Author: Zach_Wilson
US government takes equity stake in one of the world’s largest lithium mines
Donald Trump’s administration is taking a 5 percent equity ownership of mining company Lithium Americas, on top of another 5 percent stake in the company’s joint mining project with GM in Nevada, the Department of Energy announced yesterday. The mine at Thacker Pass is expected to become the largest producer…
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OpenAI’s New Sora App Lets You Deepfake Yourself for Entertainment
OpenAI’s latest app encourages users to generate a personal digital avatar and scroll AI-generated videos of themselves and their friends. Source
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How a dispute over royalties gave birth to the PNG file format
In late 1994, controversy was brewing over royalties being imposed on GIFs due to the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) data compression technique used to underpin this image format. Unisys, which had patented the technique some years prior, insisted that royalties be imposed, which sparked a fierce backlash among developers. The resulting battle…
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Our Favorite Automatic Latte Maker Is $200 Off
Tired of steaming your own milk? Let the De’Longhi Rivelia do it for you! Source
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Saturn’s ocean moon looks more hospitable to subsurface life than we thought
Mars isn't our only neighbor that may harbor life. The odds have risen that Saturn's moon Enceladus may, too. On Wednesday, scientists published a paper outlining the increasing complexity of molecules emitted from beneath the moon's surface. "We now have all elements required for Enceladus to harbour life," the ESA's…
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Adam Mosseri’s ‘we’re totally not spying on you’ video is raising a lot of questions
One, maybe you actually tapped on something that was related or even searched for that product online on a website, maybe before you had that conversation. We actually do work with advertisers who share information with us about who is on their website to try to target those people with…
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