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Rare daytime fireball spotted from orbit as residents report powerful sonic boom | Space Added: Mar 17, 2026
Rare daytime fireball spotted from orbit as residents report powerful sonic boom
Site: Space
No major meteor showers are active at this time.
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Releases ¡ Dao-AILab/flash-attention
Added: Mar 17, 2026Releases ¡ Dao-AILab/flash-attention
Site: GitHub
Fast and memory-efficient exact attention. Contribute to Dao-AILab/flash-attention development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Journalist and historian found dead at Bay Area park Added: Mar 17, 2026
Journalist and historian found dead at Bay Area park
Site: SFGATE
The author fell to his death at a Marin County park last week.
Author, journalist and historian Brian Doherty was found dead at a Marin County park last week, Reason Magazine announced in an obituary on Saturday. Doherty was a senior editor at Reason and an influential libertarian historian. He was 57. Doherty was found dead Friday morning at Battery Yates in Sausalito, the magazine announced. He presumably fell on Thursday evening after attending an art gathering that was held on top of the parkâs historic concrete military defense sites. The battery is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The author is best known for his books on the history of the libertarian movement, including his 2008 masterwork âRadicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement.â âBrian was the historian of the libertarian movement,â Reason Foundation President David Nott said in Dohertyâs obituary. âHe lovingly and comprehensively portrayed the colorful characters in the libertarian world.â Doherty was born in Brooklyn in 1968 but was raised primarily in Florida, according to Reason. He moved to California in the 1990s after majoring in journalism at the University of Florida, and soon met the Cacophony Society, a group of urban anarchists that eventually inspired events like SantaCon and Burning Man. The group influenced much of Dohertyâs own work, including his 2006 book âThis Is Burning Man: The Rise of a New American Underground.â âBrianâs contributions to the art scenes in L.A. and San Francisco were monumental,â activist and author Chicken John Rinaldi, who was Dohertyâs close friend, said in his obituary. âHis passing leaves so many people and so many systems impoverished.â In recent years, Doherty had become physically limited, and suffered from ailments that required him to walk with a cane. These conditions are likely what led to his accidental fall, Reason wrote. â Journalist and historian found dead at Bay Area parkâ Calif. 'pageant queen' admits to running massive Ponzi schemeâ Why Bay Area Goodwills are sending truckloads of clothes to Arizonaâ Tahoe ski resort calls off season after being open less than 3 months Sign up for daily SFGATE breaking news alerts here.
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Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over
Added: Mar 17, 2026Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over
Site: Futurism
Sam Altman argued it was "already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took" for coders to write software.
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Your motherboard BIOS is probably outdated. Here's how to fix it | PCWorld
Added: Mar 17, 2026Your motherboard BIOS is probably outdated. Here's how to fix it
Site: PCWorld
Windows Update can update drivers, sure, but BIOS/UEFI updates are another beast entirely. They patch critical security gaps and need to be checked manually.
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Personal Intelligence in AI Mode and Gemini expands in the U.S. Added: Mar 17, 2026
Bringing the power of Personal Intelligence to more people
Site: Google
We're expanding Personal Intelligence across AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app and Gemini in Chrome.
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Music Provides Great Value to the Brain | Psychology Today Added: Mar 17, 2026
Music Provides Great Value to the Brain
Site: Psychology Today
âHowâ and âwhyâ our brains like music are two separate questions. A recent popular article sheds light on how. Explorations of musicâs benefits point us to the whys.
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4 surprising scientific benefits of music | Popular Science
Added: Mar 17, 20264 surprising scientific benefits of music
Site: Popular Science
From reducing dementia to speeding up recovery after surgery, music is more powerful than you knew.
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White House hits back at resigning official's claim that Iran didn't pose imminent threat | The Times of Israel Added: Mar 17, 2026
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10 Things Linux Can Do That Windows Still Canât
Added: Mar 17, 202610 Things Linux Can Do That Windows Still Canât
Site: It's FOSS
Linux offers more freedom than Windows in many ways. Here are a few things you can do on Linux that Windows simply doesnât allow.
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How the strange quantum world becomes the reality we see
Site: Earth.com
Scientists can now calculate how shared reality emerges from the strange quantum world where particles can exist in many states at once.
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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The Grammar of Persistence Added: Mar 17, 2026
The Grammar of Persistence
Site: Zenodo
This document presents a formal articulation of a field-primary grammar by which persistence and structure occur through recursive closure rather than assembly from parts. Beginning from an undifferentiated field (Q), it derives the necessity of self-reference (Q*) and shows how a ternary of formative, containing, and address co-arises as the minimal condition for persistence. Recursive application of this closure yields a 3Ă3 torsional lattice, which is demonstrated to be the invariant grammar underlying electromagnetic dynamics, geometric form, hydrodynamic flow, biological organization, and large-scale plasma structures. The work reframes conventional quantitiesâsuch as fields, forces, energy, and conserved variablesâas downstream traces of coherence and impedance matching rather than as primitive causes. A coherence metric (T) is introduced as an address condition at which formative and containing pressures phase-lock, enabling stable structure with minimal energetic cost. The document further shows how familiar mathematical operators and geometric symmetries arise as projection artifacts when this grammar is expressed under specific constraints (e.g., vectorâscalar or Cartesian slicing). No new entities, forces, or axioms are proposed. Instead, the document makes explicit a constraint that is already operative wherever structure persists, offering a unified, scale-invariant framework for understanding coherence across physical, biological, and technological domains. The presentation is intended as a closed, self-consistent grammar rather than a speculative theory, and it terminates without requiring further validation or extension.
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Victor Davis Hanson: How America Created an âUngrateful Immigrantâ Crisis - YouTube Added: Mar 17, 2026
Victor Davis Hanson: How America Created an âUngrateful Immigrantâ Crisis
Site: YouTube
Immigration used to be the U.S.â great strength but now thatâs changing. Whatâs new is illegal immigrants and naturalized citizens, who hate America but donâ...
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Old Dominion Shooting Latest Reminder That the Third World Is Not Spending Its Best | VDH
Site: YouTube
The legacy media continues to downplay recent bombing attempts and other violent incidents tied to illegal immigrants, arguing âIslamophobiaâ is overstated w...
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Grok TTS is Cheap & Fast!!!
Site: YouTube
Convert text into spoken audio with a single API call. The API supports 5 expressive voices, inline speech tags for fine-grained delivery control, and output...
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Trumpâs âDecapitation Strikeâ Led Iran to âA Zombie Strategy.. Itâs the Equivalent of WW3 for Themâ
Site: YouTube
Full Episode: https://youtube.com/live/r_AbHc3-pV8Markâs featured guests this evening include attorney and GOP strategist Mehek Cooke, former Air Force Gener...
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Israel Kills Two Iranian Leaders: âThis Could Lead to a Deal Because Who Wants To Take Their Place?â
Site: YouTube
Full Episode: https://youtube.com/live/b5YBULevmCIFollow us: https://twitter.com/2waytvapphttps://www.2Way.TVYou can now listen to this episode on Apple, Spo...
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Democratsâ âChances of Winning the Senate Not Nearly As Good as People Thinkâ After Ugly Platner Ad
Site: YouTube
Full Episode: https://youtube.com/live/b5YBULevmCIFollow us: https://twitter.com/2waytvapphttps://www.2Way.TVYou can now listen to this episode on Apple, Spo...
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Elon Musk Highlights Starbase's Towering Rocket Garden / X Added: Mar 17, 2026
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Space & Time Are Quasicrystals, Physicists Claim
Site: YouTube
Take your scientific understanding to the next level with Brilliant! Start learning for free at https://brilliant.org/sabine/ and get a 30-day free trial plu...
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Breakthrough in Zero Friction Materials
Site: YouTube
Go to https://melscience.com/sBgX/ and use code SABINEYEAR to get a year of science for $22.45 per month until March 21st. Friction affects almost everything...
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These Physicists Say They Found The Origin Of Reality
Site: YouTube
Take back your personal data with Incogni! Use code Sabine at the link below and get 60% off annual plans: https://incogni.com/sabineOne of the most perplexi...
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Physicists Say Theyâve Discovered A Secret About The Vacuum
Site: YouTube
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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I replaced GNOME with the new COSMIC, and it feels like the future of Linux
Added: Mar 17, 2026I replaced GNOME with the new COSMIC, and it feels like the future of Linux
Site: MakeUseOf
It's fast, furious, and somewhat bonkers, but it gets the job done.
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Exclusive | Israel Is Hunting Down Iranian Regime Members in Their Hideouts, One by One - WSJ Added: Mar 17, 2026
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SpaceX's Starship rocket test scores several firsts ahead of flight 12 - Digital Trends
Added: Mar 17, 2026SpaceXâs Starship rocket test scores several firsts ahead of flight 12
Site: Digital Trends
SpaceX chief Elon Musk said in February that the mighty Starship rocket would embark on its 12th test flight this month, although several more recent reports have suggested that it might not leave the launchpad until early April. Preflight tests on the Starship rocket have been underway at SpaceXâs Starbase facility in southern Texas as [âŚ]
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Dick Van Dyke Credits His Longevity to One Habit, And Science Supports It : ScienceAlert
Added: Mar 17, 2026Dick Van Dyke Credits His Longevity to One Habit, And Science Supports It
Site: ScienceAlert
Dick Van Dyke, the legendary American actor and comedian who starred in classics such as Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, turned 100 on December 13.
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These Secretive Creatures Could Show Us the Key to Longevity Added: Mar 17, 2026
These Secretive Creatures Live Oddly Long Lives. They Could Show Us the Key to Longevity.
Site: Popular Mechanics
They arenât exactly glamorous, but naked mole rats have genes that could mean feeling younger and living longer.
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THEY ARE LYING
Site: YouTube
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Senator Markwayne Mullin is a proven America First leader with over a decade of service in Congress
Site: YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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CHINA HACKED 2020 ELECTION
Site: YouTube
It's all one big lie to steal political power in US electionsPASS THE SAVE ACTBecome A Memberhttp://youtube.com/timcastnews/joinThe Green Room - https://rumb...
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HE QUIT
Site: YouTube
GhostBed is offering my audience their lowest prices of the season - plus an extra 10% off. Go to http://GhostBed.com/TIM and use promo code TIM.SUPPORT THE ...
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Trump Official RESIGNS Over Iran War, MAGA SUPPORTS War Slams Joe Kent | Timcast IRL w/ Roseanne
Site: YouTube
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A Quantum Leap for the Turing Award | WIRED Added: Mar 18, 2026
A Quantum Leap for the Turing Award
Site: WIRED
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now theyâve been awarded the highest honor in computer science.
Those water-logged scientists, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, are now the latest recipients of the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the Nobel Prize of the field. Until that 1979 meeting, there had been a disconnect between information science and physics. The latter field had experienced a disruption in the early 20th century when physicists discovered quantum mechanics, a deeper explanation of how the universe operated that superseded the classical physics of Issac Newton. Computer science, however, didnât account for the quantum world, except for having to deal with its effects on tiny chips, where the behavior of electrons were relevant. âIn the 1950s through the 1980s people thought of quantum effects as occurring in very small things and as a source of noiseâyou had to understand quantum theory to build transistors,â explains Bennett. âPeople thought of quantum mechanics as a nuisance.â He and Brassard discovered methodsâlike quantum coin-tossing and quantum entanglementâthat turned the perceived handicaps of quantum reality into a powerful tool. At the time of their meeting, Bennett was at a career crossroads; heâd joined IBM in 1972, but had taken a years-long break from academic publishing. One source of continuing fascination was an idea shared by a college classmate, Steven Weisnerâthat using a quantum form of cryptography could enable digital money that could not be counterfeited. (Yep, Weisner envisioned cryptocurrency in the late 1960s!) At the 1979 conference, Bennett saw that a cryptographer named Brassard was in attendanceâhe had just completed a dissertation on public-key cryptoâand located him offshore. âSo there I was swimming in the beach when a complete stranger came up to me and started telling me that a friend of his found that we can use quantum mechanics to make affordable banking notes out of nowhere,â Brassard tells me. âIf I had been on firm ground, I would have run for my life, but I was trapped in the ocean, so I listened politely.â Though Brassard had no previous interest in physics, he was intrigued by the approach, and the pair eventually published a theory called BB84, essentially creating an alternative to classic public-key cryptography based on what would become quantum information theory. Suddenly, the world of the quantum became a source of solutionsâif scientists could invent the mechanisms to make it happen. As Yannis Ioannidisâpresident of ACM, which bestows the Turing Awardâput it in a statement, âBennett and Brassard fundamentally changed our understanding of information itself.â Both scientists take pains to say that their original work did not lead directly to the current scramble to build quantum computers. Bennett notes that in a 1981 conference at MIT, legendary physicist Richard Feynman âmade the point that, since nature is quantum, probably some computational jobs would need to be done by a quantum computer.â He also credits physicist David Deutsch for key ideas about quantum computers. Bennett and Brassard became part of that effort. âQuantum computing was invented independently from us, but then we jumped in,â says Brassard. âI was the first person to design a quantum circuit to do quantum teleportation.â Brassard and Bennettâs work on teleportation, while still in an experimental stage, is now part of the quantum lore. Brassard has said that âone day, it will fuel the quantum internet.â Bennett is among quantum scienceâs most eloquent spokespeople. âQuantum information is like the information in a dream,â he has written. âAttempting to describe your dream to someone else changes your memory of it, so you begin to forget the dream and remember only what you said about it.â Brassard, meanwhile, has focused on how quantum computers will one day break the cryptographic schemes of classical public-key cryptography, and urges the development of quantum cryptography for the ultimate unbreakable codes. The Turing recipients are still active. Bennett, 83, is still working at IBM, where all refer to him as âCharlie.â He nibbled on lunch as we spoke from his office at the Watson Center in Yorktown Heights. Brassard, 70, has been a professor at the UniversitĂŠ de MontrĂŠal for 46 years and still instructs students there. Both are still vital. As is their legacy. While quantum computing has become a multi-billion quest that may set the course of our technological future, the theories of Bennett and Brassard are intrinsically interwoven into the field's DNA. During our conversation, Bennett tells me that the original mechanism he and Brassard used to prove the efficacy of their first quantum crypto theory is still in his office. In contrast to the futuristic nitrogen-cooled behemoths of Google and Microsoft, it looks like something put together from parts in a cash-strapped high school science lab; the computer that powered it was one of the earliest IBM PCs. âWe tried to donate it as an exhibit to the National Museum of Cryptology, which is located right next to the NSA building,â says Bennett. The security-conscious museum declined. âThey said, âNo, we only deal with obsolete cryptographic techniques.ââ says the newest Turing winner. âThat was music to my ears.â
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this could be it...
Site: YouTube
Godspeed to the United States and its troopsMay we win swiftly and quickly and minimize collateral damageBecome A Memberhttp://youtube.com/timcastnews/joinTh...
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Geologists discover the largest copper, gold, and silver deposit in the past three decades
Site: Earth.com
A record precious metals deposit of 80 million ounces of gold and silver and 12 million tons of copper has been discovered in Argentina.
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When Your Mind Turns Against You
Site: Psychology Today
Even your sharpest problem-solving skills can backfire. Learn how to turn relentless self-critique into clarity, confidence, and empowerment.
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Leftist Democrats Get BLOWN OUT IN Election, Voters REJECT Marxist Democrats
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BUY CAST BREW COFFEE TO SUPPORT THE SHOW - https://castbrew.com/Become A Member And Protect Our Work at http://www.timcast.comVoters absolutely demolished th...
