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The Bluefox NX1 is a budget smartphone with something you don’t see very often on other modern phones: a small screen. It has a 4 inch, 1168 x 540 pixel IPS LCD display and a body that measures 100.6 x 39.4 x 12.5mm and weighs just 106 grams, mak…
The Bluefox NX1 is a budget smartphone with something you don’t see very often on other modern phones: a small screen. It has a 4 inch, 1168 x 540 pixel IPS LCD display and a body that measures 100.6 x 39.4 x 12.5mm and weighs just 106 grams, making it smaller and lighter than most phones […]
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A written ruling details why a judge restored funding for many NIH grants.
In mid-June, a federal judge issued a stinging rebuke to the Trump administration, declaring that its decision to cancel the funding for many grants issued by the National Institutes of Health was illegal, and suggesting that the policy was likely animated by racism. But the detailed reasoning behind his decision wasn't released at the time. The written portion of the decision was finally issued on Wednesday, and it has a number of notable features.
For starters, it's more limited in scope due to a pair of Supreme Court decisions that were issued in the intervening weeks. As a consequence, far fewer grants will see their funding restored. Regardless, the court continues to find that the government's actions were arbitrary and capricious, in part because the government never bothered to define the problems that would get a grant canceled. As a result, officials within the NIH simply canceled lists of grants they received from DOGE without bothering to examine their scientific merit, and then struggled to retroactively describe a policy that justified the actions afterward—a process that led several of them to resign.
The issue before Judge William Young of the District of Massachusetts was whether the government had followed the law in terminating grants funded by the National Institutes of Health. After a short trial, Young issued a verbal ruling that the government hadn't, and that he had concluded that its actions were the product of "racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ. community." But the details of his decisions and the evidence that motivated them had to wait for a written ruling, which is now available.
Zuckerberg and company talked up another supposed tech revolution four short years ago.
In a memo to employees earlier this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a vision for a near-future in which "personal [AI] superintelligence for everyone" forms "the beginning of a new era for humanity." The newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs—freshly staffed with multiple high-level acquisitions from OpenAI and other AI companies—will spearhead the development of "our next generation of models to get to the frontier in the next year or so," Zuckerberg wrote.
Reading that memo, I couldn't help but think of another "vision for the future" Zuckerberg shared not that long ago. At his 2021 Facebook Connect keynote, Zuckerberg laid out his plan for the metaverse, a virtual place where “you're gonna be able to do almost anything you can imagine" and which would form the basis of "the next version of the Internet."
"The future of the Internet" of the recent past.
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Zuckerberg believed in that vision so much at the time that he abandoned the well-known Facebook corporate brand in favor of the new name "Meta." "I'm going to keep pushing and giving everything I've got to make this happen now," Zuckerberg said at the time. Less than four years later, Zuckerberg seems to now be “giving everything [he's] got" for a vision of AI “superintelligence," reportedly offering pay packages of up to $300 million over four years to attract top talent from other AI companies (Meta has since denied those reports, saying, “The size and structure of these compensation packages have been misrepresented all over the place").
Halley Gross, another prominent writer for the game and show, also departed.
Two key writers of HBO's series The Last of Us are moving on, according to announcements on Instagram yesterday. Neil Druckmann, co-creator of the franchise, and Halley Gross, co-writer of The Last of Us Part 2 and frequent writer on the show, are both leaving before work begins on season 3.
Both were credited as executive producers on the show; Druckmann frequently contributed writing to episodes, as did Gross, and Druckmann also directed. Druckmann and Gross co-wrote the second game, The Last of Us Part 2.
Druckmann said in his announcement post:
Bundesforschungsministerin Dorothee Bär hat die Planungen für neuartige Fördermaßnahmen vorgestellt. Es geht um KI, Quantentechnologien, Fusionsenergie, klimaneutrale Energie und Mobilität und mehr. (KI, Politik)
Die Europäische Weltraumbehörde Esa fördert mit Scylight die Entwicklung der Laserkommunikation für ein eigenes Satelliten-Netzwerk. Es soll eine Datenrate von 100 GBit/s bieten. (Satelliten, Elon Musk)
Die Europäische Weltraumbehörde Esa fördert mit Scylight die Entwicklung der Laserkommunikation für ein eigenes Satelliten-Netzwerk. Es soll eine Datenrate von 100 GBit/s bieten. (Satelliten, Elon Musk) The three-row Buzz is defined by its big battery, which has its plusses and minuses.
If you had asked me a few years ago, I would have told you that the review you're about to read would be one of the most-read car reviews of the year. For a while—quite a long while, in fact—the Volkswagen ID Buzz was the hottest electric vehicle you couldn't buy. Starting in 2001, VW began teasing concept after concept that called back to its various Transporters and Kombis, classic microbuses reimagined as modern minivans. When the electric Buzz was greenlit for production after wowing crowds in 2017, it caught the attention of the kind of people who don't normally care about such things. Early coverage of the Buzz showed plenty of interest, and it looked like VW might have a real hit on its hands.
At least, that's how things looked for the first couple of years. It actually took seven years for a version of the ID Buzz to go on sale in North America, two years after Europe. Much of the optimism about EV adoption has now gone. Rather than reaching price parity with regular cars as battery prices dropped, everything just got more expensive during the pandemic. Add in recent worries about import tariffs and clean vehicle tax credits (available if you lease), and you start to understand why they remain a rare sight on the roads. Expect stares, glances, and even people taking out their phones as you drive past.
Some of the wait was for VW's more powerful rear drive unit, which provides this 2025 ID Buzz Pro S Plus with 282 hp (210 kW) and 413 lb-ft (560 Nm), paired with a 91 kWh battery pack. The official EPA range is 234 miles, which sounds disappointingly low, but it's correct. It does seem like a very conservative estimate based on a week with the Buzz. 3.1 miles/kWh (20 kWh 100/km) was possible if I drove carefully, with high-twos possible when I didn't, and with 89 percent state of charge in the battery, the Buzz's onboard brain figured we had 255 miles (410 km) of range.
Eine Metastudie zu den Auswirkungen der Photovoltaik zeigt keine eindeutigen Resultate. Sie kann sich vielfach positiv auswirken, aber auch Schaden anrichten. (Solarenergie, Umweltschutz)
Eine Metastudie zu den Auswirkungen der Photovoltaik zeigt keine eindeutigen Resultate. Sie kann sich vielfach positiv auswirken, aber auch Schaden anrichten. (Solarenergie, Umweltschutz) Microsoft Copilot ermöglicht es, Arbeitsprozesse zu automatisieren und Entscheidungen datenbasiert zu treffen. Wie Copilot effizient in Microsoft 365 integriert werden kann, zeigt dieser Onlineworkshop. (Golem Karrierewelt, KI)
Microsoft Copilot ermöglicht es, Arbeitsprozesse zu automatisieren und Entscheidungen datenbasiert zu treffen. Wie Copilot effizient in Microsoft 365 integriert werden kann, zeigt dieser Onlineworkshop. (Golem Karrierewelt, KI) The man made a full recovery, but this tale is not for the faint of heart.
If you were looking for some motivation to follow your doctor's advice or remember to take your medicine, look no further than this grisly tale.
A 64-year-old man went to the emergency department of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston with a painful festering ulcer spreading on his left, very swollen ankle. It was a gruesome sight; the open sore was about 8 by 5 centimeters (about 3 by 2 inches) and was rimmed by black, ashen, and dark purple tissue. Inside, it oozed with streaks and fringes of yellow pus around pink and red inflamed flesh. It was 2 cm deep (nearly an inch). And it smelled.
The man told doctors it had all started two years prior, when dark, itchy lesions appeared in the area on his ankle—the doctors noted that there were multiple patches of these lesions on both his legs. But about five months before his visit to the emergency department, one of the lesions on his left ankle had progressed to an ulcer. It was circular, red, tender, and deep. He sought treatment and was prescribed antibiotics, which he took. But they didn't help.
Bundesforschungsministerin Dorothee Bär hat die Planungen für neuartige Fördermaßnahmen vorgestellt. Es geht um KI, Quantentechnologien, Fusionsenergie, klimaneutrale Energie und Mobilität und mehr. (