Tuariki Delamere’s Somersault Could Have Launched a New Era in the Olympic Long Jump
The New Zealander came up with a better way to jump, using a front flip in midair. But the sport’s stodgy authorities shut him down before the 1975 Games. ⌘ Read more

How the ‘Slamming Door’ Sound Became Embedded in Hip-Hop History
If you’ve listened to any rap or pop music made in the 21st century, you’ve heard John Lehmkuhl’s most famous creation, a thwacking metallic percussion sample named “Tribe.” ⌘ Read more

Big sharks equal big impact, but there’s a big problem: Those most affected by fishing are most needed for ocean health
Shark conservation must go beyond simply protecting shark populations—it must prioritize protecting the ecological roles of sharks, according to new research published in Science. ⌘ Read more

LILYGO Introduces Enhanced ESP32-Based Walkie Talkie in Latest Upgrade
LILYGO Introduces Enhanced ESP32-Based Walkie Talkie in Latest Upgrade ⌘ Read more

‘Screaming Woman’ mummy may have died in agony 3,500 years ago
In 1935, the Metropolitan Museum of New York led an archaeological expedition to Egypt. In Deir Elbahari near Luxor, the site of ancient Thebes, they excavated the tomb of Senmut, the architect and overseer of royal works—and reputedly, lover—of the famed queen Hatschepsut (1479–1458 BCE). Beneath Senmut’s tomb, they found a separate burial chamber for his mother, Hat-Nufer, and other unidentified relatives. ⌘ Read more

Intel Is Cutting More Than 15,000 Jobs Despite Getting Billions From the US Government
The chipmaker, which has fallen behind competitors, is slashing 15 percent of its workforce. ⌘ Read more

How ‘World of Warcraft’ Devs Launched One of the Biggest Unions in Video Games
Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard created an environment that helped workers. Amid layoffs and worries about AI, their efforts could be an indicator of the future of the industry. ⌘ Read more

The Shameful Controversy Over Olympic Boxer Imane Khelif
Imane Khelif has always defined herself as a woman, and has every right to compete. ⌘ Read more

The 61 Best Movies on Disney+ Right Now (August 2024)
The Beach Boys, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version), and Fantastic Mr. Fox are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Disney+ this month. ⌘ Read more

How QAnon Destroys American Families
WIRED speaks with Jesselyn Cook, whose recent book chronicles five families impacted by QAnon. ⌘ Read more

To Lead in AI, the US Needs a Silicon Revolution
US Commerce Department undersecretary Laurie E. Locascio says America needs to invent new chip manufacturing techniques. ⌘ Read more

He Was an FBI Informant—and Inspired a Generation of Violent Extremists
Joshua Caleb Sutter infiltrated far-right extremist organizations as a confidential FBI informant, all while promoting hateful ideologies that influenced some of the internet’s most violent groups. ⌘ Read more

Microscopy breakthrough promises better imaging for sensitive materials
An international team of scientists, led by Trinity College Dublin, has devised an innovative imaging method using state-of-the-art microscopes that significantly reduces the time and radiation required. Their work represents a significant breakthrough that will benefit several disciplines, from materials science to medicine, as the method promises to deliver improved imaging for sensitive materials such as bio … ⌘ Read more

When it comes to DNA replication, humans and baker’s yeast are more alike than different, scientists discover
Humans and baker’s yeast have more in common than meets the eye, including an important mechanism that helps ensure DNA is copied correctly, reports a pair of studies published in the journals Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ⌘ Read more

Study shows link between asymmetric polar ice sheet evolution and global climate
Joint research led by Professor An Zhisheng from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the pivotal role of the growth of the Antarctic ice sheet and associated Southern Hemisphere sea ice expansion in triggering the mid-Pleistocene climate transition (MPT). It has also shown how asymmetric polar ice sheet evolution affects global climate. ⌘ Read more

Retreating Andean rocks signal the world’s glaciers are melting far faster than predicted, report scientists
Rocks recently exposed to the sky after being covered with prehistoric ice show that tropical glaciers have shrunk to their smallest size in more than 11,700 years, revealing the tropics have already warmed past limits last seen earlier in the Holocene age, researchers from Boston College report in the journal Science. ⌘ Read more

Plant biologists discover an ancient gene family is responsible for plant prickles across species
According to Greek mythology, red roses first appeared when Aphrodite pricked her foot on a thorn, spilling blood on a white rose. Since then, roses’ thorns have captured the imaginations of countless poets and forlorn lovers. ⌘ Read more

Researchers uncover 500 million-year-old mollusk ancestor
A team of researchers including scientists from the University of Oxford have made an astonishing discovery of a new species of mollusk that lived 500 million years ago. The new fossil, called Shishania aculeata, reveals that the most primitive mollusks were flat, shell-less slugs covered in a protective spiny armor. The findings have been published in the journal Science. ⌘ Read more

Asus Chromebook CM14 Review: An Uber-Cheap Laptop
This is a good basic budget laptop, but aggressive Chromebook Plus sales might have you thinking twice. ⌘ Read more

How to Quickly Remove Bloatware and Invasive Apps From Your Computer
Using the free service Privacy.Sexy, you can generate custom scripts that will rid your Mac or Windows PC of preinstalled apps and features you never use. ⌘ Read more

It is really warm again today!

Je cherche deux thermomètres : pour l’intérieur et pour l’extérieur. La plupart seront très bientôt obsolètes puisque la température maximale possible est de 50°C

Vous avez chaud à la maison? Passez la serpillère à l’eau froide. De rien ;)

What Project 2025 Means for Big Tech … and Everyone Else
From abolishing the Federal Trade Commission to rolling back labor rights, the right’s vision for tech is unfettered deregulation. ⌘ Read more

Six-Word Sci-Fi: Stories Written by You
Here’s this month’s prompt, how to submit, and an illustrated archive of past favorites. ⌘ Read more

LG C4 OLED Review: The Best High-End TV for Most People
This gorgeous high-end TV is this year’s best buy for home cinephiles. ⌘ Read more

Happy August!

16 Best Fitness Trackers (2024): Watches, Bands, and Rings
Whether you’re skiing in the backcountry or trampolining in the backyard, we have an activity tracker for you. ⌘ Read more

Dating Apps Are Dehumanizing. Let’s Try Something New
This week, we talk about the arrival of Date Like Goblins and chart the rise of niche, interest-specific platforms for online dating. ⌘ Read more

Democrats Have Finally Learned the Value of Shitposting
After struggling through a changing social media landscape for years, Democratic strategists have figured out how to go viral. ⌘ Read more

How Telegram Game ‘Hamster Kombat’ Got 300 Million Users—and the Ire of Iran’s Military
In June, Iranian authorities claimed the crypto game was distracting voters during the presidential election. Last month, Telegram’s CEO touted its potential to bring millions to blockchain. Its creators say they’re just getting started. ⌘ Read more

A $500 Open-Source Tool Lets Anyone Hack Computer Chips With Lasers
The RayV Lite will make it hundreds of times cheaper for anyone to carry out physics-bending feats of hardware hacking. ⌘ Read more

Construire un dock en lego pour que le serveur ventile mieux : fait.

8 Best Cheap Smartphones (2024): iPhone, Android, 5G
There’s little reason to pay top dollar for a smartphone. These iPhones and Android devices—ranging from $150 to $500—stood up to WIRED’s testing. ⌘ Read more

The Cure for Disposable Plastic Crap Is Here—and It’s Loony
Stretchy seaweed, reverse vending machines, QR-coded take-out boxes: They’re how we can break society’s absurd addiction to single-use plastics. ⌘ Read more

3D terrestrial laser scanner assists in reconstructing glacier’s mass balance sequence
Complex topography of glacier surfaces under accelerating global warming presents unprecedented challenges to traditional methods of glaciological observation due to intense fragmentation and differential melting. ⌘ Read more

Sea level changes shaped early life on Earth, fossils show
A newly developed timeline of early animal fossils reveals a link between sea levels, changes in marine oxygen, and the appearance of the earliest ancestors of present-day animals. ⌘ Read more

New insights into one of Europe’s oldest dinosaurs
A comprehensive new description of Plateosaurus trossingensis provides valuable information on the evolution, lifestyle and family tree of early dinosaurs. During this analysis, bone injuries were discovered, which paleontologists investigated in more detail. ⌘ Read more

Researchers find unknown effects of existing drugs by mapping protein interactions
Fewer side effects, improved chances of healing: The goal of precision medicine is to provide patients with the most individualized treatment possible. This requires a precise understanding of what is happening at the cellular level. ⌘ Read more

A higher-dimensional model can help explain cosmic acceleration without dark energy
Dark energy remains among the greatest puzzles in our understanding of the cosmos. In the standard model of cosmology called the Lambda-CDM, it is accounted for by adding a cosmological constant term in Einstein’s field equation first introduced by Einstein himself. This constant is very small and positive and lacks a complete theoretical understanding of why it has such a tiny value. Moreover, dark energy has so … ⌘ Read more

One dead in Colorado blaze as fires ravage US west
One person has died in a Colorado wildfire, officials said Wednesday, as around a hundred infernos continue to blaze across western US states and a dangerous new heat wave looms. ⌘ Read more

Reclaimed by floods, wildlife returns to Romania’s Danube Delta
Tour guide Eugen Grigorov steered his boat past half-underwater combine harvesters and last year’s flooded crops in a part of Romania’s Danube Delta reclaimed by the great river. ⌘ Read more

The Incredible Physics of Simone Biles’ Yurchenko Double Pike
Calculating angular velocity and the moment of inertia isn’t quite as hard as competing in the 2024 summer Olympics gymnastics tournament—but it’s pretty darn tough. ⌘ Read more

Amazon Has to Recall More Than 400,000 Dangerous Products
Regulators found that Amazon is responsible for defective products sold by its third-party vendor—which include flammable pajamas, faulty carbon monoxide detectors, and hair dryers that could electrocute you. ⌘ Read more

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OK, I think I am ready to go to sleep. Good night!

I learnt how to display a txt file in a html page in a pretty way: https://melyanna.ichi.city/twtxt.html

I just revisited my first script which posts to Mastodon and twtxt from CLI

I enjoy being back to scripting

Election Deniers Are Ramping Up Efforts to Disenfranchise US Voters
After working for months to challenge thousands of voter registrations, election denial groups are now pushing ahead with plans to challenge voters and votes ahead of the election. ⌘ Read more