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Some 3.5 million chickens, turkeys and ducks have had to be destroyed because of bird flu outbreaks in the last 30 days. MATTHEW HATCHER/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption MATTHEW HATCHER/AFP/Getty Images As birds fly south for the winter, they’re carrying with them some unwelcome cargo: the H5N1 virus, or bird flu. In the past 30 days, the virus has struck 66 poultry flocks, leading to the deaths of more than 3.5 million turkeys, chickens and ducks, a steep increase compared to the summer months. The virus can spread easily when infected wild birds mix with commercial or backyard flocks.…

Spline is a great tool for creating interactive 3D scenes that are very easy to integrate into the web. To build impressive interactions here, you don’t need to know 3D or coding, and this is the main advantage of Spline. Examples of scenes made in the Spline tool In Spline, you can already create animations using events and states, but recently, a new tool was added: Timeline. It can help you bring the quality of your animations to a new level. In this tutorial, we’ll use a simple example to explore what the Timeline tool is, how it works (and…

All images courtesy of the author The smart-telescope revolution rolls on with the latest entry in this growing market, ZWO’s Seestar S30. Unless you’ve been on a desert island and don’t know what a smart telescope is, they’re small robotic instruments that point at and take images of sky objects with little or no human intervention. These devices make obtaining astrophotos of surprising quality easy for just about anyone. The Seestar S30 is a sleek, modern-looking device with a shiny, white plastic body and black trim that looks more like a security camera than it does an astronomical telescope. That’s…

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Lucy Clarke-Billings and Jonathan Head,South East Asia correspondentGettyStrong winds hit Quy Nhon beach in Gia Lai province, central Vietnam, on ThursdayTyphoon Kalmaegi made landfall in Vietnam on Thursday after killing at least 114 people and flooding entire towns in the Philippines. More than 260,000 soldiers are on standby for rescue efforts as winds of up to 92mph (149km/h) hit the country’s coastline, according to Vietnamese media and the government’s online portal.Six airports in the country have been forced to close and hundreds of flights are expected to be affected, the government warned. The country, which has already been battling record…

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He points out that Ikea is on the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) board, and has been actively contributing to the development of the Matter platform since its 2019-2021 Project CHIP days: “It’s just now that lately we’ve been able, as a company, to take a strategic position to switch altogether.”Last September, Ikea updated its DIRIGERA smart-home hub, which itself has been the focus of connectivity and compatibility headaches on the forums, with support for Matter. This includes functioning as a Matter bridge, connecting older Ikea devices—rhe ones based on Zigbee tech—to the wider ecosystem instead of rendering them total junk.The…

Samson Mow, the founder of Bitcoin technology infrastructure company Jan3, argues the Bitcoin bull run is yet to begin, as Bitcoin fell to just under $100,000 earlier this week.  “The Bitcoin bull run hasn’t started yet. We’re just marginally outperforming inflation at this price range,” he said on Wednesday.  Bitcoin (BTC) and the broader cryptocurrency market continued to slump this week, with analysts attributing the decline to trade tensions between the US and China, as well as other macroeconomic factors. Bitcoin selling intensified on Tuesday, and CoinGecko data shows the price dipped to $99,607 on Wednesday. However, Mow, in a series of…

Solidity was started in October 2014 when neither the Ethereum network nor the virtual machine had any real-world testing, the gas costs at that time were even drastically different from what they are now. Furthermore, some of the early design decisions were taken over from Serpent. During the last couple of months, examples and patterns that were initially considered best-practice were exposed to reality and some of them actually turned out to be anti-patterns. Due to that, we recently updated some of the Solidity documentation, but as most people probably do not follow the stream of github commits to that…

Introduction: The Lexicon of a Digital Empire The 2021-2022 market boom for Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) was not an isolated event. It was a “perfect storm,” a confluence of macroeconomic accommodation, widespread cultural lockdowns, and the sudden, explosive maturation of a technology that seemingly solved a problem central to the digital age: how to own something that can be infinitely copied.1 In a span of 24 months, “collectible NFTs” evolved from a niche technological experiment into the dominant, global “lexicon of digital ownership”.3 This rapid ascent created a speculative empire built on digital art and social signaling, with valuations that defied…