Last week, Reddit user Brazedowl received a curious notification on his phone: Google was telling him that a smoke detector in his home had gone off. https://www.protocol.com/google-smart-speaker-...
Facebook has produced and preserved approximately 600 affordable homes near its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, of which roughly 70 per cent are reserved for extremely low and very low-inco...
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/drivers-who-keep-their-windows-down-are-exposed-80-percent-more-air-pollution origin - https://www.pipiscrew.com/?p=18812 drivers-who-keep-their-windows-down-are-expo...
Glowing 3D-printed gyroids made with bright SMILES materials. https://phys.org/news/2020-08-chemists-brightest-ever-fluorescent-materials.html origin - https://www.pipiscrew.com/2020/08/chemists-...
Google has long been known as the leader in email, but it hasn’t always been that way. In 1997, AOL was the world’s largest email provider with around ten million subscribers, but other providers w...
One of the upcoming technologies we’re really excited about is the AV1 (.avif) image file format. It’s basically a super-compressed image type. Netflix has already considered .avif superior to the ...
https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1291388433747685376 origin - https://www.pipiscrew.com/?p=18807 twitter-web-app-now-runs-es6-for-modern-browsers-reducing-the-polyfill-bundle-size-by-83
simdjson : Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second JSON is everywhere on the Internet. Servers spend a lot of time parsing it. We need a fresh approach. The simdjson library uses commonly available SI...
https://www.engadget.com/intel-teams-with-mediatek-on-5-g-chips-for-laptops-100004187.html origin - https://www.pipiscrew.com/?p=18808 mediatek-unveils-its-first-5g-laptop-chips-in-partnership-wit...
A new study out of Penn State warns that the various cannabinoids found in cannabis (“marijuana”) may interfere with a variety of prescription medication, including commonly prescribed drugs. http...