Jan 10
Khoshbin’s collection sprung from a desire to own unique, one-of-one examples of the world’s greatest hypercars.
Jan 10
Meta Releases New Government-Backed Ad Delivery System After Housing Discrimination Lawsuit
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Nearly seven months have passed since Meta agreed to settle a Department of Justice lawsuit accusing the company of illegally allowing discrimination against its users based on race and other characteristics in its housing advertising system. Now the company says it’s finally ready to release a new machine learning…
Jan 10
Rules empowering the House Freedom Caucus were the price McCarthy had to pay for the speaker’s gavel.
Jan 10
Bird Buddy AI-Powered Bird Feeders Can Identify, Photograph Your Bird Friends
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Bird Buddy bird feeders are smart, AI-powered bird feeders that can identify your local flying fauna when they come to eat and capture photos or videos in high definition. The feeder already exists for common backyard birds, but a model designed specifically for hummingbirds is going to be released this April, with the capability of identifying over 350 species. That’s a lot of hummingbirds! Where do you live, Hummingbird Island?
The Bird Buddy’s motion-activated high-speed camera is capable of capturing hummingbird wings traveling at 60MPH. That must be a sight! Did you know a hummingbird’s heart can beat up to 1,260BPM? That’s true. Also, insane. That’s 21 beats per second! I feel exhausted just knowing that.
Obviously, this is a great addition for birdwatchers who live in an area with a lot of local avian wildlife. Me? I live in the city, and I can’t even remember the last time I saw a bird that wasn’t a pigeon. I’m pretty sure it was a sign spinner dressed as a bald eagle, though, advertising some tax preparation business.
[via TechEBlog]
Jan 10
Apple Faces Second Class-Action Suit Over Privacy Settings After Gizmodo Story
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The iPhone Analytics privacy setting promises that Apple won’t collect usage data if you turn it off. In early November, Gizmodo exclusively reported on research demonstrating that Apple collects that analytics data whether or not the setting is on. We reached out to Apple, but the company didn’t respond.
Jan 10
Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Might Not Be the End of Picard After All, Maybe, Perhaps
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Star Trek: Picard was represented at the Paramount+ event for the Television Critics’ Association today, but not much news was shared about the series—unsurprisingly, since it kicks off its third and final season next month. Or does it? Despite what it clearly says on the new poster seen below, Jean-Luc Picard himself…
Jan 10
Jair Bolsonaro Hospitalized In Florida After Supporters Storm Brazil’s Congress, Wife Says
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe right-wing former Brazilian president, who has not acknowledged his election defeat, was experiencing abdominal pain, according to his wife.
Jan 10
In the quest to find the outer limits of our galaxy, astronomers have discovered over 200 stars that form the Milky Way’s edge, the most distant of which is over one million light-years away—nearly halfway to the Andromeda galaxy.
Jan 10
House Republicans, as early as this week, could have a powerful new panel at their disposal to grill Big Tech companies over long-alleged, but largely unproven accusations of conservative censorship and government collusion. Though Democrats and tech industry experts refute the committee’s premise, the panel could…
Jan 10
Astronauts Will Share a Painfully Cramped Space Aboard Future Lunar Space Station
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Architects designing the living space for the upcoming lunar Gateway did their best to make it comfortable for astronauts, but technical constraints forced them to create a tiny, noisy corridor with no windows and barely enough room to stand upright.
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