Author: Vidya Saras

I adore the scent of natural vanilla. It can be used in so many recipes and is perfect in my superfood coffee. I even use it in DIY skincare recipes like this sugar cookie lip scrub. Unfortunately, store-bought “real vanilla” extract often has corn syrup or sugar. There’s also a big difference between pure vanilla extract and imitation vanilla. You’ll find ingredients like caramel coloring, artificial flavors, corn syrup, and propylene glycol hiding out in the artificial version. I’ve been making my own vanilla extract for years. Not only is it less expensive than store-bought vanilla extract, but the flavor…

In UI development, there are typically two main steps: design and development. First, designers envision how the interface should look and function. Then, developers take what has been designed and translate it into code, which eventually becomes a working product. This process works well as long as the teams are in sync and can frequently check in with each other. However, when faced with tight deadlines, heavy workloads, or limited resources, maintaining team alignment becomes challenging, and the quality of the end product suffers. Thankfully, these problems can be avoided. The solution is to have a single source of truth:…

SpaceX will launch two European navigation satellites tonight (Sept. 17), weather permitting.A Falcon 9 rocket carrying two spacecraft for Europe’s Galileo satnav constellation is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida tonight at 6:50 p.m. EDT (1850 GMT). SpaceX will webcast the action live via its X account, beginning about 15 minutes before liftoff. However, the company says it’s keeping its eye on the weather, which is frequently iffy on Florida’s Space Coast. If Mother Nature doesn’t cooperate tonight, there’s another opportunity tomorrow (Sept. 18) at around the same time.If all goes according to plan tonight, the Falcon…

To the untrained eye, a medical image like an MRI or X-ray appears to be a murky collection of black-and-white blobs. It can be a struggle to decipher where one structure (like a tumor) ends and another begins. When trained to understand the boundaries of biological structures, AI systems can segment (or delineate) regions of interest that doctors and biomedical workers want to monitor for diseases and other abnormalities. Instead of losing precious time tracing anatomy by hand across many images, an artificial assistant could do that for them.The catch? Researchers and clinicians must label countless images to train their AI…

Microsoft Corp. today released updates to fix at least 79 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software, including multiple flaws that are already showing up in active attacks. Microsoft also corrected a critical bug that has caused some Windows 10 PCs to remain dangerously unpatched against actively exploited vulnerabilities for several months this year. By far the most curious security weakness Microsoft disclosed today has the snappy name of CVE-2024-43491, which Microsoft says is a vulnerability that led to the rolling back of fixes for some vulnerabilities affecting “optional components” on certain Windows 10 systems produced in…

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In addition to these features, Copilot+ PCs have proven more than capable of running general business apps like Microsoft Office products, web browsers, and the like. Their benchmarks are outpacing Intel and AMD laptops at similar prices much of the time. Battery life is also great on Copilot+ PCs across the board, thanks to the lower power consumption required by ARM CPUs.So What’s the Catch? What Can’t They Do?There’s a tiny problem with the ARM world. For decades, Windows has been written and rewritten and rewritten again to run on x86 chips. Throw a new chip architecture into the mix…

Este artículo también está disponible en español. After going on an incredible run back in 2023, top Shiba Inu competitor FLOKI has swam into the mainstream of crypto investments. Its break toward the $1 billion market cap level solidified its position as one of the leading meme coins in the space. Although FLOKI has struggled in the market after its initial bullish run, falling more than 50% from its 2023 peaks, it is still a favorite among investors, and analysts, who expect the meme coin to see bullish momentum going forward. Shiba Inu Competitor Gears Up For Breakout Crypto analyst…

On 2024-06-23, 00:19 AM UTC, a phishing email was sent out to 35,794 email addresses by updates@blog.ethereum.org with the following content Users who clicked the link in the email were sent to a malicious website: This website had a crypto drainer running in the background, and if a user initiated their wallet and signed the transaction requested by their website their wallet would have been drained. Our internal security team immediately launched an investigation to help determine who launched the attack, what the aim of the attack was, when it happened, who was affected, and how it happened. Some of the…

PRESS RELEASE – Duality AI, the company behind Falcon, a digital twin simulation platform, today announced an agreement with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA JPL) in Pasadena to continue its work on Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency program (RACER). This announcement follows Phase I of the RACER project, where Duality successfully completed the program, as one of only two simulation providers selected by DARPA. The agreement accelerates autonomy development for NASA JPL by allowing rapid iteration and discovery of flaws through simulation, reducing risks and providing the synthetic data vital to training…