Solution to Feynman's reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to "silly sprinklers"

New study confirms 2024 "momentum flux theory" on how angular momentum of water flows drives rotation. [...]

I tested COSMIC's new Frosted Glass effect, and it's way better than MacOS' Liquid Glass

This simply gorgeous Linux desktop just stole the UI crown from Apple's Liquid Glass. [...]

SpaceX is gearing up for Starship's 13th test flight later this week

This flight will put Starship under higher pressure and test out new Starlink satellites in orbit. [...]

Nvidia builds a white list: more than half of its Asian customers are off it

Nvidia has more than halved the number of customers in Asia cleared to buy its artificial intelligence chips, according to the Financial Times, which cited three people with knowledge of the matter. T [...]

Intel commits $5.7bn to Xeon production in Ireland

Intel is spending €5bn, or about $5.7bn, upgrading its campus at Leixlip outside Dublin, the company said on Monday. The money is not for a new fab. It is for getting more out of the ones already s [...]

No, NordVPN does not drain your phone battery

Always switching your VPN off to save your charge? New independent testing from West Coast Labs shows that notorious smartphone battery drain is mostly a myth, with NordVPN consuming under 2% of your [...]

SEO is not dead: 5 ways to win more citations from AI search

Now that AI chat is becoming the new status quo of search engines, the rules for staying visible have changed for small businesses and solopreneurs. [...]

Switzerland opens a competition probe into Google’s vanishing Android choice screen

Switzerland’s Competition Commission opened a preliminary investigation into Google on Tuesday, after the search engine selection prompt that Android owners elsewhere in Europe still meet when they [...]

Claude responds with more warmth in Hindi and more rigor in Russian, showing how language shapes AI answers

A new Anthropic study maps hundreds of value concepts derived from thousands of individual terms onto four core dimensions. It reveals systematic differences across Claude models and languages, but al [...]