Best Japanese Learning Tools 2025: Winners Across Apps, Anki, and Readers
TL;DR An online year‑end roundup by Autumn Skerritt names winners across categories for Japanese study tools in 2025, from browser…
Why I Disappeared: A Week Offline in the Galapagos Revealed News Noise
TL;DR A journalist spent a week largely offline in the Galapagos and returned convinced that much of modern news is…
Yale Study Finds Lower mGlu5 Glutamate Receptor Levels in Autistic Brains
TL;DR Researchers at Yale used MRI, PET and EEG to compare 16 autistic adults with 16 neurotypical controls and found…
What an Unprocessed Camera Raw Photo Really Looks Like and Why
TL;DR A camera sensor captures linear, per-pixel light values that initially appear gray and dark. Converting that raw data into…
AI’s memory surge strains DRAM supply and could push up device prices
TL;DR Rapid growth of AI workloads is driving an acute shortage of DRAM memory chips, with demand outstripping supply and…
After 62 years, NYC’s Tunnel No. 3 nears completion to modernize water supply
TL;DR Construction on New York City's Tunnel No. 3, started in 1970, has reached advanced stages and already supplies the…
Slaughtering Competition Problems with Quantifier Elimination in Sage
TL;DR A 2021 blog post demonstrates using quantifier elimination (via the Tarski–Seidenberg theorem and QEPCAD through SageMath) to mechanically settle…
CEOs Are Increasingly Costly: Could Automation Replace Top Executives?
TL;DR Rising executive pay and concentrated top-heavy payrolls have renewed questions about whether CEO tasks could be automated. The debate…
Unity’s Mono runtime falls behind modern .NET — why your C# runs much slower
TL;DR A developer benchmark found that C# code running under Unity’s Mono can be multiple times slower than the same…