Spoiler — nope. “The unspoken first step here was to assume a Gaussian bell curve when it comes to employee performance. And, heck, why not? The folks in HR who were paying attention during psychology class recall that a great […]
“Raytheon … has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army to work on directed energy wireless power beaming capabilities that will distribute power across the battlefield, simplify logistics, and safeguard locations for U.S. troops.” ~ learn more
“I actually don’t believe we are at all hitting walls in our space… the combination of the data that exists in the world, synthetic data, and search techniques are, I think, going to allow us to scale for quite some […]
In the history of computing, standards always seem to emerge and supercharge development (USB anyone?). From Anthropic: “Today, we’re open-sourcing the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a new standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives, including content […]
“So it came as no surprise when Griffin, after selling a portion of his Chicago penthouse for a dramatic 44% loss last month, was quick to take a shot at Pritzker, blaming “failed political leadership in Illinois” for rising crime […]
“Our study found that acoustic environments contain enough visual cues to generate highly recognizable streetscape images that accurately depict different places,” said Yuhao Kang, assistant professor of geography and the environment at UT and co-author of the study.” ~ learn […]
“More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed each other as they scavenged for […]
“The Chicago International Boat Show at Navy Pier Marina will take place from August 21st to August 24th, 2025, at Navy Pier, an iconic waterfront destination in the heart of Chicago.” ~ learn more
From the Houston Chronicle: “Twenty-three years after Enron declared bankruptcy, the infamous Houston-based energy company appears to be making a return. A group representing itself as Enron, which became the center of a corporate scandal Dec. 2, 2001, following revelations […]
“As the capelin shoal formed a sort of ecological “hotspot,” the team observed individual cod begin to group together in response, forming a huge shoal of their own. The swarming cod overtook the capelin, quickly consuming over 10 million fish, […]