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On a warm Saturday night at the end of August last year, Luke Farritor, an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska, was sitting alone in a corner at a house party in Omaha when his iPhone pinged. The music was booming, and Farritor, 21 years old at the time with a boyish face and black rectangular glasses, was surrounded by other students drinking and mingling. He opened the message. It was from Ben Kyles, a 45-year-old computer scientist and pianist from British Columbia, known to Farritor as “Hari Seldon”—Kyles’s…

Curated By: Shahrukh ShahLast Updated: February 27, 2024, 10:54 ISTFord's Another Design Patent in India. (Photo: Teambhp)The Ford's upcoming compact SUV is expected to hit the Indian road with aggressive stance, featuring a stylish grill at the front with a fully LED headlight setup.After filling the patent design for the all-time favorite Endeavor in India last month, Ford now has filed another patent design in the mid-size SUV segment.It has been speculated that the patent design has been fired for EcoSport and is…

Credit: Tara Winstead from Pexels Three researchers on Monday won a $700,000 prize for using artificial intelligence to read a 2,000-year-old scroll that was scorched in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The Herculaneum papyri consist of about 800 rolled up Greek scrolls that were carbonized during the 79 CE volcanic eruption that buried the ancient…

TikTok has been experimenting with an auto scrolling mechanic for months now, allowing you to watch TikTok hands-free. To use the auto scroll feature, you hold down on a video on TikTok’s For You page – similar to if you want to repost a video – and click the auto scroll button. Your feed will now swipe through videos independently without you having to lift a finger. If you land on a photo post, however, the scrolling will stop until you swipe through all the photos. To turn off the feature,…

Too Long; Didn't ReadTL; `@smakss/react-scroll-direction` is an npm package born from a StackOverflow answer, offering a streamlined, performance-optimized way to detect scroll directions in React applications. It simplifies implementation, enhances user interfaces, and was developed in response to the React community's needs. Too Long; Didn't ReadTL; `@smakss/react-scroll-direction` is an npm package born from a StackOverflow answer, offering a streamlined, performance-optimized way to detect scroll directions in…

WSJ’s Life & Work team presents a holiday-season series about one secret to happiness: lower expectations of yourself and others. Up now: the family gathering. At the first Thanksgiving in 1621, English settlers and members of the Wampanoag tribe gathered in Plymouth, Mass., to celebrate the harvest. They ate venison and corn, and everyone put away their smartphones.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 WSJ’s Life & Work team presents a…

As you might imagine for a scroll that has been buried under mounds of volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius for close to 2,000 years, the rolled-up papyrus excavated from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum is rather difficult to open, let alone read – but AI has found a way.Scholars from the University of Kentucky launched the Vesuvius Challenge in March, releasing thousands of X-ray images of charred, carbonized Herculaneum scrolls together with untrained artificial intelligence software that could be used to interpret…

Samsung Display said on Tuesday that it has developed a new display that can be rolled and unrolled vertically like a scroll.Rollable Flex stands at 49mm in length but can be rolled and unrolled vertically to extend to 254.4mm using an O-shaped axis, the display panel maker said.While extended the display can be used as a monitor while rolled it can act as a portable screen device such as a tablet or a laptop, Samsung Display added.Rollable Flex is one of many that the company plans to exhibit at SID Display Week 2023,…

Each new hardware and iOS generation introduces new features to improve the overall experience of using an iPhone. Not all of those features are game-changing, nor are they always features that Apple has time to discuss during WWDC and its iPhone launch events. But the iPhone gains several useful tricks with each new iOS release, some of which might not be immediately clear to the user. One such addition is a mind-blowing fast-scrolling iPhone trick that should speed up your browsing on websites in Safari, in…

In 79 A.D., Mount Vesuvius lay waste to a library in Herculaneum that was owned by the father-in-law of Julius Caesar. Now, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and some scientists are giving $250,000 away in prizes to the person or team who successfully usesmodern technology to decipher scrolls recovered from the site of the library.It’s called the Vesuvius Challenge and the winners who crack the codes first could receive a $150,000 Grand Prize and $100,000 in Progress Prizes. Those who enter the Vesuvius Challenge will…