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Active dripstone formation in a side area of the “Kleine Teufelshöhle.” Credit: KIT (taken as part of the HEiKA Project Check Extrema)Researchers from Heidelberg and Karlsruhe use stalagmite for the reconstruction of regional and global climatic history.Tree-ring data, when integrated with information from stalagmites, has enabled a team of researchers, including geoscientists from Heidelberg University and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, to access a distinctive archive for examining natural climate fluctuations…

Legendary mixtape platform DatPiff has uploaded the entirety of its over 366,420-project catalog to the internet archive. Last March, the service which calls itself “The Authority In Mixtapes” experienced a server crash that put their canonical library of free music in peril. A month later, the site relaunched with a page announcing plans for “evolving beyond our website and app” to “continue to make the library accessible!” And now, almost a year later, their 50 TB cache of mixtapes and free albums from the likes of…

If you use ChatGPT a lot, then you’ve probably got a good few conversations open at the moment, and sorting through them might be a bit of a nightmare. Previously, if you wanted to hide a conversation, the only way to do so was to delete it. Thankfully, OpenAI has finally added a way to archive chats in ChatGPT. Here’s how to do it.At the time of writing this article, the ability to archive chats in ChatGPT is only available on iPhone and the ChatGPT web app. However, OpenAI says the feature will come to Android…

The Video Game History Foundation and offers a gigantic collection of gaming-related archival materials, from magazines to art books and even source code. Previously, you’d have to make the trek to Oakland, California to peruse the archive, but that changes soon. The VGHF that will offer remote access.These tools will be made available to researchers, academics and garden-variety gaming enthusiasts like the rest of us. The library will offer access to the collection “for free from anywhere in the world.” There’s a video…

The Yellow Submarine (London Pavilion) is a rather pretentious piece of popular entertainment. Its nominal stars are the Beatles, but – except for a shatteringly effective minute at the end of the film – we never see them, only rather inept cartoon caricatures instead. The backgrounds against which their non-story evolves are, however, brilliantly chic, constituting not an anthology but a veritable roll-call – one might almost say a pillage – of every contemporary artist: Hockney, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Blake – you name…

Last month, Google started extending a rather confusing and scary email to its users warning about the discontinuation of the Album Archive service and about deleting the entire data after plugging the plug. The end date for Album Archive is July 19 and it’s just two days left before Google will pull the plug and all the Hangout data will be deleted forever. What data will be deleted?The biggest confusion about this entire Album Archive data deletion is whether the regular gallery photos will be deleted as a part of this…

Fraser Island Fire on K’gari in 2020 which burned over 50% of the island. Credit: Queensland Fire and Emergency ServicesA previously unrecognized sedimentary archive in sand dunes has the potential to unlock a repository of fire records, an advancement that could broaden our understanding of fire histories worldwide.Dr. Nicholas Patton, during his Ph.D. at The University of Queensland, conducted a study that solved a persistent problem facing historians investigating changing fire patterns.“Knowing how the frequency and…

When Vivian Stanshall was found dead on the morning of 6 March 1995, after a fire in his top-floor flat in Muswell Hill, north London, he left behind a grand creative legacy and a whole heap of chaos. At just 51 years of age, yet with the disorderly, mythic bearing of someone many thousands of years older, this orotund, ginger-locked behemoth departed the world having refashioned the postwar vision of the English eccentric and irreversibly altered the path of British culture.While his florid, stentorian contributions to…

The Archive of Our Own—the largest digital library for fanfiction currently operating, and one of the highest-trafficked sites in the world—was temporarily unavailable after it experienced a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack from a hacker group calling itself “Anonymous Sudan.” Ao3 reported the outage early on the morning of July 10 and had restored service by around noon EST July 11.Teyonah Parris and John Boyega on Working With Jamie Foxx | io9 InterviewWhile Anonymous Sudan is posing as a…

It’s been a little less than a week since Turner Classic Movies was saved from being ground up in Warner Bros. Discovery’s relentless content sausage grinder. Film preservation takes a lot of work, both from official, mainstream providers and some—well—less authorized sources. Over the past week, eagle-eyed classic film buffs spotted that TCM aired content originally created for the famed pirate movie archival community Karagarga.Top 5 Shopping Tips for Amazon Prime DayAs originally reported by TorrentFreak, users on the…