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Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

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Project Lighthouse — Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymize

Designing Rayfall: One Expression Language for a Columnar Database

Columnar engines naturally organize computation around vectors to make effective use of single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) instructions. This makes vectors first-class citizens in such engines. The difficult design question appears when an engine's internal application programming interface (API) must be exposed to users: where should programming happen? A native C API is sufficient for embedding, and many engines stop there. Building a complete analytical database, however, requires a ful

Ensuring Safety in the Generative AI Ecosystem: Protecting Users from Non-Consensual Intimate Content

Posted by Ron Aquino, Senior Director, Trust & Safety, Chrome, Android, and Play At Google Play, user safety and developer success go hand in hand. We continue to see growth in apps with AI generated features, and indeed, adding generative AI into your apps is a great way to unlock incredible creative possibilities. However, AI features also bring new safety challenges - such as the rise of AI-facilitated generation of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII). Google Play’s policies prohibit the

Nothing OS 5.0 brings a new Glyph Interface app and a more customizable homescreen

With the new design of Nothing OS 5.0, app icons and widgets can use adaptive color to get color tints pulled from your wallpaper, which update whenever your wallpaper changes. Alongside Android's built-in Dynamic Colors, the company says it allows you to have specific elements change to match your wallpaper "while Nothing's predominantly monochrome character stays underneath." While I like Nothing's simplified, monochrome app icons, it's nice to get an option for adding some limited areas of c

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Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases

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The ArtQrCode a twist on the classic black and white Quick Response Code

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