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Ryobi's batteries are smarter than other tool brands, but it might not be as important as it seems

Ryobi put the brains in the battery, and your 1990s drill still runs on it.
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A new Kindle Colorsoft reads text at 300 pixels per inch but drops to 150 for any color on the exact same screen, and the redesign hides that gap

Amazon's new Kindle Colorsoft reads at 300ppi in black and white but halves to 150ppi for color, a tradeoff baked into its ...

NumPy 2.5 eig returns complex numbers even for real matrices—the release note's workaround loses the imaginary part

The NumPy 2.5.0 release notes state that the return values of eig and eigvals will always be complex, and that ...
Tech Times on MSN

Klara and the Sun scores Metacritic 23 at BFI; first fly brain emulation vindicates Ishiguro

Klara and the Sun scored 23 on Metacritic at BFI -- Taika Waititi's adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel was panned by six ...

I Ported a 2D Game to Roblox: What Worked and What Was Different in a Missile Command-Style Game

There is a fairly standard pattern for building 2D games. You decide on a virtual resolution, move things by multiplying by ...

The 50 college majors that earn the least money, based on data

Stacker researched the 50 college majors that earn the least money using PayScale's 2021-22 College Salary Report.
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On a 12 acre Ohio reservoir, 9,222 floating solar modules feed the village grid, and officials found open water cheaper than clearing nearby farmland for the same array

In Monroeville, Ohio, population barely over a thousand, the water that fills the village’s taps now also fills its power ...
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The Origin of Extratropical Cyclone Multibands

Stephen R. Guimond1 Extratropical cyclones frequently contain multibanded cloud and precipitation structures that can ...

AI is creating a 'human premium' for art made by people. But will it hold?

Amid a surge in AI content, many are placing extra value on art that's obviously made by a human. But can that last, asks Ros ...

As inscrutable AI proofs emerge, mathematicians wait in the dark

Powered by vast arrays of graphics processing units, large language models code better than experienced coders and write ...
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A Billion Tons of Lunar Water Cannot Sustain a Moon City, Study Finds

New calculations show the Moon's polar water ice could sustain a million-person settlement for only about a century even with ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Anthropic Says Its A.I. Discovered a New Enzyme System That Resembles the Revolutionary Gene-Editing Tool CRISPR

Experts at the company don't know what the newfound system does, so its potential utility in biology—if any—remains unclear. But the work marks a major advancement because the A.I. made this discovery ...