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When I wrote a column two weeks ago urging the Biden administration to approve a lot more solar and wind farms on Western public lands, I knew I would get flak from critics of large-scale renewable energy — and indeed I did. On social media, conservationists blasted me for what they described as my failure to understand that sprawling solar projects and towering wind turbines tear up wildlife habitat and destroy treasured landscapes. They called me a shill for money-grubbing utility companies and suggested it’s obvious…

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, June 16, 2023.Chesnot | Getty ImagesTesla CEO Elon Musk thinks the automaker's market capitalization is directly tied to whether the automaker is able to solve autonomous driving, the billionaire told LVMH scion Antoine Arnault on Friday.Musk was speaking at Paris' VivaTech innovation conference. The younger Arnault ribbed Musk about Tesla's $827 billion…

by Aron Lee Rosenberg, Mary Anne Martin, Naomi Nichols and Sarah Cullingham, The Conversation Inefficient resources in the child welfare sphere haven’t been helped by technological advances. Credit: Shutterstock In 1921, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Christian Lous Lange stated: "Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master."…

Welcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. From cybersecurity to SaaS for restaurants, the key to running a successful business is selling a product that solves your clients’ real problems. — Anna 2022 in cybersecurity Cybercriminals had a pretty busy 2022, recent findings show. According to the annual report from Israeli cybersecurity…

In this article, we will explore three medium-level coding problems and provide solutions for each of them. The problems we will discuss are: Minimum Number of Vertices to Reach All Nodes Maximum Twin Sum of a Linked List Swap Nodes in Pairs While these problems may appear unrelated at first, they share common characteristics and can enhance our understanding of various programming concepts. Furthermore, by exploring their solutions, we can gain insights into graph theory, linked list manipulation, and…

Some supervised, some unsupervised, some self-supervised, in NLP and computer visionImage by Gerd Altmann From PixabaySingle-task learning is the process of learning to predict a single outcome (binary, multi-class, or continuous) from a labeled data set.By contrast, multi-task learning is the process of jointly learning to predict multiple outcomes on inputs of the same modality. Such as images or text.The obvious question to ask is, why learn jointly? Why not independently learn single-task models to predict the various…

Mouse embryos, like the one depicted here, die in utero if they are missing the choline transporter FLVCR1. But giving them supplemental choline can increase their lifespan. Credit: Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics at The Rockefeller UniversityProteins integrated into the cell membrane play a crucial role in transporting nutrients to the intended destination within our cells. If this transportation system malfunctions and metabolites are unable to reach their target, it can have adverse effects on human…

On a recent episode of Drink Champs, N.O.R.E. shouted out T.I. and Boosie Badazz for peacefully settling their feud amid claims of snitching.“T.I. and Lil Boosie, I know that you could have went to war, y’all could have just done a whole bunch of tremendous crazy shit, but the fact that y’all show that two Black men can get together and can talk it out, I really commend that, I really respect that,” N.O.R.E. said at the 2:30:00-mark of the Drink Champs episode, which featured Wiz Khalifa. “I really salute that because we…

Image via Marvel Studios/ Remix via Apeksha Bagchi One can only imagine the cloud of tension currently occupying the corridors of Marvel Studios as everyone scratches their heads and try to think of the best way to deal with the whole controversy surrounding Jonathan Majors (especially since they have already paid him $20 million for Avengers: The Kang Dynasty). But apparently, the MCU’s Phase Four bad luck that followed Phase Five is continuing its reign in 2023 as another controversy is just waiting in the…

Screengrab via Disney Plus Now that James Gunn’s swan song, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is nearing its premiere, Marvel fans have again taken to the proverbial streets to locate, decode, and analyze the director’s never-ending Easter egg hunt. You know, the Easter egg hunt that’s been going on since the first Guardians movie in 2014? Yeah, that one.  For context: Gunn has confirmed that the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie has one, obscure, all-important Easter egg that we like to think could potentially…