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Back in the early 90s, the emergence of Quentin Tarantino sparked a mini-boom in crime thrillers, some good (Natural Born Killers), some less so (The Boondock Saints). Based on the novel Gun Monkeys, this new Pierce Brosnan vehicle is a throwback to that era in almost every way possible – and that’s largely at the root of what’s both good and bad about it.We open with a flash-forward to a motor-vehicle graveyard in Florida where Brosnan, AKA hitman Charlie Swift, is hanging about looking shifty. An unseen antagonist…

 Tech giants are racing to ward off a carbon time bomb caused by the massive data centers they're building around the world.A technique pioneered by Google is gaining currency as more power-hungry artificial intelligence comes online: Using software to hunt for clean electricity in parts of the world with excess sun and wind on the grid, then ramping up data center operations there. Doing so could cut carbon and costs. There's an urgent need to figure out how to run data centers in ways that maximize renewable energy…

Melting Away DNN’s Gradient Challenges: A Scoop of Solutions and InsightsContinue reading on Towards Data Science » Melting Away DNN’s Gradient Challenges: A Scoop of Solutions and InsightsContinue reading on Towards Data Science » FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all…

Scientists are putting forward a new explanation for the giant exploding craters that seem to be randomly appearing in the Siberian permafrost.These craters, first spotted in 2012, have been popping up in the deserted Siberian permafrost, puzzling scientists.They can be substantial, reaching more than 160 feet in depth and 65 feet in width, and blasting chunks of debris hundreds of feet away.Some reports have suggested the blasts can be heard 60 miles away.Now scientists are proposing that hot natural gas seeping from…

In March 2011, a six-minute earthquake triggered a tsunami in Japan that killed 18,000 people. It was a devastating natural disaster, but strangely, the tsunami has inspired this calming, tranquil documentary – really more of an art piece – from Swedish visual artist Jennifer Rainsford. It’s a dreamy reverie of a film that drifts along, carried into obscure corner by her curiosity.We meet three tsunami survivors including a man who has looked everywhere on land for his missing wife, then took up diving to hunt the ocean…

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In December 2018, Google searches for the term “porch pirate” reached a peak. The phrase describes a particular kind of thief unique to modern living: someone who takes packages ordered online and left unattended at doorsteps. Since the pandemic, when a huge surge of Americans started buying much of their everyday goods and luxuries online, many more people have had at least one run-in with a porch pirate. A New York Times analysis of package theft in 2019 found that 1.7 million packages went missing every day in the…

June Wan/ZDNETIf there's any doubt as to whether flip phones are cool again, a new study shows that interest in retro-looking tech is soaring among young people.This data comes courtesy of Decluttr, an online service where users can sell their old tech to be refurbished for sale again.Also: Motorola $499 flip phone deal is the Black Friday doorbuster I've been waiting forFor years, a regular rectangle touchscreen has been the standard for mobile phones, but new data shows that online searches for flip phones are up…

That could make the I-10 blaze complicating LA traffic this week the third fire in the area involving leftover hand sanitizer. A different pallet yard storing sanitizer erupted in flames in downtown Los Angeles in January. And in 2021, a notoriously noxious smell plaguing the LA County town of Carson was linked by officials to a massive fire at a lot storing thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer.As WIRED reported in June, the US Food and Drug Administration lifted regulations on hand sanitizer during the height of the…

ESA’s Integral space telescope detected an unprecedented gamma-ray burst from a distant exploding star, causing significant disturbances in Earth’s ionosphere. This event, the brightest and strongest of its kind ever recorded, has led researchers to explore its potential link to historical mass extinctions on Earth.An enormous burst of gamma rays, detected by ESA’s Integral space telescope, has struck Earth. The blast caused a significant disturbance in our planet’s ionosphere. Such disturbances are usually associated…