Month: March 2024
The best mattress for side sleepers is now available in RV sizes
If the joy of a life on the open road is being spoiled by sleepless nights, we have great news for all Winnebago warriors: Helix has started making many of its mattresses in RV sizes. This means you can now buy our best mattress for side sleepers top pick, the…
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Netflix’s Spaceman is slow, sad sci-fi — with a lovable space spider
Image: Netflix Truly alien creatures are hard to relate to because they’re so, well, alien. The best-realized ones have different cultures and biologies and belief systems that make them distinct from humanity and, thus, hard to understand. The alien in the Netflix film Spaceman is one recent example: a giant…
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Elon Musk might be right about OpenAI — but that doesn’t mean he should win
Elon Musk isn’t wrong about OpenAI. It started as one thing and then became another, though that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The enfant terrible of the tech and social media world launched a lawsuit (PDF) late Thursday against OpenAI, and cofounders Sam Altman and Gregory Brockman, claiming that by…
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Researcher discovers novel way to double computer speeds for free — but there is an obvious catch and it may only work with Nvidia GPU and Arm CPU for now
A researcher claims to have discovered a novel approach that could potentially double the speed of computers without any additional hardware costs. The method, called Simultaneous and Heterogeneous Multithreading (SHMT), was outlined in a paper co-authored by UC Riverside associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, Hung-Wei Tseng with computer…
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Spotify launches new service for audiobooks but Supremium is still missing
Spotify has launched a new standalone subscription service in the US for people who just want to listen to audiobooks, the aptly named Audiobooks Access Tier. For $9.99 a month, you’ll be given 15 hours of listening time for a catalog of over 200,000 Spotify audiobooks. These include notable series…
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A Leap Year Glitch Broke Self-Pay Gas Station Pumps Across New Zealand
It’s like if the Y2K bug happened, but only for gas station pumps. And only in New Zealand. Source
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