this-week-in-techdirt-history:-july-12th-–-18th

This Week in 2016 As UK Piracy Falls To Record Lows, Government Still Wants To Put Pirates In Jail For 10 Years Questionable DMCA Takedown Notice Filed Over Post Calling Lawyer Out For Copyright Infringement Facebook Sued Again For ‘Material Support’ Of Terrorism, Because Hamas Uses Facebook American Medical AssociationContinue Reading

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The official Discord desktop app supports Linux but it doesn’t make much effort to fit in, which is why alternative clients are popular – not least because they can be themed. Discord GNOME Theme by developer ~ricewind012, is so named because, basically, that’s what it is: a custom theme thatContinue Reading

engineering-the-connection-point-for-long-term-ev-charging-reliability

Sponsored by Lider Electric. Lider Electric’s NEMA 14-50 receptacles with Electric Vehicle Marking combine certification-backed product identification with purpose-built EV charging design. EV charging reliability is often discussed at the system level: charger output, vehicle compatibility, software, utility capacity, and public infrastructure. Those factors matter, but many residential and lightContinue Reading

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Ubuntu is adding AI features this year, and founder Mark Shuttleworth hopes to position the Linux distribution as the OS for the ‘agentic’ era. But big ambitions start from small seeds, and the first to be planted is a speech-to-text tool named Myna. This article in our (somewhat pithy) ExplainerContinue Reading

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Our brains are not meant to be locked in for eight straight hours during a work/school day. That’s not how these little pink sponges work, no matter what hack productivity gurus on YouTube might try to sell you. What works is cutting the friction around your workflow, and staying onContinue Reading

Remembering ‘Ulysses 31’, the ’80s cartoon that transported ‘The Odyssey’ to outer space

(Image credit: DIC Audiovisuel & Tokyo Movie Shinsha) It’s not known whether “Ulysses 31” was on Christopher Nolan’s radar in his teenage years, but it’s intriguing to think it could have influenced the director’s decision to take on Homer’s “The Odyssey”. This animated space opera, a French/Japanese co-production, delivered a crash course in Greek mythologyContinue Reading