banzainetsurfer has added a photo to the pool:
Nakatsu Banshoen 中津万象園
Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan
日本四国地方香川県丸亀市
banzainetsurfer has added a photo to the pool:
Nakatsu Banshoen 中津万象園
Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan
日本四国地方香川県丸亀市
Some recent sketches
With memory and storage contributing over half the price of a server, Big Green needs to protect its margins
HPE has changed its terms and conditions in ways that allow it to change hardware prices after it’s issued a quote, due to rampant storage and memory price rises.…
Samsung says it's thinking about bringing "vibe coding" to future Galaxy phones, allowing users to describe apps or interface changes in plain language and have AI generate the code. TechRadar interviewed Won-Joon Choi, Samsung's head of mobile experience, to learn more about the plans. Here's an excerpt from their report: As noted by Won-Joon Choi, the usefulness of vibe coding on smartphones is that it opens up the "possibility of customizing your smartphone experience in new ways, not just your apps but your UX." He added, "Right now we're limited to premade tools, but with vibe coding, users could adjust their favorite apps or make something customized to their needs. So vibe coding is very interesting, and something we're looking into." [...]
Samsung recently debuted the Galaxy S26 series of phones and made a point to not call them smartphones -- they're "AI phones" now. This certainly rang true with the majority of upgrades to the devices being AI software-focused, like the new Now Nudge and expanded Audio Eraser tools, with the biggest hardware bump for the base models coming via the 39% improved NPU processing (the processor in charge of on-device AI tasks). It also teased the debut of Perplexity on its phones, joining as an alternative to the Gemini assistant, and teased the possibility of other AI models getting the same treatment in the future.
Samsung recently debuted the Galaxy S26 series of phones and made a point to not call them smartphones -- they're "AI phones" now. This certainly rang true with the majority of upgrades to the devices being AI software-focused, like the new Now Nudge and expanded Audio Eraser tools, with the biggest hardware bump for the base models coming via the 39% improved NPU processing (the processor in charge of on-device AI tasks). It also teased the debut of Perplexity on its phones, joining as an alternative to the Gemini assistant, and teased the possibility of other AI models getting the same treatment in the future.
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Antscan.info is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their ants wedged into their scanners, or why.
Seriously though, this is incredible 3D imagery of some the world's most successful critters. Ants have about the same biomass as humans, and have built about as much stuff. Short article with more info on Antscan here. Original Nature Methods paper here. Short supplementary video showing off some of the animated scans here. (40 seconds)
Seriously though, this is incredible 3D imagery of some the world's most successful critters. Ants have about the same biomass as humans, and have built about as much stuff. Short article with more info on Antscan here. Original Nature Methods paper here. Short supplementary video showing off some of the animated scans here. (40 seconds)
Royal commission says response led by Jacinda Ardern was broadly ‘appropriate’, in a wide-ranging report featuring recommendations for future pandemics
A royal commission into New Zealand’s Covid response has found it was one of the best in the world but acknowledged the period had left “scars”.
The second of two inquiry reports on the pandemic was released on Tuesday and focused on the period between February 2021 to October 2022, when the government changed from an elimination strategy to one of suppression and minimisation of the virus. It also examined vaccine safety and the government’s immunisation programme, lockdowns and tracing and testing technology.
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