XDA Developers on MSN

I run a 24GB GPU instead of paying for Claude or Codex, and Qwen 3.6 keeps up more than I expected

Local LLMs are good enough for many tasks ...
Smithsonian Magazine

What Natural History Objects Represent Your State? You Can Find Out in This New Exhibition of More Than 600 Specimens and Artifacts

Inside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History is a room that brings together objects from all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and five territories. In the stunning collection are a Menominee ...
Scientific American

Almost half of the objects in Earth’s orbit are junk—and that’s only the stuff we know about

Almost half the stuff in orbit around Earth can be classified as space junk, and the problem is only going to get worse as launches and orbital infrastructure increase. Using data from the U.S. Space ...
IEEE

Active Learning-Aided Design of a Flexible Tactile Sensor Array for Recognizing Properties of Deformable Objects

Abstract: Recognizing the physical properties of deformable objects poses great challenges to the density and sensitivity of tactile sensors. Monolithic active layer inevitably introduces large ...
Time

The Looming Risk of Too Many Satellites and Debris in Space

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Popular Mechanics

Aliens From the Fourth Dimension May Be Invading Our World—And We Don’t Even Know It

The book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott explores the concept of physical dimensions through characters who encounter higher-dimensional beings. The protagonist, “A. Square,” ...
Bleeping Computer

What 5 Million Apps Revealed About Secrets in JavaScript

Leaked API keys are nothing new, but the scale of the problem in front-end code has been largely a mystery - until now. Intruder’s research team built a new secrets detection method and scanned 5 ...
note

Sophisticated Data Management with JavaScript Objects: Structuring and Leveraging Methods

Let's imagine a practical development scenario where engineers Mori and Hayashi are collaborating to build a management dashboard for a system called "DevDashboard Pro." In this system, it is ...
American Institute of Physics

SOFIA and the vexed question of when to cut your losses

The history of science holds many tales of heroic perseverance, with scientists and their backers vindicated after serial setbacks and years of hard, frustrating work. The James Webb Space Telescope ...
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New Segment Anything Models Make it Easier to Detect Objects and Create 3D Reconstructions

We’re introducing SAM 3 and SAM 3D, the newest additions to our Segment Anything Collection, which advance AI understanding of the visual world. SAM 3 enables detection and tracking of objects in ...
The New York Times

See What Was Taken in the Louvre Heist

The stolen items, valued at about $102 million, include glittering royal tiaras, necklaces and earrings. By Alex Marshall In an audacious raid, thieves stole eight items of jewelry over the weekend ...
Forbes

The Frick Collection Presents North American Exhibition Of Extraordinary Objects From The Church Of The Holy Sepulcher In Jerusalem

Installation view of To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum at The Frick Collection, showing works from the Kingdom of Spain, courtesy the Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem Photo: ...