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Building a Cyberpunk Modular Keyboard

Perhaps you have a tilt towards glowing cyberpunk peripherals. Perhaps you’ve been hunting for a keyboard that you can position perfectly to suit both your left and right hands. In that case, you might just like this nifty design from [Modern Hobbyist]. The first thing you’ll note is the split design, which allows each half

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Bill Atkinson, Hypercard Creator and Original Mac Team Member, Dies at Age 74

AppleInsider reports: The engineer behind much of the Mac’s early graphical user interfaces, QuickDraw, MacPaint, Hypercard and much more, William D. “Bill” Atkinson, died on June 5 of complications from pancreatic cancer… Atkinson, who built a post-Apple career as a noted nature photographer, worked at Apple from 1978 to 1990. Among his lasting contributions to

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AI Firms Say They Can’t Respect Copyright. But A Nonprofit’s Researchers Just Built a Copyright-Respecting Dataset

Is copyrighted material a requirement for training AI? asks the Washington Post. That’s what top AI companies are arguing, and “Few AI developers have tried the more ethical route — until now. “A group of more than two dozen AI researchers have found that they could build a massive eight-terabyte dataset using only text that

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AI Firms Say They Can’t Respect Copyright. But A Nonprofit’s Researchers Just Built a Copyright-Respecting Dataset

Is copyrighted material a requirement for training AI? asks the Washington Post. That’s what top AI companies are arguing, and “Few AI developers have tried the more ethical route — until now. “A group of more than two dozen AI researchers have found that they could build a massive eight-terabyte dataset using only text that

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Student Discovers Long-Awaited Mystery Fungus Sought By LSD’s Inventor

LSD “is used to treat conditions like depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction,” notes Science Daily. And now a microbiology student “has found a long sought-after fungus that produces effects similar to the semisynthetic drug…” Morning glory plants live in symbiosis with fungi that produce the same ergot alkaloids the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann modified

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Student Discovers Long-Awaited Mystery Fungus Sought By LSD’s Inventor

LSD “is used to treat conditions like depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction,” notes Science Daily. And now a microbiology student “has found a long sought-after fungus that produces effects similar to the semisynthetic drug…” Morning glory plants live in symbiosis with fungi that produce the same ergot alkaloids the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann modified

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