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dailyartmagazine 41h ago

Masterpiece Story: Chateau Noir by Paul Cézanne

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A Massive Coal Mine Fire Killed over 1,000 Workers. Weeks Later, 13 Men Emerged Alive.

The 1906 Courrières disaster killed 1,099 miners. But deep in the labyrinth, a handful of men found ways to stay alive that no one thought possible.
seths 11h ago

Disposable software

Even though it’s invisible, easily transported and weightless, software used to stick around. It took years to architect and build a complex bit of software, and thousands of people to help maintain it. Even a complex website could be seen as a durable technical asset.
tidbits 46h ago

OpenAI Shuffles ChatGPT Apps, Kills Atlas Browser, Improves Voice

OpenAI has replaced its Mac apps with a confusing 1.45 GB amalgamation, killed its ChatGPT Atlas Web browser after less than a year, and boosted ChatGPT Voice by backing it with more capable models.

Experimental immune therapy shows promise against deadly childhood brain cancer

Several children who had aggressive recurrent brain tumors remained disease-free years after this treatment, according to an early-stage trial
news.mit 2h ago

MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86

Tonegawa made landmark discoveries about how the immune system generates antibody diversity and how the brain forms memories.
atlasobscura 25h ago

Al-Saada in Al Ghayl, Saudi Arabia

There are few reasons why one would come all the way to Al-Ghayl, a village in the Al-Aflaj Governorate, around 300 kilometers from Saudi Arabia’s capital city Riyadh.
lesswrong 15h ago

Singular Learning Theory Comprehensive - 2

ForewordWe will continue where we left off. In the last post, I introduced a few important observables along with the setup. We are interested in their asymptotics, and the behaviors of these random variables. But before we dive into them, we first see some motivation for their definitions, and how they are all connected to each other (the WAIC definition was pretty non-intuitive to me the first time I saw it).
techcrunch 32h ago

David Beckham’s health drink startup IM8 takes $1B from General Catalyst’s unusual CVF fund

General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund doesn't make equity investments. It's providing $1 billion for IM8, known for its longevity vitamin drink.
bgr 34h ago

Do Those 'Sunrise' Morning Alarms Actually Work?

Sunrise-simulating alarm clocks are having a bit of a moment right now, but are the claims made about them true? Are they an early morning miracle?
engadget 48h ago

Los Angeles law enforcement will stop using Flock cameras

The Los Angeles police department did not renew its contract with Flock due to data privacy concerns.
sixthtone 45h ago

All-Women ‘Shaolin Soccer’ Tribute Scores Big, Divides Fans

The film drew large audiences but disappointed those hoping for the heights of the Hong Kong action star’s past kung fu comedies.
businessinsider 11h ago

How a buzzy luggage brand turned TikTok hate comments into a product road map

BÉIS is rolling out major redesigns to many of its core products, including its much-reviewed and much-duped Weekender bag.
petapixel 29h ago

Wandrd Announces Nifty Magnetic Camera Strap System

Wandrd has unveiled a new magnetic camera strap system designed to make attaching, removing, and switching cameras faster while offering a more secure connection than traditional camera straps. The new system debuts on Kickstarter today.
nautil 26h ago

How Dinosaur Skeletons Became So Expensive

Today’s T.
qz 2h ago

20 artistic collaborations that produced something neither artist could have made alone

From Lennon and McCartney to Warhol and Basquiat, these creative partnerships show how two artists working together can produce work neither could achieve alone
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