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Bolt is an AI web development tool that can generate web sites and online systems across a range of software stacks from prompts.

AI & ML

Web Dev

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EV Batteries Outlast Vehicle Lifetime

Canadian fleet management company Geotab conducted a survey of circa 5,00 EVs and found that their batteries showed a degradation of between 1% and 1.8% per year. At those rates, the batteries can outlast the usable lifetime of the vehicle.

Environment

Tech

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Halloween Postcards

The Public Domain Review has curated a collection of American Halloween Cards dating from 1900 to 1920.

History

Life

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Old Radio Horror Plays

The Horror Podcast has a collection of old radio horror plays from the 40s onwards, with such spooky titles as "The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot" and "Where The Dead Sleep By The Creaking Door"!

Life

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Information Entropy & Living In A Simulation

Physicist Melvin Vopson has proposed that we may be living in a simulation due to his theory of Information Entropy being observed in Covid mutations, which he proposes do not develop randomly and according to the theory of evolution, but mutate according to his information Entropy theory which states that information entropy always remains the same or lower.

Life

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Map of Blindboy’s Walking Tour of Limerick City History

There's an art in producing a consistent type of content, and then every so often doing something different that is unexpected but just as good. This week, Blindboy did an outside broadcast of his podcast as a walking tour of Limerick City history, and it is brilliant.

Data Vis

History

Podcast

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60ms Odour Detection

Chinese scientists have demonstrated that the human nose can differentiate between distinct odours as fast as 60ms apart, which is a similar speed to that of colour perception.

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3D Printed Electronics

MIT researchers have 3D printed electronic circuits without silicon, creating possibilities of more accessible development and maintenance of electronics technology.

Tech

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Lucid Dream Communication

REMspace has successfully sent messages between two people while dreaming. Their system allowed a chat word to be injected into a lucid dream of a person, who responded with another word in their dream. Their response word was recorded bythe system and injected into a lucid dream of a second person, who confirmed the response word when they woke up!

Innovation