I worked for a HMO from 2000s to 2010s. During my time there, we consolidated to a single building and were issued new badges that contained a RDIF that could be read remotely.
Every couple of minutes security would 'ping' the building and see where everyone was in the name of safety and security.
One day I had a gastro-issue and spent a lot of time in the restroom, and to my horror, there was a knock on my stall's door from security to see if I was okay.
After that, I would leave my badge at my desk while in the office.

So, basically not new technology, just using WiFi to do the checks vs RF.

"And your etymology is a fantasy. "

You've confused c.f. with e.g..

Only if you want your delivery to be very expensive. The article kind of didn't bother to mention that only the ZQ-3's first stage is reusable, so it's more like a "Starship-esque Falcon 9", both in terms of reusability, size, payload, diameter, etc..

Seriously, what's the point of using AI to generate details that even bleeding edge hardware can't run at a decent framerate

I don't know what you're talking about. This is as far as I can tell about the process of creating game assets in the first place - not about generating them in realtime. It doesn't have any impact on performance.

I've used AI model generators (mainly image-to-model), and for game-type assets, they're usually good enough, though you still of course want a human to exert control over them. But it's way faster than from-scratch modeling. For say 3d printing, though, you really need to decompose the image into smaller components, process each individually, and merge, because otherwise too much fine detail gets lost into the texture instead of being part of the actual model. Regardless, they've been improving at a good pace. I haven't tried (as I've not had a need) but I think they now have model generators that even rig the models.

... and sewing?

I've picked up reading again. RPG books for my sessions (I GM Coriolis and Forbidden Lands)
  I've also now added thimble, needles and thread to my EDC and fix buttons, snags in my cargo pants or holes in my backpack, jacket lining or whatever when I'm on the go, sitting in PT or waiting for someone or something. You can think and listen to a podcast or audiobook while doing it and you're doing something useful, helping the environment, saving money and training your confidence and motor skills. Good stuff.

IMHO, the most interesting thing they did was with the palette. They were obsessed with getting not just images snapped by the satellite as the sky, but having them actually look good, and even a "smart" mapping algorithm to the in-game palette wasn't good enough for them. So they wrote an algo to simultaneously choose a palette for both the colours in the satellite image and the colours in the game's graphical assets so it would pick colours best for both of them, and then remapped both the satellite image and the game's assets to this new palette. Also, normally satellite images are denoised on the ground, but a partner had gotten a machine learning denoising algo running on the satellite.

One thing they weren't able to deal with was that the game tiles the sky background, which is fine because it's a tileable image, but obviously random pictures of Earth aren't (except the nighttime images, which are all black!). If they had had more time, I imagine they would have set up something like heal selection to merge the edges, but one of the problems was that in order to take images of Earth, the satellite had to be oriented in a way that increased its drag and accelerated its deentry... so ironically, playing DOOM was accelerating the satellite's doom.

Here's a presentation from Ólafur.

EOM

That stupid math was likely done by the same guys who came up with that bonkers epic Jaguar rebrand failure. Likely to hide the huge loss in sales created by it.

What I haven't quite figured out is why every single organized religion goes out of their way to hide the pedophiles when they find them instead of just giving them over to the police. They all do it (except for the ones like the episcopals that don't care if their preachers are gay or married or gay married). But I don't get why.

That's easy. Revelation cults are - at best - evolutionary useful mind viruses that prevent people from becoming nihilistic or toxically hedonist and help position individuals in useful positions, such as father and mother of (many) children.

The problem with revelation cults is, well, that they are _revelation_ cults. Meaning they perpetuate the - very often bullshit and very easily abused - concept of truth by revelation not truth by insight and reason. This means they are very useful in putting people (often excess men with no sweatheart to call their own) in power who otherwise wouldn't have any or not nearly as much. That's why when some buddy in a cult abuses a child there is a veil of silence because calling out the crime would rub off on every member or that cult. Collectively preaching non-sense and avoiding/shunning reasoning helps strengthen this sort of toxic solidarity. This is a very similar reason to why abusive nuns get to torture young "lost" ladies. It's a lot about power and maintaining it.

Accurate statement: "Humans invented a way to harness CRISPR/Cas9 to create transgenic organisms"

Inaccurate statement: "Humans invented CRISPR/Cas9"

This isn't complicated.

If there were animals adeptly using fire long before humans existed, we would not call humans the first to "master fire" just because humans understood what they were doing.

Here is a list of all the animals besides humans who have mastered the use of CRISPR technology:

FYI, humans didn't invent CRISPR/Cas9 - bacteria and archaea did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR

It's an antiviral immune system. They bait bacteriophages into inserting their genes into noncoding regions of their genome, and then use CRISPR/Cas9 to match up anything from these noncoding regions that are in their coding regions, and to cut it out.

We humans stole that tech from them :) They mastered it long before we ever existed.

The most prominent example being the Amazonian rainforest, once heralded as the "earths lung", now has turned into a net zero factor in recent years. The area is getting so hot that some native tribes are already bugging out.

We are screwed. How hard is up to us.

KDE has come a long ways too. I personally had been using Cinnamon for years now, after being a long time Gnome2 and MATE user. I hadn't tried KDE in probably 15-20 years. I recently installed Manjaro on an extra machine and I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised. I still kinda prefer Cinnamon in general, but I think that's just because I'm used to it.