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”If a web browser sucked out all information from web pages without users needing to actually visit them, why would anyone bother making websites in the first place?”…

”When a touch, or even reasonably loud ambient noise, flexes the display panel, it will also flex the transducer, generating a voltage. This electrical signal could be harvested to charge the device’s battery, providing a level of energy harvesting that might prolong the time between charges.”…

”It took nearly a year for Solana to sell out 20,000 units of its first crypto phone. But the second phone has hit 100,000 pre-orders in just over a month.”…

Bsky is weird. A ”blocked post” was the parent skeet that I did not see but the replies to it were visible. The account I used did not have anyone blocking it nor was it part of any blocking list. Was the post / user blocked by the Bluesky instance?…

What does it take for that to happen? "It is a mistake to believe that the war can be won quickly. Russia is preparing for a long period of war. The war will continue until Russia realizes that it cannot win."…

”The advantages are that Ukrainian units get new soldiers who already have more training than Ukrainian recruits have time for. "These guys are battle-hardened, they know how to function out there in the trenches, but they're civilians who became soldiers out of necessity, they're

Finland had last year (active montly users; population of 5,54m): X & TT 1,5m Snapchat 1,85m Linkedin 1,7m IG 2,3m FB 2,4m YT 4.62m TT is trusted more as a news source than X…

”That puts a much greater emphasis on using heavy firepower to strike deep behind Russian lines to wear down the attacking force and break up its command and logistics. In short: heavy bombardment of Russian soil. “Western political leaders,” he warns, “may be squeamish about such attacks.”…

”a pair of lightweight AR glasses powered by a multimodal AI assistant called Noa… In addition to voice commands, Noa is capable of visual processing, image generation and translation, thanks to the handful of AI models it has integrated: conversational search engine Perplexity AI; Stability AI’s text-to-image…

”Russia’s war is not about NATO, or borders, or the balance of power. The Russian dictator Vladimir Putin intends to absorb Ukraine into a new Russian empire, and he will eradicate the Ukrainians if they refuse to accept his rule. Europe is in the midst of the largest war…

”The FDF will also conduct logistics exercises and activate so-called production reserve agreements with civilian companies that keep extra capacity in place for the defense forces’ needs in crisis and war — akin to a war economy lite. In this pre-conflict period, sufficient availability and production capacity of everything…

The lesson here is that core privacy products you use should be only true open-source or this happens? ”As we begin to shift focus to our shared efforts with Notion, we will be closing down Skiff's product suite after a 6-month sunset period”…

Guess what happens to the world’s chip production capability when Russia attacks the EU? ”ASML is the only maker of a key technology - extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photolithography - needed to manufacture the most advanced chips… Koch's own calculations suggested it would only become cost effective to switch over

”It's going to take years for Europe to build up the arms and ammunition production capacity needed to both aid Ukraine and reequip national forces, Belgium's former deputy chief of defense said. “It’s not a joke, we’re in deep shit," The industrial fabric

"Do you think that if Russia establishes a puppet regime in Ukraine, like the one they have in Belarus, and Russian troops are on the Polish border, will we get out of trouble, or will we have bigger problems?" Borrell asked.…

”Other platforms only make RSS feeds available for listeners, whereas YouTube takes episodes from an RSS feed and turns them into YouTube videos. This benefits audio-first podcasters since YouTube automatically takes an uploaded RSS feed and creates videos with the podcast’s show art as a static image”…