
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⭐ 2488, 🖖 198
KubeBlocks is an open-source control plane software that runs and manages databases, message queues and other stateful applications on K8s.
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⭐ 1585, 🖖 43
Tach – Visualize and untangle your Python codebase
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⭐ 2653, 🖖 76
Tunneled Mesh Reverse Proxy Server with Identity and Access Control and Dashboard UI
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