Susanne Gervay on ‘Guess How I Was Born’
In this Q&A, award-winning children’s author Susanne Gervay speaks candidly about her new picture book Guess How I Was Born – a joyful, science-informed celebration of the many ways families are formed. Inspired by her own family’s experience with IVF and surrogacy, the book centres on love, honesty, and inclusion,…
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artist: Hendrik Glintenkamp, born Augusta, NJ 1887-died New York City 1946
source: Smithsonian American Art Museum
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The Miracle of Color TV
We’ve often said that some technological advancements seemed like alien technology for their time. Sometimes we look back and think something would be easy until we realize they didn’t have …read more
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The Miracle Of Color TV
We’ve often said that some technological advancements seemed like alien technology for their time. Sometimes we look back and think something would be easy until we realize they didn’t …Hackaday
A 45% school bus fare hike is too much, says Coventry dad
Ambi Ambituuni now expects to pay more than £300 a term for his daughter's bus journeys.Ushma Mistry (BBC News)
Mum 'baffled' smacking children was legal as Wales reviews ban
A Welsh government review shows out-of-court education is preferred to prosecuting parents.Cemlyn Davies (BBC News)
The Ashes: Travis Head century pushes England closer to defeat
England are pushed towards the precipice of the fastest Ashes series defeat in more than 100 years as a Travis Head century maintains Australia's grip on the third Test in Adelaide.Stephan Shemilt (BBC Sport)
AI likely to displace jobs, says Bank of England governor
Andrew Bailey says workers need to be trained to move into jobs that use AI, but adds it might not lead to mass unemployment.Michael Race (BBC News)
artist: Solon H. Borglum, born Ogden, UT 1868-died Stamford, CT 1922
source: Smithsonian American Art Museum
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UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’
Analysis suggests consumption at Northumberland site could be 50 times higher than US operator QTS estimatesAnne Alexander (The Guardian)
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⚫ Afripol Focuses on Regional Cyber Challenges, Deepening Cooperation
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Rapid digitization, uneven cybersecurity know-how, and growing cybercriminal syndicates in the region have challenged law enforcement and prosecutors.
source: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
notes: Research in Progress
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Drawing, Door and Over Door, Blue (South) Drawing Room
Vertical rectangle. Design for the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. Design for a section of a wall, with double-doors bearing painted panels of lattice-work design and geometric pattern.Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Why tech companies encourage their software engineers to use LLMs
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Why tech companies encourage their software engineers to use LLMs
It's not news that many tech companies are encouraging or even requiring use of LLM coding tools like Claude Code.Chris Dzombak
From Project Gutenberg:
Evangelinewith Notes and Plan of Study
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/15390
Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’
Analysis suggests consumption at Northumberland site could be 50 times higher than US operator QTS estimatesAnne Alexander (The Guardian)
Vulkan 1.4.337 Debuts With Long Vector & 3D ASTC Compression Extensions
Vulkan 1.4.337 released a short time ago as what could be the last Vulkan API spec update of 2025 depending upon how much time the working group takes off or not around the holidays. In any case, it's a nice holiday treat with the new VK_EXT_texture_compression_astc_3d and VK_EXT_shader_long_vector extensions...
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Derrière les outils IA pour « déshabiller » les femmes, un véritable business qui fait sa publicité jusque sur Facebook
A la tête de dizaines de sites, les propriétaires de ces services en ligne permettant de dénuder les gens vont jusqu’à vendre des abonnements à leurs « clients » et contournent les filtres de modération des réseaux sociaux pour trouver leur public.Florian Reynaud (Le Monde)
#round : having every portion of the surface or of the circumference equally distant from the center
- French: ronde
- German: die Runde
- Italian: ronda
- Portuguese: redondo
- Spanish: redondo
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