💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🌌✨ Astrophotographer Ian Lauer demonstrates why exposure time matters by photographing the #Andromeda Galaxy for 10 seconds, 10 minutes, and 10 hours. The longest exposure reveals dust lanes, companion #galaxies, and details invisible to shorter captures.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/photographing-andromeda-galaxy-ianlauer-10-seconds-10-hours?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=andromeda_photography

#color #photography #science #sky #space #stars #tech #technology #telescope #texas #universe #tksst #video #astronomy #milkyway

🐟🧽 University of #Bonn researchers developed a washing machine filter inspired by sardine and anchovy gill systems that removes over 99% of #microplastics from laundry wastewater. The biomimetic design uses funnel-shaped filtration with self-cleaning mechanisms copied from #fish feeding systems.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/fish-washing-machine-microplastic-filter/

#biomimicry #environment #sustainability #engineering #innovation #technology #tech

New Server. New #Introduction

I love #technology #music #reading and #whisky ( #Whiskey ).

I run #Linux on my main PC, and #Android on my phone and tablets.

I listen to a wide range on music primarily on #PlexAmp. A buy music on #bandcamp.

I read a book per week, mainly Sci-Fi or Fantasy.

I drink a large number of whiskies from all over the world, and have been known to make rambling posts about them.

I've been here since the very first #TwitterMigration but I was over at @stevenixon so there is a large post history over there!

A year ago, I tested the responses from Google's Vision API using a tool called "They See Your Photos" which showed Google's analysis was riddled with inaccuracies and weird judgements.

I ran another experiment this year to see what, if anything, had changed and –wow!– have there been changes!

https://thomasrigby.com/posts/they-see-your-photos-12-months-on/
#ArtificialIntelligence #ethics #marketing #photography #technology

"History shows us that all progress comes from the meeting of diverse people, with different ideas, and different backgrounds." The web is no different. #Technology https://werd.io/the-web-runs-on-tolerance/

Why is Big Tech so afraid of AI regulation?

Big Tech continues to push for no AI regulation and it is having an impact. They want us to forget the damage done by the lack of regulation of user profiling. Instead they argue that regulating user profiling and AI would be a disaster. Clearly they are having some success with this strategy.

Hopefully regulators will fight back, but in the meantime, you have a choice when it comes to OS and browsers. Choose the one that does not force AI on you.

#AI #politics #technology #browser #vivaldi #windows #macos #linux

More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US data centers https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/08/us-data-centers #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Environment #Technology #Worldnews #USnews #Energy

Elkjøp, likely the largest Norwegian based electronics store, is now running ads for Copilot where they speak about how great Recall is. Likely the ad is paid for by Microsoft.

They show the picture below and they talk of how great it is that the machine remembers everything you have done with it (and has the pictures to prove it!).

I guess when you make something that most people do not want, you just push it harder.

Remember that you have a choice to move away from Big Tech.

#microsoft #windows #Linux #vivaldi
#technology #AI #computing #bigTech

Telegraph cables, #Technology #Museum #Berlin

🎶But sometimes a hero seems awfully far from home 🎶 But even a hero can't always stop the cold wind when it blows 🎶 But if you hold tight, the long night will soon be tomorrow 🎶 And you'll find me when you need sometimes a hero 🎶

https://futurism.com/future-society/woman-hero-smashing-meta-smart-glasses-subway?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

#stem #technology #hero #NYC

In a networked world, ubiquity conquers superiority -- a widely accepted technology will overwhelm even a technologically superior rival.
-- Kevin Kell & Gary Wolf

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KevinKellGaryWolf #Technology

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Sunset #NewMexico

"These days people use the term "web" to mean basically something you can view in a web browser. But that does not mean it is *of* the web." #Technology https://werd.io/of-the-web/

I've never been a great notetaker. Winnie Lim suggests I might be overthinking it: it's not a second brain but a second subconscious mind. #Technology https://werd.io/imperfect-notes-my-second-subconscious/

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🌌✨ Astrophotographer Ian Lauer demonstrates why exposure time matters by photographing the #Andromeda Galaxy for 10 seconds, 10 minutes, and 10 hours. The longest exposure reveals dust lanes, companion #galaxies, and details invisible to shorter captures.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/photographing-andromeda-galaxy-ianlauer-10-seconds-10-hours?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=andromeda_photography

#color #photography #science #sky #space #stars #tech #technology #telescope #texas #universe #tksst #video #astronomy #milkyway

#3Dprinting houses is a new #technology where an extruder follows a plot and simply accretes the house with layers of cement. It has a lot of possibilities and promise to make #homeBuilding faster and cheaper, and engineers are working on some exciting improvements for the technology:

#construction #engineering #materialsScience

WhatsApp Set to Face Stricter Content Moderation Rules in the EU

WhatsApp will face stricter rules under the European Union’s content moderation rulebook.

The European Commission, plans to designate WhatsApp’s open channels as a “Very Large Online Platform” under the Digital Services Act, meaning it must meet high standards for content moderation and transparency.

#meta #facebook #whatsapp #messaging #europe #EU #DSA #technology #tech

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-11/whatsapp-set-to-face-stricter-content-moderation-rules-in-the-eu

Finally, the ridiculously talented @gloriouscow has decided making one of the, if not *the*, most accurate IBM PC emulators around isn't enough - and is now working on CC0-licensed reference book going into component-by-component detail of exactly how the IBM PC and later PC XT work.

https://www.hackster.io/news/martypc-creator-daniel-balsom-begins-a-mammoth-undertaking-writing-the-pc-emulation-book-9da02298ae3e

#VintageComputing #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #ComputerScience #Emulation #News #Technology #Hackster

Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden

https://andyljones.com/posts/horses.html

#HackerNews #Horses #AI #progress #human #equivalence #technology #future